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Mike Zito is one of the leading contemporary blues artists on the scene today. He has been releasing albums for over a decade in addition to his to...

Bought by WLPR , Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Ronnie Baker Brooks is from blues royalty and has three successful contemporary blues albums under his belt produced by the legendary Minnesota bas...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio, KSRQ, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Harmonica ace Billy Boy Arnold is a prolific recording artist who is one of a handful of musicians still standing to talk about the vibrant and imp...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Sugar Ray and the Bluetones are consistent as can be. This time, the East Coast-based blues band fronted by harmonica man extraordinaire/vocalist R...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMUW, Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Kim Wilson is the charismatic frontman for America’s quintessential contemporary blues band, the Fabulous Thunderbirds and author of the top 40 bar...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), KMXT, Spokane Public Radio, and Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Manuel Lima in The Cube, Credit: Anny Celsi
A man, a plan, a piano: For 10 days, Brazilian composer Manuel Lima ate, slept and played the piano in a 10 x 10 foot square cube erected on a tria...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 08:03
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Lil Ed Williams is one of a kind. With his trademark Fez hat which symbolizes an African crown and his torturous slide guitar, Lil Ed Williams embo...

Bought by Public Radio East, KRPS, Spokane Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 16, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In 2014 he released a critically acclaimed album for the Stony Plain label titled ‘Blues People’ that earned awards and the top position on several...

Bought by Public Radio East and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
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The Jerry Lawson Legacy Project is an exclusive series for Blues America that explores the history of singing legend Jerry Lawson and the famed Per...

Bought by Public Radio East, GCR (Global Community Radio), and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
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Erik Didriksen takes hit songs from artists like Taylor Swift and Coldplay and rewrites them as Elizabethan-style sonnets.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2017
  • Length: 23:31
Caption: Beth Harrington, San Francisco, CA, 4/19/16, Credit: Andrea Chase
Beth Harrington talks strong women, powerful music, and Johnny Cash descending from heaven.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2016
  • Length: 23:55
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Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding took up the violin at age five, was a concertmaster at fifteen and graduated from the Berklee School of Music at a...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:51
Caption: Pier Reflections., Credit: Tonya Fitzpatrick
World Footprints will talk to travel and entertainment superstars Pauline Frommer, Frank Stallone, Patricia Schultz and Andrew Zimmern. A destinat...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:55
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Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:52
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Kyle Meredith celebrates Langhorne Slim's 35th birthday with a discussion about age, sobriety, and the complexity of influences on his new album "T...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 3
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Rebecca Roudman and Jason Eckl, members of the band Dirty Cello, are doing a sound check in the middle of the day, in an unconventional location: t...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:46
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Elizabeth “Libba” Cotton’s “Freight Train” was the unofficial anthem of the 1960’s folk music revival. Joan Baez, Peter Paul and Mary, and Jerry Ga...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Aug 11, 2015
  • Length: 12:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A view from the balcony: the Young Musicians Camp ensemble plays everything from classical to “All About That Bass” at the University of Montevallo. , Credit: Dan Carsen
Fewer reading materials in the home. Less access to camps or museums. Those are some of the reasons “summer learning loss” disproportionately affe...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
Caption: Lydia Athanasopoulou, Eli Wald, and Grace Ambrose, Credit: COLIN PEDEN
I’m inside what looks like it could be a college library or a research institute. People sit quietly working at desks and tables, surrounded by she...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 10:05
Caption: Duniya Dance and Drum Company practicing using the saap -- a traditional tool used in the Punjabi dance known as Bhangra., Credit: Sandhya Dirks
California has long been a land of possibility. From the Gold Rush to the promise of fertile farmland, people from all over the world have flocked ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bill Pohlad, San Francisco, CA 5/1/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Bill Pohlad talks audience interpretations, casting two actors in one role, and how truth is stranger than fiction.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2015
  • Length: 13:05
Caption: John Pirozzi, San Francisco, CA 4/15/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
John Pirozzi talks baby steps, insatiable thirst, and the miracle of vinyl.

  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 25:37
Caption: Michiel Huisman, San Francisco, CA 4/13/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Michiel Huisman talks being likeable, spreading his wings, and serenading the Mother of Dragons.

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:58
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2015 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of “What the World Needs Now Is Love” by Jackie DeShannon in April of 1965. The song was written...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:09
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How do neighborhoods develop distinct identities? Why was San Francisco’s North Beach an enclave for poetry, for example? Or the Castro a haven for...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:06