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A weekly Sunday wake-me-up with host Aric S. Queen, focusing on old gospel, funk, soul, r&b and tolerable jazz.
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Sunday Mar 21, 2021
Sunday Mar 21, 2021
This week's episode shocks listeners by being both recorded in North Macedonia, but having absolutely nothing to do with North Macedonia! And that's not all. We start with a Donny Hathaway live track, move back-and-forth from gospel to New Orleans, back to Motown, some teenage Sam Cooke and then an absolute banger to get you moving... plus an accidental tea recipe.
It's Rough Sundays! Hit play and be joyous.
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
Sunday Mar 14, 2021
The third and final show from Kosovo, featuring Voodoo priests, better covers of a famous track, some proper old-time gospel, Nigerian High Life music and a discussion about the newest film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"... plus a lot more. Make coffee. Click "play". Be happy.
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Wednesday Mar 10, 2021
Bit of a deviation from our normal show format, but well worth it. Five years ago, while host Aric S. Queen was living on his sailboat in the Bahamas, he and his editor Sun produced a pilot for an investigative NPR-like travel show called "Journey Cakes". In the first episode, he sailed around nearly all of the country's islands trying to track down the history, secrets, darkness and mystery of its national snack "Johnny Bread".
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
Sunday Mar 07, 2021
The second show from Kosovo and probably the best podcast you've ever heard from Kosovo with the name "Rough Sundays". This week, we dive back into some old Cuban classics, Mr. and Mrs. Candi Staton, songs about crawfish and the Bahamas + stories about crawfish and the Bahamas, plus we pay tribute to a reggae legend we lost this week. AND we have fun. So sit back, sip that coffee, ignore the kids, pretend you haven't been sitting in that same chair for over a year and let us handle 33.28 minutes of your Rough Sunday(s).
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Look, we don't want to brag, but this is probably the first gospel music-based podcast from Kosovo that you've ever heard, so if for no other reason to listen this week...
However, if you need a bit more of a push, we've got the High Priestess of Soul, the Thunderbolt of the Midwest, two from France's naughtiest crooner and one of the most famous actors of all-time donning a Caribbean accent for his virtually-unknown Calypso album... and a lot more.
It's Rough Sundays.
FROM Kosovo.
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Sunday Feb 21, 2021
Sunday Feb 21, 2021
What do oysters + wine + 2am, two notable deaths, a 17-year old deejay from Tulsa and friends of both Thomas Edison & Mark Twain have in common?
It's all part of the 14th (yes) episode of Rough Sundays.
Make coffee.
Have a seat.
And let us handle things for half-an-hour.
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Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Sunday Feb 14, 2021
Three years ago, on the eve of Mardi Gras, we phoned up Christopher Gargiule, aka "Brother Chris", aka "The Prince of New Orleans" to talk all things about that magical city. From the explanation of a Second Line to Mardi Gras Indians, the history of different krewes to just getting caught up in a little magic, it quickly became one of the most popular shows ever to appear on Rough Sundays.
For whatever reason, it disappeared online and had to be tracked down by some tech-savvy folks (who did so at no cost as they remembered the show in question).
And so, on the Sunday before Mardi Gras 2021 - a strange one, perhaps, but even more special for it - it's Rough Sundays, New Orleans edition.
Throw me something, Mister!
Monday Feb 08, 2021
Monday Feb 08, 2021
A day late, but that's because it's such a good show that Spotify thought it was done by professionals and wanted to make sure we weren't stealing.
Back down the rabbit hole of Ethiopian Jazz, the resistance and resistance of New Orleans, the realness of Satan and one of the catchiest gospel tracks you've never heard. Plus a whoooooole lot more.
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Sunday Jan 31, 2021
Sunday Jan 31, 2021
A stone's throw from the Bosnian border, it's Rough Sundays Vol. XI, featuring Civil Rights hymns, Nigerian Palm Wine music, a coffee-soaked Holiday, Elvis vs. Cultural Appropriation and just who, exactly, kidnapped Fats Waller and forced him to stay up for 3 days playing his piano.
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Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Sunday Jan 24, 2021
Despite what the pictured high-fashion would have you believe, probably the best show since the recent reboot. We go from Palm Wine music coming out of West Africa, across the Atlantic and down to Brazil, followed by some Blind Boys and then probably the greatest live gospel performance ever recorded and a few more tracks after that.
It's Rough Sundays — live from Novi Sad, Serbia!
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