Blues Progressions
by Karl Sorochinski
Latest episode
Episode 5 - Alan Freed: Radio, Teenagers, and the Name "Rock 'n' Roll"
Episode 5 - Alan Freed: Radio, Teenagers, and the Name "Rock 'n' Roll"
About this podcast
Blues Progressions, the podcast that delves deep into the heart and soul of one of the most influential genres in music history: the blues. I’m your host, Karl Sorochinski and together, we’ll embark on a rhythmic journey through time.
So, whether you’re a seasoned blues aficionado or a curious listener, join us on Blues Progressions. Let’s groove, reflect, and celebrate the heartbeat of American music. 🎶🔵
Episodes
The newest 20 of 43 episodes
- Episode 5 - Alan Freed: Radio, Teenagers, and the Name "Rock 'n' Roll" · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 5He didn’t invent rock and roll, and he didn’t coin the name. So why does Alan Freed matter? Because a record nobody hears is just a disc in a box. Episode five: the disc jockey…
- Episode 4 - Willie Dixon - The Songbook Beneath Rock · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 4Before rock had its own canon, it raided — and often transformed — one man’s songbook. Stones, Cream, Doors, Zeppelin, the Allmans: follow the songwriting credits back and they…
- Episode 3 - Sam Phillips - The Room Where Genres Collided · 23 h 10 min · Season 6 Episode 3Les Paul and Leo Fender built the tools. Sam Phillips built the room. One storefront in Memphis, one pair of ears, and blues, country, gospel, and R&B all crashing into each…
- Episode 2 - Leo Fender & George Fullerton: The Working Musician's Revolution · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 11He fixed radios and was not a guitar player. His partner played in a weekend band. Together Leo Fender and George Fullerton built guitars, basses, and amps a working musician…
- Episode 1 - Les Paul: The Studio as an Instrument (Series Opener) · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 1New series. Rock wasn’t invented by one person — it was built by a network. We start with the man who bolted a guitar neck to a four-by-four and then turned his garage into an…
- Episode 6 - Drums: The Groove that Moves It · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 6The finale. Six episodes, six instruments — the cry, the roar, the answer, the roll, the ground, and now the pulse. This is the drums, the groove that moves it all, and the story…
- Episode 5 - Bass Guitar: The Hidden Engine · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 5It asks for none of the glory and does the most essential work — defining the chords, driving the groove, gluing the band to the drums. Episode 5 of our instrument series: the…
- Episode 4 - Piano: Barrelhouse to Boogie · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 4The guitars get the glory — but listen underneath, and there’s a rolling piano or a growling Hammond holding the whole thing up. Episode 4 of our instrument series: the piano…
- Episode 3 - Harmonica: The Pocket Orchestra · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 3It cost pocket change and fit in your overalls — and blues players turned it into a crying, wailing, utterly human voice. Episode 3 of our instrument series: the harmonica, the…
- Episode 2 - Electric Guitar: From Delta to Arena · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 2Everything you love about a screaming guitar solo — the bends, the sustain, the cry — was invented by blues players teaching electricity how to sing. Episode 2 of our instrument…
- Episode 1 - Slide Guitar: The Crying Voice · 23 min · Season 5 Episode 1The blues gave rock a lot of things — but the crying voice might be the most human of all. Episode 1 of our new instrument series traces slide guitar from a knife on a Delta…
- Episode 6 - Blues Rock Now (Series Finale) · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 6The finale. The blues came home to the Delta — into the hands of a Clarksdale kid born in 1999, mentored by Buddy Guy himself. Episode 6 of ”The Bones of It All”: Bonamassa, Gary…
- Episode 3 - Guitar Gods (Corrected Upload) · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 3The summit of blues rock — Cream’s blues jams, Hendrix’s electric church, Johnny Winter’s Texas fire. Episode 3 of ”The Bones of It All.” Under Cream’s biggest jam is a Robert…
- Episode 5 - The Lean Years and the Revival · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 5The blues never died in the ’80s — it went underground and waited. Episode 5 of ”The Bones of It All”: the lean years, the faithful who kept the flame in small clubs, and the…
- Episode 4 - Texas and the American Answer · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 4The blues comes home to Texas. Episode 4 of ”The Bones of It All” — ZZ Top, Antone’s, and the man who, at the exact moment the business declared the blues dead, dragged it back…
- Episode 2 — The British Blues Boom · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 2The blues left America, got amplified in England, and came home a god. Episode 2 of ”The Bones of It All” — Alexis Korner, the Bluesbreakers factory, the Beano tone that defined…
- Episode 1 - Electric Church: What Blues Rock Really Is · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 1A room full of English kids in 1963 playing a Muddy Waters song like their lives depend on it — about to hand America its own music back, louder than it left. That’s the fuse…
- Episode 6 - Modern Sourthern Rock · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 6Series finale. A porch sound from the Deep South is now a sold-out global language — Blackberry Smoke, Marcus King, the actual sons of the Allmans and Bettses, Tedeschi Trucks…
- Episode 5 - Decline and Revival · 25 min · Season 3 Episode 5In 1980 they wrote Southern Rock’s obituary. They were dead wrong — it went underground, and the faithful kept it alive in the small rooms. I was one of them, behind the board…
