Okeh Records was an indie record label that featured many prominent jazz and blues artists, including Louis Armstrong, Mamie Smith, and Big Maybelle.  Grab Big Maybelle’s The Complete Okeh Sessions 1952-1955 here for $4.99!

Mmmmm! Today we have a full banquet of food-themed songs for you– from crudité to dessert, and everything in between. Bon appetit!

Well he came home from the war with a party in his head, and modified Brougham DeVille, and a pair of legs that opened up like butterfly wings, and a mad dog that wouldn’t sit still. He went and took up with a Salvation Army Band girl, who played dirty water from a swordfishtrombone. He went to sleep at the bottom of Tenkiller lake,
and said “gee, but it’s great to be home.”

The American Folk music revival of the 1960s was inseparably intertwined with the social activism of this period. During the 1940s, wandering singers such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger collected folk songs and began to compose their own. In the 1960s, folk singers and songwriters such as Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs followed in Guthrie’s footsteps, writing “protest music” and topical songs which expressed support for the American Civil Rights Movement. This playlist kills Fascists!

Here’s a chance for you to hear original recordings of the roots of modern music. We have tunes from such old-time greats as Charlie Patton (pictured), Ma Rainey, and Blind Willie Johnson, among others. Get ready and get blue. Enjoy!

In these tough times, we could all use a bailout. So what better remedy is there than a few down-and-out laments from Dylan and Green Day, mixed in with some light-hearted meditations on the madness of money from Ol’ Dirty Bastard and Steve Miller. Tune in and forget for a while where all of your cash might have gone.