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One of my very first pieces ever: A chronicle of my adventures doing sound for an Elvis Tribute Artist and a large ish gospel Church in Madison WI....
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- Added: Jul 14, 2022
- Length: 06:18
- Purchases: 1
How do you sleep when so much of life is unsettled?
In this episode that comes to us from the award-winning podcast Shelter in Place, we talk abo...
- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 26:15
What have you lost in the pandemic? What have you found?
We asked these questions to people from New York to New Mexico. What they told us has gi...
- Added: Oct 07, 2021
- Length: 26:58
One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 02:04
NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission.
Eddie Ramirez remembers a cruising in the newest car he'd ever owned, black, all pow...
- Added: Oct 15, 2016
- Length: 05:34
Randy Brown has to, no lie, shoot a bear and immediately grab it by the tail and Glenner Anderson makes the cardinal mistake of bear encounters--he...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:59
A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...
- Added: Jan 09, 2016
- Length: 06:50
Angus Bossenberry's Song Story takes us on a colorful and funny road trip as he hitchhikes up the Pacific Coast Highway in California.
- Added: Nov 21, 2015
- Length: 05:43
Kristopher Ohlendorf is a Media Studies grad student and ponderer of big questions. Like, why is that bicycle horn honking in the Beach Boys “You ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2015
- Length: 06:08
Grant Hawkins is a Masters student in Music and a lover of sounds. His Song Story is about love and winter and his song, “Myth” by Beach House, is...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 05:41
Conor McSweeny is a graduate student studying music and popular culture and a lifelong guitar nerd. Naturally, his Song Story fits nicely into his...
- Added: Oct 25, 2015
- Length: 04:44
Law student and former go-go dancer, Armando Torres' Song Story recalls a time when he was a god above all, transmitting his energy from a box in t...
- Added: Oct 11, 2015
- Length: 06:15
My daughter, Anna, turned 20 last month. She's become a wonderful, beautiful, talented, stubborn, artsy, funny, a little crazy and very independent...
- Added: Oct 04, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Joe Donia's Song Story is a memory piece taking him from the music that filled his childhood to his son Natty's performance of Clocks in a rarely h...
- Added: Sep 26, 2015
- Length: 06:56
Wandering Sheila Velazco is at home in Mexico, Peru or Ireland as she is in the US.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Steve Barkan's Song Story reminds us that music has the power to awaken sleeping giants and move mountains.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 04:47
Jonathan Vallis remembers the first time he heard Billy Bragg.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 03:43
Rick Peate's Song Story will touch a nerve with anyone who's ever had the kind of day where all you want to do when you get home is bash something.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:06
Mix a dry martini, put a platter on the turntable and sit back as Mike Heron takes us back to the smooth sounds of the sixties with Herb Alpert and...
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 03:42
Pat Zakaib's bitter-sweet memory of friendship lost and found spans decades as she shares a frustrating tale of her travels from Paris to Athens.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 05:01
Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:20
In his Song Story, Rod Clarance reminds everyone born in Montreal something we all intuitively know. You can leave Montreal, but Montreal will neve...
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 06:06
Sandy Senyk remembers his bad drinking days and hearing, for the first time, "some girl called Bonnie Raitt ..." It's "one of the best when night'...
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 03:51
“I'll always have this wonderful memory of my father who loved to dance with his daughter, and still does to this day.”
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 04:57
Here's a Song Story guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 03:41