Sonny Payne, KFFA, Helena, AR

2017-10-24T22:21:05+00:00November 10th, 2016|

No one has devoted more to keeping the Blues alive than Sonny Payne, the legendary host of KFFAs King Biscuit Time, the longest running Blues radio show in history. Sonny first broadcast the show in [...]

Andre Mosqueda, KGGO, Des Moines, IA

2016-11-10T17:01:16+00:00November 10th, 2016|

Andre has been a Sunday morning fixture in Des Moines on KGGO for many years. Since he began his Sunday morning Roadhouse in 1996, expanded to four hours in 2000, Andre has given his listeners [...]

Bob Putignano, WFDU-FM

2016-11-10T17:01:14+00:00November 10th, 2016|

Bob Putignano has been host of WFDUs (Fairleigh Dickenson University Radio) popular Across The Tracks program since 2000. The show features a variety of recorded Blues music, as well as live performances and interviews with [...]

Leo ‘Tater Red’ Allred

2016-11-10T17:01:11+00:00November 10th, 2016|

This year’s honoree was born and raised in the Delta town of Ruleville, Mississippi. As a child in the farm fields, he was influenced by the rhythmic chants of the workers as they picked cotton. [...]

Rick Ballew, WRFX, NC

2016-11-10T17:01:11+00:00November 10th, 2016|

Five years ago, faced with the morgue that is weekend classic rock radio programming, deejay Rick Ballew decided to try something different. On Christmas Day 1996, he took a bunch of Alligator records he just [...]

Tom Marker ‘Bluesbreakers’, WXRT– Chicago, IL

2016-11-10T17:01:06+00:00November 10th, 2016|

One night after listening to WXRT it occurred to Tom Marker, 'Maybe I could be a disc jockey instead of having to work for a living!' After radio gigs in Michigan, South Carolina and Elgin, [...]

Blues Deluxe (syndicated)–Austin, TX

2016-11-10T17:01:03+00:00November 10th, 2016|

It's an hours worth of Rock, Alternative and traditional Blues - a weekly dose of Blues you can use on 'Blues Deluxe.' Host/producer David Fusco started the program in 1985 as a two hour weekly [...]

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