Sunday, 10/26/2025, 8:30am - Like It Is

Billy Lee Riley.

On this edition of Like It Is, we feature an encore interview with the late Billy Lee Riley. We discussed Blues music, his musical career and his formative years growing-up in Arkansas. Riley was born in Pocahontas, Arkansas, the son of a sharecropper. In this interview, Riley shared memories of how he learned to play the guitar from black farm workers who lived on both sides of his family’s tenant farming housing in rural Pocahontas, Arkansas