
The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey
This radio special traces Jimi Hendrix’s journey from obscurity in the States to over-night stardom in the UK with the Experience, and then his full-blown emergence as an international superstar […]
This radio special traces Jimi Hendrix’s journey from obscurity in the States to over-night stardom in the UK with the Experience, and then his full-blown emergence as an international superstar […]
The 1938 boxing rematch between American Joe Louis and German Max Schmeling is believed to have had the largest audience in history for a single radio broadcast. In 2005, the […]
When Jimi Hendrix’s debut album, Are You Experienced? was released in 1967, it turned the music world upside down. With its crackling feedback and ground-breaking guitar playing, Are You Experienced?fused […]
Mamie Smith was the first black vocalist to record the blues. The song was “Crazy Blues,” and it became a hit. But it happened almost by accident. “In a sense […]
In November 1938, conductor Arturo Toscanini led the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the premiere performance of Samuel Barber‘s “Adagio for Strings.” The concert was broadcast from New York to a […]
After 50 years of igniting keyboards, audiences and scandals, you’d think Jerry Lee Lewis might want to take a break. But “the Killer” is still rocking. Lewis, who turned 71 […]
Featuring interviews with Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Dick Waterman, and a host of others this radio special narrated by Dan Aykroyd and produced for Public Radio International, spotlights a living […]
This comprehensive 13-part series covered the history of the blues from its origins to the present. Hosted by Grammy-Award winning blues artist Keb Mo’. Each 60-minute episode features historic blues […]
Assigned to write an autobiography, high-school senior Robert Radkovitz instead creates a sound portrait of his life as he remembers it. Looking back, he hears his mother’s singing, his grandmother’s […]