Join Kelvin Huggins as he dives deep into the tangled roots and resonant echoes of November 21st in blues history.
November 21 threads three pillars of the blues into one luminous line: how we preserve, how we pass on, and how we push forward. We revisit Lead Belly’s 1948 Minneapolis house concert—an intimate, hour-long recording alive with classics, on-the-spot invention, and scathing social truth, a treasured document of a master in his final season. We honor Robert Lockwood Jr., the only guitarist taught directly by Robert Johnson, whose seven-decade journey carried Delta tradition into jazz-tinted sophistication and Blues Hall of Fame acclaim. And we reflect on Wilco Johnson’s choppy, percussive fire—Dr. Feelgood grit that helped seed British punk—proof that blues evolves by electrifying what it touches. Together, these moments show the blues as a living art: preserved in tape, handed through hands, and forever reinvented onstage.
Hosted by: Kelvin Huggins
Presented by: The Blues Hotel Collective
Listen Tomorrow for: Another Blues Moment in Time
Keep the blues alive.
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