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Belgian Jazz
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Charles Remue's New Stompers
When you think of America’s original art form – jazz – the last place you’ll probably think of is Belgium. Yet, they too were swept up in the craze...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Gennett
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Gennett Records label
The Starr Piano Company opened the doors to their new recording studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1916. The first few years they waxed the standard fa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
2014 Anniversaries: Show #2
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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A celebration of momentous events in rock history - part 2.

Bought by WOUB and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 2
2014 Anniversaries: Show #1
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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A celebration of momentous events in rock history.

Bought by KSKQ, WOUB, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
10 Cents a Dance (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry produced what some consider the greatest era of popular music. We look at the s...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
10 Cents a Dance (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry produced what some consider the greatest era of popular music. We look at the s...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 2
Stephen Holden
From: South Carolina Public Radio
Series: Song Travels with Michael Feinstein News Friendly Version
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News-Friendly Format (1:00 billboard; 5:00 news hole; 52:00 program) New York Times music and film critic Stephen Holden covered the 1970s singer/...

Bought by KISU, KFOK-LPFM, and KUOW


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 3
Rolling Stones Radio Hour/Keith Richards Birthday Feature
From: Kevin Yazell
Series: Rolling Stones Radio Hour
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An hour of Keith's work with the X-Pensive Winos and highlights of some of his Stones material. Several rarities and surprises included!

Bought by Louisville Public Media, Louisville Public Media, KSRQ, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 14, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:45
  • Purchases: 4
Phase and Flange
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Have you ever heard a Phase or Flange? Once you hear it, you might recognize it, but can you tell the difference between Phase and Flange? This wee...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
You Are There - Part Two
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Bringing listeners back to historic rock moments with clips of breaking media coverage...again!

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass # 1350 "Napolean's Retreat." For regular users, piece for Dec 14-20, 2013. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeutfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
One of the best loved tunes around is Bonaparte’s Retreat. But why? Is it the title? The melody? Lyle Lofgren and Phil Nusbaum seek a solution to t...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2013
  • Length: 12:00
Back Up Singers
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Did you know Sheryl Crow, Whitney Houston, and Mariah Carey all got their starts from singing backup? In fact, a lot more artists than you think be...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rock and Revolution
From: Hold That Thought
Series: American Identities
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Associate professor Patrick Burke reveals how musicians in the 1960s, including the rock band the Godz, resisted predetermined categories and simpl...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 14:00
Anne Waldman & The Beats
From: New Letters on the Air
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Prolific poet and winner of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Anne Waldman is younger than the Beat Generation, but she did know many of its pro...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Roadies w/ Guest Steve Schepker
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Dr. Joseph Burns and guest Steve Schepker talk about roadies. Steve Schepker talks about past experience of being a roadie himself. The music range...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
With Strings: Jazz Guitar Pioneers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Eddie Lang
Eddie Lang, more than any other jazz guitarist, brought the rhythm guitar into the limelight as a solo instrument. Granted, he couldn't have comple...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
An Evening With Al Jolson
From: William Cook
Series: Waxworks
Caption: PRX default Piece image
An Evening With Al Jolson

  • Added: Oct 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
You Are There
From: KSLU
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Based on the Walter Cronkite series of the same name, this week Rock School grabs excerpts of historic rock n roll events and discusses the impact ...

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM


  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
36: Bambaataa's Open Archive
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Afrika Bambaataa's vinyl archive was on display for one month in New York City.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 12:04
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz and Civil Rights (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
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How the personal and professional lives of musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane were tied to the struggle for racial e...

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KHSU, WRIR, WVAS and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 53:51
  • Purchases: 14
Centerstage Minnesota: An interview with Brian Laidlaw, an essay from Alison Scott, and a review a review of the Trampled By Turtles and Actual Wolf concert in Grand Rapids by Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Brian Laidlaw, Credit: Charlie Pulkrabek
Brian Laidlaw is a singer / songwriter out of the Twin Cities. For the past year he's been working on a project inspired by Bob Dylan, and made pos...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz in Britain
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fred Elizalde
When the Original Dixieland Jazz Band visited Great Britain in 1919, the invasion was on. America’s music infiltrated the hearts and minds of young...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
C-Melody
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Frankie Trumbauer
Reed artist Frankie Trumbauer contributions to early jazz have been overshadowed by the role he played in Bix Beiderbecke's career.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1326
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Staying closer to home.

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WOUB, WXXI Rochester, KEOS and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Boston
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Even though we are broadcasting from Louisiana, today we are all "Bostonians"! We got "Boston Bill" (Bill Robison) to add to the big Boston show, a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1