Wilson Pickett’s “In the Midnight Hour”
Originally aired on Studio 360 and their affiliates on July 12, 2018. Wilson Pickett got his start singing in gospel and vocal R&B groups, but before long he left the […]
Originally aired on Studio 360 and their affiliates on July 12, 2018. Wilson Pickett got his start singing in gospel and vocal R&B groups, but before long he left the […]
Originally aired on Studio 360 and their affiliates on June 21, 2018. Released on June 28, 1988, Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back broke ground […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Wes Montgomery, the great jazz guitarist. He died suddenly — a heart attack — when he was just 45. At […]
Originally aired on Studio 360 and their affiliates on December 21, 2017. Ode to an Enigma: How Bobbie Gentry ghosted us all In 1967, Capitol Records took a chance on […]
“I Will Survive:” The Best Song to Grace a B-Side It was 1978. Gloria Gaynor wasn’t having a good year. Her first hit, “Never Can Say Goodbye,”never translated into staying […]
This feature aired on Studio 360 on October 6, 2016. From Studio 360… “Walk on the Wild Side” was released in 1972 on Lou Reed’s second solo album, “Transformer.” Though musically […]
Michael Coleman’s recordings from the early 1920’s set the standard for all the traditional Irish music that would follow. Coleman emigrated from County Sligo, Ireland, to New York City in […]
Meet C.C. Rider, radio host on Elwood’s BluesMobile Radio Hour. She spends her life venerating the founding fathers of the blues. She’s walked the crooked highways of this singing country to resurrect […]
In 1957, Reverend Claude Jeter wrote an arrangement of “Mary, Don’t You Weep” for his gospel ensemble, the Swan Silvertones. “Mary, Don’t You Weep” had been around as a spiritual since […]