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Songs about that melancholy late night in New Orleans and then too many songs about lollipops ... Oh just try listening, it works.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 03:35:55
Caption: Amos Milburn
The overwhelming and world-wide social contagion of playing and listening to Americana music in the 1950s to 1970s belongs in the context of Americ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 02:55:34
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A couple sets originating out of the tropics via Miami and Hawaii but other than that, it's the same old dreck.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:51:42
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New Orleans music and Mardi Gras is a reflection of us. We who are New Orleans.

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:50:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Ramping up to Mardi Gras, a burst of Louisiana music. In the third hour a twist on familiar songs where a cover version of them is made from the p...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 04:03:25
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Auto Composition 51: “Dogs,” by Ken Cormier

  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 04:26

  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:32:02
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With Mardi Gras in the air, here's Louisiana music on the air.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 02:54:07
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It feels like Mardi Gras is in the air. Folks thinking about their costumes and thinking of their subversion of the orthodoxy. It's what makes us...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 02:57:29
Caption: McHales Navy Sing Papa Oom Mow Wow
The usual dreck but with some special added dreck.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:56:24
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It's there and it's square. And now we know why.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:47
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Look, if you've heard the show you know the title and these descriptions are at best tangentially related to the magic that happens during these sh...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2019
  • Length: 03:00:25
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It's part of my war on Christmas and my war on Halloween - I'm not going to play three boring hours of songs about Christmas. Consider it the most...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 02:46:46
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This nameless show is actually pretty good. Plenty of topical interstitials and some of my favorite songs.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:53:18
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Long title and a winding story that includes mushroom farms, shotguns, and plenty of electrified land mines all leads to Isaac Hayes' Hot Buttered ...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:59:27
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Songs about Alaska and the Frozen North plus that girl, Ginny.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:31:47
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A story from my neighborhood about how to play Russian Roulette surrounded by the usual dreck.

  • Added: Nov 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:50:28
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The Upsetters were Little Richard and so many other's go-to bands for creating that driving R&B sound of the late 1950s and early 1960s. They also...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 04:05:20
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A handful of sound-a-like musics that have a New Orleans origination and the usual dreck.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2018
  • Length: 02:51:11
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It worked last weekend, the weekend before, the month before and the year before so why not do it again? Ok, that settles it. More of the same for...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:52:17
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. A string of sound-a-likes including; Batman, Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pies. Hopefull...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 02:34:35

  • Added: Oct 21, 2018
  • Length: 03:02:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Took a tour of early 1970s rock from the western half of the US at the end of the third hour.

  • Added: Sep 24, 2018
  • Length: 04:54:15
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Pepper songs and the usual dreck you've never heard y musicians you've never hear of.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:37:49

  • Added: Sep 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:54:04