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  King Biscuit Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Biscuit Time is the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program.
The first broadcast of King Biscuit Time was on 21 November 1941 on KFFA in Helena, Arkansas and featured the legendary blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Jr.
In 1986, the first annual King Biscuit Blues Festival was held in Helena, attracting thousands of blues aficionados from around the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Biscuit_Time   (581 words)

  
 kingbiscuit.com
The King Biscuit Flower Hour launched as a nationally syndicated radio program of live concert performances 29 years ago, the first live concert series created for radio.
The Biscuit was officially born on on February 18, 1973, with the recording and airing of an fittingly eclectic triple bill: the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Blood Sweat and Tears and a then unknown Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band.
Today, three decades from its inception, the King Biscuit Flower Hour continues to broadcast weekly over its syndicated national FM network, connecting music fans from three generations with the Biscuit Archives - 20 years of their musical heritage, caught live.
www.kingbiscuit.com   (358 words)

  
 Bob Long » King Biscuit Time Celebration
In 1992, “King Biscuit Time” was awarded the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of radio and broadcast journalism.
The Delta Cultural Center’s depot became “home” to King Biscuit Time in 1992, but the show is now broadcast from a special studio in the museum’s Visitors Center.
Tickets for the evening King Biscuit Time concert are $10 and may be purchased from KFFA Radio, the Phillips County Chamber of Commerce, Helena National Bank and First Bank of the Delta, NA.
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 Blues - King Biscuit Time Official Home Page
King Biscuit is the first name in blues.
The King Biscuit Time radio show was founded in 1941 with the first ever live broadcast of blues music and the daily programming of Sonny Boy Williamson, Pinetop Perkins, Robert Lockwood Jr.
Our sister publication, the King Biscuit Time magazine, takes this rich blues legacy to many of the finest blues festivals around the country, presenting in depth reporting of the events, the artists, and venues that keep America’s roots music alive and vibrant.
www.kingbiscuittime.com   (238 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time: No Style ---Ink Blot Magazine
King Biscuit Time, solo vehicle for Steve Mason, lead singer of The Beta Band, released his first four-track EP,...Sings Nelly Foggits Blues In "Me And The Pharaohs" in 1999.
But by the end of 1998, with virtually everyone in Britain namechecking them and curious Americans snooping around their door, it was time to let the secret out.
Tracks from the first King Biscuit EP,...Sings Nelly Foggits Blues make up the second half, and only after "Fatheriver's" frenetic junglism unravels itself into the grinding iron beat of "Niggling Discrepancy" do we feel like we're listening to pastiche.
www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/KBT_No_Style.htm   (540 words)

  
 Pass the Biscuits; It’s King Biscuit Time in Helena » The Arkansas News
King Biscuit Flour and Sonny Boy Corn Meal can still be found on the shelves of local grocery stores today.
It’s King Biscuit Time.” The first two songs are always by the legendary Sonny Boy Williamson.
In 1986, the King Biscuit Blues Festival was born when Robert Junior Lockwood and Pinetop Perkins, the original King Biscuit Time entertainers, were invited to Helena for a return performance for the first time in a long time.
www.oldstatehouse.com /educational_programs/classroom/arkansas_news/detail.asp?id=917&issue_id=12&page=1   (466 words)

  
 Blues Magazines - King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time is a publication designed to serve fans, artists, festivals, music societies, and the blues music industry in general.
King Biscuit Time provides year-round exposure for festival partners by promoting them in each issue.
King Biscuit Time brings more meaningful content, and a greater quantity of information, to the festival fan at each venue and a wide audience of subscribers.
www.kingbiscuittime.com /magazine.html   (275 words)

  
 NME.COM - Reviews - King Biscuit Time : No style
The Beta Band are hit and miss at the best of times, so sensibly, vocalist Steve Mason has shrugged off the samples and intense experimentation of the Betas and relaxed a bit for his solo project.
The four tracks on King Biscuit Time's second EP are alarmingly low-key; as each one realises its potential, it trails off quietly.
King Biscuit Time are more than a match for Mason's day job.
www.nme.com /reviews/king-biscuit-time/3812   (277 words)

  
 Channel4.com - SlashMusic - King Biscuit Time
KING BISCUIT TIME refers to his popular 15-minute radio show broadcast which, beginning in 1938, was sponsored by the Interstate Grocery Company, and originated out of Helena, Arkansas every afternoon at 12:45 p.m.
Recorded in 1951, many of the selections on KING BISCUIT TIME were originally issued as 78s on the Trumpet label, while others were taken directly from his radio show.
KING BISCUIT TIME includes Elmore James' original recording of "Dust My Broom" for the Trumpet label.
www.channel4.com /music/music-core/album.jsp?albumId=171390   (115 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time - Wal-Mart
Processing time for an item is the time from when you submit your order to when the item leaves the warehouse.
The arrival date-range of each item is determined by adding the minimum of the processing time to the minimum of the shipping time and the maximum of the processing time to the maximum of the shipping time.
At this time, delivery is limited to street addresses in the 48 contiguous states.
www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=835269   (550 words)

  
 Beta Band fansite blog: King Biscuit Time Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
King Biscuit Time along with Mogwai, The Fence Collective and many others are playing a four day festival for One-in-four, an event to help raise mental heath awareness in Scotland.
There's been talk on the KBT board that Steve will be supporting I Am Kloot on their forthcoming tour.
King Biscuit Time will be in session on BBC Radio One Scotland this Thursday 22nd September (thanks to Pigeonhair for the news)
www.betaband.co.uk /king_biscuit_time/index.php   (1502 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time
King Biscuit Time is the side project of former Beta Band frontman Stephen Mason.
King Biscuit Time release their fantastic new single Kwangchow this Monday (24th April).
Thats right, the master of kiddy disco punk, Kid Carpet will be supporting King Biscuit Time on their UK tour, with his arrangement of plastic instruments, toys and samplers.
www.kingbiscuittime.co.uk /index.php?/home   (624 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time - Black Gold
Rising from the ashes of the late, great Beta-Band comes King Biscuit Time, the solo project of Steve Mason.
Alan McGee says that King Biscuit Time sounds as "if John Lennon was thirty-three and alive" and you can't really argue with him.
This album is "acoustic hip-hop" that is laid back and beautiful, but at the same time still makes a political stand for what Mason believes in.
www.onelouderradiouk.homestead.com /review_King-Biscuit-Album.html   (152 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/kingbiscuittime
KBT's new record ‘The Crunch' will released in Spring 2006 and preceded by a new single ‘C I M 15' in September.
And with the Steve Mason as King Biscuit Time, his hypnotic voice will soon hit the airwaves….
Let KBT invent a world for you and take you to the heart of the sun.
www.myspace.com /kingbiscuittime   (509 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Arts | | King Biscuit Time, Night and Day, Manchester
The Beta Band split 10 months ago, but reviews of their Best Of album are finally acknowledging that the idiosyncratic Scottish outfit were one of the best groups of the past 10 years.
Singer Steve Mason has picked a fine time to reclaim the spotlight: King Biscuit Time, originally a Beta side project, is now able to receive his full care and attention.
King Biscuit Time have upped the melody quotient, with choruses touched by 1960s pop.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,1573791,00.html   (315 words)

  
 Playing the Blues King Biscuit Time Blues Rhythm Guitar
This the first article in my new series of instructional columns for King Biscuit Time, entitled "Playing the Blues." The column will feature how-to articles for playing electric and acoustic guitars and also harmonica.
Blues is usually played in the major key, which for guitarists means either major, seventh, or ninth chords may be used for the I, IV and V chords.
In minor key blues (for example, "The Thrill Is Gone," by B. King), minor or minor 7th chords may be used for the I and IV chords, and major, seventh, or ninth chords used for the V chord.
www.celticguitarmusic.com /KBt_guitar_I.htm   (1332 words)

  
 The Skinny - King Biscuit Time - The Last Interview?
Steve Mason aka King Biscuit Time has spoken openly of how he struggled with depression during the eight years the Beta Band were together.
At that time there was still a lot of darkness in my life and she was the constant light that I’d look for.”
At the time of going to press, even his PR company are non the wiser as to his reasons for quitting, having been unable to contact him.
www.skinnymag.co.uk /content/view/1112   (984 words)

  
 / Cargo London /
Beta Band obsessives should already be familiar with Mason’s alter ego from the release of the two KBT eps which was met with critical acclaim back in 1998 and 2000.
KBT's new record ‘The Crunch' will released in Spring 2006 and preceded by a new single ‘C I AM 15' in September.
As King Biscuit Time, Mason employs a combination transmogrified of psychedelic, house, dance hall, pop, hip-hop and electronics into his wide-screen, surround-sound international around-the-world-in-a-day dada pop that exists in isolation to everything outside his own planet
www.cargo-london.com /event.php?id=269   (506 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time: No Style - PopMatters Music Review
This is the second release from Beta Band vocalist Stephen Mason under the King Biscuit Time moniker.
And just in case you missed his first outing (the snappily titled EP, King Biscuit Time Sings Nelly Foggit's Blues in "Me and the Pharaohs"), then you're in luck, since it comes bundled with Mason's new material on No Style.
The sonic diversity of King Biscuit Time is underscored particularly by the differences between the two closing songs on No Style.
www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/k/kingbiscuittime-no.shtml   (610 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time, Kwangchow, Video Stream
King Biscuit Time's politically-charged anthem CIAM15 released last autumn heralded the start of a new chapter for ex-Beta Band front man Steve Mason.
Embracing a myriad of musical styles and influences - dance hall, hip hop, psychedelia, electronica - it gave a taste of where Mason was headed in the new millennium.
Following a one off appearance at Midem 2006, King Biscuit Time are ready to hit the road to coincide with the release of the forthcoming album Black Gold on May 15th.
www.contactmusic.com /new/home.nsf/webpages/kingbiscuittimex10x04x06   (265 words)

  
 KING BISCUIT TIME Discography
KING BISCUIT TIME C I A M 15 (2005 UK limited edition 2-track CD single from the side project of The Beta Band's Steve Mason and taken from the forthcoming album 'The Crunch' including previously unreleased recording 'People Happy') -
KING BISCUIT TIME C I A M 15 (2005 UK limited edition 2-track 7" vinyl single from the side project of The Beta Band's Steve Mason and taken from the forthcoming album 'The Crunch' including Infidel Mix By Junior Mason Mumbazza) -
KING BISCUIT TIME Kwangchow (2006 UK limited edition 2-track 7" vinyl single - the follow-up from 2005's 'C I AM 15' and tells a plaintive tale of 'melting metal hearts' in a never-ending quest for love; including the exclusive recording 'Tears D ry', picture sleeve) -
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 the CAMERA As PEN™: king biscuit time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
steve mason released two promising ep's under the name king biscuit time while his main job, the beta band, was still in existence.
now that they're not around anymore, his time has been freed up enough to turn kbt into a full-time gig.
want to apologize for cancelling the tour but it was not possible to do it at the time.
thecameraaspen.blogspot.com /2006/05/king-biscuit-time.html   (627 words)

  
 king biscuit time : no style
King Biscuit Time is a solo EP from Stephen Mason, lead singer of The Beta Band.
No Style features four completely new tracks in addition to four tracks from King Biscuit Time's first EP, King Biscuit Time Sings Nelly Foggits Blues In "Me And The Pharaohs", compiling the entire King Biscuit Time story thus far for the first time on one album.
Stephen points out that the tracks were all written, recorded and produced by the author, Duck Hairback.
www.astralwerks.com /kingbiscuit/nostyle.html   (107 words)

  
 PIXELSURGEON | Reviews | Music | King Biscuit Time
You don’t have to be the biggest indie-fan in the world to have heard of the Beta Band, even if you’ve not heard them, and King Biscuit Time started out as front man Steven Mason’s solo side-project.
Other than the opening track, this is an undeniably mellow affair, and is certainly for the comedown rather than the getting up, but on those terms it’s a huge success.
Along with Fink’s recent Biscuits for Breakfast, it shows that singer-songwriting doesn’t have to trapped in the same old acoustic cul-de-sac.
www.pixelsurgeon.com /reviews/review.php?id=1027   (496 words)

  
 LivinBlues- Blues Radio - King Biscuit Time
The original band, the King Biscuit Entertainers, often included boogie pianist Pinetop Perkins and James Peck Curtis on drums.
The show was named after the locally distributed King Biscuit Flour.
On May 24, 2002, King Biscuit Time was broadcast for the 14,000th time.
www.livinblues.com /kingbiscuittime.asp   (371 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time: Black Gold: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Beta Band at the turn of the millennium were a big, wet, slobbery kiss of too much at a time when so many bands were content to dole out single-serving power pop tunes like misers in bowl cuts.
The first KBT releases, collected on 2000's eight-track No Style EP, mixed creaky jungle, spastic hip-hop, soundtrack effluvia, psychedelia, and soft pop.
King Biscuit Time LP Due; Steve Mason Disappears
www.pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/19054/King_Biscuit_Time_Black_Gold   (494 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Black Gold: Music: King Biscuit Time   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The arrival of King Biscuit Time's full-length debut is one of the year's most anticipated musical happenings.
Sure it could all be a shoot; a cunning ploy to get the momentum behind the record but even the most cynical of critics would cast that notion aside as quickly as they conjured it.
Throughout its entirety, the album is a hypnotic fusion of country-tinged trip-hop, acoustic folk and lush electro/acoustic ambience, a testament to the imagination of the creator.
www.amazon.co.uk /Black-Gold-King-Biscuit-Time/dp/B000ENV3T0   (721 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/metalbiscuit
Now they have cause for celebration with the rebirth of Beta Band frontman Steve Mason as King Biscuit Time.
As King Biscuit Time, Mason employs a combination transmogrified of psychedelic, house, dance hall, pop, folk, hip-hop and electronics into his wide-screen, surround-sound international around-the-world-in-a-day dada pop that exists in isolation to everything outside his own planet.
(Ex Beta Band, King Biscuit Time, and now working under the name Black Affair).
www.myspace.com /metalbiscuit   (815 words)

  
 King Biscuit Time - Kwangchow : track review
Nah mate, I'm just going to sit here rolling the word Kwangchow around my mouth until such time where it has lost all flavour, whereupon I shall spit it at a passer by.
Ex-Beta Band-er Steve Mason is now properly getting into his stride as King Biscuit Time, and Kwangchow is as good as anything The Beta's ever did.
King Biscuit Time - C I AM 15
www.musicomh.com /singles6/king-biscuit-time-2_0406.htm   (224 words)

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