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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 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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06:40

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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11:21

Blues Moments in Time - January 11: Bread, Roses, and...

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2026/01/10

On this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 11 becomes a day where labor strikes, inventions, and sidemen’s stories all braid into the blues. We start in 1912 with the “Bread and Roses” strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where immigrant textile workers demanded not just wages to live on, but dignity and beauty in their lives—a cry that mirrors the emotional script of the blues: hard times, unfair systems, and a stubborn insistence on something better.From there, we follow the Great Migration

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Blues Moments in Time - January 10: Birth, Migration,...

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2026/01/09

January 10 runs like a hidden thread through blues history – a single date where beginnings and endings collide. On this day, the business language of Black music was quietly revolutionized by Jerry Wexler, who helped retire the “race records” label and usher in “Rhythm and Blues.” It’s the birthday of Max Roach, whose insistence that music could be a weapon for civil rights reshaped the climate in which blues artists told their truths. And it’s also the day the stage lights dimmed on one of the

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09:39

Blues Moments in Time - January 9: Echoes of...

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2026/01/08

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 9 becomes less about a single record and more about the world the blues speaks to. We travel to Panama in 1964, where students marching to raise their flag in the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone sparked deadly riots and a national reckoning. Their fight for dignity and sovereignty mirrors the same emotional core that runs through the blues and the American Civil Rights Movement—a demand to be seen, heard, and treated as fully human.Musically, we drop the

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Blues Moments in Time - January 8: Battlefields,...

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2026/01/07

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, January 8 becomes a crossroads where battlefields, politics, and backbeats all meet. We start with the Battle of New Orleans and trace how a 19th‑century skirmish turned into the fiddle tune “The 8th of January” and, eventually, the hit “The Battle of New Orleans”—a piece of southern storytelling cut from the same cloth as the blues, capturing place, pride, and memory in melody.From there, we move to 1964 and Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” declaration,

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Blues Moments in Time - January 7: Hoochie Coochie...

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2026/01/06

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, we zoom in on January 7—a date that captures the blues in motion: migrating, electrifying, protesting, and reinventing itself. We follow the Great Migration as it carries the solitary acoustic blues of the Mississippi Delta into the crowded streets of Chicago, where the music plugs in, turns up, and becomes the raw, urban sound of Chicago blues and the backbone of “race records” that sold not just songs, but stories of escape and aspiration.At the heart of

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06:46

Blues Moments in Time - January 6: Censored Hips,...

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2026/01/05

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of blues history.In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, we zero in on January 6—a day where blues-soaked music crashes headlong into cultural conservatism, joyful pop spectacle, and raw political truth. From Elvis Presley being filmed only from the waist up on national TV to contain his “blues-infused” energy, to a studio audience spontaneously inventing the “YMCA” dance on American Bandstand, we explore how music

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Blues Momentsin Time - January 5: Blues, Bloodlines,...

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2026/01/04

Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of blues history.On this episode of Blues Moments in Time, we drop the needle on January 5—a date where the blues, history, and activism all collide. From the Great Migration and the rise of the Chitlin’ Circuit to the blues as a living form of testimony against Jim Crow and racial injustice, we trace how this music became both a soundtrack and a weapon in the struggle for equality.We celebrate the births of Elizabeth

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Blues Moments in Time - January 4: From Back Porch to...

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2026/01/03

January 4th reads like a time‑lapse of the blues—how it was born in struggle, electrified onstage, commercialized in boardrooms, and woven into the DNA of global popular music. In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, Kelvin Huggins traces how a single winter date captures the journey of the blues from Southern folk expression to worldwide cultural force.We start with the commercial and cultural shift marked by CBS buying the Fender Guitar Company in 1965—turning the Telecasters and Stratocasters

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09:49

Blues Moments in Time - January 3: Danny Overbea -The...

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2026/01/02

In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, Kelvin Huggins shines a long‑overdue spotlight on Danny Overbea, born January 3rd, 1926 — a musician whose fingerprints are all over the birth of rock and roll, even if his name rarely appears in the headlines.We explore how Overbea’s 1953 Checker recordings, “Train Train Train” and “4 Cups of Coffee,” pre‑dated the widely accepted dawn of rock and roll by two full years. His sound — raw, rhythmic, and electrifying — helped shape the musical revolution that

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Blues Moments in Time - January 2: Quiet Threads,...

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2026/01/01

January 2nd may not mark a single defining milestone in blues history, but it offers something just as meaningful — a window into the forces that shaped the blues long before any one date could claim significance. In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, Kelvin Huggins explores how this day reflects the deeper cultural, political, and musical currents that forged the genre.We begin with the broader landscape of the African‑American experience, where the blues was born not from isolated events but

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Blues Moments in Time - January 1: Three Moments That...

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2025/12/31

January 1st isn’t just the start of a new year — it’s a crossroads in blues history. In this episode of Blues Moments in Time, Kelvin Huggins explores how a single date echoes across generations, marking three defining moments that shaped the music, the culture, and the people who carried the blues forward.We begin with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, the moment that planted the earliest seeds of the blues. It was a day of jubilee and a day of reckoning — a “complicated freedom” that mixed

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Blues Moments in Time – December 23: The Day the...

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2025/12/22

Sign up to our seasonal newsletter and we'll gift you an exclusive blues podcast:The Blues Hotel Christmas EditionDrops December 24th, 2025!Sign up HERE and receive this exclusive edition podcast that won't be released publicly!Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of December 23rd in blues history.December 23 becomes a surprising fault line in the story of the blues – a single date that connects a roaring Carnegie Hall piano, a church-soaked soul voice, a

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Blues Moments in Time: December 20 — Quiet Dates,...

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2025/12/19

Sign up to our seasonal newsletter and we'll gift you an exclusive blues podcast:The Blues Hotel Christmas EditionDrops December 24th, 2025!Sign up HERE and receive this exclusive edition podcast that won't be released publicly!Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of December 20th in blues history.December 20th may not shine with blockbuster recording sessions or chart‑shaking releases, but its story runs deep in the veins of blues history. In this episode,

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Blues Moments in Time — December 19: Sorrow,...

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2025/12/18

Sign up to our seasonal newsletter and we'll gift you an exclusive blues podcast:The Blues Hotel Christmas EditionDrops December 24th, 2025!Sign up HERE and receive this exclusive edition podcast that won't be released publicly!Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of December 19th in blues history.December 19th sits at a crossroads in blues and rock history — a single date where the music’s deepest contrasts collide. It’s a day of beginnings, marked by the

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Blues Moments in Time — December 16: Innovators &...

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2025/12/15

Sign up to our seasonal newsletter and we'll gift you an exclusive blues podcast:The Blues Hotel Christmas EditionDrops December 24th, 2025!Sign up HERE and receive this exclusive edition podcast that won't be released publicly!Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of December 16th in blues history. December 16th traces a striking duality in the blues story — a day where boundary‑breaking innovation meets the quiet, steadfast grind of regional tradition

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Blues Moments in Time - December 8: Crossroads of...

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2025/12/07

Subscribe to The Blues Hotel Collective:https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1388278/172318053380392029/shareJoin Rufus as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of December 8th in blues history. December 8th is a pivotal date in the history of blues and related genres, marked by significant births, landmark recordings, legendary performances, and the passing of influential artists. The date's importance is underscored by the birth of Gregg Allman in 1947, whose work with The

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Blues Moments in Time - December 2: Blues Kings and...

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2025/12/01

🎁Special Subscriber Gift – The Blues Hotel Christmas EditionSubscribe before December 24th and receive an exclusive bonus episode featuring blues legends getting into the festive spirit. This special Christmas edition won't be released publicly—it's our gift to you.👉 Subscribe now: https://preview.mailerlite.io/forms/1388278/172318053380392029/shareJoin Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of December 2nd in blues history. December 2nd emerges as a date of

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