PRX - Pieces for Tone: Esoteric

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Faux live broadcast from a New Orleans music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:55:13
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Songs sung by women named "Barbara." Short fund drive announcements that are tied into the music. The boring, droning, repetitive ones were cut...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:42:52
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From the renaissance of Americana culture, 1950 to 1970s when we were searching for a uniquely American musical identity in the 20th century that c...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:46
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Songs you've never heard about teenagers (including Molly and Trudy) by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:45
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Different shots at strings bring us TJ Kirk as in the Thelonious-James-Kirk-influenced guitar trio, Larry Coryell having to follow that. Ruth Brow...

Bought by KPVL, KMXT, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, and WOUB


  • Added: Aug 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 5
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Another live show, another drink and dash on the bar tab. Then I had to hide out from the police so I went to the radio station and did the 3am to...

  • Added: May 23, 2015
  • Length: 05:58:03
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We have within each of us a desire to be noticed, or found worthy. It’s inherent in every human being. Being noticed is one thing, but graduating f...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
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Extreme vintage hour openers, like bebop in a big band with Eckstine, rare Clifford Brown the other. Singers who would normally not mix, Carrie Smi...

Bought by KZUM, WVBI-LP, KPVL, KHNS, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
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Hacksaw handles Horace who hounds Holloway and Harris, later even Hess. Have to hand it to hoards who happen to hit it hard. Violinist Stephane Gra...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:51
  • Purchases: 4
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A blistering Lee Morgan on trumpet sets the ambiance for singers Leah Natale, Cecile Hortensia and Mark Murphy, rhythm makers could be Charles Lewi...

Bought by KPVL, WVBI-LP, WOUB, and KVRZ


  • Added: Mar 10, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
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Yeah, sure there are thousands of songs that mention jukeboxes but you don't care to count them nor listen to them. No, you're more specialized. ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:42
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to 1970s when teenagers reached across the separation line of a segregat...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:38:00
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Music you've never heard from musicians you've never heard of from the golden age of American music, the 1950s to the 1970s. We feature the non-hi...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:54:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Music that's better than my grammar.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:48:08
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Music from the 1950s to the 1970s that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. An era when musicians reached across the separation ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:43:51
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Who would have thought that jail would be so much like a nightclub? All the OPP needs is the addition of music to its patron's drinking, drugging ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:50:26
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More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A faux live broadcast from somewhere in New Orleans as only you've imagined it.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:00:47
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The 1970's version of Funkadelic is typically credited for pioneering the role of a black band playing rock and roll. However, in the 1950s and 60...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:24:17
  • Purchases: 1
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:53:25
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First half of the show focuses on the rarely heard New Orleans R&B songs and artists of the early 1950s. Rick Coleman who authored the definitive ...

  • Added: May 19, 2013
  • Length: 05:48:17
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A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:10:23
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This week on Culture Queue, we head into summer and bring along some scintillating stories. We start off with a report from Producer Noel Clark on ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 27:28
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 57:11
  • Purchases: 5