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This week on Afterglow, we explore the colorful spectrum of the Great American Songbook, from “Red Sails In The Sunset” to “Deep Purple.”

  • Added: Jun 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Eddie Seacrest and the Rollin Rockets
There's a half dozen popular myths defining the first rock and roll record but every week we feature 85 songs you've never heard any and all of the...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, WQCS and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:02
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Philadelphia Haunts by Katharine Sarro, Credit: Schiffer
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
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HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
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A weird new episode for our weird new decade, featuring some real talk (real strange talk) from George Van Tassel out at Giant Rock, 62 years ago—f...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: The Bluegrastronauts
Blast off with the Matchsellers’ “Bluegrastronauts,” the world’s first outer-space bluegrass odyssey, recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State ...

Bought by WRGY, Radio Bristol, Ohm Radio , RadioStPete Florida, and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
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In 1999, radio producers Paul Ingles and Joe Warnes went in pursuit of an interview with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown at a tour stop in Albuq...

Bought by KSJE, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
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Mystery Monday is a series of one hour program that features vintage radio mystery programs from the 1930's through the 1950's.

Bought by KMUN, WCNY, WWNO, and KMUN


  • Added: Dec 31, 2018
  • Length: 56:58
  • Purchases: 4
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  • Added: Nov 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:56:51
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
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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
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
Caption: Ancient Romans created this statuary to memorialize the two finger, five beer joke they loved so much., Credit: Pompeii Statue Photographers, Inc.
The non-commercial music that influenced popular music and rock and roll. Ah, that's the same as every week and who really cares about that? T...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2016
  • Length: 02:57:14
Caption: Dr James Leary, Credit: Jeff Miller of University Communications at UW-Madison
The Celebration for the publishing of Dr James Leary’s Folksongs of Another America takes place Friday Night April 1 at Celtic Junction. It is a wo...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Some call it R&B or early R&R. I'm looking for those songs from the 1950s to 70s ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:39
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to the 1970s. A time when musicians r...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:54:29
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Mark Anthony (right)
Bobby speaks with Mark Anthony, the "psychic lawyer" or "psychic attorney" of which he owns both trademarks. His best selling book, “Never Letting ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 01:11:36
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:53:25
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Music from before David Bowie, Lou Reed, Harry Nillson, Vanilla Fudge and others found their commercial sound. Guess what? It sounded like what w...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:02:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A night of great interstitials from the Firesign Theater and a reading and music ab...

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:48:30
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For the second week of December (12/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who used music to break down the barri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40