Media & Creative

Ric Stewart is a DJ, award-winning filmmaker, interviewer and music historian. Mr. Stewart has a 4-decade history as a storyteller preserving the heritage of roots music as a radio host and programmer at WAIF, Cincinnati, KALX, Berkeley and WTUL New Orleans.

1. Soul Country He launched Soul Country in 2019 as a radio format rounding up Stax, Muscle Shoals and Delta sounds with rockabilly, outlaw, country blues and a bumper crop of contemporary “outside of Nashville” Americana sounds. The Soul Country podcast continues this “Americana with a Groove” focus. It launched in February of 2022 featuring in-depth talk/play with roots music icons: Bobby Rush, Chris Thomas King, Ivan Neville and Charlie McCoy and up-and-coming artists. Its origin story documentary, Blues Rock Hits Soul Country, taps decades of exclusive video interview/performances from legends (Allen Toussaint, Earl King, Tony Joe White, John Oates, Peter Case and more). The doc, podcast playlists and trailers are all found online at soulcountry.com and on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.

An interactive music museum under Blues Center brand  In 2022, Ric Stewart directed and narrated a 28-minute documentary Blues Rock Hits Soul Country pulling together decades of exclusive clips. The documentary now as over 110,000 views.

2. ABC TV 2013

Analyzed ABC’s next generation video platform and authored platform specifications.

3. Mini Movie Channel 2007 – 2009

Led strategy for comedy site with 30M views and 3 videos with over 1M views. Crafted partnership with HP Europe and branded entertainment agency relationships.

4. EMI 2006 – 2007

Drove platform development of music download business. Licensing, communication on 1M SKU catalog with partners iTunes, Spotify, Pandora.

5. Movielink 2005 – 2006

Merchandised downloads for JV of Universal, WB, MGM and Sony acquired by Blockbuster in 2009.

6. Raw Music 2003 – 2004

Created 30 minute music-comedy variety show cleared to air for 98% of US on PBS.

6. There1.com 1995 – 2000

Curated radio/magazine/store with Hall of Fame, International and emerging acts. Produced/voiced the syndicated daily podcast review program “Disc a Day” to Real Audio’s Daily Briefings. View reel of in-house performances and interviews.

7. Toyota.com 1994

Researched and wrote a branded history of Richard Berry’s classic “Louie, Louie.”