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Black Traditional Music Practitioners Blues

Donnita Hathaway – Daughter of a Legend & Mental Health Advocate

Published and Hosted by: Lamont Jack Pearley In this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, I speak with Donnita Hathaway, daughter of the legendary Donny Hathaway. Donnita is an advocate for mental health that shares with us her story and works. Donnita Hathaway…

Black Writers & Poets

Tyehimba Jess

photo credit: John MidgleyTyehimba Jess is the author of two books of poetry, Leadbelly and Olio. Olio won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Midland Society Author’s Award in Poetry, and received an Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation from the Black Caucus of the American…

Black Traditional Music Practitioners Blues

Holle Thee Maxwell FREEBASE AIN’T FREE

In this interview I speak with Holle Thee Maxwell about her musical journey and recent book, Freebase Ain't Free, which depicts her 15 years working with and helping the Legendary Ike Turner. Chicago-born vocalist Holly Maxwell, now professionally known as Holle Thee Maxwell,…

Black Traditional Music Practitioners Blues

Whose Blues?

Published and produced by Lamont Jack Pearley In this episode, I speak with Blues Harmonica Legend, Dr. Adam Gussow about his most recent book "Whose Blues - Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music" If there's "No black. No white.…

Black Traditional Music Practitioners Blues

GARY GOLIO – Dark Was the Night

In this Episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, I speak with Children Book writer, and Musician Gary Golio about his current book "Dark Was the Night - Blind Willie Johnson's Journey to the Stars" (Penguin/Nancy Paulsen, 2020). Gary has a catalog of books…

Black Traditional Music Practitioners Blues

Randye Jones- Black Spirituals

In this episode, I speak with Randy Jones. She breaks down the black Spirituals and the many misconceptions about them. Randye Jones is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education from Bennett College in Greensboro.…

AAF PODCAST Black Traditional Music Practitioners Blues

Rubin Lacy – Old Hallelujahs

Published by: Lamont Jack Pearley on this premiere episode of Black Spirituals, Field Hollers, and Slave Seculars series, David Evans ( tenured ethnomusicologist, folklorist, and Grammy Winner) and I discuss and listen to some of the songs from his 1966 recording of Reverand…

The African American Folklorist

Strange Fruit – American Cartoonist Joel Christian Gill

Published By: Lamont Jack Pearley In this episode of jack Dappa Blues "The American Folklorist" I speak with American Cartoonist Joel Christian Gill. Joel shares with us his journey from painting to becoming a cartoonist, his role as a storyteller, his mission to…

AAF PODCAST Blues

DREAM FURY COMICS, African American Folklore, and the Blues

Published by: Lamont Jack Pearley in this episode of the African American Folklorist, I speak with Newton Lilavois, who is the founder and senior writer for this amazing comic publishing company called Dream Fury Comics. Our conversation focuses on Crescent City Monsters, which…

Black Traditional Music Practitioners Blues

REAL LIFE HOBO BLUES – The Eric Freeman Story

In this episode of the Jack Dappa Blues Radio Podcast, I speak with Eric Freeman, also known as "The Blueridge Boy" currently living real-life hobo blues. Eric shares with us his journey learning and playing the blues, his humble beginnings in the Appalachia…

Blues Radio

Lounge Radio

Donnita Hathaway – Daughter of a Legend & Mental Health Advocate

Tyehimba Jess

Holle Thee Maxwell FREEBASE AIN’T FREE

Whose Blues?

GARY GOLIO – Dark Was the Night

Randye Jones- Black Spirituals

Rubin Lacy – Old Hallelujahs

Strange Fruit – American Cartoonist Joel Christian Gill

DREAM FURY COMICS, African American Folklore, and the Blues

REAL LIFE HOBO BLUES – The Eric Freeman Story

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