PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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Show starts with songs that you've heard before but they haven't gotten scooped up by the "oldies" or "hits" title so they're not over-played by ra...
- Added: May 13, 2019
- Length: 02:56:14
In trying to edit and post four of these shows at the same time, I've already forgotten what this show was supposed to be about. Let's just call ...
- Added: May 13, 2019
- Length: 02:49:19
Starting off with answer songs done by New Orleans musicians then the roots songs covered by Commander Cody and Barrence Whitfield. The rest is my...
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 03:11:08
Contemporary Mardi Gras music and what it means to me.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 03:21:51
A broader range of music to explore the idea that music can be the abstract unspoken common bond in societies when the spoken bonds are fractured b...
- Added: Nov 05, 2017
- Length: 05:24:29
It's not much of a show.
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 01:31:41
A couple songs about rocket ships from two women's groups and variations on the standard, Maybelline. Plus a handful of songs by Billy Lee Riley a...
- Added: Oct 31, 2017
- Length: 03:02:11
Heartfelt feelings about radio surrounded by instrumental songs (on top of lyrics). A nice little set of that other regional music of the Pacific ...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 03:49:30
A bunch of mini sets of music including girl groups (without that irritating Phil Spector sound) and girl groups from Detroit (without that pretent...
- Added: Oct 16, 2017
- Length: 02:51:01
Why instrumental songs with any American Indian tribe other than "Cherokee" seem more authentic than songs with "Cherokee" in the song title. Plus...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:50:25
Esoteric and topical enough?
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 04:25:07
Broadening the Saturday night sound but keeping the connections to the theme of foundational music. Tonight including Sun Ra's doo wop phase, musi...
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 03:45:58
Trying to find the roots of "Roots Music" by avoiding the overwhelming commercial aspects of music. It's an interesting exploration. Come along f...
- Added: Aug 07, 2017
- Length: 04:47:38
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. The roots of rock and roll from before "rock and roll" decayed into another commercia...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 03:50:15
Louisiana musicians and songs you've never heard plus songs about monkeys! What else could anyone want? How about sound-a-like songs and a radio...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 03:41:39
Music from around the world that is indistinguishable from Americana roots music. Oh yeah, songs about dogs and monkeys in rockets, Indo Rock and...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 03:27:20
Some Louisiana music and plenty of the usual dreck.
- Added: Jun 04, 2017
- Length: 02:49:46
Hamburgers, bars that are joints, staying away from the beach unless you're 16 years old, killer dillers and the musical similarities between Ameri...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 03:58:05
Music from the 1950s to 1970s that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. All the non-hits and non-oldies that influenced America...
- Added: Apr 02, 2017
- Length: 04:24:49
In the desolate wasteland of 1970s television were unexpected niches of ... something goofy. For me, it was Saturday mornings with Lancelot Link, ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 02:49:55
With the end of Daylight Savings Time happening during the third hour of my show, The Little Red Corvette, Jennifer Brady, tells me that I will be ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 01:50:57
Before rock and roll became a self-aware mush, its predecessor musics were about getting people to dance. The listener's attention was not on the ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 02:52:43
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
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
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
