Rob Reinhart's Essential Music

Sat 2 p.m.–5 p.m.

Rob’s version of Essential Music is a three-hour creative mix of old and new, rock and soul, folk and a bit of jazz, thematic elements, humor, exclusive/rare material, from local and national artists alike.

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This Island Earth

Sat 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

This Island Earth brings you the music lighting people up all over the world.

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StoryCorps

StoryCorps: Marsha Music

August 15th, 2012

America’s largest oral history project just wrapped up a month in Metro Detroit. StoryCorps' was an amazing success thanks to you, the storytellers, your friends and neighbors. The mobile booth spent time outside of the Carr Center in Detroit's Harmonie Park/Paradise Valley district and the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn. Today's story comes from Marsha Music. She tells of her father, Joe Von Battle – a record store owner and producer who recorded Detroit music luminaries such as John Lee Hooker, the Reverend C.L. Franklin and Aretha Franklin in their early years. Music says segregation and urban renewal not only destroyed her father’s business but helped create the conditions that sparked the events of 1967.

For more on Marsha Music's father, Joe Von Battle: http://marshamusic.wordpress.com/page-joe-von-battle-requiem-for-a-record-shop-man/