Dr, Russell J. Linnemann has hosted a Blues program on WUTC-88.1 FM for fifteen years. His show, ‘Blues and More,’ has earned widespread popularity and critical acclaim. He is a founding member and past president of the Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society and has served on the Board of Directors of The Blues Foundation. Dr. Linnemann is a professor of African and British Empire History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he also teaches a popular culture course in the history of the Blues. Russell, who has written extensively on the Blues, received his Ph.D from the University of Michigan and his book, Alain Locke: Reflections on a Modern Renaissance Man, was nominated for the Merle Curti Award as best book of the year in American intellectual history.
