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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
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
Here's a Song Story from the Maritimes (Canada's easternmost provinces) and it features Charlotte Britten and Great Big Sea.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 03:09
Artist and medical technician Deb Mueller Peate take us to her youth and back in a Song Story that covers four decades of memory.
- Added: Sep 03, 2015
- Length: 06:42
“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
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 13:56
At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.
- Added: Aug 30, 2015
- Length: 03:54
The diaries of a teenager from the South Bronx whose life changes when she discovers The Cure. Featuring Special Guest Host, Lol Tolhurst, foundin...
- Added: Aug 17, 2015
- Length: 20:09
Experience the adventure, joys and perils in a greenhorn wrangler's account of the 40th annual Sombrero Ranches "Great American Horse Drive". Eight...
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 01:00:00
You leave the radio on for your pet, before you leave the apartment. We'll find out if the cat and dog wish you hadn't.
Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 11, 2015
- Length: 13:41
- Purchases: 4
Pickers and neighbors from the South, Minnesota that is, Pert Near Sandstone.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
“You know, you can only paint a painting once. But a song, you can replay, re-envision, re-imagine virtually an infinite number of times,” says Mat...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 07:31
If James Brown was the Godfather of Soul, George Clinton remains the undisputed Crown Prince of Funk.
Parliament-Funkadelic. Flashlight. The Mothe...
- Added: Mar 16, 2015
- Length: 04:59
Producer Cheri Trusler's grandparents had a lot of cows to sell right around the time cattle prices in Montana were at their highest. That windfall...
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 04:45
Yonder Mountain String Band has always played music by its own set of rules. Bending bluegrass, rock and countless other influences, Yonder has pi...
- Added: Feb 01, 2015
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 8
Hate Valentine's Day? Cupid, that flawed character from Roman Mythology, offers alternative reasons to love Feb. 14th.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
I really wanted to play I Left My Wallet in El Segundo in a recent episode. This is why I didn’t.
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 04:01
On the 35th Anniversary of Alien, "The Icy Winds of Lovecraft" looks at how Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing were both influenced by the strang...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: :58
Andy Holliden's interest in Frank Zappa first manifested itself while he was in high school. Beyond listening to the music and poring over linear n...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 17:11
- Purchases: 1
Once again, the best of what's new in the world of EDM, plus another audio essay when Mongo Speaks: Weird Stuff On YouTube.
- Added: Sep 20, 2014
- Length: 59:04
