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Jimmy “Duck” Holmes is the embodiment of raw country blues. He is a celebrated and award winning country blues musician who is regarded as the last...

Bought by Public Radio East, WEAA, Public Radio East, WTJU, KRPS and more


  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: The Columbia River, as seen from the Cape Horn Trail
The Forest Service would allow hiking access only if a volunteer group formed to caretake the trail. So the Cape Horn Conservancy was born. Now t...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 05:27
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Standing 6’ 5” 300 pounds, Sugaray Rayford is a formidable force. Critics consider him to be one of the greatest and last blues shouters; in the sa...

Bought by KDLG, Public Radio East, WTJU, Spokane Public Radio, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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John Primer and Bob Corritore are two of the top names in the blues who celebrate their sophomore studio collaboration for Delta Groove Records wit...

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


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:17
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: The Beatles - Abbey Road, Credit: Robert Landau
The very first rock billboard arrived on the strip fifty years ago, just in time for the Summer of Love. It was the brainchild of Elektra Records...

Bought by KALW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 4
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Jimi Primetime Smith was groomed to join the family business made famous by his mother, Chicago Blues legend Johnnie Mae Dunson “The Big Boss Lady....

Bought by WEAA, Public Radio East, Prairie Public, WTJU, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: The Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Lighthouse, Credit: Elizabeth Miller/ideastream
Sheila Consaul purchased the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Light in 2011 – and since then, she’s renovated and refurbished her unique summer home.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WCMU Michigan, WKSU and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 7
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We hear a lot in the news about the Antarctic ice sheet melting – but what else threatens a place so cold, so remote, and so seemingly barren? In t...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 21:32
Caption: Albany Symphony Orchestra musicians Jamecyn Morey and Mitsuko Suzuki at Lock E-2 in Waterford, N.Y. , Credit: Gary David Gold
The Albany Symphony is holding a series of concerts in towns along the Erie Canal, to mark the beginning of construction in July, 1817.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Jun 30, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Shore Leave is a place to meet old friends or meet new writers. R2D2 designed by the R2 Builders Club (left) Author Stephen Stephen Kozeniewski  (right), Credit: Andrew Hiller
Imagination… the final frontier. These are the adventures of the fan con Shore Leave whose thirty-nine year mission has been to bring together auth...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
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Bill “Howl-n-Madd” Perry is a living delta blues legend who’s incredible story finds him rubbing shoulders and playing behind Little Richard, J.J T...

Bought by WLPR , Public Radio East, Spokane Public Radio, KRPS, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Kasey O'Connell, Fif Ghobadian and Alice Cahan, Credit: Road Twenty-Two
Iran-born Fif Ghobadian created San Francisco fashion brand Road Twenty-Two to provide jobs for women released from prison.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 13:36
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Tatiana Garcia Granados started The Common Market to bring farm food to her Philadelphia neighborhood. Now she's taking on the nation's broken food...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 14:55
Caption: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass
Unreal Bluegrass is joined by Jamie Deering of Deering Banjos to discuss the Deering position in the world of banjos.

  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:57:51
Caption: Comic Writer Stan Lee makes more than a cameo in Washington
Stan Lee, the creator of American Pop Culture myths like Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man, will take part in the fifth annual Awesome ...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:47
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SOMA Chocolatemaker was founded in 2003 by David Castellan and Cynthia Leung and is based in Toronto, Canada. The company has since grown to two st...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 37:48
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Long recognized as one of the top blues harmonica players in the Houston area, Steve Krase shoots for big league prominence on his latest release "...

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


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 9
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MIT-graduate Tish Scolnik is using the power of business to give people with disabilities a new sense of freedom.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 14:28
  • Purchases: 1
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Tomas Leach talks casting, contradiction, and earning the landscape.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2017
  • Length: 15:36
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
Sarah Hassan puts the Islamic Hijri calendar under the microscope, as there are generations that have have no clue what its months are except for R...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
Shaza Walid takes us on a journey to explore the history of the mesaharaty's iconic drumbeat and special songs.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
"The Economics of Ramadan" is produced by Sarah El Safty looks into how Egyptians are coping financially this Ramadan following the devaluation of ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
This audio feature is produced by Nour Ibrahim as she attempts to go on an Islamic fast.

Bought by KJZZ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr Ramadan Series logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
“Ramadan: The Global Experience” by Safaa Magdy. This audio feature focuses on one person's experience of Ramadan in a non-Muslim country.

  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Ehky Ya Masr logo, Credit: Heba Fouad
“Children and Ramadan” by Refan AbdelNabi. This audio feature is a glimpse into how children experience Ramadan; the celebration and spirituality ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1