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Oh sure, the title of tonight's show is a standard I'm never going to hit.
- Added: May 13, 2019
- Length: 02:53:52
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
Under construction
- Added: Apr 27, 2019
- Length: :16
An imaginary live broadcast from a New Orleans music club.
- Added: Apr 23, 2019
- Length: 02:53:38
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
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
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
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
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
Auto Composition 51: “Dogs,” by Ken Cormier
- Added: Feb 10, 2019
- Length: 04:26
Wanna bet?
- Added: Feb 03, 2019
- Length: 03:32:02
With Mardi Gras in the air, here's Louisiana music on the air.
- Added: Feb 03, 2019
- Length: 02:54:07
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
The usual dreck but with some special added dreck.
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 02:56:24
It's there and it's square. And now we know why.
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 02:47
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
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
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
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
Songs about Alaska and the Frozen North plus that girl, Ginny.
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 02:31:47
A story from my neighborhood about how to play Russian Roulette surrounded by the usual dreck.
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 02:50:28
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
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
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
