Blues moments in time - November 18: Echoes of Triumph, Silence, and Soul

November 18 isn’t crowded with headlines—but the blues rarely needed them. This episode traces a date defined by what’s felt as much as what’s recorded: the quiet passing of journeyman pianists whose fingerprints are all over the music, the velvet-smooth voice of Junior Parker gone too soon, blues-rock’s surge into the mainstream, and the global echoes still ringing in Berlin clubs decades later. We explore how the genre’s deepest truths live between the lines—where songs traveled by memory, names faded, and legacies were carried in calloused hands and night-to-night gigs. This is the blues as it’s lived: triumph and loss in equal measure, and the stories we still owe the ones who never made it to tape.