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You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...
Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Who could imagine overcoming a multi decade street life, fed by crack & prostitution, to care for a family that disowned you? Yolanda can, and did.
- Added: Feb 09, 2013
- Length: 13:25
Willie Mae "BIG MAMMA" THORNTON was a Blues singer, musician and songwriter. She had a short life and is best known for the songs "Hound Dog" and "...
Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Radio New Zealand, and WVAS
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 55:36
- Purchases: 3
EDDIE HARRIS was an jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also flu...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WVAS, Radio New Zealand, and Prairie Public
- Added: Jan 12, 2013
- Length: 59:08
- Purchases: 4
This is a special musical tribute to Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known as the great NINA SIMONE. This special contains some of her biggest hits.
Bought by KPIP-LP, New Hampshire Public Radio, WSLR, and WVAS
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 55:45
- Purchases: 4
This is a one hour musical program on the legacy of saxophonist KING CURTIS.
- Added: Dec 06, 2012
- Length: 58:16
- Purchases: 3
Joseph Arrington, Jr. better known as "JOE TEX", was one of the greatest soul singers in history. His style was different from a James Brown, a Wil...
Bought by KFCF FM, KPIP-LP, Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, and KHNS
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 54:54
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Nov 06, 2012
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
Its another blockbuster of music mayhem on the soul show with an archive feature of one of the best funk bands to come out of Dayton Ohio- Slave. T...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 14, 2012
- Length: 01:59:54
- Purchases: 1
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
CHARLIE PARKER was one of the most influential improvising soloists in JAZZ, and a central figure in the development of BOP in the 1940s. A legenda...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2012
- Length: 50:43
- Purchases: 1
Zora was one of the shining lights of the Harlem Renaissance as a writer of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, folklore collections, a...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 02:21
After months of intermittent phone calls, text messages and emails Dee Dee Bridgewater finally made her debut appearance live in studio on the Ste...
- Added: Sep 27, 2012
- Length: 59:57
- Added: Sep 07, 2012
- Length: 02:58:19
Its the one you`ve been waiting for the grand finale of our month long musical celebrations marking the 1st year anniversary of the Steve Edwards S...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 01:59:07
In this first of a two-part series, Dred-Scott Keyes interviews winners of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Awards David W. Blight, author of "American Ora...
- Added: Aug 26, 2012
- Length: 56:00
ART BLAKEY known later as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina was a Jazz drummer and a pioneer of Be-bop and modern Jazz. This one hour program is an introduction...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 23, 2012
- Length: 52:24
- Purchases: 3
In this conversation, Juanita Brown wanted to go beyond the hype that President Obama's election marked "the end of history" in American race relat...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 38:28
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 44:14
The Soul; show is 1 as we rewind the clock to August 13th 2011 for the debut of the Steve Edwards Soul Show on American radio. Featuring the orig...
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 02:57:27
The 2nd quarter of the soundtrack to your soul was a busy one! We shared the words and music of nine artists talking about everything in their live...
- Added: Jul 19, 2012
- Length: 02:58:38
A brand new feature that aims to fill the gap where smooth Jazz failed! This series pays attention to the innovators of a music format that gave us...
- Added: Jul 02, 2012
- Length: 01:39:06
