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Notes from the Jazz Underground #233
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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New music from Alfredo Rodriguez, Joel Harrison, John Coltrane and Jaimie Branch.

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRCB 104.9, KRSC, KRPS and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 6
230827 Overtime Free Form Radio - Colorado 1969-72
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Jaime Brockett LP
Songs and sentiments from where the long sedimentary history of Great Plains of barren flatness were ripped open by an newer era's upthrust of the ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 29, 2023
  • Length: 01:22:03
  • Purchases: 1
Notes from the Jazz Underground #232
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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a mix of old and new, with music from Pete McCann, Russ Johnson, Eric Dolphy, Tom Harrell and more.

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 1
230902 All Girl Bands, Early "Fuzz" Bass Song, The Parrots "Weep, Weep, Weep."
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Liverbirds
Finding the first rock and roll record mean searching the music library of songs before rock and roll was popular. Back before it was even commerc...

Bought by KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, WQCS and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Jonkunnu - 0830 MTPR
From: Tom Berich
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Jonkukku Express for MTPR - 0830

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Dowsing Rod
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Ever seen a water witch at work? It’s a beautiful thing to behold. We have ancient reserves of great power within us.

Bought by KFCF FM and KSJE


  • Added: Aug 25, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
230827 Why We Search For the First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Fabulous Combo Kings
Two generations of experts and they still haven't found the first rock and roll song. The structure of their inquiry is generating too many "first...

Bought by WPVM 103.7, KPRG, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, WQCS and more


  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 9
World Bridges - 0821
From: Tom Berich
Caption: PRX default Piece image
World Bridges for MTPR - 0821

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:23
  • Purchases: 1
230813 Searching For The First Rock and Roll Song
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Slim Lay
To be first to create new art means you must start as unpopular so that is where we search for the first rock and roll song; in all the music you'v...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, KSLU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Notes from the Jazz Underground #231
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, new music from Alfredo Rodriguez and Joel Goodman, and an epic live jam from the Marc Ribot Trio!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, KRSC, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and KRPS


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 5
Pandemic and Profit (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Caption: Homemade masks made by the Auntie Sewing Squad Alt-text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat , Credit: Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
On today's show, we'll revisit the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic by looking at two alternative supply chains for masks during the fallout fro...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Notes from the Jazz Underground #230
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear some new music and some classics, and a set of Velvet Underground tunes, too!

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRSC and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 6
230813 RCA's Attempt to Create an Alternative Elvis
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Skee Brothers
Searching for the first rock and roll song without regard to "hits" means finding surprises. Some beyond belief such as the competitors to the #1 ...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Notes from the Jazz Underground #178: annual Jerry Garcia celebration (repeat)
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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the title says it all - an hour spent appreciating the sounds and improvisations of Jerry Garcia. More Jazz next week, I promise.

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRSC, and KRPS


  • Added: Aug 03, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Overtime Free Form Radio - Evolution of "Heaven" Lyrics
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Washington Phillips
The mystery of who and what happens in heaven from scolding abstractions to humerous specifics, pop song lyrics have evolved over the last 100 year...

Bought by KFCF FM and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Aug 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
230805 Who Did That Song First
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Brothers Stick and Brownie McGhee
Popular songs done by the song's originators and if rock and roll broke up the orthodoxy, then Spike Jones could be considered the original rock an...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WQCS, KETR-FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 31, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 4
Notes from the Jazz Underground #229
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear from The Allman Brothers, Santana, Wayne Krantz, Tom Ze and more!

Bought by RADIOLEX, KRCB 104.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRPS, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
230729 Teenager Weddings Turned to Funerals, Nordic Guitar Masters, Romeo and Juliette Go To Indian Country
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Los Indonesios aka Black Dynamites
Rock and roll guitar instrumentals have always been a mainstay. Paraphrasing Dan Hicks, "All our songs are instrumentals but here's one we added l...

Bought by WYAP, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:56
  • Purchases: 7
Notes from the Jazz Underground #228
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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Notes from the Jazz Underground goes to the symphony this week, with music from Bela Fleck, Hubert Laws, Frank Zappa and more!

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRSC, and KRPS


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 5
Full Moon Hacksaw #1903 (Hour 1 & 2) - 07/20/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Plenty of shade bathing preferring our heat thru music instead of the index. High-note trumpet man Maynard Ferguson still grabs us, and from a prev...

Bought by WYAP, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
230723 Songs Organized Into Themes
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Sam Mateparae and the Rockin Rockers (New Zealand)
A variety of theme including lyrics about Alaska, Pig Latin, schoolyard chants, and twists on "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette" as we search for...

Bought by KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, KPRG, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
230716 When Cowboy Music Swings.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Louisiana music, girl groups, and a cluster of musicians who played cowboys but would have musically fit better on Sugar Hill than the Black Hills....

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 6
Notes from the Jazz Underground #227
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll hear Ornette Coleman back to back with a modern admirerer, new music from Charlie Apicella and Bonzo Squad, jams from Chris Potter...

Bought by Northwest Public Broadcasting, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, and KRPS


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 4

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