Afterglow airs on WRFA every Monday at 7 p.m and Sunday at 8 p.m.

From the Home of the Blues and the Birthplace of Rock and Roll, it’s time for the best in Blues on Beale Street Caravan!

Beale Street Caravan is a one hour non commercial radio series broadcasting live recordings of Memphis music and its derivative forms to an international audience of 2.4 million worldwide weekly listeners on over 400 stations around the globe. Hosted by Pat Mitchell, each program presents seasoned veterans alongside up and coming artists recorded at festivals and venues throughout the United States. Music industry experts and celebrities liven up each program with serialized inside commentary about the history & process of the music.

Over 300 public and community stations air the show in the USA. For the quickest directions to Beale Street Caravan check out the Beale Street Caravan website.You will find a complete list of stations with air dates and times.

Beale Street Caravan® is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Sid Selvidge is the executive producer of Beale Street Caravan. Kevin Cubbins is Associate producer and engineer. Beale Street Caravan® is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Tennessee Arts Commission, ArtsMemphis and various civic organizations of the City of Memphis as well as by private foundations and individuals.

You get the destination known as Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch. And every Friday night on WOUB-FM, you can hear recorded performances from the ranch, featuring Jorma and many others. The Fur Peace Ranch is a seasonal guitar camp, which also offers conference facilities and a concert hall. Students from all over the world travel to rural Meigs County, Ohio to learn from some of the legends of blues, acoustic and rock guitar.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Jorma Kaukonen and his wife Vanessa operate the ranch. Other musicians who appear frequently include Jack Casady, Roy Book Binder, Sally Van Meter, Rory Block, Guy Davis, Michael Falzarano, Eric Schoenberg, Pete Sears, Ed Gerhard, Robert Jones and many more.

Live From the Fur Peace Ranch brings to the airwaves a series of concerts from the ranch’s concert stage every Friday night. Many of these concerts are also available for Internet listening.

– John Dillon & Viv Nesbitt,
Co-hosts, co-executive producers

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As the son of a librarian, Joe has been part of the book world since childhood. His first job was as a library assistant, during college he was a clerk at an independent book store and for the past 25 years he has been interviewing authors about their books on the radio.

He is also the host of The Roundtable on WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, a 3-hour general interest talk show. Notable authors he has interviewed include: Kurt Vonnegut, John Irving, John Updike, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Arthur Miller, Stephen King, Amy Tan, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, E.L Doctorow, Richard Russo, David Sedaris and Maya Angelou.

He has won several awards for his interviews, including honors from the Associated Press, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, the New York State Association of Broadcasters, The Headliners, The National Press Club and the Scripps-Howard Foundation.

A couple of months later, Wolinsky and Davidson became co-hosts and co-producers for the second program. After a handful of other hour-long specials, the program retitled “Probabilities” and was placed into a weekly slot as a half-hour show, and Lupoff  joined Wolinsky and Davidson as co-host. During the next few years, Wolinsky gradually become sole editor of the pre-recorded program and eventually sole producer.

By the early 1980s, the show expanded into the mystery genre, with forays into westerns. During the late 1980s, Davidson graduallly phased out, and the program became a two-man show, nicknamed “the Richard and Richard show” by regular listeners, and expanded to include literary and popular fiction as well as narrative non-fiction and political topics. There was a brief foray into satellite syndication in the late 1990s as Cover to Cover which ended in 1999 when Pacifica nearly went under.

In 2001, after numerous extended sabbaticals, Lupoff departed the program as an interviewer and the show was renamed Bookwaves. This was simultaneous with the move from tape to digitral recording and with the rise of the web and the creation of this website. Bookwaves began its current syndication life at the Pacifica Audioport website in 2006.