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Saturday Aug 30, 2025
Saturday Aug 30, 2025
Join Rex Peoples and Dr. Adams as they discuss blues music and dance, culture, and take audience questions in this live recording from Mile High Blues.
Guest: Rex PeoplesWebsite: www.rexpeoples.com
Produced by Dr. Chelsea AdamsPost-Production by Jeremy Carberry
12-Bar Talk is brought to you from Ogden, Utah's "Junction City" full of blues and jazz history on Historic 25th Street. You can learn more about Ogden's rich black history at https://www.visitogden.com/blog/celebrating-black-history-month-in-ogden-utah/.
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
The podcast travels to Denver, CO for the first Mile High Blues since the pandemic to interview the Colorado blues greats at the event. Dr. Adams started the weekend off with a live-audience interview with Maynard Mills and John Long.
Guests: Maynard Mills and John LongWebsites: https://maynardmills.com/ ; https://www.johnlongblues.com/
Article on Maynard Mills
Produced by Dr. Chelsea AdamsPost-Production by Jeremy Carberry
12-Bar Talk is brought to you from Ogden, Utah's "Junction City" full of blues and jazz history on Historic 25th Street. You can learn more about Ogden's rich black history at https://www.visitogden.com/blog/celebrating-black-history-month-in-ogden-utah/.
Podcast intro music is Chicago Shuffle Blues, courtesy of JuliusH. Song can be found at https://pixabay.com/users/juliush-3921568/.
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Dr. Adams sits down with Lady A to discuss her music, but overall, this is an episode about getting to know your neighbors, about lifting each other up, and about speaking up for those who may not have opportunities to succeed if you don’t.
Guest: Lady AWebsite: https://www.ladyababyblues.com/
Info for One Seattle Soul: https://therhapsodyproject.org/one-seattle-soul/
Produced by Dr. Chelsea AdamsPost-Production by Jeremy Carberry
12-Bar Talk is brought to you from Ogden, Utah's "Junction City" full of blues and jazz history on Historic 25th Street. You can learn more about Ogden's rich black history at https://www.visitogden.com/blog/celebrating-black-history-month-in-ogden-utah/.
Podcast intro music is Chicago Shuffle Blues, courtesy of JuliusH. Song can be found at https://pixabay.com/users/juliush-3921568/.
Friday May 23, 2025
Friday May 23, 2025
Dr. Adams sits down with dance historian and blues dance practitioner Damon Stone to discuss what we call the blues dance community, cultural ambassadorship, the good and the bad of culture, the need to spend time in black spaces, and more.
Guest: Damon StoneWebsite: https://damonstone.dance/
Produced by Dr. Chelsea AdamsPost-Production by Jeremy Carberry
12-Bar Talk is brought to you from Ogden, Utah's "Junction City" full of blues and jazz history on Historic 25th Street. You can learn more about Ogden's rich black history at https://www.visitogden.com/blog/celebrating-black-history-month-in-ogden-utah/.
Podcast intro music is Chicago Shuffle Blues, courtesy of JuliusH. Song can be found at https://pixabay.com/users/juliush-3921568/.
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Stef Rosen and Dr. Adams sit down and talk about his love for blues music and what it is like to learn the culture as you learn to play the blues, how he encountered the blues dance community and his experiences playing music for them, and the differences in various styles of blues, and more.
Guest: Stef Rosen
Website: https://slidinwolf.com/
Bandcamp: https://stefrosen.bandcamp.com/album/soulify
Socials: IG, @stefrosenblues, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stefanoronchi.blues/ , TikTok @stef.rosen
Produced by Dr. Chelsea Adams
Post-Production by Jeremy Carberry
12-Bar Talk is supported by Salt City Blues, LLC, a blues dance event and education organization committed to bringing education about black dances and blues to the Greater Salt Lake City area.
Podcast intro music is Chicago Shuffle Blues, courtesy of JuliusH. Song can be found at https://pixabay.com/users/juliush-3921568/.
Welcome to 12-Bar Talk
Blues: it's a feeling, a state of being, a genre of music and an umbrella term for many black social dances, all with a rich history and thriving and evolving culture in the present. Join Dr. Chelsea Adams as she interviews practitioners and scholars and delves into the myriad of topics that deal with this uniquely black American art form.
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If you would like to be a guest on the podcast or have topic requests you'd like to see featured on the show, please contact Dr. Adams through her university email: chelseaadams1@weber.edu.