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“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Zella Palmer talks about food in New Orleans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Caption: Dr. Zella Palmer, Credit: Courtesy of Dillard University
“Where there’s flavor, there’s history:” Educator, Author, and Filmmaker Dr. Zella Palmer discusses her work in preserving the legacy of African-Am...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2023
  • Length: 28:40
Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Walk the Walk
Policy change policing is critically important. But to fix policing, we need to change the culture. The culture surrounding law enforcement. The va...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The History of Democracy Has Yet to be Written
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Thomas Geoghengan
End the filibuster. Abolish the Senate. Make everyone vote. Only if we do this, and a little bit more, says labor lawyer and former candidate for A...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Off with Her Head
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eleanor Herman
Wherever you look in history, you’ll find misogyny. It’s equally rampant in the rumors surrounding Cleopatra during her reign and Kamala Harris bef...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Black Kings of Swing
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
More than a decade before the Big Band Era of 1936, there was big band jazz, and they brought swing to their music. Fletcher Henderson, Duke Elling...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
What happens when paper gets recycled?
From: Possibly
Caption: Paper recycling plant , Credit: Bas Emmen
Today we have a question about paper recycling. What happens after you throw your paper into the blue bin? How much of that paper actually gets reu...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 03:50
Gabriel's Horn
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Jabbo Smith
This is a feature of those unsung heroes on trumpet and cornet in early jazz. They received little notice because there were two, at that time, who...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Jen Sincero of Bad*ss Fame
From: Melanie Harth
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Living From Happiness - deep, thoughtful, provocative public radio

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:26
Putting Peace First
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jacket Cover, Credit: design by Kate Renner
Twenty-five years ago Eric David Dawson was your almost average 18-year old … almost, but not quite. That was the year he co-founded the non-profit...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Boots on the Ground jacket cover, Credit: John Dittman, Stars & Strips
The Vietnam War remains a thorn in the side of America’s history. More than 57-thousand US soldiers died and an untold number of Vietnamese civilia...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Stand Up!
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gordon Whitman
For the past 20-years, Gordon Whitman has been working with the group Faith in Action where he is the deputy director. His job is teaching people h...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Importance of Being Funny
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Al Gini
Political humorists are having a feeding frenzy. There seems to be more satire available than they can handle very day then they can handle.

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sadler Vaden: More Than Jason Isbell's Sideman
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Sadler Vaden cover
Sadler Vaden left South Carolina on the brink of his band's national success, in search of more collaboration for his guitar playing and more outle...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
Town Mountain: Bluegrass Rides the Southern Crescent (Interview & Radio Show)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Town Mountain, Southern Crescent, Credit: Official Album Cover
Members of Town Mountain, the award-winning bluegrass band from North Carolina, chat in a coffeeshop with Sloane Spencer, about their new album, So...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
Caleb Caudle Interview: Carolina Ghost
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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Caleb Caudle will release Carolina Ghost on 2/26/16 via This Is American Music, a label featuring the best in Southern Independent songwriting.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Adam Landry (Producer) Interview #1601
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock PODCASTS
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Music producers in roots rock are not usually household names. In the middle of the fourth interview with a songwriter whose album he produced, it...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2016
  • Length: 20:51
Rayland Baxter Interview: Country Fried Rock #1523
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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Rayland Baxter grew up in Nashville, with a songwriter & pedal steel playing dad, but it wasn't until a lacrosse injury in college sidelined the yo...

Bought by KRPS and WSLR


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Todd Grebe: Country Fried Rock Radio Show #1518
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Citizen by Todd Grebe & Cold Country, Credit: Official Album Cover
Alaska-native, Todd Grebe, knows about Cold Country — not just the weather, but his band. After years playing music more influenced by bluegrass t...

Bought by KHNS, KRPS, KCMJ Community Radio, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Folk Family Revival Interview: Country Fried Rock #1517
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Waterwalker by Folk Family Revival, Credit: Official Album Cover
Less folk, more family for Waterwalker, the latest album from a family band from Texas, Folk Family Revival.

Bought by KRPS, WLPR , KCMJ Community Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Year of October Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Year of October, Golden Days, Credit: Official Album Cover
What happens when you actually listen to a band suggested by a music discovery algorithm? Rarely, you get lucky.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, KKRN, WLPR , and KRPS


  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Lilly Hiatt Interview: Country Fried Rock #1514
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Lilly Hiatt, Royal Blue, Credit: Official Album Cover
Lilly Hiatt moves forward on her second album, Royal Blue. Her father, noted songwriter John Hiatt, wisely encouraged her to find her own path in ...

Bought by KKRN, KRPS, and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Sam Lewis Interview: Country Fried Rock #1513
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Waiting On You by Sam Lewis, Credit: Official Album Cover
Country soul songwriter, Sam Lewis, has shared the stage with legends like Marty Stuart, but its his crop of friends in the emerging roots music wo...

Bought by KKRN, WLPR , and KRPS


  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Hollis Brown Interview: Country Fried Rock #1512
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Hollis Brown *3 Shots*, Credit: Official Album Cover
Brooklyn band, Hollis Brown, takes their name from the Bob Dylan song, then goes electric with their indie rock sensibility.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
M. Lockwood Porter Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: 27 by M. Lockwood Porter, Credit: Official Album Cover
M. Lockwood Porter thinks Chris Bell is the overlooked genius of Big Star.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, WYAP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Andy Gabbard (Buffalo Killers) Interview
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Official Album Cover
Andy Gabbard's debut solo album, Fluff, provides an outlet for his numerous songs that don't fit his main band, Buffalo Killers. Fluff does not in...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, KKRN, KRPS, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5