The Sounds of Buttamilk - Episode Two - Co-hosted by Stephanie Renee and Marvin (Qool DJ Marv) Coleman

Welcome to The Story of Buttamilk Podcast

2024 marks the 30th Anniversary of Buttamilk, the influential collective that made a lasting impact on its Philadelphia audiences and people all over the world. If you’ve ever heard of Jill Scott, and have ever read her liner notes for her first album Words and Sounds Volume One, she writes, “Buttamilk, it all started with you.” (Excited to share that she answered the question asked about ‘what started with Buttamilk?’)

We found out that answer and so much more from many voices. There are 5 episodes of reminiscing that combine recordings of live performances with interviews and 3 bonus episodes that feature raw audio from live performances recorded from 1995-1997.

Closer look at buttamilk here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.65870510353&type=3

Episode 1: Performances from Stephanie Renee, Trapeta Mayson and Omar Tyree. Conversations with Kenneth Wells and Lisa Duhart

Episode 2: Performances from Rich Medina and Kwame Alexander. Conversations with Dewey Thomas, D. Ryva Parker and Stephanie Renee

Episode 3: Performances from Wadud Ahmad, Jill Scott, Leslie Arnette and Kamau. Conversations with Gene Roberson and Carl Childs

Episode 4: Performances from Brother Aki, Sarah Jones and Rich Medina. Conversation with Dave Warren and Jeff Pender

Episode 5: Conversations with Jill Scott, Fred Thomas and Marc Alexander, Chétana, Bernard Collins and Lisa Nelson-Haynes, Felicia Casher and Ursula Rucker

Episode 6: Qool DJ Marv warm-up sets at multiple Buttamilk Speakeazees

Episode 7 is all of the raw performance audio that is heard in Episodes 1-4. Episode 8 is bonus live performances not heard in any previous episodes.

The Sounds of Buttamilk is co-hosted and produced by Stephanie Renee and (Qool DJ) Marvin Coleman. Special thanks to Stanley Collins for the use of an excerpt from his podcast about Philadelphia’s Black Lily: https://soundcloud.com/stanley-collins-71953376 

Acknowledgements to Carl Childs for taking so many everlasting photos at Buttamilk https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwchilds/

More Butta-centric links here:

https://www.soul-sanctuary.net/  + @vibemistress on IG

https://soundcloud.com/cocoared + https://cbuttapour.bandcamp.com/ 

https://plantandpeople.com/ 

https://www.mixcloud.com/buttamilkarchives/

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djqoolmarvsounds

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5gQLsodBsCys1_3Zbm83vg
https://qooldjmarv.bandcamp.com/album/soundtrack-to-the-story-of-buttamilk