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Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 1
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"One-two-three-four/ What are we waiting for? Fifty years on, after a night spent largely on that big wet, now commercialized field in Bethel, New...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Mike and Gary
Mike and Gary continue their Songs of Progress featuring music that has impacted the lives of working people with songs and history of Utah Phillips.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:29
Caption: Bryan Cranston and Jay Roach, Credit: Donna Granata
The feature film Trumbo (2015), staring Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston, is based on the true story of blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo. The followin...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:38
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The decade of the 1970's; the music almost died. But there were a few highlights from "Company" and "A Little Night Music" to "Jesus Christ Superstar"

Bought by KVNF and WRR


  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Likely the most historic decade in launching the Musical Comedy as an American art form; Showboat; The Gershwins & Cole Porter

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KUPR low power FM, and WRR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 3
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Directed intensity from Buddy Rich sounds more like a lift than a jolt, but Horace Silver's loping tempo tells the truth. Mongo Santamaria's Afro-C...

Bought by WYAP, WVBI-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Dr. Halle Tanner Dillion Johnson  was the first woman and the first black woman to practice medicine in Alabama.  She was licensed in 1891.
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 06:39
Caption: Pamela Spoto
Unspun takes a look at Black History and current Civil Rights and equality issues in America with Pamela Spoto, local educator, activist and host o...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:56
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Airplanes in department stores? There was a time in U.S. History when people experienced this reality. But are we any closer today to realizing the...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 13:22
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In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
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How two neighbors do and don't get along. A history of U.S.-Cuba relations.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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Listen to how Pope Francis - the "people's pope" - fits into the longer history of the papacy.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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How modern policing problems are connected to a wide range of historical issues.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
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We as a culture and as humans spend a lot of time with technology, all focused on the newest, latest and most updated this, that and the other. We ...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
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Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:08
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In this episode, Rebecca McInroy is joined by Dr. Coleman Hutchinson, Dr. Dina Berry, and Steve Wilson to discuss the some of the creative decision...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:03
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Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...

Bought by WKAR, WOUB, WVBI-LP, WYAP, and KVRZ


  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 5