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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Cryptic titles of these shows come from the highly effective Sales Prevention Department. It's more music you've never heard by musicians you've n...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:30
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Jorma Kaukonen made a name for himself by being the guitarist in bands like Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. His distinctive finger pick technique ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 08:42
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Music from the 1950s to 1970. A time when race and popular records crossed the then-impassible barriers of segregated America to create the golden...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:00:15
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More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Tonight, sets of music about bubble gum (very different from bubble gum music) a...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:56
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Jewish songwriters like Irving Berlin and Mel Torme have penned some of the classic Christmas songs. And well-known Jewish singers like Barbra Stre...

Bought by Prairie Public and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Portrait of Lady Di
Vernon Porter loves people--talking to them, helping them, singing to them. As his radio personality, the fabulous Lady Di, he's able to broadcast ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Music from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to 1970s that you would have heard if public radio existed. Oh, just give it a listen and hear...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:49:17
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You might not know what foley is, but you know what it sounds like.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 12:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stuntwoman Monica Staggs
Hollywood stuntwoman extraordinaire Monica Staggs is here telling stories. The Tin Roof Project is a once-a-month series of Tales from the South wh...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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In which the author contemplates the many things about the classic Charlie Daniel's song that make no sense whatsoever.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:10
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A fiction piece about being stuck in traffic in Boston, recorded in a read-along record style for no apparent reason.

Bought by PRX Remix and Remix Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
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President-elect Barack Obama's old Dodge Neon

  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 05:47
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When Grey can no longer keep himself awake after 52 hours on the air, Matt hooks him up to a "Neurographic Interface Module" that will allow him to...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2008
  • Length: 28:30

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 38:17

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 38:17
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It's an Absolutely Perfect Day outside but, despite Matt's spirited entreaties, the whimsically curmudgeonly Grey refuses to leave the station on p...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
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To generate a little extra revenue for their cash-strapped station, Matt and Grey are conducting guided tours of the labyrinthine, inexplicable, an...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
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When Grey doubts Matt's word that Evie, the station's supercomputer, is a conscious entity, Evie ruthlessly attempts to prove her existence. But c...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
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Mysteries and Murder in the Blue Mountains of Australia

  • Added: Feb 08, 2007
  • Length: 10:20
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Recycling taken to the extreme, a beauty pagent at the town dump.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2005
  • Length: 04:06
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Barbers are on the wane. Hell in handcart, etc.

  • Added: Sep 22, 2004
  • Length: 01:27