PRX - Pieces for Tone: Unconventional

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You're not alone. Even the music identifying application, Shazam, gets stumped on this show. Songs including knock offs of, "The Battle of New ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:06:27
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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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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.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:58:16
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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
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Hold your nose, Jamie Dell'Apa is on the radio.

  • Added: May 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:49:18
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JazzFest edition with a focus on Louisiana music - just in case you don't get any of that at the fairgrounds.

  • Added: May 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:48
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With daylight savings time taking the last hour of my show, I figured I would build a time machine during the show. Give it a test at 2am to see i...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:42
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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
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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
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Faux live broadcast from a New Orleans music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:55:13
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Broadcasting live from a music club in the French Quarter.

  • Added: Jul 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:57:04
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Broadcasting from an imaginary music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of ... unless you were very hip in the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2015
  • Length: 03:02:13
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to 1970s when teenagers reached across the separation line of a segregat...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:49:46
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More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A faux live broadcast from somewhere in New Orleans as only you've imagined it.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:00:47
Caption: Mardi Gras festival on another planet
The 40 year old Star Trek episode, The Return of the Archons, features a society that celebrates a Mardi Gras festival and is lead by a guy named ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00:16
  • Purchases: 1
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John Hockenberry visits with bluesman Mose Allison and his daughter, singer Amy Allison.

Bought by Prairie Public, Iowa Public Radio, WCPN, KERA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 7
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Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em: HEAT's poly-partisan take on the nuclear unit with special guests Matt Groening (and father), Mike Fed...

Bought by Iowa Public Radio, KVMR, WCPN, WGBH Radio Boston, KLCC and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 10