PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky
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Music from the golden age of Americana, the 1950s to the 70s. Every Saturday night it's the music you've never heard by musicians you've never hea...
- Added: Mar 06, 2016
- Length: 02:53:53
As far as I'm concerned, Gumption is the kind of place where the only reason to go there is to say you've been there ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Young Brian was always asking questions. He wanted to know how the world worked. He wanted to know why it worked. He wanted to know when it work...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 06:52
Robin Hirsch is the owner of The Cornelia Street Cafe, a venerable Greenwich Village institution that the city has proclaimed to be a "culinary and...
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 29:01
I caught up with my friend Stretch the other day. He was headed north out of town, along the Coastal Road. I said "hey, Stretch. Where are you g...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 08:55
Another song for the kids: Imagine if you could see yourself in a snowflake! ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 01:22
An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :58
Every year at Mardi Gras the city and I reflect on what it means to be from New Orleans. First hour and half is New Orleans music and commentary....
- Added: Feb 07, 2016
- Length: 02:52:25
My friend Vern Acular is a self-taught illuminato of the natural world. He rarely comes into town anymore. Instead, he's always out roaming the W...
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Jessica worried that someday, somebody might catch her using magic. That would be disastrous! They wouldn't understand that she only used her pow...
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 04:42
I found my friend Vern Acular standing at the top of Down Hill with a very long stick in his hands. He looked like he was about to play piñata wit...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 04:47
Something's in the 'fridgerator, rotten eggs! ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2016
- Length: 01:12
In this episode, we have given up sitting for two weeks. You know, that practice of putting one’s butt in a chair? Yup. We kissed that goodbye and ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2016
- Length: 33:50
My friend Bugsy Diptera and I were tramping around out near Wunsa Pond the other day ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 05:42
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the 1950s to the 1970s. All the non-hits (because adding money to music has nev...
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 02:48:11
Doug is sitting in a massage chair in the studio. This chair has been named "the Cruel Chair".
- Added: Dec 28, 2015
- Length: 29:00
Combining a card trick with the card games, 52 pickup and slap jack also didn't work on radio.
- Added: Dec 20, 2015
- Length: 03:02:48
Indulging myself. You too?
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:50:04
My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking through the Great Empty Desert when we stomped unexpectedly on a sidewalk ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 05:34
I didn't really expect a farewell party when I walked into Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 04:55
Several short, unrelated poems are (loosely) tied together by a short song ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 01:32
My friend Rita Book recently started working on a new lexical engineering project. Most of her projects are designed for print media, but I heard ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 03:11
My friend Stretch likes to tell everybody he's living on borrowed time. I said "really? Whose time did you borrow?" ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 02:58
My friend Archie Meade claims you have to know how to do calculus in order to catch a ball in mid-air ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 02:54
The guy in charge of winter was up there kicking the clouds again - shaking loose as many snowflakes as he thought he could get away with ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 02:49
