© 2025 NPR Illinois
The Capital's Community & News Service since 1975
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Get involved now! ProtectMyPublicMedia.org Make the call.

Remembering 'Sunshine' Sonny Payne, Host Of America's Longest-Running Blues Radio Show

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson remembers “Sunshine” Sonny Payne, host of what’s been called the longest-running blues radio show in American history, and listens to an interview between Payne and journalist Erin Scott from 2015.

Payne hosted “King Biscuit Time” from Helena, Arkansas, from 1951 until his death last February.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.