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New National Recording Registry Inductees, Shemekia Copeland’s Birthday & Gospel Blues

April 8/10

Crossroads highlights recordings from the Impressions, Clifton Chenier, and Blind Willie McTell that were just inducted into the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.

Plus a birthday salute to Shemekia Copeland, and new releases from Bonnie Raitt, the Andy T/Nick Nixon Band, and Eddie Cotton. And for the April feature, a classic from Rev. Gary Davis, a song written by Blind Boy Fuller who studied guitar with Davis, the longstanding gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama from a project they did down in New Orleans, and a House of Blues Gospel Blues special.

Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.