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Blues Moon Radio Blues Moon Radio was an educational music program concentrating on Roots music hosted by a professor of Blues and music history. Whew. Thanks - and much success!

It is on indefinite hiatus after a three decade run. Visit www.bluesmoonradio.blogspot.com for info and playlists. The Blues Moon is celebrating its Silver Anniversary of broadcasting (and streaming) over WUSC-FM and HD-1 Columbia (SC) with host Clair DeLune, a writer, historian and professor of music history. Tuesday is Bluesday on Blues Moon Radio starting at 6 p.m. ET/USA (-5 GMT) and the show

streams globally via the Web at http://wusc.sc.edu. Artists and reps may mail professionally produced CDs (we are a high definition station) and bio material for airplay consideration to: Blues Moon Radio POB 5591 Columbia SC 29250. Our Web site is: www.bluesmoonradio.blogspot.com

Our show centers on historic Blues; but we do play some contemporary musicians who play music that is Blues or Roots-based, some Jazz/Swing and some Rockabilly. We prefer original compositions, but will occasionally play a cover version that has great merit. WUSC also has an Americana show, so we try to leave that style for the other DJ to showcase. What helps you get played on Blues Moon Radio:
1) Mail two copies (there is a station library that is archival for a nonspecific period, but your music will be exposed to every DJ for consideration because the station focuses on new music. The other CD will be for the Blues Moon library, which focuses on older music, but some new music in the genres of Blues and Roots music. BMR's library archive has a generally longer shelf life than the larger station's library, thus your music will be available for airplay longer after its initial debut - potentially for the life of the show. Please note that not all material submitted can be or is selected for airplay.
2) We appreciate it if you include an affidavit that assures the content contains no language or material that is banned by the FCC. This is not required, because we must screen it ourselves as well, but those arriving with that assurance do not need to be put through as intensive an obscenity screening as those without it. You will be responsible if you make an assurance that is not, in fact, correct. FCC penalties are severe and I don't look good in an orange jumpsuit, and bet you don't either. We will accept CDs that contain banned material, but reserve the right to edit out any obscenities and your submission is regarded as assent to do so in order to remain in compliance with federal law. It gets much easier now that is out of the way!
3) Please also include artist bio material; photographs with copyright usage permission/releases; method of contact for potential interviews and artist availability.
4) Stickers, pins and other promo items... fun stuff, y'all!
5) Before you hit the mailbox, do be certain that your CD appears on all the normal computer sites (ITunes; Windows Audio) with artist and song titles, correctly cited composers and other information able to be uploaded. We must take the CD and upload the correct title and citation information in order to compile our playlists electronically. We are sorry but our IT staff will not permit us to connect/DL from other sites. We know you will understand we cannot put our equipment at risk from malware. Please note: we are aware that everyone is trying to reduce costs, but we ask that you not ask us to download, listen online or take on costs that are normally borne by the artist/agent in terms of production, distribution, etc. We rely on you to complete the process so we can receive, review and upload the information to our system as seamlessly as possible. Please also connect with us on Facebook and Twitter at:
Blues Moon Radio
WUSC-FM (see links at www.wusc.sc.edu)

I warmly invite you to friend me via Clair DeLune (click on a link from the BMR page to be sure you get the correct connection). We will endeavor to connect with your personal and band pages as we play your material. If we interview you we will give you as much advance notice as possible to contact your fan base for maximum benefit to you. We ask the courtesy of your requesting your fans visit the Blues Moon Radio page and LIKE it and Follow on Twitter. Clair DeLune,
Host, producer, music history professor at Blues Moon Radio

19/10/2024

Very

On the day of Buck Vernard Mooneyhan's funeral, I have learned another of the good ones has left us.

The co-founder of COLUMBIA BLUES MOB (with me) and co-host of the Utopia Blues Jam (with Doug Allen) has died.

He hadn't been on FB much and mostly about sports but we were in intermittent touch. A mix of spicy, intense, acerbic and sweet, Vic was a wonderful pal who never minced his world view to fit his audience. Here's to everything Philly!

He won't be forgotten and will forever be missed.

Love ya, bro. And he'd have said, "ahhh go on with ya!" XOXO

Heart goes out to his son, whom he adored, and all who knew and loved him.

Here's Michelle's post:
Many of my Facebook memories are happy, but this one saddened me. We lost Vic Scaricamazza a couple of weeks ago. The exact date is unknown. From what I can gather, his health had declined and he was found during a welfare check. He is survived by his brother, and his son Kit. There is no service planned.

Vic was from the Cherry Hill, NJ/Philadelphia, PA area, but lived in the SC Midlands for several years. His main love was drumming. He played in several bands, taught drumming, and was a great musical organizer. Vic also had a business degree in Warehousing and worked in manufacturing.

When he lived in the Columbia area, I met Vic at the Barnyard Flea Market where he had a side gig selling books in one of the more permanent booths. He was a great wheeler and dealer. But I had also seen him in several local bands as their drummer. He was a phenomenal drummer, as any who heard him knows. He didn't miss a beat.

Outspoken, firm, but fair, Vic was instrumental in organizing the Columbia Blues Mob, and the Blues Jam that took place weekly at Utopia on Rosewood Drive. You had to audition to play the Blues Jam. If you were not quite up to s***f musically, he would tell you to go practice. Vic did not mince words. But the Blues Jam became one of legend. You knew the music was going to be good. Vic saw to that.

His "Yankee attitude" did not get him as far as he wanted down here when it came to regular manufacturing work, his predominate money maker, so Vic moved back up to the New York/New Jersey area where he very quickly found warehousing work and continued his drumming endeavors. He retired a few years ago after losing both his mother and father a couple of years apart. Now we have lost Vic. I send heartfelt condolences to his brother and to his son. I know I speak for his many friends here when I say Vic will be very missed.

To Vic I say, "Fly, Eagles, fly!"

17/10/2024

Buck Vernard Mooneyhan was as great a Blues harp player as he was a human, which is saying a lot.

My heart goes out to his devoted wife, and fellow musician, Rhonda, who kept the beat in the Sanctuary Blues Band and clearly made his heart beat faster. I won't ever forget the time he came and grabbed me out of my seat at one of the blues jams at Utopia and said you have to meet my new girlfriend! He was so thrilled, and of course I already knew Rhonda, so I was absolutely sure that they would walk down the aisle together one day. So proud to have been invited to their beautiful wedding and to have remained friends with them despite my departure from the music business after 40 years.

These two made a love story together that I'm so sad has ended on this Earth, but will continue forever on another plane where souls do not die. Arms around you Rhonda, my heart goes out to Buck's family, whom he so loved.

This is sad music news for Columbia South Carolina and surrounds. He will be dearly missed and never forgotten.


Sanctuary Blues

Music of the Carolinas
South Carolina Blues
COLUMBIA BLUES MOB

It's been five years.
22/04/2024

It's been five years.

May 6, 2022 annual awards.
07/05/2022

May 6, 2022 annual awards.

Last night in Memphis, The Blues Foundation presented the 43rd Blues Music Awards. Here is the list of this year's winners.

For more information, visit https://bit.ly/2022-bma-winners.

03/06/2020
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17/09/2019
HIGHWAY BOUND by B B King 1953

BB King's 1953 recording is a perfect throwback to celebrate his birthday (Sept 16).

Classic early B B King. Highway Bound recorded in 1953. Really cool tune. The record has a horrible crack but the recording turned out OK. Enjoy!

17/09/2019
The Darrell Nulisch Blues Band 01 0.mp4

Tuesday is still Bluesday, even if I'm not at the station doing a live show - this week we're wishing happy birthday to Darrell Nulisch, one of my favorite contemporary vocalists:

Catch some live action here:

Enjoy!
Clair DeLune

Darrell Nulisch (born September 14, 1952, Dallas, Texas) is an American electric blues singer and harmonica player. Prior to his solo career, he was a member...

02/08/2019

"Whar Clar?" She's over THAR. And THAR.

02/08/2019
Live Blues on Maxwell Street in Chicago c. 1985

- Chicago Blues with some great live licks and fantastic pics. Enjoy!

In the 1980s I spent a lot of Sunday mornings at the old Maxwell Street Market in Chicago. I recently came across a cassette tape I made of some of the music...

17/07/2019
Schoolkids Records - Raleigh

Schoolkids Records - Raleigh

Lady Day died on this date. She was only 44 years old. She stirred up a lot of controversy when she released this track. Here is the story--

Holiday was recording for Columbia in the late 1930s when she was introduced to "Strange Fruit", a song based on a poem about lynching written by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish schoolteacher from the Bronx. . She said that the imagery of the song reminded her of her father's death and that this played a role in her resistance to performing it.

For her performance of "Strange Fruit" at the Café Society, she had waiters silence the crowd when the song began. During the song's long introduction, the lights dimmed and all movement had to cease. As Holiday began singing, only a small spotlight illuminated her face. On the final note, all lights went out, and when they came back on, Holiday was gone.

Holiday said her father, Clarence Holiday, was denied medical treatment for a fatal lung disorder because of racial prejudice, and that singing "Strange Fruit" reminded her of the incident. "It reminds me of how Pop died, but I have to keep singing it, not only because people ask for it, but because twenty years after Pop died the things that killed him are still happening in the South", she wrote in her autobiography.

12/06/2019
Weird Hollywood

This news flash (or olds flash,, since it took years to be admitted) keeps getting worse. Not Etta James. Thank GOD for digitized music. But what has been lost forever, I wonder?

A fire burned on the Universal Studios backlot more than a decade ago. We knew that it damaged Back to the Future's Courthouse Square, and the King Kong Encounter attraction — but the extent of the damage to the Universal Music Group vault wasn't fully known to the public until a New York Times investigation was released today.

Around 500,000 songs were destroyed, including scores of classics. And that likely includes the master recording of Etta James' iconic "At Last."

10/06/2019

Blues Moon Radio is no longer on the air at our beloved WUSC-FM, but who knows what lies in the hearts of DJs and content providers? Perhaps a podcast or other history-based communication will emerge. Stay tuned to Blues Moon Radio's page and be among the first to know... what's NEXT?

Thank you for your wonderful support through the years. Please visit South Carolina Blues and Music of the Carolinas - sister productions of Blues Moon - also!

10/06/2019

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Just a note to say thank you to all who participated in the nearly 30 year run of Blues Moon Radio on WUSC-FM Columbia SC.

By choice, I have decided to hibernate for a while, regroup and see what projects as yet undone and possibly unimagined might be next on my agenda. The increase in the numbers and frequency of friends being lost to me through death and illness made me begin evaluating all I have left to do before I leave this earth.

The happiness I gained and hopefully shared with you all is something that fills my heart with joy and I hope to continue to participate in cultural activities in meaningful and fulfilling ways that make a positive difference for us all. Until I figure out what that might be... I’ll be sitting, (not) drinkin’ and thinkin’... as the song says.

Here is the old intel on the show, I’m somehow loathe to throw it away. Who knows if it might be needed again someday. Until I let you know, differently, you probably don’t want to ship me review copies. But again - who knows. I might have time for reviews now... LOL> xoxo, Clair DeLune