PRX - Pieces for Tone: Offbeat
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This time we profile street musician Bongo Joe, who recorded a cult favorite for Arhoolie Records, in 1968.
- Added: Apr 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
Band Box Records was a 1950's rarity, a woman-owned recording business. More exceptional, Vicki Morosan was a Romanian immigrant making a daily bet...
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 03:56:19
Pregnancy tests weren't always the neat, little plastic wands we have in drug stores today.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 22, 2015
- Length: 10:20
- Purchases: 3
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Mar 30, 2015
- Length: 01:44
- Purchases: 1
XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.
Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 1
Shara Morris went to the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Festival in Rumford, Maine to see if she could cut it…or maybe saw it as a lumberjill.
Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Aug 19, 2014
- Length: 05:15
- Purchases: 2
Names are important signifers, but they are also very mutable. This piece focuses on the slipperiness of names: how their meanings can change, why ...
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 57:44
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...
Bought by PRX Remix, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and Louisville Public Media
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 4
The former political writer of "The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" takes you on a "newsical" trip through the looking glass with narration, musi...
- Added: Feb 15, 2010
- Length: 54:50
A collection of handpicked songs exploring the sounds of three prominent members of the mallet family of percussive instruments - Xylophones, Vibes...
- Added: Apr 17, 2008
- Length: 58:55
A collection of handpicked songs from a very wide range of musical styles that address the subject of rhythm as it pertains to music and dance.
- Added: Sep 11, 2007
- Length: 58:52
A collection of handpicked songs from a very wide range of musical styles demonstrating the versatility of the harmonica.
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:55
A collection of some of the best songs ever written about Memphis, Tennessee's other music city.
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:52
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
A celebration of cowboy and vaquero songs in live performance, hosted by Dallas "Nevada Slim" Turner
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Apr 13, 2007
- Length: 58:56
- Purchases: 1
Like many baseball seasons before it, the new season will be played largely under lights, although players and team owners alike once called night ...
- Added: Mar 24, 2007
- Length: 03:44
Joe Bussard on his collection of 25,000 78's and his own Fonotone Records label
Bought by KXOT Public Radio and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 28, 2006
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A Presidential look at misconduct, dirty politics and Impeachment
- Added: Jun 27, 2006
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 10
An unconventional and wrong-headed telling of European history (Napoleon and Hitler) and the space race.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jun 19, 2006
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 1
Three unrelated subjects connected by a musical theme.
- Added: Jun 19, 2006
- Length: 03:46
The mind tries to make sense of the jumbled memories resulting from a stroke.
- Added: Jun 18, 2006
- Length: 02:12
They had let James Joyce's novels in, they were showing hot movies in Cleveland -- so why were two record store owners going to jail for playing Ha...
- Added: Jun 14, 2006
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 2
A commentary on today's dreadfully tacky Major League Baseball uniforms.
- Added: Jun 23, 2005
- Length: 03:33
- Added: May 11, 2005
- Length: 01:51
