PRX - Pieces for Tone: Unconventional

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Caption: Ellie May Clampett in classic The Twilight Zone episode where her cosmetic surgery fails to make her look like an actress from General Hospital
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All the usual dreck. Third hour has Scooter Gil and Jimmy Donley - two very poignant song writers from Mississippi. Then more dreck.

  • Added: Dec 24, 2016
  • Length: 03:22:46
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More riffing on the connection between radio as a legitimizer of music and the musician's difficulty of matching their music to the formality of a ...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:48:16
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to the 1970s. Plus... More sleepless musings on radio. The Fowler doc...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:43:24
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Musings on the ultimate late night friend - radio. Plus an audio exposure of the Mousetrap Enthusiasts, my brother and I. As the night wore on, ...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 05:39:20
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Fund drive show with an emphasis on what the difference between commercial and non-commercial radio means to you. Only on this PRX entry, all WW...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2016
  • Length: 03:34:52
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Louisiana musicians with the distinguished New Orleans sound "but who's music didn't travel outside of South Louisiana." Lack of luck, not being ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:51:10
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." All the non-hits that fundamentally shaped American popular music because all us ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:53:31
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:58:16

  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:46:03

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:21
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When did the explosion of Americana music creativity in the late 1950s start to collapse on itself? It was August 15th, 1965 with the Beatles at ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 03:17:31
Caption: Ancient Romans created this statuary to memorialize the two finger, five beer joke they loved so much., Credit: Pompeii Statue Photographers, Inc.
The non-commercial music that influenced popular music and rock and roll. Ah, that's the same as every week and who really cares about that? T...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:14
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Not an oldies show or "hits through the ages." A radio show about the music that influenced the musicians and music you know. All the non-hits, n...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:27
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (but who directly influenced the rock and roll pioneers that we all heard - over and ov...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:48:52
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That music that pioneered rock and roll and popular music but that never sold well enough to be a "hit." The music that influenced Dylan, Elvis, T...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:47:01
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 02:39:48