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The feel of post WWII American was joyful, whimsical, hopeful and you can hear it in the music.
- Added: Feb 17, 2020
- Length: 02:55:50
Songs about those roadside attractions that line the highway with billboards. Yep, there's plenty of songs about them even within the narrow "soun...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 03:19:34
- Purchases: 1
Ending the show with girl group songs about being "too young" to go steady, to get married, to fall in love, to tango, etc. Before that shmaltzy s...
- Added: Jan 31, 2020
- Length: 03:33:08
Washington Phillips music placed next to contemporary musicians.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 02:06:23
I never guessed there would be so many singing groupies for Ringo Starr but you would never believe how many songs I didn't play because they were ...
Bought by WXXI Rochester
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 02:55:32
- Purchases: 1
Cowboy meets jazz hepster in music.
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 02:52:14
More Washington Phillips music contrasted with contemporary songs and a "whisper in your ear" talk about imagery, radio and the ideal of an audio p...
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 03:36:46
Yep. She's doing some work on songs today.
- Added: Jan 02, 2020
- Length: 03:00:02
Also, Robert Snow talks about his many local bands and songwriting.
- Added: Dec 31, 2019
- Length: 03:15:21
Indulge me, picking some of the best of songs for tonight's show.
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 03:10:25
- Purchases: 1
She talks about swing.
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 02:04:29
The last 15 minutes of the show is about you at four in the morning. Before that, music from drums made of water, bad song requests, leaving the g...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 03:35:40
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but it appeals because this was the music that influenced the popular musicians of our ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 02:52:28
Same old dreck but with more drecky goodness.
- Added: Nov 09, 2019
- Length: 02:58:05
Similar to my WWOZ midnight shows, The Ghost covers the post WW era (WWI) where western or cowboy music was similar to jazz music. Outside of some...
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 02:01:21
There's not much difference between post WWI western or jazz musics. The similarities? These musics are great.
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 02:56:51
Urban musicians often chose country music because it was lucrative. They wore the country music costumes, played the instrumentation, and made the...
- Added: Oct 21, 2019
- Length: 02:52:29
Nursery rhyme songs, Louisiana music, Sunday afternoon at the park music, and a couple aging women songs to end the show.
- Added: Oct 16, 2019
- Length: 03:04:49
It's topical theme night with songs about laughing and cigarettes. I've been playing with country and western songs that are swing jazz or boogie ...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Oct 07, 2019
- Length: 03:32:42
- Purchases: 1
And plenty of Louisiana music too. A good photo gallery of the musicians and music from the first hour of the show.
- Added: Sep 29, 2019
- Length: 02:54:17
I went to music church during the fourth hour. Shuddering with my eyes closed and stomping my foot.
- Added: Sep 23, 2019
- Length: 03:54:59
The shortest description of all -
- Added: Sep 14, 2019
- Length: 03:00:27
Celebrating the great outside artist, songwriter and performer with his music and exclusive interviews.
- Added: Sep 12, 2019
- Length: 32:35
Rickie Lee Jones stops in to play radio with me.
- Added: Sep 07, 2019
- Length: 03:02:35
Dreck, dreck, goose. I meant, dreck, dreck, Southern Soul
- Added: Sep 01, 2019
- Length: 02:54:49