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A Musician's Life: Aimee Mann
From: WXPN
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The music business may have toughened Aimee Mann, but her songwriting remains compassionate and sensitive.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KUT, and Musicians' Radio


  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 3
A Musician's Life: Rodney Crowell
From: WXPN
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Singer songerwriter Rodney Crowell says his songwriting has gotten more personal with age. He also talks about working on the song "I Walk the Lin...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:28
  • Purchases: 1
First Day in America; Madeline Kunin and Edgar May
From: Vermont Public
Series: VPR Presents StoryCorps in Vermont
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Edgar May speaks with his sister Madeline Kunin about their first day in America.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 04:38
Women Making Music: Mary Gauthier
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Mary Gauthier is a Nashville based performer who has used her rich life experience as fodder for her material.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, Public Interactive, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 7
Women Making Music: Joan Baez
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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In this "Women Making Music" vignette folk icon Joan Baez ponders her evolution in both her personal and artistic life since her beginnings as a pe...

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WYOU and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: k.d. lang
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Genre defying performer k.d. lang remarks on her life in music as WXPN continues it's "Women Making Music" vignettes.

Bought by WHQR, WSGE, KSRQ, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 10
Women Making Music: Lucinda Williams
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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In celebration of Women's History Month our Women Making Music series continues with words and music from Alt. Country singer-songwriter Lucinda Wi...

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT, WCOM and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2005
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 8
Women Making Music: Suzanne Vega
From: WXPN
Series: Women Making Music
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Veteran singer songwriter shares insights about her music as part of WXPN's Women's history month series Women Making Music.

Bought by WSGE, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2005
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 9
Where's Martha?
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Waiting for Martha in a hotel bar.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2004
  • Length: 04:08
Michael Franti and His Roots
From: WXPN
Series: Artists and their Musical Roots
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Michael Franti spins music by some of his most enduring influences.

Bought by WSLR, KUSP, KSFR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KTNA and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2004
  • Length: 08:53
  • Purchases: 9
Happy Anniversary
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Competing views on life with a loved one.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:06
Indecision
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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We're not sure, but we think we might be.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 02:52
Dear Harold
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Almost, but not quite, a Dear John letter

Bought by GAUF


  • Added: Feb 10, 2004
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
Carvings
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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You're never alone in a hotel.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2004
  • Length: 03:03
Apology Accepted
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Late night phone call to Dad

Bought by KISU and WYSO


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
Beep
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Love letters to an answering machine.

Bought by GAUF and WZBC


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
We're Lost
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
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Trying to find our way through the mountains.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 21, 2004
  • Length: 02:47
  • Purchases: 1
Life Stories - Families: Women and Children
From: Jay Allison
Series: The Life Stories Collection
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Three stories of young women - Concerning Breakfast, The Trapeze Artist, Alone Like a Stone. One hour of a five-hour series of first-person portra...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, KUER, WFAE, HowSound, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2003
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 18