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Caption: Freedom
With extemporaneous creativity built in with America's popular music, jazz, freedom of expression became the norm.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: EmiSunshine returns to the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes 13-year-old viral ukulele sensation EmiSunshine plus award winning bluegr...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJJF, KDLG, WOUB, WLIW and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Sails Aplenty c1920
Songs celebrating the waterways: from Paddle Wheelers and Steamboats, to flat boats and sails. We’ll traverse the estuaries and mudflats, meanderin...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1920s microphone
The earliest remote recording units were created in the 1920s in order to set to wax the musical creations from as far away as New Orleans and Butt...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Coleman Hawkins
Here are selections from the work of three major musicians who set the standard in the first two decades of jazz.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
The Roe Family Singers is a real musical phenomenon. It’s not only that they play really old music for modern audiences. After modest beginnings a ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Albert Nicholas
During the time Jelly Roll Morton was at the top of his game, he was able to surround himself with the best musicians.

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tierinii Jackson from Southern Avenue on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Memphis soul, blues and rock band Southern Avenue plus Ozark songwriter M...

Bought by KRZA, KDLG, KJJF, WETS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: 1933 recording of top songs
As the depression deepened in the early ‘30s, musicians, like everyone else, had a hard time finding work.

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  • Added: May 24, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Country superstar John Michael Montgomery.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes country superstar John Michael Montgomery plus one half of the best-selli...

Bought by KDLG, WLPR , Radio Bristol, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: 1914 Rolls Royce
A small selection of top selling and most popular songs of the 1920s

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  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Don Redman
By the time jazz had been around for a decade, musicians began a line of experimentation. It pulled them further and further away from their roots:...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
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A weekly radio show that features the best in classic and contemporary Latin Jazz music. This weeks edition honors the legacy of legendary flautist...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WJAB, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Incredible double neck guitarist Mark Kroos on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes IBMA award winning bluegrass band Flatt Lonesome plus double neck master ...

Bought by KDLG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WLPR , WOUB, WPCA-LP and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sam Morgan's Band
New Orleans trumpet artist Sam Morgan is a curiosity.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Benny Carter, Credit: Jazz Classics jacket cover
If it wasn't for jazz and blues enthusiast John Hammond, Brunswick Records may never have released the music they did in the early 1930s.

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Duke Ellington
1933 was a pivotal year for jazz. As far as musicians were concerned, the depression closed a lot of doors for lucrative employment, but it also op...

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mardi Gras parade
What better way to celebrate Mardi Gras than with New Orleans musicians performing the music of the Festivities.

Bought by KMUW and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Kansas City was a hotbed of jazz in the 1920s. Their inventive style is heard in works the of Walter Page's Blue Devils, Andy Kirk & his 12 Clouds ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Louis Armstrong
Many jazz historians look at the development of jazz in the 1920s, and highlight 1927 and ’28 as the pinnacle.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: They believed in each other and never quit!
Celebrating the New England Patriots excellent team culture of trust, respect, and inclusiveness. Different politics, races, religions, ethnicities...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:31
Caption: Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council (TFPC)
This program features the music of the 1920s and ‘30s that have been used in films and TV in recent years.

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Marla Rose joins me this week to talk about Vegan Street's Guide for New Vegans, building vegan community, how to communicate vegan messages, and w...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 28:30