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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
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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
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I guess that show title doesn't justify more support text.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:49:28
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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
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Some Louisiana music and plenty of the usual dreck.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2017
  • Length: 02:49:46
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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
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Welcome home!!! Join Warrior Blue Tarp Tenali for a Part III mashup of 16+ years of field recordings he's made at rainbow gatherings around the wor...

  • Added: May 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:52:11
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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
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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
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Ok so Host Marc Cuniberti is on a run of off the wall news pieces. Another "not so normal" news piece. Once again its not about the stock markets b...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
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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
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Preview- not money news, off the topic, just a fun newspiece about news reporters by Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti. Funny piece but preview fir...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:18
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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