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The Great Northern Radio Show is coming to Grand Marais

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

Aaron Brown is producer and host of the Great Northern Radio Show, a live variety show from KAXE in Grand Rapids. He chatted with WTIP's Will Moore...

Added: Apr 13, 2015
Length: 21:46

Hear 6 Latin American Artists Who Rock In Indigenous Languages

From: NPR Music
Series: Alt.Latino

This week, Alt.Latino plays songs sung in indigenous Latin American languages: Mapuche, Tzotzil, Guarani, Quechua and Tz'utujil from Chile, Argenti...

Bought by KMXT, RADIOLEX, WCNY, WART FM, KRZA and more

Added: Mar 12, 2015
Length: 28:58
Purchases: 8

Break a Leg

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Show Tunes in Jazz. This features those popular songs of the 1920s and early '30s that became jazz standards, and jazz that made its way to stage.

Bought by KCBX

Added: Mar 03, 2015
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

2015-02-28

From: Bill Childs
Series: Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Show 495: with new music from The Nields, Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer, Cat Doorman, and Molly Ledford & Billy Kelly! Plus we celebrate Liam's 13th bi...

Added: Feb 22, 2015
Length: 55:06

South Side Serenaders

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

It's the rough and tumble 1920s Chicago’s speakeasies. You had to have a password to gain entrance through a side door.

Bought by WDCB, Radio New Zealand, and KCBX

Added: Feb 17, 2015
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 3

2015-01-17 Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

From: Bill Childs
Series: Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child

Guest hosted by 93.9 The River's The Belmontes!

Added: Jan 12, 2015
Length: 48:30

Festivo Alt.Latino

From: NPR Music
Series: Alt.Latino

For our holiday special we turn to the healing and uplifting power of the human voice with the Washington, D.C.-based group, Cantigas. The group's ...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WART FM, and WKAR

Added: Dec 23, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

The Best Of 2014: Alt.Latino Listeners' Picks

From: NPR Music
Series: Alt.Latino

Listeners chime in with their own favorites, including Chicano Batman and Helado Negro.

Bought by WART FM, WKAR, and KRZA

Added: Dec 18, 2014
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 3

The Tennessee Tooters

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

They called themselves the Tennessee Tooters and the Hottentots … along with other monikers. There was Red Nichols, cornet - Miff Mole, Trombone -...

Bought by KMUN and KCBX

Added: Dec 08, 2014
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 2

For the Record

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

In the early 20th century there was a recording war - a war of recording studios. There was Thomas Edison on one side. Then there was everybody els...

Bought by KCBX, Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KCBX

Added: Nov 25, 2014
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 4

Brown & His Musical Brownies

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

“The Father of Western Swing” is the moniker tagged to Milton Brown. In 1932, he left the Light Crust Doughboy’s to form his own band: The Musical ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Nov 17, 2014
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

The Jazz Mother of the Piano: Mary Lou Williams

From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time

She was called "The First Lady of the Piano", "The First Lady of the Jazz Piano" and "The First Lady of Jazz". She was Mary Lou Williams and was a ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WVAS, and Spokane Public Radio

Added: Oct 23, 2014
Length: 57:03
Purchases: 3

Steelism Interview: Jeremy Fetzer & Spencer Cullum, Jr.

From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock

Caption: Steelism, 615 To Fame, Credit: Official Album Cover

Jeremy Fetzer & Spencer Cullum, Jr. met while backing noted singer-songwriters touring Europe, but the fellow Nashville residents decided to put th...

Bought by KRPS, WSLR, KKRN, and WLPR

Added: Oct 12, 2014
Length: 58:00
Purchases: 4

The Early Mills Brothers

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

From winning an amateur contest at Piqua's May's Opera House in the 1920s to the rise of rock and roll in the early fifties and their number one hi...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Oct 04, 2014
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 1

Ethel Waters

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

She was known for her terrific voice. Her ability to shift gears from playfully light to low down growl was unmatched. But Ethel Waters’ is also k...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 22, 2014
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

The Radio Rascals

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The Gene Kardos Orchestra wasn't know for their hot jazz, but that's not what their bandleader/alto saxophonist had in mind when he brought his gro...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Sep 09, 2014
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

The Jazz Wizards

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

By the mid 1920s, Chicago had become, not only a hot bed of jazz, but the home of a thriving bootleg business. Hundreds of speakeasy’s sprung up ov...

Bought by WDCB and KCBX

Added: Aug 19, 2014
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 2

The Orpheans

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

To say that London was not known as a mecca for early jazz is an understatement, however, Britain adopted America’s music very quickly. The Savoy ...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Jul 01, 2014
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

The chance meeting of Joe Sanders and Carleton Coon shortly after World War I lead to one of the most successful bands of the 1920s. You could say,...

Bought by KCBX

Added: May 29, 2014
Length: 58:58
Purchases: 1

That's All

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

She was known as “The Personality Girl,” with a singing style that crossed over between sweet and hot jazz-influenced presentations. Annette Hansha...

Bought by KCBX

Added: Apr 22, 2014
Length: 58:59
Purchases: 1

The Jazz-O-Rama Hour #46: Herbie Hancock

From: Joe Bevilacqua
Series: The Jazz-O-Rama Hour

Caption: The Early LPs of Herbie Hancock is presented by Joe Bevilacqua , Credit: Lorie Kellogg

A birthday tribute to the American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer, born April 12, 1940.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio

Added: Apr 11, 2014
Length: 59:52
Purchases: 2

Morris Code

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy

Cornetist Thomas Morris is somewhat of an obscure artist from the 1920s, although he was certainly very active recording with Clarence Williams, Si...

Bought by KCBX