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Helen Gillet is a classically-trained cellist that melds world music influence with New Orleans jazz and funk, while using looping and other effect...
- Added: Aug 24, 2017
- Length: 51:59
I guess that show title doesn't justify more support text.
- Added: Jul 09, 2017
- Length: 02:49:28
Similar to a theatrical musical where the story is interrupted with a song, a radio musical has the songs interrupted by a story.
Tonight's radi...
- Added: Apr 17, 2017
- Length: 40:31
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
Staff members at WMNR contribute poems for "Words & Music".
- Added: Apr 13, 2017
- Length: 09:03
Meet the Founder of Shower Beer, Beer Specifically Created for the Shower.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 59:59
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
The 14-year-old in all of us believes that song lyrics uncover the hidden mysteries of life so that's where my limited investigative reporting budg...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 35:50
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
In a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting the narrative. In a radio musical, a narrative springs up interrupting the music. Okay, s...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 43:56
- Purchases: 1
This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...
- Added: Dec 07, 2016
- Length: 01:21
I was hanging around down by the waterfront the other day ... keeping an eye on the harbor seals. Sometimes they leak, you know ...
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 06:55
It started out as a biscuits and gravy kind of a morning down at Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Nov 17, 2016
- Length: 06:38
Will Rogers remarks on the meeting of pilgrims and indians... Mark Twain's later years...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 02:44:16
This week's episode is an ever so slightly spooky song about an old growth forest, a crooked beak, and a pair of yellow eyes ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 01:25
My friend Jimy Fingerbutton once invented a new kind of dishwarsher. At least, I thought it was a dishwarsher. It looked just like an old-fashone...
- Added: Nov 02, 2016
- Length: 05:12
Here's a little ditty about how we make the seasons, and why sometimes they get just a tiny bit mixed up ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 01:31
You know the seasons are turning when you wake up with frost in your beard ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 03:36
Every day I find something new out here on Wild Side. Something I've never seen before. Something that makes me say to myself, “slow down! Stop ...
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 04:33
The connection between drinking beer and dancing the polka goes back quite a ways. Certainly in 1927 a piece was written in Poland whose lyrics gav...
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 2
I was poking around out on Wild Side the other day, keeping an eye out for blue shade trees ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 02:58:16
This may be my best poem yet: "Far away, out beyond the Great Desert of Proom, Where the wind sweeps across the sharp sand like a broom ..."
- Added: Sep 07, 2016
- Length: 05:51
I once met an old-timer who lives out beyond the Wandering Hills, out there in the shadow of Gusty Ridge. The old-timer's name is Dale Hill. Dale...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 04:48
Here's a little ditty in honor of county fair season ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 01:30
