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Music and comments that take your listeners into the heart of America, including a powerful presentation of our 200+ year old national anthem.
Bought by KLCC, RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 58:07
- Purchases: 59
Amid discussion of renaming birds that are named after people, ornithologist J. Drew Lanham forms a “committee of one” to choose his own names for ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Eagle Cliff in New Hampshire’s Franconia Notch State Park is an important nesting site for Peregrine Falcons. Each year, popular climbing routes in...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Researchers studying birds called Japanese Tits, relatives of the chickadees and titmice in North America, noticed that mates raising chicks togeth...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
The spider’s web is an intricate piece of precision engineering. Made from large proteins, it’s sticky, stretchy, and tough. So it’s no surprise th...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Male Great Egrets have special long feather plumes called aigrettes, which they use in courtship displays in the spring. These beautiful big birds ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Artist David Shepard designs aloha shirts with illustrations of Hawai‘i's native flora and fauna. David actually trained as a botanist, and one of ...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Tiny Marsh Wrens live in wetlands, usually within cattails, reeds, or bulrushes. After choosing his territory, the male weaves up to 15 dome-shaped...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
In this episode, J. Drew Lanham shares how his grandmother’s personal names for the birds helped shape his own relationships with birds. Names such...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
As singers go, American Robins are exceptional. They’re often the first birds to sing in the morning, and the last you’ll hear in the evening. Whil...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
If you’re new to birding, you might be baffled by names like Couch’s Kingbird, Wilson’s Warbler, and Townsend’s Solitaire. These birds were named i...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:45
Big show this week! We are talking with Alaska's own Blackwater Railroad about their new album "A Lovely Place to Die", about Hatcher Romp, and hea...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
We chat with research chef Shola Olunloyo about the cutting-edge culinary projects he undertakes at his experimental food laboratory, Studiokitchen...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: :00
Saddle up, partner! It’s a tribute to that most American of genres, the Hollywood western, both classic and contemporary. Hear music from The Searc...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Listen for new music from Black Country Communion, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and singer-songwriter Jon Regen.
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:53:59
We celebrate the first day of summer with selections from Erasure, Bruce Springsteen, Sam Cooke, Mia Doi Todd and more.
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:54:00
Heavy Lifting is the first album of new music from proto-punk band MC5. It features some of the final recorded performances by founding members Way...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:53:58
- Purchases: 1
We celebrate the birthday of Paul McCartney with selections from his time with The Beatles, Wings, and as a solo artist as well as covers of his so...
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:53:59
Released in 1979, Slow Train Coming was Bob Dylan’s nineteenth studio album and the first recorded after his conversion to Christianity. Produced b...
Bought by Raven Radio and KUGS Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:53:58
- Purchases: 2
Birds & Beasts is the latest from ambient country outfit Suss. We’ll hear selections from that release as well as music from Linda Thompson and Ted...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and KMXT
- Added: Jun 17, 2024
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 2
Benedict Neuenfels - European Cinematographer - The Counterfeiters, A Woman In Berlin, Cold Hell, Styx, Hinterland, and I'm Your Man
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Stanley Kubrick is regarded as one of history’s best film directors, known for his stunning visuals and his focus on the music in his movies. We’ll...
- Added: Jun 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The American Music Fairness Act sound great but it is a money grab to pay musicians more money because the streaming services will not. The proble...
- Added: Jun 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Monday nights at Icehouse in Minneapolis are curated by Sophia Kickhofel. This Monday, bands led by Sophia and Peter Goggin pay tribute to the grea...
- Added: Jun 15, 2024
- Length: 08:00
Rivers throughout America were critical for commerce from the 17th through the early 20th century. Think of the iconic steamboat. Bales of hay and ...
- Added: Jun 14, 2024
- Length: 59:00
