PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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Some Louisiana music and plenty of the usual dreck.
- Added: Jun 04, 2017
- Length: 02:49:46
Hamburgers, bars that are joints, staying away from the beach unless you're 16 years old, killer dillers and the musical similarities between Ameri...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 03:58:05
The internet stream and two week archive at WWOZ went out last night so this is an early posting of the raw, unedited show. The finalized posting ...
- Added: May 07, 2017
- Length: 04:30:45
A musical has a song break out inappropriately during a story. A radio musical has a story inappropriately break out during a music show. That's ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 03:29:48
First half of the show dealt with Louie Louie sound in Bert Berns' music. I took a tortured path to tie this girl group second half into the Bert ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 01:18:20
The musician, song writer and music producer, Bert Berns, was another Brill Building character. Not loveable nor a scamp, he was more of a garden ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 01:41:01
- Purchases: 1
Music from the 1950s to 1970s that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. All the non-hits and non-oldies that influenced America...
- Added: Apr 02, 2017
- Length: 04:24:49
In the desolate wasteland of 1970s television were unexpected niches of ... something goofy. For me, it was Saturday mornings with Lancelot Link, ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 02:49:55
With the end of Daylight Savings Time happening during the third hour of my show, The Little Red Corvette, Jennifer Brady, tells me that I will be ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 01:50:57
Before rock and roll became a self-aware mush, its predecessor musics were about getting people to dance. The listener's attention was not on the ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 02:52:43
Flotsam with a bit of the Jetsons. Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. The music that inspired rock and roll. All the n...
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 02:12:12
First half hour includes the show's title about a musical news story. Unfortunately, I still need to get my recording of it. Let's call this epi...
- Added: Feb 12, 2017
- Length: 02:15:35
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but are filed under "T" in my music library. First 20 minutes of the show are missing...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 02:25:57
Collector's music from the 1950 to 70s with the type of quirky presentation you might expect at midnight from the French Quarter of New Orleans. Y...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 03:03:32
Rockabilly wasn't just a southern music. Wasn't just Elvis and Sun Studios. That's just marketing and you know Saturday Night New Orleans music i...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 02:51:31
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Plus I slap myself and hit my chest more than anyone else on the radio.
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 02:51:47
All the usual dreck. Third hour has Scooter Gil and Jimmy Donley - two very poignant song writers from Mississippi. Then more dreck.
- Added: Dec 24, 2016
- Length: 03:22:46
A retelling of the Shane Fenton story and a whiff of Mardi Gras is in the air down here in New Orleans.
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 03:27:20
More riffing on the connection between radio as a legitimizer of music and the musician's difficulty of matching their music to the formality of a ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2016
- Length: 02:48:16
Musings on the ultimate late night friend - radio. Plus an audio exposure of the Mousetrap Enthusiasts, my brother and I. As the night wore on, ...
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 05:39:20
Fund drive show with an emphasis on what the difference between commercial and non-commercial radio means to you.
Only on this PRX entry, all WW...
- Added: Oct 27, 2016
- Length: 03:34:52
Louisiana musicians with the distinguished New Orleans sound "but who's music didn't travel outside of South Louisiana." Lack of luck, not being ...
- Added: Oct 16, 2016
- Length: 02:51:10
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." All the non-hits that fundamentally shaped American popular music because all us ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2016
- Length: 02:53:31
First 40 minutes of the show centers the show's sound. Black bands playing rock and roll before that music became self-aware and highly merchantab...
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 02:52:23
Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.
- Added: Sep 26, 2016
- Length: 02:54:37
