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Ep. 219: Australian Shellac 1937-1954
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Another round of great stuff from down under this week on Dollar Country.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KSTK, KIYU-FM, KHNS, and WYAP


  • Added: May 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Musician Effects on Music
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It is said there is Taylor Swift Effect. Her entering the business made a ton of girls buy guitars and play. The Baker Street Effect made the sa...

Bought by WMTNradio, WYAP, KHNS, KWIT, KTRL and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Ep. 211: That Ain't In Any Catalog
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Country Girl Guitars, Getting Back To The Country, and The Harvest Fields Of Kansas on this episode of Dollar Country.

Bought by KSTK, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, and KIYU-FM


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Full Moon Hacksaw #1884 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/09/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Herbie Mann is a jazz flute player remembered today, but his cohort also playing flute is Bobby Jaspar on our vintage opening number, continuing in...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WVBI-LP, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
2302: Refeed: Seinfeld: A Retrospective, 1/12/2023
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from Seinfeld writer David Mandel. And later will hear from screenwriting duo Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewsk...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Professor Mikey's New Year's Revolution
From: Mike Flanagan
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The perfect New Year's mixtape, complete with rarities, standards, surprises, blatant nostalgia, sincere resolutions, unashamed hope, and serious p...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KMSU, KMXT, KSUT, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 25
Biagi Off-Beat
From: Classic107.3
Series: Tango with Cally
Caption: Rodolfo Biagi
The music and story of tango pianist and orchestra leader Rodolfo Biagi.

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Grave Robbers
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Elvis was not always buried on the Graceland property. After an attempted grave robbing, he was moved there. In fact, many musicians' graves have...

Bought by WMTNradio, KHNS, KWIT, Harford Community Radio, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Ep. 189: Get Right With God
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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An hour of old time country music from the forgotten corners of American history.

Bought by KSTK, GCR (Global Community Radio), KIYU-FM, and WYAP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 11
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about local government.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 2
Arizona Walnut Tree
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I grew up in the land of the black walnut, Juglans nigra. And if you grew up in the eastern US, then you did too. It has a very large range in east...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2022
  • Length: 03:59
Ep. 181: Home With The Armadillo
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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Join me as I delve deeper into the Texas collection I picked up in early 2022. More country music I bet you've never heard!

Bought by KIYU-FM, KSTK, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
PE 2217
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Battle of the Bands: Beatles vs Hendrix

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KNCT FM, WFiT Melbourne 89.5 FM, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 19
213: Unexpected Origin of Roller Skates
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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The first roller skates were patented by John Joseph Merlin in 1760. He showed off his new fangled wheeled shoes with an epic entrance to a party t...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
212: Peanut Butter Diamonds
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Apr 08, 2022
  • Length: 04:56
  • Purchases: 1
2214: Refeed: Writing Comedy with Ali LeRoi + Writing the Young Adult, 4/7/2022
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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This week on On Story we’ll hear from comedy veteran Ali LeRoi who’s longtime collaboration with comedian Chris Rock resulted in Everybody Hates Ch...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
209: Detachable Tails
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
206 part two: Skeet Shooting Fish
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Sure, Archerfish can use a squirt of water to knock prey into the water to be eaten. But researchers wanted to know, could they count?

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 04:53
  • Purchases: 1
TV Themes that Became Hits
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Here's the game. Name a TV theme song that then became a hit on the pop chart. You cannot choose a song that was first a hit and then used for a ...

Bought by WKPW, KSRQ, KTRL, KHNS, KWIT and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
202: Honeypot Ants
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Imagine you're an ant living in an arid climate. There's no grocery stores! How do you keep enough food on hand for when things are scarce? You won...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:48
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1827 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/03/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Lively and fun, the bouncing of Barney Kessell’s guitar resounds among our reception areas, with Jimmy Witherspoon the only next logical bearer of ...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WMOT, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
197: Singing Gorillas
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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Give a captive gorilla tasty food, they often vocalize in ways that sound a lot like singing. It's so charming! But scientists thought this "singin...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2022
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 1
PE 2150
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Happy Trails, Cream, Stones! And more...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WSLR, KRSC, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 16
Ep. 158: Odds & Ends Oct 2021
From: Franklin Fantini
Series: Dollar Country
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A collection of lost American music on 45 rpm discs. You are guaranteed to hear something you've never heard before.

Bought by KSTK, KIYU-FM, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
187: Animal Buddy Cops
From: Trace Kerr
Series: Brain Junk
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In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2021
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1

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