Jack Dappa Blues Radio honors Libby Rae Watson—an authentic Blues woman, guitarist, songwriter, cultural witness, and keeper of Mississippi Blues memory.Since the early 1970s, Libby Rae has built deep relationships with some of the most important figures in traditional Blues, including Big Joe Williams, Furry Lewis, Eugene Powell, Houston Stackhouse, Stonewall Mays, and her close friend and mentor, Sam Chatmon.In 1978, she helped organize the talent for the very first Delta Blues Festival in Greenville, Mississippi, bringing together elders whose music carried the memory of Black Southern life, labor, survival, humor, migration, and resistance.This special broadcast explores Libby Rae’s journey into the Mississippi Delta, the musicians who trusted and taught her, and the responsibility that comes with carrying tradition forward. Through music, memories, photographs, and personal stories, we look beyond the stage to honor the friendships and cultural relationships that shaped her life.Libby Rae Watson’s story reminds us that the Blues is more than a sound. It is a breathing Black cultural inheritance rooted in people, place, memory, and community.Join us as we give flowers to a woman who listened, learned, showed up, remembered the elders, and continued to speak their names.The Blues Found Her: Libby Rae Watson and the Keepers of the Delta Flamehttps://www.libbyrae.com/Presented by Jack Dappa Blues RadioPreserving the Blues People, one voice and one story at a time.