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Jessie Mae Hemphill was a 4th generation Mississippi musician who learned how to play music from her granddaddy (as she called him).
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 59:49
- Purchases: 1
Aaron Corthen was more commonly known in the Blues music world as A.C. Reed and was heard on countless recordings as a contributing saxophone player.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Sep 24, 2022
- Length: 58:21
- Purchases: 1
This weeks searches are in vocal group harmony bands, boleros, and girl groups. Not Motown or Phil Spector girl groups because we present "Music y...
Bought by KCHU, KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KFCF FM, Prairie Public and more
- Added: May 24, 2022
- Length: 04:14:43
- Purchases: 6
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Our guest in this program lived in Rhodesia, Malawi and Zambia from 1972 to 1990. Her fat...
- Added: Apr 20, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Eighteen more country tracks from off the beaten path.
- Added: Sep 01, 2021
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions
The voice of a writer can be heard in words, and sometimes seen in the writer’s face. It is unusua...
- Added: Jun 09, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Dead Reckoning, the New Science of Catching Killers
In the fascinating world of medical discovery, the interpretation of how and when a person die...
- Added: Jun 03, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Have you ever wondered what it is like to work inside a prison? Well, Ted Conover, a non-fiction writer did, so he went to the New York Department ...
- Added: Apr 28, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Endangered Minds & Failure to Connect
It used to be that children would play with objects, be told or read stories, or perhaps listen to the radio...
- Added: Apr 15, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Radio Curious discusses the psychology of motherhood with Jana Malamud Smith, a psychologist and author of “A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Pow...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 04, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A second tour-de-force of songs recorded by bluegrass, jazz and related musicians who were born in the month of August.
- Added: Aug 11, 2020
- Length: 01:57:40
In this program, we are going to go back into California history about 150 years, and visit with the last Mexican governor of California, Pio Pico....
- Added: Apr 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In 1971 one of the most successful "Blues" recording labels was founded. This show explores the early history of Alligator Records.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:04
Some people’s memories of President Richard Nixon are negative due to his role in escalating the Vietnam War, the student demonstrations at Kent St...
- Added: Feb 12, 2020
- Length: 29:00
Domingo Sarmiento, a teacher and later President of the Republic of Argentina, spent several years traveling in Europe and the United States in the...
- Added: Aug 21, 2019
- Length: 29:00
The finest musicians in the genres of jazz, bluegrass and that slippery sonic space between are those that make pre-existing material sound like th...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 01:57:40
Part 2 in the Origin Series explores some of the most legendary musicians ever to saw on the strings in the genres of bluegrass, jazz and the slipp...
Bought by Bandon Community Radio
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 01:55:39
- Purchases: 1
Data is the new science. Big data holds the answers. It’s a simple thought that acknowledges the power of data in our lives.
Bought by KVSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Author and activist Joe Wenke speaks with some of the foremost advocates for change. They have a determined commitment to freedom and equality.
Bought by Wild Planet Radio and KCBX
- Added: May 14, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
The four blues vocalists in this hour are not well known. That certainly doesn’t mean they aren’t worthy of praise and recognition: Alberta Hunter...
Bought by KMUW, KBBI Alaska, WMMT, WJSU, and KCBX
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 5
Benny Moten led the Kansas City Orchestra in the 1920s, arguably the most influential big bands of the era. His arrangements helped to create what...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
Trombonist Miff Mole and trumpeter Red Nichols, two highly talented jazz musicians, met in New York in the early 1920s. Together they prefected wh...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 2
California’s influence on early jazz is not a trifling matter. Several musicians emerged from the Golden State to lustrous careers.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 01:00:13
- Added: Jul 14, 2011
- Length: 03:41
