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Blues Moments in Time...

The Blues Hotel Collective

Blues Moments in Time takes you back to the crossroads where history happened. We"re talking about those electric nights in Chicago studios, those dusty Delta afternoons, those chance encounters that changed everything. This is where you"ll hear about the day Muddy Waters plugged in and shook the world, the session where Robert Johnson laid down his legacy, the moment B.B. King named his guitar Lucille. These aren"t just dates and facts—they"re the living, breathing stories of how the blues became

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Blues Moments in Time - January 31: Mahalia’s...

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2026/01/30

January 31 is more than a date on the calendar—it’s a crossroads of faith, struggle, and sound. In this episode, we stand in Chicago in 1972 at the funeral of Mahalia Jackson, where over 40,000 mourners gathered and Aretha Franklin’s closing song turned grief into a living testament to gospel, blues, and the Civil Rights Movement. We explore how Mahalia’s voice became both a spiritual anchor and a political force, from the March on Washington to national recognition from the White House.From there,

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Blues Moments in Time - January 30: The Day the Blues...

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2026/01/29

January 30 isn’t packed with famous blues birthdays or deaths—but that’s exactly what makes it powerful. In this episode, we trace how one ordinary date became a lens on the entire evolution of the blues. From Charlie Patton’s raw Delta masterpiece “Jersey Bull Blues” in 1934 to Sonny Boy Williamson II’s electric Chicago session with an all-star band in 1960, we follow the music’s journey from dusty backroads to neon-lit city nights.We then step onto the London rooftop in 1969 for The Beatles’ final

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Blues Moments in Time - January 29: Law, Loss, and...

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2026/01/28

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, we trace January 29 as a fault line where law and music collide. We start in the 19th century, with Henry Clay’s Compromise of 1850 and Mississippi’s short-lived 1873 civil rights bill—moments that built the legal scaffolding of slavery, sharecropping, and Jim Crow. These aren’t just dates in a textbook; they’re the backdrop to every blues lyric about a “mean old world” and a “high sheriff” who never played fair.From there, we move to January 29, 1992, and

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Blues Moments in Time - January 28: Birth, Death, and...

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2026/01/27

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, we stop the clock on January 28—a single date that captures the blues as a living, breathing continuum. We move from the elegant Piedmont finger-picking of Luke Jordan, born January 28, 1892, to the community-rooted legacy of DC Minner, born January 28, 1935 in an all-Black Oklahoma town, and finally to the passing of Alabama harmonica original J-Bird Coleman on January 28, 1950.Set against the tense political backdrop of McCarthyism, early Civil Rights

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Blues Moments in Time - January 27: Lightbulbs,...

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2026/01/26

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 27 becomes a day where history’s heaviest shadows and music’s brightest sparks sit side by side. We begin with International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, drawing a line between that global reckoning with atrocity and the blues as a vessel for suffering, survival, and the demand to be seen as fully human. The same emotional current that runs through memorial candles and testimonies runs through 12‑bar laments and

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04:23

Blues Moments in Time - January 26: Survival Songs...

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2026/01/25

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 26 becomes a powerful meeting point of invasion, survival, protest, and sound. From Invasion Day/Survival Day and the 1938 Day of Mourning in Australia to the U.S. Civil Rights echoes inside the blues, we explore how music and resistance share the same emotional core—truth-telling, resilience, and identity reclamation.We then trace how that core travels through time and genre: into Eddie Van Halen’s blues-soaked rock guitar, Prince’s funk-and-soul

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Blues Moments in Time - January 25: Robots,...

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2026/01/24

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 25 becomes a date where machines, empires, and human voices all collide around the blues. We start in 1920 with the premiere of Karel Čapek’s play R.U.R., the work that gave the world the word “robot” and announced a new, mechanical age. While factories roared and the idea of replaceable workers took hold, blues musicians were out there doing the opposite—putting names, fears, hopes, and everyday truths back into a world that was starting to feel

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Blues Moments in Time - January 24: Lovesick Lines,...

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2026/01/23

On this episode of Blues Moments in Time, we drop the needle on January 24—a date that quietly sits at the crossroads of blues, country, empire, and pop culture. We trace how Hank Williams Sr.’s 1949 release of “Lovesick Blues” carried blues phrasing and emotional storytelling straight into the heart of mainstream country, blurring genre lines and revealing just how deep the blues runs in American music.From there, we jump to the birth of John Belushi, whose work with The Blues Brothers helped

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Blues Moments in Time - January 23: Lead Belly’s...

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2026/01/22

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 23 shows up as a bridge date—linking chain gangs and street corners to Broadway stages and European radio countdowns. We start with Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, born this day in 1888, whose 12‑string guitar and booming voice carried the stories of the Jim Crow South from prison farms to Northern concert halls. His songs—about work, violence, love, and survival—turned Black suffering into a global conversation and helped define what we now call

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Blues Moments in Time - January 22: Poll Taxes,...

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2026/01/21

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 22 becomes a date where money, law, and music all collide around the blues. We start in 1943 with the American Federation of Musicians recording ban, a labor showdown over royalties that shut down studio sessions and hit Black blues musicians especially hard. It’s a reminder that behind every beloved record is a fight over who gets paid, who gets credited, and who gets left out of the deal.We then move to 1964 and the ratification of the 24th

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Blues Moments in Time - January 21: B.B.’s Library,...

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2026/01/20

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 21 becomes a tour through the libraries, studios, and bandstands that prove the blues is both archive and engine. We start in 1982 with B.B. King’s quiet revolution: donating his massive personal collection of records to the University of Mississippi. In one move, “Blues Royalty” takes the music from juke joints to the stacks, insisting that these 78s and LPs be treated not as disposable entertainment, but as protected cultural heritage and serious

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Blues Moments in Time - January 20: Lead Belly’s...

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2026/01/19

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 20 stands as one of the most powerful dual anniversaries on the blues calendar — the birth of Lead Belly in 1888 and the passing of Etta James in 2012. Together, they form a kind of hinge in American music history: one artist who turned the struggles of his era into a living cultural record, and another whose voice carried that emotional truth into the modern age with unmatched force.We begin with Lead Belly, the Louisiana-born giant whose 12‑string

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Blues Moments in Time - January 19: Gloom, Grit, and...

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2026/01/18

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 19 becomes a crossroads where literature, politics, and raw musical power all collide. We begin with Edgar Allan Poe, whose birthday sets the emotional tone for the day. His “American gloom,” haunted corners, and aching sense of longing form a surprising but unmistakable emotional blueprint for the blues — the same shadows that singers later turned into moans, hollers, and truth-telling verses.From there, the date widens into political history

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Blues Moments in Time - January 18: Quiet Rooms, Loud...

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2026/01/17

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 18 isn’t about one famous record—it’s about the rooms, rituals, and lives that keep the blues breathing. We drop into Sunday night residencies in Los Angeles and small, snowbound rooms at the Thredbo Blues Festival, where two-hour sets and close-up stages turn ordinary evenings into living laboratories of the blues. Here, standards get bent back toward the 12‑bar truth, and the music exists as it always has: in the air between player and listener,

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Blues Moments in Time - January 17: Empty Houses,...

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2026/01/16

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 17 becomes a date where the blues steps out of tents, into studios, and across oceans. We start in 1929 New York City with Clara Smith cutting “Empty House Blues” and “Tell Me When,” capturing the moment when classic blues singers moved from Southern tent shows to Northern recording rooms—turning a regional oral tradition into a commercial force that would reshape American music.From there, we trace the constant dialogue between blues, jazz, and

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Blues Moments in Time - January 16: Speakeasy Nights,...

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2026/01/15

January 16 is one of those dates where the blues doesn’t just show up in a single moment — it threads itself through a century of American culture, from hidden speakeasies to televised acoustic stages. We start in 1919 with the ratification of Prohibition, a law meant to “clean up” America that instead created the speakeasy underground — the backroom bars and after‑hours joints where Black musicians found new stages, new audiences, and a new urban electricity. These were the rooms where the blues

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Blues Moments in Time - January 15: Kings, Hookers,...

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2026/01/14

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 15 becomes a crossroads where civil rights, Chicago clubs, and streaming-era singles all meet. We begin with the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., tracing how his fight against Jim Crow reshaped the emotional climate and working reality of blues musicians—opening doors to integrated audiences, safer touring routes, and a new alignment between blues laments, freedom songs, and soul anthems of protest.From there, we turn to the births of Earl

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Blues Moments in Time - January 14: Segregation...

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2026/01/13

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 14 becomes a study in how the blues can be everywhere and almost nowhere at the same time—rarely named, but always humming underneath. We stand in Golden Gate Park in 1967 at the Human Be-In, where long jams, electric drones, and extended solos helped launch the counterculture. The music is billed as psychedelic rock, but its bones are pure blues: stretched time, bent notes, and improvisation as a way of searching for freedom in public.Then we move

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Blues Moments in Time - January 13: Prison Stages,...

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2026/01/12

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 13 unfolds as a full panorama of what the blues really is—music, yes, but also prisons, politics, studios, and classrooms. We step into Folsom Prison in 1968, where Johnny Cash sings “Folsom Prison Blues” to 2,000 incarcerated men, turning their reality into a hit record and a quiet act of solidarity. We spin back to 1962, when Chubby Checker’s “The Twist” returns to number one, a Black R&B club groove that explodes into a global dance craze and

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Blues Moments in Time - January 12: Ruth Brown,...

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2026/01/11

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 12 steps forward not as a day of tragedy or legislation, but as a celebration — a date stamped with beginnings, resilience, and the way we choose to remember. At the center is Ruth Brown, the “girl who sang the blues,” whose birthday becomes a kind of living memorial. We follow her journey from sneaking out to teenage club gigs, through car crashes, industry neglect, and years working as a domestic, to her return as a celebrated artist and fierce

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