Best Earl Johnson Jr Podcasts (2024)

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Robert Lockwood, Jr. 1st Interview 54:16

8M ago54:16

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Send us a text This program features what I, and the original interviewer Ron Weinstock, believe is the first ever extended interview with Robert Lockwood, Jr. This took place at the studios of radio station WRUW-FM on the campus of Case-Western Reserve University in early 1971. Present in the studio were Weinstock, Lockwood, Dave Griggs, and mysel…

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E AND M AUDIO MEDIA SHOW 34:32

1y ago34:32

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E AND M AUDIO MEDIA SHOW. With your hosts Earl Johnson, Jr. and Mark Williams. E And M Audio Media Service. We Create Audio Media!!! We create audio media shows for anyone and everyone. If you have a show idea and you would like to have an audio show or shows contact us. This show is here to help you create your shows with us. And give you great id…

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E AND M AUDIO MEDIA SERVICES SHOW 34:32

1+ y ago34:32

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E AND M AUDIO MEDIA SHOW. With your hosts Earl Johnson, Jr. and Mark Williams. E And M Audio Media Service. We Create Audio Media!!! We create audio media shows for anyone and everyone. If you have a show idea and you would like to have an audio show or shows contact us. mediaem04@gmail.comBy E AND M AUDIO MEDIA SERVICES

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Eight String Blues, Pt. 2 55:54

1+ y ago55:54

55:54

Send us a text The second half of our two part series on blues mandolin features several of the post-war stars of the mandolin including Johnny Young, Martin, Bogan & Armstrong, Steve James, and more. This program also includes our first ever live interview, here with mandolin player/educator/promotor Rich DelGrosso. By the conclusion of this progr…

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Eight String Blues, Pt 1 47:46

1+ y ago47:46

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Send us a text Do you think of the mandolin as a blues instrument? You should and you will after hearing these two programs. In part 1 we'll hear some of the early practitioners of blues mandolin like Coley Jones, Yank Rachell and Charlie McCoy. We'll even hear from mandolin slingers heavily influenced by the early masters, Bill Monroe and Ry Coode…

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Lonnie Johnson, Pt. 2 54:09

1+ y ago54:09

54:09

Send us a text In part two we explore Lonnie's post-war recordings and life. We hear how he adapts his music to a new era. Lonnie has his biggest hit, "Tomorrow Night" for King Records, in 1947 and becomes a favorite of British trad-jazz fans. In the '60s Lonnie has yet another comeback (he was the king of comebacks) and records a series of albums …

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Lonnie Johnson Pt. 1 48:37

2y ago48:37

48:37

Send us a text Lonnie Johnson may arguably be the most influential guitarist of all time. He was the first guitarist to play single string solos in both jazz and blues styles long before even Django Reinhardt or Charlie Christian. Robert Johnson imitated him on record and BB King and many others cited him as a major influence. He was also a superb …

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E AND M AUDIO PODCASTING SERVICES SHOW 54:41

2y ago54:41

54:41

Audio Podcasting Creation. With your hosts Earl Johnson, Jr. and Mark Williams. E And M Audio Podcasting Service. Contact US NOW!!!!!! At: mediaem04@gmail.com We are a audio podcasting company. We help anyone who wants to do audio podcasting on any level. contact us: mediaem04@gmail.comBy mediaem04

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The Long Legacy, Pt. 2 39:23

3y ago39:23

39:23

Send us a text One of the most interesting characters in genre full of interesting characters was J.B. Long of North Carolina. Long was a shopkeeper who, for reasons we may never fully understand, made recording great bluesmen a hobby/passion/obsession. In the summer of 1935 Long, along with his wife and baby girl, drove Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary…

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The Long Legacy Pt. 1 40:54

3y ago40:54

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Send us a text One of the most interesting characters in genre full of interesting characters was J.B. Long of North Carolina. Long was a shopkeeper who, for reasons we may never fully understand, made recording great bluesmen a hobby/passion/obsession. In the summer of 1935 Long, along with his wife and baby girl, drove Blind Boy Fuller, Rev. Gary…

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Percy Mayfield-Poet Laureate of the Blues 25:24

3y ago25:24

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Send us a text Known today mainly for his sensitive and evocative compositions like Hit the Road Jack, Please Send Me Someone to Love, and Rivers Invitation, Percy Mayfield began his career as a big band vocalist of the Bronze Baritone genre, until a serious auto accident nearly killed him, disfigured his face, and ended his career as a matinee ido…

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Another Pair of Kings, Pt.2 - Earl King 45:29

3y ago45:29

45:29

Send us a text Every blues fan knows about the three Kings of the Blues, Albert, BB & Freddie, but we're going to add two more: Saunders King and Earl King. In Part 2 we explore the music and life of Earl King of New Orleans. Earl was a singer, guitarist, songwriter, record producer and mentor to dozens of young New Orleans musicians. He may be bes…

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Another Pair of Kings Pt. 1-Saunders King 32:06

3y ago32:06

32:06

Send us a text Every blues fan knows about the three Kings of the Blues, Albert, BB & Freddie, but we're going to add two more: Saunders King and Earl King. Part 1 takes a look at the music and life of Saunders King who was in fact, the first blues artist to solo on electric guitar, preceding T-Bone Walker by two months. Saunders was a fine guitari…

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Cleveland Blues 1:04:22

3y ago1:04:22

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Send us a text We kick off season three with a special program about blues from my home-town, Cleveland, Ohio. We start by explaining why Cleveland has never the blues center that Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, or Mississippi were, then move on to feature some great musicians either born in Cleveland or who lived a significant portion of their lives he…

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The Liggins Bros.-Joe & Jimmy 41:48

3+ y ago41:48

41:48

Send us a text While Louis Jordan was clearly the most successful recording artist of the jump-blues era of the late '40s-early '50s, there were also quite a few great performers of that era including Tiny Bradshaw, Wynonie Harris, Roy Brown, Roy Milton, and our featured artists for this episode: Joe and Jimmy Liggins. The Los Angeles based Liggins…

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Bob Wills Blues 34:19

3+ y ago34:19

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Send us a text According to legend, a young Bob Wills once rode 50 miles on horseback to hear Bessie Smith sing. Throughout his long career, Wills mined the blues for some of his best and most popular numbers. His band, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, were by no means strictly a blues band, but the blues was always present in his music. In this epi…

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King Records 7.1-Our Final Episode on King Records 56:58

3+ y ago56:58

56:58

Send us a text Blues You Should Know Podcast presents our final (yes, I mean it this time) program on the music of King Records, Ohio's great eclectic record label. There was just too much great music, and too many great artists left over, so we offer one more program we're calling King Records 7.1. Hear blues from Champion Jack Dupree, & Baby Boy …

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King Records Pt. 7-Odds & Ends 49:17

3+ y ago49:17

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Send us a text Here in Part 7 we go over the life of King Records founder and president Syd Nathan. We also spotlight some great King artists we haven't been able to fit into the programs so far. These include some of King's biggest selling artists like Earl Bostic, Five Royales, Mainer's Mountaineers, Roland Kirk, Bill Doggett and more. Oh, and de…

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King Records, Pt. 6-James Brown! 50:35

3+ y ago50:35

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Send us a text Part 6 of our series on King Records is devoted to one artist-James Brown. We cover the recordings he made for King from his debut single, Please, Please, Please through his recordings with Bootsy & Catfish Collins. Brown was King's biggest star and certainly his most socially significant artist. Learn about the origin of the "Cape R…

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King Records Pt. 5, Kings of Kings 46:08

3+ y ago46:08

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Send us a text There were indeed Kings at King Records. Two of the best known were Albert and Freddy King, but there were more! Kings of King on Blues You Should Know. Support the showBy Bob Frank

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King Records Pt. 4 "King Bluegrass" 41:15

3+ y ago41:15

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Send us a text King records released a great deal of Bluegrass music without a large roster of Bluegrass performers. The artists they did have, though, were the top-o-the heap. Reno & Smiley, Bobby Osborne and Jimmy Martin, Napier & Moore, and of course, Ralph & Carter, the Stanley Brothers. There were no "one and done" Bluegrass artists on King. A…

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King Records Pt. 3 34:26

3+ y ago34:26

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Send us a text The Blues on King. King wasn't a hard-core blues label the way Chess was, but blues was a significant part of its catalog. Hear John Lee Hooker, Smokey Smothers, Tiny Topsy, Cleanhead Vinson, Johnny Guitar Watson, and of course, the voice of Syd Nathan himself explaining just how things are and are going to be! Coming up next: Part 3…

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King Records Pt 2 39:37

3+ y ago39:37

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Send us a text As the '40s fade into the '50s, Syd establishes a toe-hold, then a foot-hold in the R & B market while maintaining King's presence in the Country market. Hear Earl Bostic, Tiny Bradshaw, Lonnie Johnson, Moon Mullican, Hawkshaw Hawkins, the York Brothers, Billy Ward and more on part two of our eight part series on King Records, Ohio's…

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King Records Pt. 1 36:35

3+ y ago36:35

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Send us a text We begin our 8 part series on Ohio's great, eclectic record label King Records, started and owned by the wonderfully colorful and irascible Syd Nathan. We begin with Syd's journey into the record business and King's early years recording country singers like Grandpa Jones, the Delmore Brothers, and Merle Travis. We'll get to his entr…

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Ma Rainey's Real Producers-J. Mayo Williams & Aletha Dickerson 1:00:13

3+ y ago1:00:13

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Send us a text The film and play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is a great piece of historical fiction, but it gets one thing very wrong: Ma Rainey's records were actually produced by two extraordinary African-Americans: J. Mayo Williams & Aletha Dickerson. Here is their story and, in this case, truth is far more interesting than fiction. Support the s…

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John Henry & the Cocaine Blues 32:18

3+ y ago32:18

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Send us a text Here's a look at American music's ultimate crossover song: John Henry. To African-Americans he was a symbol of racial pride; to unionists, he represented the power of the American worker and union solidarity; to poor whites; he was personification of rugged Americanism, and to Christians; a Christ-like figure who died for our sins. A…

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Lillian McMurray & Trumpet Records 37:15

3+ y ago37:15

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Send us a text What would make a genteel, white Southern lady from Mississippi want to start a company to record black blues and golspel artists,...and in the early 1950s? Find out on this episode of "Blues You Should Know" with Bob Frank. Trumpet Records didn't last very long, but while it was going, it was the only record company headquartered in…

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Election Special-Georgia on My Mind, Pt 2 43:14

4y ago43:14

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Send us a text In honor of the recent election, this show is dedicated to the great Peach State: Georgia. All songs will either contain the word "Georgia" in the title, or will be by an artist or group whose name includes "Georgia". Pt. 2 features Jimmy McCracklin, Gov. Jimmie Davis, the GA. Yellow Hammers, Luther "Georgia Boy" Johnson, Ray Charles…

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Election Special: Georgia On My Mind Pt. 1 47:09

4y ago47:09

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Send us a text In honor of the recent election, this show is dedicated to the great Peach State: Georgia. All songs will either contain the word "Georgia" in the title, or will be by an artist or group whose name includes "Georgia". Pt. 1 features Blind Blake, BBQ Bob, the Skillet Lickers, Mike Bloomfield & Maria Muldaur, Hoagy Charmichael and more…

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Robt. Lockwood's Guitar Transformation 29:59

4y ago29:59

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Send us a text At f his 1941 debut recordings, Robt. Lockwood, Jr. was a finger-style, acoustic disciple of his step-father Robert Johnson. By the early 1950's, he'd transformed himself into perhaps the hottest electric lead guitarist on the Chicago recording scene. This episode tells how this happened. Support the show…

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The McCoy Brothers & the Harlem Hamfats 18:56

4y ago18:56

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Send us a text Enter the wild and wacky world of the Harlem Hamfats, the group that combined the sophistication of Chicago & New Orleans Jazz with the deep blues of the Mississippi Delta. The blues component consisted of two of Mississippi's finest musicians, the brothers Charlie & Joe McCoy. Support the show…

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Two Texans-Texas Alexander & Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson 32:37

4y ago32:37

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Send us a text Our show today focuses on two Texans with vastly different styles. Texas Alexander was as deep and intense as a bluesman could be. An itinerant, details of his life are scant yet he recorded dozens of sides over a 25 or so year period. Eddie "Vinson was something else entirely. Called "Cleanhead" (for a process job gone horribly wron…

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Big Maceo 43:22

4y ago43:22

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Send us a text For a mere five years, the rollicking, hard-driving piano playing of Major "Big Maceo" Merriweather dominated the Chicago blues scene. Maceo was left handed, and no one before or since has been able to create the drive and beat that propelled the recordings he made with Tampa Red, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson I, and under h…

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Robert Nighthawk 19:56

4y ago19:56

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Send us a text Robert Nighthawk (Robert Lee McCollum) was one of the few Chicago based blues guitarists to make the successful stylistic jump from pre-war acoustic blues playing to post-war electric playing. As a slide player, he was probably the primary guitar influence on Muddy Waters. In addition, he had a wonderfully wry and deceptively smooth …

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Trailer 2:40

4y ago2:40

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Send us a text Well hello everybody and welcome to “Blues You Should Know”. I’m Bob Frank and I’m the host and creator of the program. I’ve been a professional musician for the past 45 years or so; also a songwriter, a writer, an educator, a filmmaker and now a podcaster. I originally began doing these programs as a radio show within a radio show o…

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Sleepy John Estes 24:15

4y ago24:15

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Send us a text The community of Brownsville, Tennessee lies about 60 miles or so just East of Memphis, just a short ways off of Highway 40, the long interstate that runs the entire width of Tennessee from North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains to the Mississippi River. Brownsville, whose population was roughly ten thousand at the last census, has r…

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Early Anthologies 51:11

4y ago51:11

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Send us a text Many of the early country blues recordings we love today exist because, in the 1950s and early '60s, an intrepid group of oddball record collectors went door-to-door in Black neighborhoods the rural South offering to buy old records. Some of them took these records and started small, independent, record labels to get this music to th…

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Skip James 26:10

4y ago26:10

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Send us a text Skip James made a handful of recordings for Paramount in 1931. They sounded like nothing else anyone had ever heard and they didn't sell well. Skip dropped out of sight until 1963, when he was "rediscovered" in a hospital in Tunica, MS. Here is the story of how he picked up his career after 30+ years and became a sensation on the mid…

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Three Ladies I Love 41:29

4y ago41:29

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Send us a text Blues isn't just a male thing. Here are three wonderful, if not widely known, female blues singers that I'm just crazy about: Lil Green, Annie Laurie and Julia Lee. Give 'em a listen. I'll guarantee you fall in love with them too. Support the showBy Bob Frank

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Bo Carter 40:12

4y ago40:12

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Send us a text He was the undisputed king of the double-entendre song, but Bo Carter was also a brilliant and innovative guitarist, using unusual tunings and slipping a bit of his genius in every song. Support the showBy Bob

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Magic Sam 23:29

4y ago23:29

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Send us a text Magic Sam exploded like a meteor on the national blues scene. Everyone who knew Sam liked him; he was a powerful singer with a soaring tenor voice, an imaginative songwriter, and an innovative guitarist, but bad luck hounded him throughout his short life. Support the showBy Bob

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Hollywood Fats 39:19

4y ago39:19

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Send us a text Name me a guitar player from a well-to-do Jewish family who revolutionized blues guitar, created a sensation, then died far too young. Mike Bloomfield? Yes, but a couple of decades later Michael Mann, aka Hollywood Fats did pretty much the same thing, and came to the same tragic end. As Bloomfield essentially founded blues-rock guita…

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MOTIVATION (The Art Of Motivation ) 43:00

6+ y ago43:00

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Learn all about this great thing we call MOTIVATION. What is MOTIVATION ? How can this great thing we call MOTIVATION help you to master and to have a great life. Lots of motivational and meditational tools. Great music ( Meditational Soul Music and motivational jazz.With your host Mr. Earl Johnson, Jr. ( The Healing Voice ) (Motivational Evangelis…

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MOTIVATION (The Art Of MOTIVATION) 36:00

11y ago36:00

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Learn all about this great thing we call MOTIVATION. What is MOTIVATION? How can this great thing we call MOTIVATION, help you to master and to have a great life. Motivational and Meditational tools. Great music( Meditational soul music and Motivational jazz) Your host Mr. EARL JOHNSON JR. (The Healing Voice)(The Motivational evangelist)…

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