earbender presents
Buddy Guy Listen Here
 
The Legacy Podcast Black History Month series salutes Buddy Guy and other great African-American artists all month with 28 pieces in 28 days.  All content is produced by Joyride Media.
 
New Buddy Guy podcasts produced by Joyride Media are live every Saturday this month.

A true master of the blues, Buddy Guy's guitar sound was born and popularized as soloist in bands with Muddy Waters, Junior Wells and Otis Rush.  Later, his own disciples would include Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and most notably, Jimi Hendrix (as well as MILLIONS of others). 

Travel with Buddy Guy to his beginnings in rural Louisiana, as he describes fashioning his first guitar out of screen wire and a lighter fluid can, and his first encounter with an electric guitar (in the hands of Lightning Slim playing "Boogie Chillun")... "and that just turned my head around."

earbender presents
Sam Cooke Listen Here
 
The Legacy Podcast Black History Month series salutes Sam Cooke and other great African-American artists all month with 28 pieces in 28 days. 

"If you ever listened to him, it was hard not to walk away carrying a piece of him with you.  It was powerful then, it's powerful now."
-- Bobby Womack

Sam Cooke -- "Bring it on Home to Me" features his guitarist Bobby Womack and biographer Peter Guralnick describing Sam Cooke's music, and his move from gospel's Soul Stirrers to a solo career in secular music. New Sam Cooke pieces produced by Joyride Media are live every Wednesday this month.

All content is produced by Joyride Media and is DMCA Compliant.