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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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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
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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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Playing off our usual catch phrase of, "Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of," tonight we will focus on music you've heard b...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2016
  • Length: 03:23:48
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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
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still under construction but the music is loaded (and so am I).

  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:53:37

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:21

  • Added: Aug 07, 2016
  • Length: 02:51:23
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My friend Bill O'Sale just opened a new retail store down at the corner of High Street and Low Road. I asked him what he's selling this time. He ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:35
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What kind of bee keeps buzzing all year long? A May bee!

  • Added: Jul 27, 2016
  • Length: 01:52
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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
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The other day down at Elmer's Cafe, a bunch of us regulars were bragging about our most dangerous escapades and feats of derring-do ...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
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It was summer vacation, and Jessica wanted to be in two places at once ...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
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My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented a perpetual motion machine. I was the first person he showed it to. I guess he figured I had the right qual...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 11:38
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In Upper Tidwell lived a boy Named Jeremiah Crumping / Who couldn't stand for very long without commencing jumping ...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 03:34
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
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:39:48