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Biscuit Blues

Biscuit Blues

FromGravy


Biscuit Blues

FromGravy

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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Aug 8, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Delta blues found its voice and audience on the airwaves of KFFA’s King Biscuit Time, a daily broadcast out of Helena, Arkansas. Bluesmen like Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Lockwood Jr., who would go on to become legends, interspersed their own songs with advertising jingles. King Biscuit Time, which launched in 1941, gave unprecedented exposure to African American musicians while selling everyday grocery staples like flour and cornmeal. And it's still on the air. Reporter-producer Betsy Shepherd travels to Helena to tell the story for Gravy. 
Released:
Aug 8, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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Gravy is a podcast from the Southern Foodways Alliance that tells new and complicated stories about the changing American South.