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I Just Am
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Musicians often have trademarks. Elvis had a snarl, Michael Jackson had a glove, and Bret Michaels has bandanas. For Dan Knudsen, it’s a fanny pack...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2011
  • Length: 07:07
  • Purchases: 4
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
Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders - Gerard Schwarz (Participate)
From: Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
Series: Virtuoso Voices(tm): Funders
Caption: Gerard Schwarz
For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WSKG, WMNR, KRPS and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 6
Jazz Time Vol. 8 - Latin & Afro Cuban Jazz
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Latin Jazz & Afro Cuban Jazz
We have Latin Jazz and Afro Cuban Jazz! One hour of some of the greatest masters from MONGO to the BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB. JAZZ TIME with HOWARD B...

Bought by Prairie Public, WTIP, KPIP-LP, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2010
  • Length: 56:14
  • Purchases: 7
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
Northern Lights 2010: A Solstice Celebration
From: Cheryl Willoughby
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Vermont Public Radio's Cheryl Willoughby presents “Northern Lights,” a singing and dancing celebration to welcome the solstice and coming of the ne...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KRPS, KRPS, and WUAL


  • Added: Dec 17, 2010
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 4
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
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 136
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Mimicking Birds, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Guests include writer and therumpus.net founder Stephen Elliott, Harriet Fasenfest and musical guests Mimicking Birds.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
101204 Radiation's (or Was That Radio Station's) Anniversary
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Miss Atomic Bomb of 1957, Credit: Las Vegas Review Journal
Adding atomic bomb lyrics to any instrumental song makes that song so much better.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 01:13:09
  • Purchases: 1
How Erinn Felt Today.!.!.!
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
I put this together, Doing it the way I wanted to do and based on the way I felt.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 03:06
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
The Needle Drop: 12-04-10 (The Best Music of 2010 PT1)
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: The Needle Drop
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We revisit our favorite releases of the year in part one of our best of 2010 series.

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KISU, WTIP, KSJD, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 57:12
  • Purchases: 6
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
Joy To The World 2010
From: Linda McSparin
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Joy ToThe World is a one-hour live performance holiday jazz program hosted by pianist Bob Thompson. Produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting ...

Bought by KSTK, 'The Sea', WDSE, WCNY, West Virginia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
The humble Farmer November 14, 2010
From: The humble Farmer
Series: The humble Farmer Weekly 59-minute show
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Music from the 1920s 1940s with humorous social commentary

  • Added: Nov 18, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
erinn's sound story
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This one is based on a techno feeling.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2010
  • Length: 01:08
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
Erroll Garner, January 2, 1977
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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His friends called him "Hoochie Coo," and he was one of the great jazz pianists ... composer of hundreds of songs, but best known for writing the t...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
How Anh Le Feels Today
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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This is a random piece about how I feel today. Enjoy yourself

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 04:04
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
Jamelyn's Sound Story
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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My variation of sound.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:04
The First Family of Soul! - Step By Step By Step
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Soul Roots
Caption: The 5 Stairsteps & Cubie
The Five Stairsteps, The 5 Stairsteps & Cubie, The Stairsteps, The Invisible Mans Band and Keni Burke are the First Family of Soul. They performed ...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, WUFT, WUFT, KPIP-LP, WJAB and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Anh Le's Sound Story
From: Pulse of Portland Music Project
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A lovely story about a chicken and a bull.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:04

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