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Long sets of Louisiana music and music about names like "Bud, Shorty and Irma. Bud as in "Uncle Bud" the dirty ditty that is based on Froggy Goes ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2017
- Length: 02:52:04
Esoteric and topical enough?
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 04:25:07
The burst of musical creativity from the 1950s to 70s and how the British band successfully marketed Americana to Americans.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 02:48:30
An economic history of New Orleans doesn't involve military statues or big men to build a mythological story and capture the romantic's view of her...
- Added: Aug 28, 2017
- Length: 03:45:50
Broadening the Saturday night sound but keeping the connections to the theme of foundational music. Tonight including Sun Ra's doo wop phase, musi...
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 03:45:58
Trying to find the roots of "Roots Music" by avoiding the overwhelming commercial aspects of music. It's an interesting exploration. Come along f...
- Added: Aug 07, 2017
- Length: 04:47:38
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. The roots of rock and roll from before "rock and roll" decayed into another commercia...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 03:50:15
Louisiana musicians and songs you've never heard plus songs about monkeys! What else could anyone want? How about sound-a-like songs and a radio...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 03:41:39
Music from around the world that is indistinguishable from Americana roots music. Oh yeah, songs about dogs and monkeys in rockets, Indo Rock and...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 03:27:20
Some Louisiana music and plenty of the usual dreck.
- Added: Jun 04, 2017
- Length: 02:49:46
Hamburgers, bars that are joints, staying away from the beach unless you're 16 years old, killer dillers and the musical similarities between Ameri...
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 03:58:05
Starting with music from Louisiana and then wandering around music from the 1950s to 70 that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of....
- Added: May 15, 2017
- Length: 03:25:39
In preparing my show, I rapidly listen to many snippets of many songs which is a process of dis-assembling and re-assembling sounds separate from t...
- Added: Apr 30, 2017
- Length: 04:01:26
Music from the 1950s to 1970s that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. All the non-hits and non-oldies that influenced America...
- Added: Apr 02, 2017
- Length: 04:24:49
In the desolate wasteland of 1970s television were unexpected niches of ... something goofy. For me, it was Saturday mornings with Lancelot Link, ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 02:49:55
With the end of Daylight Savings Time happening during the third hour of my show, The Little Red Corvette, Jennifer Brady, tells me that I will be ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 01:50:57
Before rock and roll became a self-aware mush, its predecessor musics were about getting people to dance. The listener's attention was not on the ...
- Added: Feb 28, 2017
- Length: 02:52:43
Flotsam with a bit of the Jetsons. Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. The music that inspired rock and roll. All the n...
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 02:12:12
First half hour includes the show's title about a musical news story. Unfortunately, I still need to get my recording of it. Let's call this epi...
- Added: Feb 12, 2017
- Length: 02:15:35
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but are filed under "T" in my music library. First 20 minutes of the show are missing...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 02:25:57
Collector's music from the 1950 to 70s with the type of quirky presentation you might expect at midnight from the French Quarter of New Orleans. Y...
- Added: Feb 05, 2017
- Length: 03:03:32
Rockabilly wasn't just a southern music. Wasn't just Elvis and Sun Studios. That's just marketing and you know Saturday Night New Orleans music i...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 02:51:31
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Plus I slap myself and hit my chest more than anyone else on the radio.
- Added: Jan 15, 2017
- Length: 02:51:47
All the usual dreck. Third hour has Scooter Gil and Jimmy Donley - two very poignant song writers from Mississippi. Then more dreck.
- Added: Dec 24, 2016
- Length: 03:22:46
More riffing on the connection between radio as a legitimizer of music and the musician's difficulty of matching their music to the formality of a ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2016
- Length: 02:48:16
