PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Music for Halloween.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 55:28
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Do you feel lost? Alone? Adrift? Hopeless? Discouraged? Disillusioned? (Hey - whatever happened to "quiet desperation?") Ok, let me try to make it ...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2014
  • Length: 58:58
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Some guys are passionate about their pickup trucks. So I drove around and spoke with a few. Here's what they said.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2014
  • Length: 09:48
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WTIP's Ann Possis had the chance to speak with best-selling Minnesota author Lorna Landvik recently about her new book, "Best to Laugh." It's loos...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 18:38
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Where can you go to hear great jazz singers, young and old? That's for me to know and for you to listen to Turntable For One for an hour and find o...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
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Well, it's happened again. Another graduation season has come and almost gone, and not one single school, college, university, junior college, comm...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: David Mayfield Parade, Good Man Down, Credit: Official Album Cover
David Mayfield grew up in his family's bluegrass gospel band, touring the Midwest in their bus and feeling the weight of earning a livelihood from ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KRPS, KFOK-LPFM, KGLT and more


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Leaving Los Angeles, Credit: Alison Byrne
Personal Essay on working odd jobs to get by in Los Angeles, trying to find creative and fulfilling work, getting older, and, finally, leaving Holl...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 11:53
  • Purchases: 2
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I really wish Donald Sterling wasn't quite the jerk that he is, because his case gives the push-back against our loss of civil liberties a bad nam...

  • Added: May 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:17
Caption: Marv Wilt at Broken World Records during MWMF 2014
On this episode of "The Live Feed" we visit with Winona musician Marv Wilt AKA Adam Wiltgen. Marv has described his music as dark cabaret, anti-fol...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Paul Zarzyski talks about and reads from his latest collections of poetry and prose.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD and more


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Remember the old question, Would you rather be invisible or able to fly? My answer always was: who cares? All I've wanted since I was a kid was to ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
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Want to play a game? Every time I play a song, you take a drink. Wait, bad idea. You won't last the whole hour. Ok, how about this instead? Every t...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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I'll show you mine if you show me yours - best day ever, that is. And lucky for you Ella, Frank, Stacey Kent, Eugenie Jones, Tony Bennett, Bill Eva...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
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Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti goes to "bee school" to learn what's new in the 4,000 year old hobby of beekeeping.

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 21:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Carolyn Williams-Noren's poems have appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Water-Stone Review, and in other journals. She lives in Minneapolis with...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:12
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Sadly, the historic Hubig's Pie factory in New Orleans burned down, and its neighbor Laura McKnight slept through it...almost.

  • Added: Feb 13, 2014
  • Length: 04:43
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Southern songwriter who penned Polk Salad Annie and Rainy Night In Georgia sat down with us to talk about his newest CD, Hoodoo.

Bought by KMUW, WRNC-LP, Delta College Public Radio, KRCB 104.9, and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Noah Horak, a 29-year-old electrical engineer from Tofte, Minn., quit his job, sold his stuff, and set off on a round-the-world adventure on a moto...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 02, 2014
  • Length: 22:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Official Press Photo from the Dirt Daubers
JD Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers went electric on Wild Moon, and if you only knew their old time acoustic debut, Wake Up Sinners, and have not seen the...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KKRN, and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The didgeridoo is a wind instrument that originated with indigenous Australians, and it's still in widespread use both in Australia and all over th...

Bought by KVSC and KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 32:48
  • Purchases: 2
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Someone knocking at my door? Trick or Treat? How about Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross, Nina Simone, Carmen McRae, Tom Rust, Sinatra, and more in your...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Wish you had studied more and listened to the radio less? This week you can do both. It’s part of my “Make Grammar Great Again” series and I’v...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
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Guess what I found in the Moscow airport? The official NSA iPod! So, before I’m renditioned, I’ll be playing some of the agency’s favorite son...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
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Yes, it’s a paternity test, but this one is especially fun because it doesn’t involve Charlie Sheen. I’ll play about a dozen jazz singers and ...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:00