Detroit Life

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 169 John Sinclair Radio Show 320 Bohemian National Home, Detroit, April 18, 2010 [20-1016] Detroit Life Radio 169 Last night we threw a big party called THANK YOU GARY GRIMSHAW at the Bohemian National Home in honor and appreciation of the great Detroit artist Gary Grimshaw, creator [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 150 John Sinclair Radio Show 317 Bohemian National Home, Detroit, March 28, 2010 [JSRS-1013] Detroit Life Radio 150 I’m broadcasting tonight once again from the Poet in Residence studio at the Bohemian National Home in Detroit, playing music from the Hot Club of Detroit, Funkadelic, Harmonica Shah, [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 137 John Sinclair Radio Show 203 Jazz Loft, Detroit, April 20, 2008 [DL8-0420] Detroit Life Radio 137 This episode comes beaming out of the Jazz Loft in downtown Detroit from the 4th Annual John Sinclair 420 Party, Music & Art Fair produced by Holice P. Wood every [...]

Welcome to  Detroit Life Radio, a service of DetroitLife313.com. Our programmers are • Mike Boulan, who’s producing a series of blues shows called THE NO COVER RADIO HOUR from his Straight Ahead Studio in Oak Park, • John Sinclair, who is making programs from his internet radio station at www.RadioFreeAmsterdam.com available to our listeners at [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents DETROIT LIFE RADIO 20 John Sinclair Radio Show 197 Straight Ahead Studio, Oak Park, MI, May 1, 2008 [DL8-0501] Detroit Life Radio 20 Mike Boulan’s No Cover Records was founded in 1993 and in 15 years has documented a vast array of Detroit blues artists and issued their recordings in [...]

Among the few white Americans who made actual physical and social contact with the black inhabitants of its city center, the bohemian sector in Detroit quickly learned that racism was pretty much a one-way street and soon found its denizens forming fast friendships and strong working relationships with the people around them. In the bohemian art world people were judged and deemed worthy on the basis of the quality of their work and the nature of their personalities, the exact criteria almost universally applied throughout African America, so it was easy to begin to see eye to eye as fellow humans and coexist in unaccustomed peace and harmony.

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I’m celebrating the first ever episode of the No Cover Radio Show with a special program of music recorded for the “No Cover’s First 14″ sampler Cd. The songs featured here are from 14 different Cd’s released by the No Cover Productions Blues label. These first 14 are from the very start of the label in the mid 90′s and the feature a great list of bands from that period, many of which are still performing today, and some of which have since passed on. I hope you enjoy this cross section of blues history.