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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 - November 18: Echoes of...

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2025/11/17

November 18 isn’t crowded with headlines—but the blues rarely needed them. This episode traces a date defined by what’s felt as much as what’s recorded: the quiet passing of journeyman pianists whose fingerprints are all over the music, the velvet-smooth voice of Junior Parker gone too soon, blues-rock’s surge into the mainstream, and the global echoes still ringing in Berlin clubs decades later. We explore how the genre’s deepest truths live between the lines—where songs traveled by memory, names

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07:09

Blues Moments in Time - November 17: Hidden Threads...

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2025/11/16

November 17 may look like just another date on the calendar, but in the world of blues and its far-reaching influence, it holds remarkable significance. In this episode ofBlues Moments in Time, host Kelvin Huggins uncovers the unseen importance of November 17—a day that gave us Jack Owens, the haunting voice of the Bentonia blues; Tab Benoit, the bayou guitarist whose mission extends from music to environmental activism; and Jeff Buckley, the genre-defying artist whose love for Robert Johnson shaped

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06:59

Blues Moments in Time - November 16: Father, Fire,...

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2025/11/15

Join Rufus Tate as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 16th in blues history. November 16 maps a bold arc of the blues—from W.C. Handy putting the music “down on paper” and giving it a popular voice, to Jimi Hendrix blasting those roots into a cosmic, electric future with Electric Ladyland at the top of the charts. We trace that lineage into the present day, where Australia’s scene—Ash Grunwald’s stompbox thunder, Chain’s long-running grit, and festival stages from

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06:04

Blues Moments in Time - November 15: Slide, Spark,...

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2025/11/14

Join Rufus Tate as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 15th in blues history. November 15 traces a living blues lineage—from the bottleneck fire of James “Kokomo” Arnold, whose “Old Original Kokomo Blues” seeded Robert Johnson’s “Sweet Home Chicago,” to the single-take grit of Tyler Bryant’s 2025 release “Falling Up,” echoing the raw instinct of Freddy King. We ride that feeling across oceans to Western Australia, where the Blues at Bridgetown festival turns a quiet

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08:01

Blues Moments in Time - November 14: From Delta Roots...

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2025/11/13

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 14th in blues history. November 14 echoes with the pulse of blues history—from the dusty slide of John Henry Barbee to the jazz-blues finesse of Art Hodes and the harmonica fire of Carey Bell. This episode honors the birth of genre-bending talents like Anson Funderbergh and Aynsley Lister, while remembering legends like Junior Parker and Eddie Map whose voices still ripple through the music. We drop the

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12:44

Blues Moments in Time: November 13 - Echoes of the Blues

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2025/11/12

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 13th in blues history. On this date, the blues sings loud and clear across generations and continents. From the birth of revivalist John P. Hammond to the passing of Chicago blues architect Willie Dixon, November 13 marks a crossroads of legacy and innovation. We revisit the only blues song to ever top the UK pop charts—The Rolling Stones’ “Little Red Rooster”—and celebrate Shemekia Copeland’s genre-bending

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09:28

Blues Moments in Time: November 12th – Echoes Across...

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2025/11/11

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 12th in blues history. From Delta dirt roads to psychedelic soundscapes, November 12th hums with the heartbeat of blues history. In this episode, we trace the legacy of three genre-shaping artists born on this day—Bukka White, Booker T. Jones, and Neil Young—each a torchbearer in their own right. Their stories span bottleneck slide riffs, Memphis soul grooves, and folk-rock introspections steeped in blues

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06:22

Blues Moments in Time: November 11 — From sorrow to...

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2025/11/10

This episode traces November 11 as a microcosm of the blues’ journey—creation, tragedy, evolution, and legacy. From Louis Armstrong’s 1926 Hot Five session where jazz phrasing pulsed with blues ache and hope, to Mose Allison’s dry-witted bridge between jazz and rock, and Ernestine Anderson’s silky strength threading jazz-pop and blues grit, the day reveals the genre’s emotional DNA at work across eras.We move through St. Louis Jimmy Oden’s haunting “Goin’ Down Slow,” B.B. King’s early life

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06:06

Blues Moments in Time: November 10 – A Living...

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2025/11/09

Hosted by Rufus Tate for the Blues Hotel Collective, this episode ofBlues Moments in Timedives deep into the soul of November 10—a date that threads together songwriting brilliance, stage-burning funk, orchestral evolution, and heartfelt loss. From the twin births of Sir Mack Rice and Bobby Rush in 1933 to Duke Ellington’s genre-bridging 1946 performance, the Moody Blues’ symphonic leap in 1967, and the passing of soul torchbearer Gerald Levert in 2006, this broadcast maps a lineage of innovation

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05:49

Blues Moments in Time - November 9 A Living Lineage

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2025/11/08

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 9th in blues history. Hosted by Kelvin Huggins of The Blues Hotel Collective, werewind the reel to November 9—a date that hums with historical resonance and global rhythm. From the coal country grit of Frank Hutchinson’s slide guitar to the gospel-fired urgency of Susan Tedeschi’s blues-rock, and the hypnotic Hill Country grooves of RL Boyce, this episode traces a lineage that refuses to fade.But this isn’t

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04:42

Blues Moments in Time - November 8: A Blues Chronicle...

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2025/11/07

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 8th in blues history. From bottleneck pioneers to Grammy-winning trailblazers, November 8th stands as a sacred date in the blues calendar—a day where past, present, and future harmonize in soulful tribute. This episode ofBlues Moments in Timejourneys through the birth of Bonnie Raitt and the legacy of Kokomo Arnold, tracing the genre’s evolution from pre-war Chicago to contemporary British harmonica riffs. We

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06:42

Blues Moments in Time - November 7: The Blues Keeps Time

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2025/11/06

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 7th in blues history. From jug bands to jukebox legends, November 7th marks a quiet but powerful rhythm in the history of blues. In this episode, we trace the genre’s heartbeat across generations—from the final recordings of the Memphis Jug Band in 1934 to the electrified roar of B.B. King opening for The Rolling Stones in 1969. We celebrate the births of Johnny Rivers and Joni Mitchell, artists who carried

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08:23

Blues Moments in Time - November 6: From Avalon to...

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2025/11/05

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 6th in blues history. November 6th hums with history. In this episode ofBlues Moments in Time, we trace the genre’s lineage from the rhythmic clang of Washboard Sam to the tremolo fire of Magic Sam’sBlack Magic. We celebrate the birth of Rory Block, whose fingerpicked tributes to Son House and Mississippi John Hurt keep the Delta flame alive, and we honor Dion’sSon of Skip James, a modern-day invocation of

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08:54

Blues Moments in Time - November 5: Open the Door,...

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2025/11/04

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 5th in blues history. November 5th is no ordinary date—it’s a sonic crossroads where the blues bends, breaks, and builds anew. In this episode ofBlues Moments in Time, we swing through Jack McVea’s sax-driven jump, ride shotgun with Ike Turner’s “Rocket 88,” and feel the sting of Lucille as B.B. King recordsBlues is Kinglive in Chicago.We honor the birth of Charles Bradley, the “screaming eagle of soul,” and

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Blues Moments in Time - November 4: Let It Roll:...

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2025/11/03

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 4th in blues history. From the dusty keys of Willie Love’s Delta piano to the roaring amps of The Doors’ “Roadhouse Blues,” November 4th echoes with the soul, sorrow, and swing that shaped generations. This episode ofBlues Moments in Timetraces the genre’s heartbeat through a single date—a crossroads of birth, death, reinvention, and celebration.We honor Buddy Bolden’s mythic fire, Chris Bouchillon’s rhythmic

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Blues Moments in Time - November 3: Blues on the...

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2025/11/02

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 1st in blues history. November 3rd is no ordinary date—it’s a crossroads of blues history, where birth, remembrance, and celebration converge. In this panoramic episode ofBlues Moments in Time, host Kelvin Huggins traces the genre’s heartbeat through decades of milestones. From the birth of Mable John, Sonny Roads, Lulu, and Courtney Barnett—artists who carried the blues into soul, rock, and indie—to the

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Blues Moments in Time - November 2: Hurt, Cassidy,...

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2025/11/01

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 2nd in blues history. On this date across decades, three blues-infused legacies took shape—one faded gently, one burned briefly, and one exploded in electric color. In this reflective episode ofBlues Moments in Time, host Kelvin Huggins traces the quiet brilliance of Mississippi John Hurt, whose fingerpicked melodies whispered through Avalon and into the folk revival; the haunting voice of Eva Cassidy, whose

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Blues Moments in Time - November 1: Born, Gone, and...

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2025/10/31

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 1st in blues history. From the birth and passing of the “Texas Nightingale”Sippy Wallace, to the death ofDaddy Stovepipe, possibly the earliest-born blues artist ever recorded, this date captures both the dawn and twilight of the blues’ formative years.We’ll trace the thread throughJames Brown & The Famous Flames’first demo of“Please, Please, Please”— a moment that bridged blues into the soul and funk era

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Blues Moments in Time - October 31: The 31st Note:...

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2025/10/30

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of October 31st in blues history. From the birth of Kansas City’s sly and swinging Julia Lee in 1902 to the electric legacy of Johnny Moeller, born in 1970, this episode reveals how Halloween has become more than just a night of ghosts and grooves—it’s a milestone in blues history, artistry, and ambition.We trace the genre’s unbroken line through pivotal moments: Victoria Spivey’s fearless recordings, the seismic spark

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Blues Moments in Time - October 30: Birth, Loss, and...

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2025/10/29

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of October 30th in blues history. On this episode ofBlues Moments in Time, we spotlight October 30th—a date that threads through the genre’s living history. From the birth of Motown architect Eddie Holland to the final notes of harmonica master Norton Buffalo, this day captures the blues as both memory and momentum. With landmark releases like Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” and Greg Koch’s 2024 homage

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