Mojo Station

Mojo Station is an Italian blues program with a wide, lived-in sense of what blues culture can include. It begins with records and keeps moving outward. The episodes heard here pass through gospel singing, hill-country pulse, Memphis references, Chicago echoes, Mali, Guinea, Rome, and the social life around live music. The show is talk-heavy, but the talk serves the records. A track becomes a doorway into recording history, geography, festival memory, or a new album that deserves close attention. The recurring album-of-the-week format gives the program structure without making it rigid. Selvin Birchwood, Funkadelic, Cedric Burnside, Luther Dickinson, Watermelon Slim, Duke Robillard, Fantastic Negrito, and Guinean groups all sit within the same broad listening field. That range is the point. Mojo Station hears blues as both African-American tradition and a set of cultural routes that continue across the globe. Its Italian commentary is informal and learned, with quick jokes, sideways associations, and a taste for long connective thinking. The presenters can move from tape-editing speculation in Nashville to DAB coverage in Lazio in a single breath. Then the music snaps the room back into focus. Local scene coverage matters too. Episodes mention Samarcanda Digital Network events, Rome venues, Invasione Monobanda, Spreaker archives, and ways listeners can follow the broadcasts after they air. Guests and featured musicians bring stories of practice, work, family, balance, instruments, and the daily discipline of keeping blues central. The show is not polished into neutral museum audio. It is warm, obsessive, sometimes sprawling, and grounded in records that still sound alive. Its repeated closing spirit is simple: the culture matters because the music still moves.