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featuring: Bobby Watson's album "Made In America" that celebrates some high-achieving African-Americans and their accomplishments. Also new music f...
Bought by WMOT, GCR (Global Community Radio), Royalton Community Radio, WRGY, KKRN and more
- Added: Apr 12, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
Want to know how heroin treatment centers in Canada, the Affordable Care Act, President Trump’s new budget, and Henrietta Lacks all fit into one co...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 53:54
Joe Reginella, a Staten Island based sculptor, sneaks a statue into the park every weekend to commemorate a disaster that has been scrubbed from th...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 06:49
- Purchases: 1
What is traditional about bluegrass lyrics? The definition of tradition usually has to do with continuing something over time. Some bluegrass songs...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 07:47
Who enjoys work? Old-time farmers? That was a work all the time existence on the family farm. It had its satisfactions such as working with nature ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 07:18
Back in the 1930 era, farm work engaged most members of the old time music audience, and it of course was hard work, and it could be 24/7. The sin...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 07:57
Some view traditional music styles as singular, insulated from other styles. And that has been true at certain times in certain places. But owing t...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 06:03
Sitting on top of the world has been around a long time. The song was written by Walter Vinson and Sam Chatmon, members of the blues group, the Mis...
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 05:55
The Walking Dead, a TV horror series about a worldwide zombie apocalypse, has been the most popular show with 18 to 49 year olds since for the past...
Bought by KENW, WEZU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 03:28
- Purchases: 3
Is there such a thing as a balanced life? Should we even try for one? Join us for a conversation with Cali Yost, Quentin Mumphrey, Leena Suleiman,...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 23:30
As we approach the end of the calendar year, most of us will be flooded with requests for year end donations, but what difference does donating mak...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 30:15
People of faith carry with them a certain obligation to engage with and, in many cases, critique political leaders and policies as church and state...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 30:38
How do you raise a kind child? Veteran parents Steve and Betsy Peterson, Mary McLaughlin, Kiran Ansari Rasul, Max Weiss, and Matt Fitzgerald weigh...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 30:05
Old Joe Clark has been around forever seemingly. It’s used as a square dance tune, so that helps keep it around. That it crooked and difficult to l...
- Added: Dec 31, 2016
- Length: 07:21
There's no getting around it. 2016 seemed like an especially costly year in the world of music with the deaths of far too many favorites. Music p...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WUTC, KGLP, KHNS, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 9
24% of Syracuse University is Jewish. See how some students embrace the stereotypes of being Jewish, while also breaking away from celebrating Juda...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
Old time music has the reputation of looking at it’s own history for inspiration. But it has also has a cutting edge. In general, cutting edges in ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2016
- Length: 05:15
Much of the heated dialog among bluegrass fans concerns new approaches that are evolving. But when new approaches evolve, it does not mean that the...
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:38
Featuring the new albums" #knowingishalfthebattle" from Orrin Evans and "The Truth Of What I Am > The Narcissist" from George Burton
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Royalton Community Radio, WRGY, KKRN, WMHT and more
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
Merle Haggard. His dates are 1937 to 2016. He was not a bluegrass performer, but he was loved by bluegrass artists and people. Now that he is gone,...
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 06:41
Jazz on the pan flute from Damian Draghici, who is also a member of the Parliament of the European Union
Bought by WRGY, KKRN, WMHT, GCR (Global Community Radio), 90.5 WSNC and more
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 14
Fall is Beautiful, right? Well, we hear about it in bluegrass songs, but those beautiful falling leaves are usually meant to symbolize something el...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 06:12
A woman walks into a bar, asks 23 random strangers what advice they would give their 18 year old self, and every single person said the same thing.
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 02:03
She didn’t set out to do it this way, but along the way, jazz vocalist Connie Evingson realized she likes to sing songs that represent a theme, eit...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 10:36
All end of relationship songs involve personal tragedy but some have circumstances that really capture our attention. This was as true hundreds of ...
- Added: Sep 24, 2016
- Length: 06:00
