PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:58:16

  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:46:03
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Interactive media means bringing in the least and most uncommon denominators so to do interactive radio, it's gotta be really simple. Especially S...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:53
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Under construction. The flood has me working more than the usual hour per week so I'm just posting the audio and hoping I'll get back my drivel fo...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:49:37

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:21
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When did the explosion of Americana music creativity in the late 1950s start to collapse on itself? It was August 15th, 1965 with the Beatles at ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:17:31
Caption: Ancient Romans created this statuary to memorialize the two finger, five beer joke they loved so much., Credit: Pompeii Statue Photographers, Inc.
The non-commercial music that influenced popular music and rock and roll. Ah, that's the same as every week and who really cares about that? T...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:14
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Not an oldies show or "hits through the ages." A radio show about the music that influenced the musicians and music you know. All the non-hits, n...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:27
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Canadian musicians and bands named after synthetic fibers plus songs about Baltimore and not trusting "that guy." What did you expect from a radio...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 02:59:30
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Plenty of interstitials tonight but the breakthrough is discovering the obvious. We have all heard them. Heard their first doo wop riffs. How c...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:01
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (but who directly influenced the rock and roll pioneers that we all heard - over and ov...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:48:52
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That music that pioneered rock and roll and popular music but that never sold well enough to be a "hit." The music that influenced Dylan, Elvis, T...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:47:01