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What does it mean to speak the truth of the Blues on the very soil where our ancestors were enslaved?In this live broadcast, Lamont Jack Pearley—traditional Bluesman, folklorist, and founder of the Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation—reflects on being invited to present his original scholarship on Blues Ecology at Hopson Plantation, once home to Blues legend Pinetop Perkins.As we close out Black Music History Month, this episode holds space for a necessary conversation about land, memory, and music. We'll explore how different landscapes—Mississippi’s cotton fields and Louisiana’s red-light districts—shaped different kinds of Blues, and why where we honor the Blues matters just as much as how we do it.Through personal reflection, fieldwork excerpts, and live performance, we ask:Can you celebrate the Blues without honoring the history that created it?Join us tonight for truth-telling, music, and memory from the Delta to the mic.

Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Radio presents:Mojo Workin’: Dr. Katrina Hazzard-Donald on Hoodoo, Blues, and the Black Belt TraditionIn this culturally rich and significant episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, we welcome renowned folklorist, sociologist, and dance scholar Dr. Katrina Hazzard-Donald for an in-depth discussion on Black Belt Hoodoo, Blues culture, and African American sacred traditions.In this episode, we explore:The African origins and survival of Hoodoo as a metaphysical systemThe jook joint as a sacred space of spirit, resistance, and joyHow Blues music operates as ritual, cosmology, and cultural memoryThe overlap between Dr. Hazzard-Donald’s work and the Blues Ecology frameworkDr. Hazzard-Donald is the author of Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System and Jookin’: The Rise of Social Dance Formations in African American Culture. She is a professor emerita at Rutgers University, a Yoruba/Lukumi initiate, and a lifelong cultural worker dedicated to preserving and interpreting Black Southern lifeways.? Hosted by Lamont Jack Pearley, traditional Blues artist, applied folklorist, and founder of Jack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation Foundation.Become a Patreon? Visit us at: https://www.patreon.com/jackdappablues? Share your thoughts in the comments and help amplify Black traditional knowledge.? Subscribe for more episodes that center Black folklore, cultural heritage, and Blues history.

Creole Roots, Sinners, and GravediggersBluesman, actor, and cultural preservationist Chris Thomas King joins Jack Dappa Blues Radio to uncover the real story of the Blues — from the juke joints of Louisiana to the haunting depths of Gravedigger Gonna Cut You Down.We talk Creole identity, his film Sinners, the founding of the Blues Origin Institute, and why the Blues didn’t start in the Delta — it started in Louisiana.This is the Blues you weren’t taught. The Blues that remembers.▶️ Available now on all streaming platforms.#ChrisThomasKing #CreoleBlues #JackDappaBlues #BluesPeople #BluesOriginInstitute #BlackMusicMonth