As Bobby Rush mentions in the opening of the video below, today (Novemember 10, 2014) is his 81st birthday. The video was recorded in HD with broadcast quality audio by WWOZ at the 2014 Crescent City Blues and BBQ Festival.   Read more

Left-handed R&B guitarist Barbara Lynn recorded this song, her first, at Cosimo Matassa's French Quarter studio in 1962 with session musicians including one Mac Rebennack. It went to #1 on the R&B charts and hit the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.     Read more

Our Fall Pledge Party is under way, so it's time to show your love for WWOZ! If you need a reason to pledge, check out some of the reasons offered by our listeners below: I love listening to WWOZ because it plays real music and the dj's are real people with ideas and thou... Read more

One July morning during last summer's Essence Fest, KING, a Los Angeles R&B trio comprised of twin sisters Paris and Amber Strother and their friend Anita Bias, visited Euclid Records in the Bywater and performed "Supernatural." Here's how NPR Music's Frankie Kelley describ... Read more

Day 7 of the Spring Membership Drive is in the books! Thanks to all of our new & renewing members, show hosts, musicians (like Davell Crawford, left), volunteers, staff, engineers, photographers, and food donors for a great first day! You're all helping to guard the groove and... Read more

Day 7 of the Spring FUNd Drive is in the books! Thanks to all of our new & renewing members, show hosts, musicians, volunteers, staff, engineers, photographers, and food donors for a great first day! You're all helping to guard the groove and helping us bring you the music and... Read more

Day 5 of the Fall Membership Drive is in the books! Thanks to all of our new & renewing members, show hosts, musicians, volunteers, staff, engineers, photographers, and food donors for a great first day! You're all helping to guard the groove and helping us bring you the music... Read more

Day 7 of the Fall Membership Drive is in the books! Thanks to all of our new & renewing members, show hosts, musicians, volunteers, staff, engineers, photographers, and food donors for a great first day! You're all helping to guard the groove and helping us bring you the music... Read more

Day 6 of the Spring Membership Drive is in the books! Thanks to all of our new & renewing members, show hosts, musicians, volunteers, staff, engineers, photographers, and food donors for a great first day! You're all helping to guard the groove and helping us bring you the mus... Read more