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Caption: Sony Turner, Credit: Shefik
Dreams - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard ...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 01:26
Caption: Brendon Hamilton, Credit: Shefik
Remorse - Brendon Hamilton has been writing and performing since he was a young child. Influenced by some of rock, pop, and R&B's greatest recordin...

  • Added: Jul 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Faith - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional style...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2020
  • Length: 02:40
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Change - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditional styl...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2020
  • Length: 02:25
Caption: Quindon Tarver, Credit: Shefik
Birds - Quindon Tarver is an American singer. He is best known for his cover of Prince's "When Doves Cry" for the 1996 film "William Shakespeare's ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditiona...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 03:02
Caption: Neddy Smith, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Neddy Smith is a professional musician and CEO at NedGJean International. He composes and writes his music, not only in a traditiona...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:31
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Perseverance - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Bill...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Love - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Ho...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboar...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
Caption: M.C. El Bee, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Author Larry Boatright, also known as M.C. El Bee in the hip-hop community, talks about the birth and propagation of hip-hop in the 1970...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
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On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
Caption: The legendary Fairfield Four perform on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes two of the most prominent and respected names in the worlds of pop, rock,...

Bought by KLRE, Angelica Community Radio, KTRL, KMUN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 39
Caption: Ricky Williams, Jimmy Carter and Ben Moore on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's ENCORE broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes five-time Grammy Award-winning gospel group The Blind Boys of A...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WETS, KHNS, Rhythm & News Service, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Ellis Marsalis, Credit: Snug Harbor
Ellis Marsalis joins Gwen Thompkins for a wide-ranging talk about his life in music - from modern jazz pianist, to jazz educator, to father of four...

  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 51:58
Caption: Blues man Bobby Rush!
On this week's ENCORE broadcast of WoodSongs 864, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues legend Bobby Rush plus award winning band from Scotla...

Bought by KENW, KHNS, KKRN, WETS, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Roscoe Mitchell, Credit: Ken Weiss
Music and conversation with NEA Jazz Master Roscoe Mitchell

Bought by WDCB and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: "Why Do We Meet?" - Studies show we're all disappointed with our friendships. Is it time to rethink the way we gather? HOUR TWO: "Hip H...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:59
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The Toronto-made film RISE embodies the creative force of a local youth-led spoken word movement known as RISE Edutainment. A subway station serves...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 17:12
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New Letters on the Air features Glenn North, the inaugural Poet Laureate of the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. This Cave Canem fellow shares...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: “The American Songster” Dom Flemons on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon honors one of the most important legacy’s in all of recorded music… Smit...

Bought by KKRN, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCO, Spokane Public Radio, KMXT and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 23
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To warm up listeners in early December, a remix encore broadcast from the Musician’s Spotlight archives of two great bands that will bring the heat...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
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Clifford Murphy, one of Toledo's Jazz Icons known for playing in his jazz group, The Murphy's and his Jazz Cafe, Murphy's Place, passed away over t...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 06:10
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Renowned opera star Simon Estes, recipient of the University of Iowa's 2019 International Impact Award, reflects on his life in music and his journ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:16:37
Caption: Junious Brickhouse, Credit: Michael G. Stewart
According to Junious Brickhouse--Urban dance or Piedmont Blues—it’s all artistic legacy

Bought by KZUM, Harford Community Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Nov 14, 2019
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3