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Hosted by Matt Cooper · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 13 episodes
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Talking Blues is an ongoing audio archive documenting the voices, stories, and lived experience of blues musicians. Hosted by broadcaster Matt Cooper, each episode preserves firsthand conversations with the artists themselves — exploring their influences, their craft, their gear, and the moments that shaped their path. Some are widely known. Others are still being discovered. All are part of the lineage. This podcast exists to ensure these voices are recorded while they are still here to tell their stories — creating a permanent record for listeners today and for future generations. Matt Cooper, Host & Archivist, Talking Blues
Matt Cooper hosts Real Conversations and Oral History from the Blues Community, a music show with 13 episodes published.
Singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Erin McCallum, has been delivering her brand of Blues for over 20 years. Best known for her unmistakable contralto voice, McCallum’s name has been on the marquee at countless nati
What if one song in your teens could change the whole direction of your life? Seattle guitarist Jon Clemence holds a master’s degree in biblical studies and runs a publishing firm by day — yet the blues remain his lifelo
Malta isn’t the first place that comes to mind when you think “Blues capital of the world.” No, rather, it’s a sun-baked speck in the middle of the Mediterranean — three main islands, stone alleys, and centuries of histo
Some musicians survive the blues. Others elevate it. Ira Walker was shaped by a world where thought, art, and sound mattered—a home where classical compositions weren’t background noise, they were conversation. Where int
Mark Hunt’s Story in Wood, Wire, and Willpower Some musicians write songs. Some build guitars. Mark Hunt does both. Raised in rural Eastern Ontario, Mark is a self-taught guitarist, songwriter, and builder who’s carved o
The Guy from Verdun Who Got Your Foot Tapping—Part Two If you thought Part One hit hard, wait till you hear where we go next. In this episode, Jerry Mercer pulls back the curtain on a life lived loud—from the raw magic o
🎙️ Still Keeping Time: Jerry Mercer’s Lifelong Groove What does an 86-year-old rock legend do after decades behind the kit? If you’re Jerry Mercer, you pick up the bass—not to teach, but to learn. To stay curious. To ke
Some people talk about the blues. Others grow up learning how to express it—quietly, patiently, and on time. DeShaun Jones is a music event and industry professional whose story begins in the province of Ontario, where h
🎤 Danny Boy Phelan – Carrying the Flame of Front-Porch Blues Some players chase the blues. Danny Boy Phelan seems to have been born with it stitched into his soul. A gentle old soul from St. Catharines, Ontario, Danny c
Vince Lee: Blues Roots, British Grit Vince Lee didn’t wake up one day with a slide and a following. He built it—over decades, one gig, one guitar, one groove at a time. Before leading bands like The Big Combo and The Wil
Adam Gussow – Blues Harmonica, Books & The Meaning of It All Adam Gussow didn’t just play the blues—he lived it on the streets of Harlem, side by side with the late Mister Satan. That legendary partnership shaped not jus
Tim Russ – Actor, Guitarist & True Bluesman From Sci-Fi Icon to Bluesman Supreme – Meet Tim Russ Starfleet knew him as Tuvok. We know him as a Bluesman who found his voice not in space, but onstage, where the only prime
His landmark work is Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson, co-authored with Gayle Dean Wardlow. The result of over 50 years of chasing documents, recordings and oral histories, it destroys the crossroads
Raw Chicago Blues from a man who lived it—and never left it behind. What do you call a guitarist who stood beside Muddy Waters for seven years, played The Last Waltz, and still sounds like he’s got the South Side of Chic
The Talking Blues Podcast shines a light on blues musicians both past and present. We dig into their craft, influences, gear, and stories from the road. Sometimes it’s pure promotion. Sometimes it’s a deep dive. We’re al
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