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Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music

Autor: Thomas Stubbs

In 1927, the record industry split American music in two and sold it to separate audiences. We've believed the split ever since. Groundwater is a music history podcast that follows the current underneath — the blues, running from Congo Square to the South Bronx, from Robert Johnson to Aretha Franklin to hip-hop. Each episode traces a moment the industry tried to keep apart: the soul sessions at Stax and Muscle Shoals that crossed every line; Louis Armstrong working race and commerce from New Orleans to Chicago; the Great Migration carrying Muddy Waters and the Delta sound up the Illinois Central to Memphis, Ch...

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  1. The Underground River, Part 1: Blind Willie McTell, the Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  2. Rooms Where the Walls Came Down, Part 2: Stax, Muscle Shoals, and Minton's Playhouse – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  3. Rooms Where the Walls Came Down Part 1: Sun Studio and Chess Records – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  4. The Moondog: Alan Freed, the Payola Scandal, and the First Rock and Roll Riot – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  5. The Same Music: The Bristol Sessions, Hank Williams, and the Lie That Split Blues from Country – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  6. We Both Speak African: Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and How Jazz Crossed the Atlantic – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  7. The Country's Memory: Jimi Hendrix, Strange Fruit, and American Music at 250 – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  8. The Blues Professor, Part 2: Muddy Waters, the Mardi Gras Indians, and Where to Start with the Blues – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  9. The Blues Professor, Part 1: Piedmont Blues, the Allman Brothers, and Atlanta's Living Scene – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  10. Groundwater Trailer: Why American Music's Genre Labels Are a Lie - A Music History Podcast – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  11. Twelfth Street Station: The Great Migration and How New Orleans Music Reached Chicago – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  12. The Drain: New Orleans Music From Professor Longhair to Katrina – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  13. Little Louis: Louis Armstrong and the Birth of Jazz – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music
  14. Below Sea Level: How New Orleans Built American Music – Groundwater: The Blues Beneath American Music