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Atomic Hour Generic Promo
- Added: Feb 17, 2022
- Length: :29
This week on Afterglow, we pay tribute to bebop legend Charlie Parker. I’ll feature his recordings with vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, as well as vo...
- Added: Dec 27, 2021
- Length: 59:00
We have been sick, and we need the medicine of the show. Campfire stories, tent revivals, Shakespeare in the Park, knife fights at the honky-tonk, ...
- Added: May 07, 2021
- Length: 28:00
Brian Haughton is an archeologist, researcher, and author on the subjects of supernatural folklore and ancient sacred places.
When I contacted Bria...
- Added: Apr 25, 2021
- Length: 57:21
Kat Sarro visits The Paranormal Cafe to discuss her book, 'Philadelphia Haunts: Eastern State Penitentiary, Fort Mifflin, and other Ghostly Sites'....
- Added: Apr 21, 2021
- Length: 57:01
In 1930, the Kutol company came up with a putty to clean coal dust off of walls. Impending bankruptcy forced them to shift gears to find new ways o...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jul 23, 2020
- Length: 04:53
- Purchases: 1
Due to the government-shutdown emergency, your host was compelled to entertain an audience at the Old Schoolhouse Museum in 29 Palms.
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Feb 15, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
An eclectic music mix this episode, why? Because we can. Inspired by musicians appearing in Hacksaw’s ‘hood recently, trumpeter Bruce Gates kicks i...
Bought by WVBI-LP, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR
- Added: Nov 15, 2016
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 4
Rhythm tempo Louie Bellson style sets the downbeat, dynamic Maynard and harty Hampton Hawes piano fill the fare next. Mr. Hawes met pianist Toshiko...
Bought by WJSU, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 4
It's got to be "Prez, Bird, Shearing or the Basie" according to top hipsters King Pleasure and Symphony Sid, singer and radio DJ respectively. The ...
Bought by WMOT, WJSU, WOUB, KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP and more
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 02:00:01
- Purchases: 7
This week we follow cues from the paper ""The evolution of popular music: USA 1960–2010" as we attempt to find out what tomorrow's popular music wi...
- Added: Jul 07, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
A journey rebooting radio for 2015: From Boston moving south, traveling light from Brazil, hit blues revisited and looking forward. Guitar prowess...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 02:00:02
- Purchases: 3
Our “Reading Chekhov” series culminates in a full hour on the Russian physician who spun the small happenings of old Russia into some of the most p...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
In the last few decades, the general belief that habitual, high-octane swearing should remain the domain of criminals, vagrants, and frustrated hou...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 06:35
For the second week of March (3/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a preacher’s son who helped launch a rock star’s c...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of December (12/28): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a self-proclaimed white trash musician who helpe...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of September (9/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who straddled both political and cul...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:30
For the third week of March (3/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a blues legend who also made some of the first know...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of February (2/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singing group that was founded in the 1800s b...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:33
For the third week of January (1/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who played auto harp and sang folksongs b...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of November (11/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a Texan who was born the son of a former slave...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of June (6/3): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the epicenter of Houston’s “Summer of Love.”
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of May (5/31): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at some musicians who really knew how to honk their horns.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the third week of May (5/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the “other Carter Family” of American roots music.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of March (3/2): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a nightclub that used music to help break down barri...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
