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Blues For Modern Times (formerly Blues For Modern Man) (Series)

Produced by Jerry L. Davis

Most recent piece in this series:

Blues For Modern Times #176

From Jerry L. Davis | Part of the Blues For Modern Times (formerly Blues For Modern Man) series | 59:00

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This is show #176 of the Series "Blues For Modern Times", (formerly called Blues For Modern Man). This show is produced to be broadcast as either a weekly Series, or it can be easily be used as a stand-alone episode. The focus of this Series is to support today's Modern Blues music and working Blues Artists, and it highlights the great variety of music that they record. My shows use mainly just received new, and artists latest Blues releases in each show, though I occasionally blend in other modern Blues music. Today’s Blues are a diverse and exciting genre, as todays Blues Artists play in various styles of Blues. This allows me to create a true Blues variety show that should appeal to most any curious music lover. These programs DO NOT have to be ran in order-however-the higher the show number, the newer the music in the program. These shows ARE NOT dated at all, so that this Series can begin to be run at any point or show number, at your Stations discretion.
  This show is designed for the music lover, with a great variety of music. It's also for the Blues lover, to check out the latest from some of their favorite artists, and to discover new Blues artists and their recordings. And this show is a good intro to the Blues for new Blues listeners, to help them discover the diversity in today’s modern Blues music. I produce this show solely to be a part of a NPR/Community Station's regular weekly 1 hour show lineup. This show focus is on the music, and I inform listeners of the songs I've played, what album it's from, and an occasional tidbit or two on the Artist or the tune.  I post my playlists and more on my Facebook Page for the Show, Blues For Modern Times.
Since the show is aired regularly on several stations, I produce and upload NEW SHOWS EVERY WEEK. My hope is to grow both the number of stations and listeners of this program, thereby fulfilling my mission to support working Artists, and share today’s Blues music with as many listeners as possible...Upon request, I also can produce 25 second spots for each show if desired by your station, leaving :05 to announce show day and time.

Reveal Weekly (Series)

Produced by Reveal

Most recent piece in this series:

1013: Cashing in on Troubled Teens, 3/30/2024

From Reveal | Part of the Reveal Weekly series | 59:00

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The first time Trina Edwards was locked in a psychiatric hospital for children, she was 12 years old. She was sure a foster parent would pick her up the next day. But instead, Trina would end up spending years cycling in and out of North Star Behavioral Health in Anchorage, Alaska. 


At times, she was ready to be discharged, but Alaska’s Office of Children’s Services couldn’t find anywhere else to put her – so Trina would stay locked in at North Star, where she would experience violent restraints and periods of seclusion. Then, shortly before her 15th birthday, Trina was sent to another facility 3,000 miles away: Copper Hills Youth Center in Utah. 


Both North Star and Copper Hills are owned by Universal Health Services, a publicly traded Fortune 500 company that is the nation’s largest psychiatric hospital chain. Trina’s experience is emblematic of a larger problem: a symbiotic relationship between failing child welfare agencies, which don’t have enough foster homes for all the kids in custody, and large for-profit companies like Universal Health Services, which have beds to fill. 


This hour, Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie exposes how  Universal Health Services is profiting off foster kids who get admitted to its facilities, despite government and media investigations raising alarming allegations about patient care that the company denies. 


This is an update of an episode that originally aired in October 2023.

Classical Guitar Alive! (Series)

Produced by Tony Morris

Most recent piece in this series:

24-24 Cimarosa, Mertz, Ponce “Sonata Romantica,” Morel’s Fantasia de la Danza”

From Tony Morris | Part of the Classical Guitar Alive! series | 58:58

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TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: June 10, 2024

RE: ***CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   24-24 Cimarosa, Mertz, Ponce “Sonata Romantica,” Morel’s Fantasia de la Danza”

 

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to..."

Out Cue: "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

Program Length: 58:57

 

INTRODUCTION:

 Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude       Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                        (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

 

Cimarosa: Sonata in G Minor              Hannu Anala, guitar,  Mari Mantyla, decacorde

             “Musica Barocca a Due”   (Alba 2023) (3:39)

 

Mertz: Duo Concertant uber ein Theme aus Elisir d’amore     Brian Torosian, guitar,

                                                                                                 David Schrader, piano

                           “Mertz: Guitar & Piano Duos”      (Brian Torosian 2012) (9:13)            

 

Ponce: Sonata Romantica  “Homage a Schubert”      Jason Vieaux, guitar

                                “Manuel Ponce: Guitar Sonatas” (Azica 2001) (22:31)

 

Morel: Fantasia de la Danza                     Krzysztof Pelech, guitar,
                                              Capella Bydgostiensis,  Michal Nesterowicz, conductor

                                         (Luthier Music 2006) (20:05)

 

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

 

This week’s program features a keyboard sonata by Cimarosa arranged for guitar and decacorde (10-string guitar), Mertz’s Duo Concertant for guitar and piano on a theme from the Donizetti opera The Elixir of Love, Manuel Ponce’s Sonata Romantica in homage to Franz Schubert, and Argentine composer Jorge Morel’s “Fantasia de la Danza” for guitar and orchestra.

 

CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! is a weekly one-hour music with interviews program that is sound-rich, energetic, and has a positive vibe. It is an audience bridge-builder program that attracts both core classical audience and fans of all kinds of acoustic music.

 

Classical Guitar Alive! celebrates 25 years of national distribution and airs each week on over 200 stations. FUNDRAISER EDITION of Classical Guitar Alive! is available here to all stations: http://www.prx.org/pieces/187790-fundraiser-editio

 

CGA! is a winner at PRX's 13th Annual Zeitfunk Awards: #1 Most Licensed Producer, and #2 Most Licensed Series.

Blue Dimensions (Series)

Produced by Bluesnet Radio

Most recent piece in this series:

Blue Dimensions M13: A Band Of Two Bassists, Christian McBride & Edgar Meyer

From Bluesnet Radio | Part of the Blue Dimensions series | 59:00

Mcbridemeyer_small In this hour of Blue Dimensions, an album entitled "But Who's Gonna Play the Melody?" featuring a band made up of just two bassists, Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer, and they can certainly both play the melodies on this very unusual album. Also: the latest from Charles Lloyd -- we'll play something with him on flute from his new album "The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow." We'll hear the latest from three great saxophone players, Remy Le Boeuf, with sixteen musicians joining him, Kamasi Washington from his dance-inspired album "Fearless Movement," and Willie Morris emphasizing the interplay between alto and tenor saxophone on his album "Attentive Listening." Plus: a track from The Rob Dixon / Steve Allee Quintet, from their album "Standards Deluxe."

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You Bet Your Garden (Series)

Produced by You Bet Your Garden

Most recent piece in this series:

YBYG1324: You Bet Your Garden # 1324 New Thoughts on the 'Soil Borne Wilts' that Terrify Tomatoes, 3/28/2024

From You Bet Your Garden | Part of the You Bet Your Garden series | 54:58

Ybyg-sp-p_small On this thought 'promoting' episode of YBYG Mike McGrath scares up your Tomatoes by re defining the terror known as 'Soil Borne Wilts'! Plus your terrifying phone calls!!

A Way with Words (Series)

Produced by A Way with Words

Most recent piece in this series:

Off the Turnip Truck (#1532)

From A Way with Words | Part of the A Way with Words series | 54:00

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The new book Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language is a smart, engaging, introduction to language and linguistics in general. It's also rich with insights about how we communicate online. With verve, wit, and nerdy delight, linguist Gretchen McCulloch demonstrates that the internet isn't at all destroying language. Instead, language in the digital age has forked into formal and informal versions, and the addition of emojis adds a whole new layer of nuance.
Nadine in San Antonio, Texas, disagrees with her boyfriend, who insists that the word surprise suggests something inherently good, so it's impossible to call something a bad surprise. A quick look at data from the Brigham Young University corpora of English-language, however, shows that he's wrong. The word surprise keeps company with plenty of negative words in English, such as nasty, unpleasant, and yes, bad. 
If you're mafted, then you're exhausted -- especially if it's due to heat, crowds, or exertion. Mafted is a Britishism, and its origin is unknown. 
Sam from St. Paul, Minnesota, says his dad often used the expressions Do you think I just fell off the turnip truck? and I didn't just fall off the turnip truck, meaning "I'm not naive" or "Do you think I was born yesterday?" Turnips have long been associated with supposedly unsophisticated rustic folk, and the phrase fall off the turnip truck conjures an image of country bumpkins piling into the back of a truck to bring their crop to market in the big city. During his years on The Tonight Show, TV talk-show host Johnny Carson often used this alliterative phrase. 
Quiz Guy John Chaneski has crafted a puzzle about cocktails with rhyming names. For example, in Jackson or Biloxi, you might be served a libation inspired by the long-haired subculture of the 1960s. What drink would that be?
Sherry from Green Bay, Wisconsin, remembers that whenever she balked at doing a chore as a kid, her grandmother would say If ifs and ands were pots and pans, a tinker would have no trade. Her grandmother was suggesting that merely paying lip service to something doesn't get the task done. Another version goes If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands. A still longer version:  
If wishes were horses, then beggars could ride / If turnips were watches, I'd wear one by my side / If ifs and ands were pots and pans / There would be no work for tinkers. Dandy Don Meredith often recited a similar a somewhat similar phrase about wishful thinking that involved candied nuts. 
The term fair game, meaning someone or something that's a legitimate target for criticism derives from old laws governing the hunting of wildlife.
Amber in Mansfield, Texas, has a friend from London, England. After she moved to the States, the friend was surprised to find that when she's conversing with strangers from the United States, they'll drop in stereotypical British terms like Right-o or Cheerio! and even shift their accent to sound more like her. Why do people mimic other people's accents? Some of this behavior may simply be thoughtlessness, but it could also be an earnest, if awkward, attempt to communicate. 
Paul in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has long been mystified by the title Commander-in-chief. Why, he wonders, isn't it Commander and chief? The title Commander-in-chief is a vestige of French military titles, specifically the construction en chef, which denotes the top officer. The same construction appears in the title Editor-in-chief. The French term, in turn, goes back to Latin caput, or "head," and a relative of capital.
In baseball lingo, to dial 8 is to hit a home run. According to The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, the expression arose back when traveling baseball players had to dial the number 8 on a motel phone in order to begin a long-distance call.
It's hard to imagine now, but there was a time when people disagreed over the best word to use when answering the telephone. Alexander Graham Bell, for example, advocated answering with  Ahoy!, while Thomas Edison argued for Hello. As linguist Gretchen McCullough says in her excellent new book Because Internet, this disagreement is worth remembering when we think about how other forms of greeting are evolving. Today older speakers of English might hesitate to greet someone with Hey, but younger people tend to be perfectly comfortable with it. 
A high-school teacher in Los Angeles, California, says many of his teaching colleagues have different opinions about how to handle profanity among teenagers. The simplest solution is to prohibit all taboo language in the classroom, but acknowledge that the rules will likely differ in other contexts.
A listener who grew up in Ukraine recalls that her family always referred to chicken drumsticks by a name that translates as Bush's legs. This jocular term refers to an agreement between U.S. President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev struck in 1990, during a time of scarcity in the Soviet Union. The agreement called for frozen chicken to be sent from the United States to help stock empty store shelves. Years earlier, under the Lend-Lease program, powdered eggs sent to Russia came to be known by a Russian name that translates as Roosevelt's eggs. 
Elizabeth from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, wonders why some people say Charlie's dead to indicate to someone that her slip is showing. No one knows which Charlie this expression refers to. Similar euphemisms include It's snowing down south, Your Monday is longer than your Tuesday, and You have a Ph.D. 
 
This episode is hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette.

Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat (Series)

Produced by Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri

Most recent piece in this series:

Episode #725 - Guitar Slim

From Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri | Part of the Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat series | 59:00

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EGuitar Slimddie Jones grew up in Hollandale, MS, pickin' cotton and dreaming of a better life when ambition and musical talent plucked him from his situation, christened him Guitar Slim and made him a star. After moving to New Orleans and befriending Huey "Piano" Smith, the two became a sensation at the hep Tiajuana Club, landing them a deal with Imperial Records. The two singles released by the label failed to chart and they were dropped, but then serendipitously found themselves in Nashville cutting a record for Jim Bulleit's J-B Records. "Feelin' Sad" b/w "Certainly All" got some airplay in major cities and hit #1 on the local New Orleans chart, but failed to hit nationally. That was enough to get bookings at NOLA's premier club, The Dew Drop Inn, where Slim drove crowds into a frenzy with his stage antics. Johnny Vincent at Specialty Records hounded Guitar Slim until he signed with the label, initially beating out Atlantic Records. Right out of the gate, Guitar Slim scored a monster hit with "The Things That I Used To Do," which topped the national R&B lists and became the biggest R&B hit of 1954. That success would never be topped or matched, but Guitar Slim tried and this week, Matt The Cat fills the "Juke In The Back" with Slim's fantastic recordings for Imperial, J-B, Specialty and Atco. 

Sound Ideas (Jazz & Blues) (Series)

Produced by Clay Ryder

Most recent piece in this series:

Sound Ideas #388 - Exercising the Mind

From Clay Ryder | Part of the Sound Ideas (Jazz & Blues) series | 57:30

Sound_ideas_small This is the three-hundred-eighty-eighth episode in a thematic series focused on jazz, blues, and spoken word.

There are many sub-genres within the Jazz universe, and it is the rare cat that enthusiastically embraces all of them. For most, there are a few preferred stylings with the others often met with a resistant, if not hostile response. Unfortunately, this orthodox approach limits the listener's ability to discover new sounds and grooves that can broaden one's pallet. In this hour, we will exercise our listening minds by diggin' some sounds that you may or may not have heard before.

The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree (Series)

Produced by Candice Agree

Most recent piece in this series:

The Spanish Hour 2341: Profile: Conductor Ataúlfo Argenta

From Candice Agree | Part of the The Spanish Hour with Candice Agree series | 58:30

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Highly regarded as one of the great conductors of the 20th century, Ataúlfo Argenta is not as well known as Monteux, Beecham, Koussevitzky, and other mid-twentieth century conductors. This week, we hear Argenta conduct L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the concert version of Manuel de Falla’s El amor brujo (Love the Magician) and Francisco Escudero’s Concierto vasco para piano y orquesta (Basque Concerto for Piano and Orchestra) featuring pianist Martín Imaz.