50 episodes listed below
PRESS PLAY
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation (JDBHPF) is a nonprofit established in 2011, officially becoming a 501 (c) 3 in 2016 to create public programs that raise cultural and ethnic awareness of Black traditional music, traditional art, folklore, oral histories, and the experiences of Black people in the United States. Standing on the foundation of the Blues People's legacy, JDBHPF works to celebrate, preserve, and conserve Blues music and culture while highlighting the many events in American history that have cultivated our communities and musical expressions.
A blues conversation reaches Black midwives, and your music-history folder suddenly needs more tabs.
Press play if you want
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A live cultural check-in where family memory, a tomato, and the blues point back toward shared preservation.
A Blues People Homecoming frames home as something practiced through return, memory, and shared care. The host opens with an impromptu Women's Month check-in before moving through medicine cabinets, the well, grandmama's hand, and granddaddy's house as markers of Black American…
A grounded look at hoodoo, blues belief, and the public pressures placed on Black folk practice.
Black folk belief moves through this episode as a living practice rather than a museum piece, rooted in land, Black American folklore, education, hoodoo, and cultural preservation. The host begins a new part of the Jack Dapper Blues radio show with Mr. Dr.
A grounded discussion of tribal affiliation, reclassification, and family records.
Tribal affiliation gives the episode its frame as Phoenix Moon, Nikki Sunflower, and Dr. Nolan L. Fontaine begin with a land acknowledgement, then move into records, classification, and identity.
A candid, grounded conversation about the blues, plantation labor, and history still within reach.
Blues Music is Black History: The Hard Conversation at Hobson Plantation treats the blues as a living record, not a sealed chapter. The host recalls time in Mississippi and builds the episode around an interview with a Hill Country barbecue spot owner who remembered people still…
A grounded, roaming conversation about hoodoo, blues, Black Belt traditions, and the pressures that reshape them.
Jack Dapper Blues Radio follows a conversation with Dr. Hazard Donald through the shared ground of hoodoo and blues in the Black South. The episode is strongest when it keeps the history close to daily life: harvest grounds in the Black Belt, the plants and animals people knew,…
Quiet adventures in the British countryside.
Movie history with a widening lens.
California, explained through consequential conversations.
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio uses this live, impromptu update to announce that We the Blues People Radio has launched on Live365 with 24 hours of blues and no programming yet.
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio uses this episode to frame black folk belief, hoodoo, and the blues landscape through Memphis and the Mid-South with Dr.
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio's 'MASTER CLASS REPLAY: Locating Tribal Ancestry!' opens on March 1st, 2025, with live land acknowledgements and territory check-ins.
Blues Music is Black History: The Hard Conversation at Hobson Plantation centers a live talk at the Pinetop Perkins Foundation camp near Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Radio uses this Father's Day, June 15, 2025 episode to center Dr.
A radio show dedicated to preserving and celebrating Blues music and Black cultural heritage, featuring artist testimonials and an interview with a punk legend.
The hosts welcome listeners and introduce a discussion series called 'Masks Off' about Black experiences and cultural heritage.
Host interviews Kasi Nebla about her journey from civil rights legacy to Netflix, focusing on Black cultural heritage.
Host Lamont interviews Shirley Spears about the San Angelo NAACP Buffalo Soldier Memorial Project, exploring African American history and heritage.
Host interviews blues singer Gemini Dragon about her music and vocal style, framed within the mission of preserving Black traditional music and culture.