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Here we are, already three episodes into our coverage of Louis Armstrong, and so far, we’ve only covered the portion of Louis’ career when he worked as a ...read more
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Our third episode featuring the remarkable music of Louis Armstrong covers the time when Louis Armstrong arrived in New York to play with the Fletcher ...read more
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This is our second show dedicated to the life and music of Louis Armstrong, but our first to at least partially cover the era of recorded music! Louis’ ...read more
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This show is somewhat intimidating for us. Setting out to convey the essence of the single most important musician of the 20th century is no easy task, but ...read more
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We’ve spent such a long time covering Motown that it’s difficult to not see the label in anthropomorphic terms.
Motown has been like a friend who lived ...read more
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Today is our 68th episode dedicated to Motown Records and all of its subsidiary labels.
Our story remains chronological,but we have reached a point in ...read more
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I don’t mean to be crude, but it would have been almost poetic if this was Part 69 in our Motown series, because today’s show – rather coincidentally, ...read more
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We are finally free of our obligation to play “every single Motown A-side” from their Detroit era, but that doesn’t mean we’re done with Motown. We intend ...read more
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Wow, what a ride this has been. When we decided that we cover Motown by playing each and every A-side released by the label, I don’t we understood just how ...read more
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Our 64th show dedicated to playing every single Motown A-side from the label’s inception until its move to L.A. at the end of 1971, catches the label in ...read more
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