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BLUES RADIO - KING BISCUIT TIME! - The King Biscuit Time Radio Show is the longest running daily radio broadcast in history. First broadcast on November 21, 1941, King Biscuit Time featured legendary Blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Jr. Lockwood playing live in the studio. The original band, the King Biscuit Entertainers, often included boogie pianist Pinetop Perkins and James Peck Curtis on drums. The show was named after the locally distributed King Biscuit Flour. Pass the biscuits, it's King Biscuit time! But no one could anticipate the impact this 15-minute Blues show would have on American music. The broadcast from KFFA in Helena, AR, stretched across the Delta and reached a generation of Blues artists that would later inspire the Rock n' Roll revolution...read more!

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ROCK n' ROLL and the BLUES - LOUIS JORDAN - This hybrid dance music which developed following World War II drew its influences from Blues, Jazz, Gospel and Country roots. The phrase 'Rock n' Roll' was first coined in black Gospel music in 1912. Later with the popularity of Blues and Jazz the term took on other meanings, but was never as a form of music until the 50's. With the emergence of such artists like Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, and many more, did Rock n' Roll become a music form for world audiences.In  the 1940's an artist appeared on the American music...read more!

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