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Great Peacock Interview #1516
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Great Peacock, Making Ghosts, Credit: Official Album Cover
Great Peacock write Southern indie anthems: instant crowd sing-alongs with a distinctly modern flair.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KKRN, WLPR , and KRPS


  • Added: Jul 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Joni Mitchell on Illusions
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don’t know why I seem to bring that out in people." - Joni Mitchell as told to Joe Smith ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:14
  • Purchases: 3
Kudos for Kardos
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Gene Karos
In 1931, a fresh new band recorded its first four sides at the Victor Studios, New York City. This young band dared to buck the trend by playing ho...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wild Noodles
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
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Four talented clarinetists of the 1920s who came from the Vaudeville and musical stage. Ted Lewis, Fess Williams, Wilton Crawley and Boyd Senter.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Break a Leg
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Broadway
Show Tunes in Jazz. This features those popular songs of the 1920s and early '30s that became jazz standards, and jazz that made its way to stage.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
South Side Serenaders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Chicago
It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.

Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Tune to Change the Way We Act
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Catherine Fisher, an avid thrift shopper
In late August last year, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, a Seattle-based rap group, released a single called “Thrift Shop.” This song has topped the ch...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Tennessee Tooters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Tennessee Tooters
They called themselves the Tennessee Tooters and the Hottentots … along with other monikers. There was Red Nichols, cornet - Miff Mole, Trombone -...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
For the Record
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas Edison
In the early 20th century there was a recording war - a war of recording studios. There was Thomas Edison on one side. Then there was everybody els...

Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Brown & His Musical Brownies
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Milton Brown
“The Father of Western Swing” is the moniker tagged to Milton Brown. In 1932, he left the Light Crust Doughboy’s to form his own band: The Musical ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Steelism Interview: Jeremy Fetzer & Spencer Cullum, Jr.
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Steelism, 615 To Fame, Credit: Official Album Cover
Jeremy Fetzer & Spencer Cullum, Jr. met while backing noted singer-songwriters touring Europe, but the fellow Nashville residents decided to put th...

Bought by KRPS, WSLR, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Oct 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Early Mills Brothers
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Mills Brothers
From winning an amateur contest at Piqua's May's Opera House in the 1920s to the rise of rock and roll in the early fifties and their number one hi...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ethel Waters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ethel Waters
She was known for her terrific voice. Her ability to shift gears from playfully light to low down growl was unmatched. But Ethel Waters’ is also k...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Radio Rascals
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Gene Kardos
The Gene Kardos Orchestra wasn't know for their hot jazz, but that's not what their bandleader/alto saxophonist had in mind when he brought his gro...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 09, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Jazz Wizards
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Chicago Prohibition
By the mid 1920s, Chicago had become, not only a hot bed of jazz, but the home of a thriving bootleg business. Hundreds of speakeasy’s sprung up ov...

Bought by WDCB and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Orpheans
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: The Savoy Orpheans
To say that London was not known as a mecca for early jazz is an understatement, however, Britain adopted America’s music very quickly. The Savoy ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 01, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon
The chance meeting of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon shortly after World War I lead to one of the most successful bands of the 1920s. You could say,...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
That's All
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Annette Hanshaw
She was known as “The Personality Girl,” with a singing style that crossed over between sweet and hot jazz-influenced presentations. Annette Hansha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Morris Code
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Thomas Morris
Cornetist Thomas Morris is somewhat of an obscure artist from the 1920s, although he was certainly very active recording with Clarence Williams, Si...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Country Fried Rock #1333: Justin Stang of Science!
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Press Photo, Credit: Poppi Photography
Seattle band, Science!, combines jazz and jam through a blues filter for accessible music with fun lyrics.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KKRN, KSRQ, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
DIY Music For Kids
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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Chris Ballew knows what it's like to be a rock star. (His band Presidents of the United States of America made it big in the 1990s.) But he's gone ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
Billy Cotton: That Rhythm Man
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bandleader Billy Cotton
Despite the vast popularity of "That Rhythm Man," as Billy Cotton was known, his recognition did not reach the states like the bands lead by Ambros...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
The List: Public Radio Picks The Best of SXSW 2013
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
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Each year, we ask some of public radio's most respected tastemakers to share their top picks for SXSW Music. We put those selections together and ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, Spokane Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 3
Wild About Harry
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: "42nd Street" by Warren
Composer Harry Warren is best remembered for the music he wrote for Judy Garland, and the musicals, 42nd Street and The Gold Diggers, however, long...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 1
Segar Ellis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Segar Ellis
Ellis was first a jazz pianist and later jazz vocalist who recorded numerous sides with the Dorsey Brothers, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and many other...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:54