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Juke In The Back #041
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
This week, the "Juke In The Back" honors one of the greatest blues shouters of all-time, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. Matt The Cat covers Vinson's ea...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Feb 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
BEAT LATINO 015: Love, amor!
From: Catalina Maria Johnson
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Tunes from all over the Latin & Latino universe to celebrate love!

Bought by KRSC, WKAR, KREV-LP, KMXT, and KUCB


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 59:34
  • Purchases: 5
Juke In The Back #040
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
The "Juke In The Back" is loaded this week with records by one of R&B's greatest and most underrated bandleaders, Lucky Millinder. He worked with ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Feb 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 1
Juke In The Back #039
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
This is the third and final part of "Juke In The Back"'s tribute to Specialty Records. This week, host Matt The Cat looks at Specialty's hit-makin...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 30, 2011
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 1
Juke In The Back #038
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
This week, the "Juke In The Back" is jumpin' with records all hailing from the Specialty Label out of LA on part 2 of The Specialty Records Story. ...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
Juke In The Back #037
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
This week, the "Juke In The Back" is full of old records from one of the greatest record labels of all-time, Specialty Records. Art Rupe started t...

Bought by KSRQ and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Jan 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 2
Juke In The Back #036
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Drop a nickel in the ol' Rockola Juke to hear one of the best selling and most influential bluesmen and guitarists of all-time, T-Bone Walker. This...

Bought by KPVL, 90.5 WSNC, and WCPN


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 59:34
  • Purchases: 3
Juke In The Back #035
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Drop a nickel in the ol' Rockola Juke for an hour of pre-rock rhythm & blues. This week, we feature the very first recordings made by Jackie Wilson...

Bought by KPVL, 90.5 WSNC, and WCPN


  • Added: Jan 02, 2011
  • Length: 59:11
  • Purchases: 3
Juke In The Back #034
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
The juke is jumpin' with records focusing on classic R&B songs about cars. Musicologists Billy Vera and Steve Propes drop by the "Juke In The Back"...

Bought by 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2010
  • Length: 58:16
  • Purchases: 1
Dancing the Sicilian Tarantella
From: Rachel Louise Snyder
Series: Global Guru Radio
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This week the Global Guru explores the rural Sicilian cure for spider bites. Put on your dancing shoes!

Bought by WTIP, HCC Radio The Dragon, PRX Remix, and KUT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Juke In The Back #033 - Christmas Leftovers & New Year's Resolutions
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Matt The Cat has dug up some more R&B Christmas treasures and added a few tunes about New Years for this week’s continuation of the “Juke In The Ba...

Bought by WVAS, KPIP-LP, KMXT, KPVL, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2010
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 14
The Live Feed Presents: The May North
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: The May North
In this episode of the Live Feed, we feature The May North, who played a set at Ed’s No Name Bar in downtown Winona. Stemming from the band George ...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 31:34
Juke In The Back #032 - R&B Christmas
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: The Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
The entire "Juke In The Back" is loaded with the greatest R&B Christmas records from the late 1940s and 1950s. It's the yuletide soul that came be...

Bought by KSLU, High Plains Public Radio, KHNS, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WHRV and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 30
James Kaplan's Sinatra - "an almost operatic version of the blues"
From: Open Source
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James Kaplan has a fresh take on the life of Frank Sinatra, the iconic—maybe the greatest—performing artist of the American Century, with more and ...

Bought by NPR Illinois, KREV-LP, WCPN, KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Postcard from The National Cornbread Festival
From: Big Shed Audio
Caption: Shea Shackelford enjoying a barbecue sundae at the 2005 National Cornbread Festival, Credit: Jennifer Deer
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KTXK, Raven Radio, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 10
The Live Feed Presents "Oktober"
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
Caption: Members of the band Oktober, Credit: photo courtesy of band's Facebook page
On this edition of The Live Feed we visit with a group that knows how to bring the 80s back. The group Oktober played at Ed’s No Name Bar for the Z...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2010
  • Length: 31:39
Street Bands Bring Protest to the Internet through Flash Mobs
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Some bands are getting creative about making a political spectacle, by becoming the protest themselves, and using the internet to make their messag...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Life and Death of the Infernal Noise Brigade
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Infernal Noise Brigade debuted at the Seattle WTO protests in 1999. Jill Friedberg from KBCS in Seattle has their story.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 1
Marching to the Beat of their Own Drums
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Marching bands from North Carolina to Portland, Oregon are bringing humor, politics, and a unique sound to the streets.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
Marching for Change: Street Bands in the U.S.
From: Making Contact
Caption: The Infernal Noise Brigade in downtown Seattle., Credit: http://www.andrewstern.net/
We look at how political marching bands are stirring up public spaces; from the streets, to supermarkets to your facebook feed.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 08, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Piano Red - Dr. Feelgood: The Music Makes You Feel Good
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Piano Red
Piano Red's music makes you tap your feet and smile.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2010
  • Length: 04:01
The R&B Chronicles Funk Series - Episode 2
From: WHRV
Series: The R&B Chronicles
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TheR&B Chronicles takes a look at the funkier side of R&B music from the 50's, 60's and 70's.

Bought by WSGE, KUCB, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:06
  • Purchases: 3
The R&B Chronicles - Funk Series Episode 1
From: WHRV
Series: The R&B Chronicles
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The R&B Chronicles explores the funkier side of R&B Music from the 50's, 60's and 70's.

Bought by WSGE, KUCB, and 90.5 WSNC


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:20
  • Purchases: 3
PUNK ROCK:THE RAMONES!!
From: Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
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The Ramones!! WORN OuT SNeaKRS, BASiN HaircUTS, LevI'S, LeaTHer MOToR BiKE JACKets, 2 Minute Punk Songs, Definately NO Solo's. Just a taste of th...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kauai Birds
From: Ed Herrmann
Series: Wake Up and Hear the Roses
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A cacophony of birdsong greets the dawn in Kauai, Hawaii.

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 21, 2010
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1

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