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review: Triple Fret, by Bernard Allison, Larry McCray, & Carl Weathersby
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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album review of "Triple Fret"

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Jul 07, 2005
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 5
Ray Charles - Criteria
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles speaks about his criteria when writing music. (1995)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
Ray Charles - Teacher
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles recalls the frustration he delivered to his early piano teacher. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 3
Ray Charles - Kinds
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles comments on the labels given to the music he played. (1995)

Bought by WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
Ray Charles - Child
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles explains what kind of music was around him growing up. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WUAL, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Ray Charles - Nat Cole
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Musician Ray Charles remembers his early career as a Nat “King” Cole sound-alike. (1995)

Bought by WNCU, WUAL, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 3
James Baldwin - Teacher
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Moments of America
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Author James Baldwin ponders the problems confronting the “American Negro.” (1963)

Bought by KUOW and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Unlikely Partnership
From: KVMR
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A California State Prisoner/Poet and a Swedish Classical Composer create "Frihet for de fanga" (Freedom for the prisoners)

Bought by NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2005
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 1
Blues File: Campbell Brothers "Can You Feel It?"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of "Can You Feel It?" album by Campbell Brothers

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Jun 30, 2005
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 5
The Mayor of Nichols
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
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A remembrance of a friend from junior high school who was murdered in 2000 by a chicago policeman

Bought by PRX Remix and KUT


  • Added: Jun 28, 2005
  • Length: 34:33
  • Purchases: 2
Blues File: review Dorothy Moore "I'm Doing Alright"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album "I'm Doing Alright" from Dorothy Moore

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Jun 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: Chicago Blues Harmonica Project
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of "Diamonds In The Rough" by Chicago Blues Harmonica Project

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: Buckwheat Zydeco "Jackpot!" review
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album "Jackpot!" from Buckwheat Zydeco

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: May 26, 2005
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 6
Blues File: Koko Taylor
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Koko Taylor< "Queen Of The Blues," bounces back from poor health

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: May 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 6
Julian Bond on Race in America
From: With Good Reason
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Julian Bond, chair of the NAACP, whose grandfather was born into slavery, candidly talks about race in America fifty years after the Brown v. Board...

Bought by WTJU, WRPI, and WNCU


  • Added: May 20, 2005
  • Length: 29:13
  • Purchases: 3
Rahsaan Patterson Interview
From: Youth Outlook
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my interview with soul singer rahsaan Patterson

  • Added: May 19, 2005
  • Length: 14:34
Blues File: review Nathaniel Mayer "I Want To Be Held"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Detroit soul/blues singer Nathaniel "Nay Dog" Mayer is back after many years with an album well worth listening to.

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Kenny Blues Boss Wayne album "Let It Loose"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album from blues pianist Kenny Blues Boss Wayne

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Duwayne Burnside "Under Pressure"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new album from Duwayne Burnside, son of Mississippi bluesman R. L. Burnside

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:11
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Albert Collins "The Iceman At Mount Fuji"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of Albert Collins "The Iceman At Mount Fuji"

Bought by KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB, and KDLG


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 5
Blues File: review Robert Cray album "Twenty"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review of new Robert Cray album "Twenty"

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 6
The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson Family of Flint, Michigan.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Daisy & the Doll/Alec's Primer
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Camel's Hump Radio presents two stories from the Vermont Folklife Center Children's Book Series, based on the family history of the Turner family f...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 03, 2005
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
Black Tension
From: Hana Baba
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A look at the sometimes tension-filled relationship between African immigrants and Black Americans.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KISU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 07:41
  • Purchases: 10
What's the Word? Poet Michael S. Harper on the Poet's Art
From: Modern Language Association
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Michael S. Harper talks about what he teaches in his poetry classes and reads some his favorite poems.

Bought by WLIW, KUER, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 8

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