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Jack Dappa Blues Radio honors Libby Rae Watson—an authentic Blues woman, guitarist, songwriter, cultural witness, and keeper of Mississippi Blues memory.Since the early 1970s, Libby Rae has built deep relationships with some of the most important figures in traditional Blues, including Big Joe Williams, Furry Lewis, Eugene Powell, Houston Stackhouse, Stonewall Mays, and her close friend and mentor, Sam Chatmon.In 1978, she helped organize the talent for the very first Delta Blues Festival in Greenville, Mississippi, bringing together elders whose music carried the memory of Black Southern life, labor, survival, humor, migration, and resistance.This special broadcast explores Libby Rae’s journey into the Mississippi Delta, the musicians who trusted and taught her, and the responsibility that comes with carrying tradition forward. Through music, memories, photographs, and personal stories, we look beyond the stage to honor the friendships and cultural relationships that shaped her life.Libby Rae Watson’s story reminds us that the Blues is more than a sound. It is a breathing Black cultural inheritance rooted in people, place, memory, and community.Join us as we give flowers to a woman who listened, learned, showed up, remembered the elders, and continued to speak their names.The Blues Found Her: Libby Rae Watson and the Keepers of the Delta Flamehttps://www.libbyrae.com/Presented by Jack Dappa Blues RadioPreserving the Blues People, one voice and one story at a time.

WHAT’S HAPPENING, BLUES PEOPLE?If you don’t know me from nothing, you know me from that statement. Every month we celebrate our African American Folklorist of the Month—lifting up culture-keepers whose work sits at the crossroads of tradition, scholarship, and community.This episode honors Brandi Waller-Pace (they/she)—Fort Worth–based musician, educator, scholar-activist, Founder/Executive Director of Decolonizing the Music Room (DTMR), organizer of the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival (FWAAMFest), and Program Manager for the Oakland Public Conservatory of Music’s Black Banjo & Fiddle Fellowship. Born in Atlanta and trained in Jazz Studies at Howard University (Afro Blue alum), Brandi bridges jazz, old-time, and Black American roots music on banjo, piano, guitar, and ‘ukulele—reclaiming ancestral soundscapes while building new spaces for equity and cultural memory.Across the conversation, we dig into:Decolonizing & antiracist approaches in music education (and why it’s forever work)Language, code-switching, and who gets to “name” the canonBanjo, Blackness, and rooting jazz within Black traditionsGatekeeping, tokenism, and creating space (not just “diversity optics”)Paying culture bearers fairly & building coalitionsBlack feminist thought, patriarchy, and accountability within our own communitiesBrandi’s origin story, neurodivergence, and finding grounded confidencePractical ways DTMR supports educators, artists, and organizers“Music is not only performance—it is memory, resistance, healing, and a roadmap to the future.”Guest: Brandi Waller-PaceDTMR: decolonizingthemusicroom.comFWAAMFest: https://www.fwaamfest.com/IG:   / brandipacemusic  Contact for bookings/collabs: brandipacemusic@gmail.comHost / PlatformJack Dappa Blues Heritage Preservation FoundationThe African American Folklorist — preserving the Blues People, one voice at a time.Website:JackDappabluesradio.tv • Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/jackdappabluesradi... • Patreon/YouTube Membership:   / jackdappablues  

In this episode of Jack Dappa Blues Radio, we welcome Baba Súle Greg Wilson, an American Griot, musician, author, storyteller, educator, and cultural bearer whose work moves through rhythm, Spirit, memory, and Sankofa.Born and raised in Washington, DC, Súle grew up surrounded by street musicians, family stories, global visitors, neighborhood wisdom, and ancestral conversations around the kitchen table. From learning rhythm bones from his father to helping catalyze the Carolina Chocolate Drops and co-directing the historic Black Banjo Gathering, his journey speaks to the deep roots of African and African American musical traditions.Together, we explore Sankofa, rhythm bones, the Black banjo, African spirituality, movement, storytelling, and the body as an archive of memory and healing. This conversation invites listeners to hear rhythm not only as music, but as ancestral wisdom, cultural survival, sacred disruption, and a path toward renewal.for more on Baba Súle Greg Wilsonhttps://sulegregwilson.com/