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Songs about oil and drilling for oil plus "Going Home to ...." Plus a bunch of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Oh y...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:34:04
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Shirley Songs, Domestic Abuse Songs, Stagger Lee Answer Songs and then we successfully break the radio sound barrier of playing one song per minute...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2018
  • Length: 03:51:03
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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
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Songs that seem like audio derivations of others. From Ellington and Chick Webb to the LIght Crust Dough Boys. From Ernie Vincent's Dap sound to ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:33:09
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Starting with Richard Berry Sound-Alikes and some of the lesser known Larry Williams songs with a stop for one of the more unusual Louisiana tra...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:54:41
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Lyrics made of lists, New Orleans music and mostly music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2018
  • Length: 03:04:01
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A Mardi Gras edition with songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Also, songs about shoes other than "Blue Suede Shoes," a bl...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:26:20
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Contemporary Mardi Gras music and what it means to me.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:21:51
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There is a tremendous amount of current culture that we now call "Americana" that came from the 1950s to 70s era. Something fundamental to definin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 03:57:17
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Other than marinating in water, there's not much similarity between Louisiana Swamp Pop music and California Surf music. Oh yeah, both were featur...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:42
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I need to update my brainware, I broke the station four times during the show. Ehhh. I think it worked out anyway.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 02:55:29
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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:56:51
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Late Saturday in the French Quarter music. Songs about "Sittin,"" an autoharp player inspired by Jimi Hendrix, a string harp in a blues song and ...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2017
  • Length: 03:50:25
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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

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:31:41
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Substituting for Peggy Lou after I cancelled Hurricane Nate. Trying to mimic her light touch and California sensibilities ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 01:31:37
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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
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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
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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
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Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.

  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 55:44