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Radio Free Amsterdam & The John Sinclair Foundation Present Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 43 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, July 26, 2008 [HW-0043] Detroit Life Radio 655 Highway 61 takes us to Chicago this week, to the Maxwell Street Market that was a blues center for years that is now torn down but was well documented [...]

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Radio Free Amsterdam & The John Sinclair Foundation Present Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 42 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, July 12, 2008 [HW-0042] Detroit Life Radio 648 Scott Barretta looks into the recording career of guitarist McHouston Baker, better known as Mickey, featuring sides as Big Red McHouston, Mickey “Guitar” Baker, and Mickey & Sylvia, and [...]

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Radio Free Amsterdam & The John Sinclair Foundation Present Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 41 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, July 5, 2008 [HW-0041] Detroit Life Radio 641 Highway 61 takes us to Clarksdale, Mississippi, Detroit, Michigan and Oakland, California to investigate the works of the great John Lee Hooker from the late 1940s to the 1990s [...]

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Radio Free Amsterdam & The John Sinclair Foundation Present Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 40 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, June 30, 2008 [HW-0040] Detroit Life Radio 634 This week’s episode of Highway 61 with Scott Barretta features music from North Mississippi blues artists, much of it recorded at the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic at Potts [...]

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Radio Free Amsterdam & The John Sinclair Foundation Present Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 39 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, May 17, 2008 [HW-0039] Detroit Life Radio 627 This week’s episode of Highway 61 with Scott Barretta investigates the music of Mississippi native Ike Turner & his Kings of Rhythm, featuring vocalists Jackie Brenston, Johnny O’Neal, Billy [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 38 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, May 3, 2008 [HW-0038] Detroit Life Radio 620 Highway 61 takes us to Texas with week with a program of music and commentary by the great Lightning Hopkins including an interview segment with Sam Charters and songs by Lightning & Thunder, [...]

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Radio Free Amsterdam & The John Sinclair Foundation Present Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 37 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, April 12, 2008 [HW-0037] Detroit Life Radio 613 Scott Barretta takes a good long look at the bluesier side of the great Clarksdale singer and producer Sam Cooke on this week’s episode of Highway 61 with a [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents Highway 61 With Scott Barretta 35 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, March 8, 2008 [HW-0035] Detroit Life Radio 599 Scott Barretta features music fromThe Great Debate soundtrack in this week’s episode of Highway 61, including numbers by Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sharon Jones, and the Carolina Chocolate Drops, plus original versions by Booker [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 34 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, March 1, 2008 [HW-0034] Detroit Life Radio 592 Scott Barretta spotlights the Robert Johnson Blues Trail Marker in MississippI for this week’s episode of Highway 61 with music by Robert Johnson, Son House, Cousin Leroy, Peetie Wheatstraw, Leroy Carr, Robert Lockwood [...]

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The John Sinclair Foundation Presents Highway 61 with Scott Barretta 33 Mississippi Public Broadcasting, January 19, 2008 [HW-0033] Detroit Life Radio 585 This week’s episode of Highway 61 with Scott Barretta features the music of Robert Nighthawk, his influences Tampa Red and Tommy Johnson, his contemporaries Big Joe Williams and John Lee Williamson, and his [...]