PRX - Pieces for Format: Soft Feature
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
In 1971, Hunter S. Thompson chronicled his drug-fueled haze during an off-road-desert race, the Mint 400, in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Veg...
- Added: May 18, 2021
- Length: 11:17
In 1872, a black school teacher traveled by steamboat from Quincy, IL, to Keokuk, IA, to visit her family. Along the way, she was forcibly removed ...
- Added: Dec 01, 2020
- Length: 05:20
To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...
Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 12:56
- Purchases: 2
What does it mean to be a ranger? It means you are married to the mission, a soldier for your planetary home, armed with a moral compass and a Smok...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 03, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Dr. Martin Luther King, I waited on him. He had ham and egg and hash browns.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 04:05
- Purchases: 2
This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Wynonie Harris, who hit the top of the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts with "Good Rockin' Tonight," this week in 1948.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Woodrow Adams, who made his recording debut in Memphis, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Wilbert Harrison, who landed at the top of the R&B charts in 1959 — but created a headache for producer Bobby Robinson.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica wizard Little Walter, who cut "the national anthem of blues harmonica," this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at one historic day of recording — May 5th, 1937 — that changed the course of blues history.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sleepy John Estes, who ran into a little difficulty making his way to a recording session in New York City, this week in 1938.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Lightnin' Hopkins, who, in 1954, laid down some hard rocking sides for Herald Records.
- Added: Mar 07, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Etta James, who landed at the top of the Billboard R&B charts this week in 1955, with "The Wallflower."
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Elmore James, who was in a recording studio in Chicago, this week in 1953.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This show is part II of our Juneteenth Series focusing African-American music and venues in North Tulsa from the 40's through the 60's. We intervi...
- Added: Jun 30, 2017
- Length: 58:58
