Song Stories
Series produced by Will Heron
A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song.
A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song where people use music to reflect on significant moments in their lives. It's a personal experience that rises from memory every time we hear a certain song. We all have them. The can be happy, sad, or somewhere in between. But they are always welcome when they appear.
31 Pieces
Order by:
Newest First |
Oldest First
It can be surprising meeting one of your musical heroes at a liquor store on the rough streets of West Chicago
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 31, 2015
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 1
Filmmaker Kerry Candaele’s epiphany on California’s Pacific Coast Highway still resonates with him today.
Bought by PRX Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 30, 2015
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 2
At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.
- Added: Aug 30, 2015
- Length: 03:54
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
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
Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 04:20
Jonathan Vallis remembers the first time he heard Billy Bragg.
- Added: Sep 05, 2015
- Length: 03:43
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
Patrick Dorey sends us his Song Story about a time in his life when, with the loss of his Mom, he began to question who he was.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Wandering Sheila Velazco is at home in Mexico, Peru or Ireland as she is in the US.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Join in a pub singalong as Brigitte Stamp remembers her Dad, her ear pressed to his chest to hear the resonance of his voice, as he sang one of his...
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:13
