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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
Music that incorporates mechanical noises into the rhythm, gunslinger songs (including a psychological analysis of a gunslinger) and my Jerry Samue...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:24:40
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
I guess that show title doesn't justify more support text.
- Added: Jul 09, 2017
- Length: 02:49:28
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
A musical has a song break out inappropriately during a story. A radio musical has a story inappropriately break out during a music show. That's ...
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 03:29:48
First half of the show dealt with Louie Louie sound in Bert Berns' music. I took a tortured path to tie this girl group second half into the Bert ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 01:18:20
The musician, song writer and music producer, Bert Berns, was another Brill Building character. Not loveable nor a scamp, he was more of a garden ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 01:41:01
- Purchases: 1
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
The 14-year-old in all of us believes that song lyrics uncover the hidden mysteries of life so that's where my limited investigative reporting budg...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 35:50
Collector's music from the 1950 to 70s with the type of quirky presentation you might expect at midnight from the French Quarter of New Orleans. Y...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 03:03:32
Rockabilly wasn't just a southern music. Wasn't just Elvis and Sun Studios. That's just marketing and you know Saturday Night New Orleans music i...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 02:51:31
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Plus I slap myself and hit my chest more than anyone else on the radio.
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 02:51:47
