Listen to WVON’s Retro Day, April 1 until midnight

Listen today to WVON’s “Retro Day” in celebration of the station’s 50th anniversary. It’s great so far and there’s still the whole day to go!

Here’s how to tune in:

• RADIO: In the Chicago area, WVON is at 1690 AM.
• LIVE STREAM: Listen online on WVON.com.
• MOBILE: Use the iHeartRadio app on your mobile phone or tablet.

If you listen in and hear something that sounds current, it’s because they’re still broadcasting today’s news and weather. Stay tuned past that break and you’ll hear the 1960’s era music and DJs.

From Chicagoland Radio and Media:

WVON-AM’s “Retro Day” will air recordings of the actual programming from the 1960s, featuring some the most legendary Chicago DJs ever, all in the prime of their careers. The station will air classic shows from such influential superstar DJs as Herb Kent, Bill “Butterball” Crane, Lucky Cordell, E. Rodney Jones, and Pervis Spann, among others. The original classic 1960s Rhythm & Blues and Chicago Soul music and many of the original commercials will air, as well.

WVON’s “Retro Day” will take place on April 1st, starting at 6:00am and running all the way until midnight. The station will still run its regular news, traffic, and weather segments to keep listeners informed, while they enjoy the audio trip back in time.

Here is the schedule for WVON-AM’s “Retro Day” programming for Monday:

6:00 am–8:00 am: Franklin McCarthy
8:00 am–10:00 am: Ed “Nassau Daddy” Cook
10:00 am–Noon: Bill “Butterball” Crane
Noon–2:00 pm: “The Barron of Bounce” Lucky Cordell
2:00 pm–3:00 pm: Jay Johnson
3:00 pm–5:00 pm: E. Rodney Jones
5:00 pm–7:00 pm: Pervis Spann “The Blues Man”
7:00 pm–9:00 pm: Herb Kent “The Kool Gent”
9:00 pm–10:00 pm: Richard Pegue
10:00 pm–11:00 pm: “Hot Line” with Wesley South & Elijah Muhammad
11:00 pm–Midnight: Bill “Doc” Lee

(hat tip: Tom Teuber)

Kickstarter: Moonshine & Mojo Hands— The Mississippi Blues Series

Get in early: Back this Kickstarter for Moonshine & Mojo Hands, a Mississippi blues weekly web-TV series.

If you liked We Juke Up In Here! and M For Mississippi, then you’ll want to get behind a new Kickstarter from Roger Stolle of Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art and Jeff Konkel of Broke & Hungry Records.

From the Kickstarter intro:

The creators of the award-winning documentaries M For Mississippi and We Juke Up in Here hope to return in 2013 with Moonshine & Mojo Hands, a new weekly web-TV series dedicated to the rude, rowdy — and often ridiculous — world of Mississippi blues. Ride shotgun with hosts Roger Stolle and Jeff Konkel as they travel the Delta’s back roads in search of juke joints, house parties, barbecue, moonshine and — of course — the men and women who keep this uniquely American music alive in the land of its birth.

With its heady mix of fascinating characters, hilarious situations, rustic settings and rousing musical performances, the series aims to appeal to both cult and mainstream fans of music, culture and history. Moonshine & Mojo Hands will combine the feel of the producers’ earlier films with that of television travelogues like American Pickers and No Reservations and web-only shows like Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee.

By showcasing such a fascinating foreign land so close to home, the show’s creators hope to inspire others to make their own road trips down Mississippi’s blue highways.

I’m in! You, too? Check out the Moonshine & Mojo Hands Kickstarter.

Purgatory Hill at the Holiday Music Motel

pat mAcdonald and melaniejane perform “Invisible Pistols” during WPT’s 30-Minute Music Hour, hosted by Andy Moore. Recorded in February 2013 at the Holiday Music Motel in Sturgeon Bay, WI. The first airing on Wisconsin Public Television is tonight (3/22), if you still do TV.

View the full episode here: WPT.org

Also: The Road to Purgatory Hill

Also: WPT’s 30-Minute Music Hour’s full episodes online.

Also: Buy Purgatory Hill music and merch

Also: Holiday Music Motel

Also: Purgatory Hill Harp, a Lowebow by John Lowe aka Johnny Lowebow of Xanadu Music and Books in Memphis.

Also: Steel Bridge Songfest