Monday, May 26, 2014

Arkansas AM station that launched legends returns

This undated photo provided by Mid-South Community College in West Memphis, Ark. shows Eddie Bond at the microphone at radio station KWEM. The station, now owned by the college, that began broadcasting in West Memphis in 1947 and lasted until 1960 is being re-launched this week on the Internet. Plans are for a return to the air as an FM broadcast in August 2014. (AP Photo/Mid-South Community College) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Decades ago, unknown blues musicians paid $15 to appear on an east Arkansas radio station, hoping a few minutes of exposure would help them become the legends they now are: B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Sonny Boy Williamson and Ike Turner.








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