WPSU Blues Archive - August 2, 2025

WPSU | By Max Spiegel

Published August 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM EDT

** FILE ** Actor Bruce Willis, left, and B.B. King perform "Hard Times" during taping for "Genius: A Night for Ray Charles," Friday night, Oct. 8, 2004, in Los Angeles. This summer, movie star musicians Bruce Willis, Dennis Quaid and Kevin Bacon are performing with their bands in cities where movies in which they starred were filmed. The outdoor concerts will be free and open to the public and will be followed by screenings of the movie filmed there courtesy of the online movie rental service Netflix, Inc. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File) — Actor Bruce Willis, left, and B.B. King perform "Hard Times" during taping for "Genius: A Night for Ray Charles," Friday night, Oct. 8, 2004, in Los Angeles.

An archive recording of the WPSU Blues show as broadcast on Saturday, August 2, 2025 and hosted by Max Spiegel.

The broadcast includes tracks from Frank Zappa, Chris Smither, The Black Keys, Blind Boys of Alabama, Larkin Poe, Rev. Gary Davis, James Brown, The Persuasions, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Hot Tuna, The Yardbirds, Jimi Hendrix, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, and more.

Listen to previous WPSU Blues shows here.

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Max Spiegel

Max is a Song Collector & Community Cultivator, Web & Social Media Pioneer, Public Radio Producer & Host and Musician. He also scores and soundtracks films for Alpaca Pictures. Their latest full length feature film 99% Sure picked up a win at New Hope Film Fest and their last short "Bird Watching" which won Best Picture (and 5 other awards) at the 2011 Philly 48 Hour Film Fest! Max also sings a lot of monkey songs and not just because he is raising 3 monkeys of his own.

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