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Millennial History
From: Andrea Voets
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In Millennial History, we relive recent history through the eyes of millennials who were there when it happened. The murder of anti-mafia judge Fal...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2023
  • Length: 01:39:06
005 Tony Luisi - Electronic music, NFL Films, and all that jazz
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Off The Beaten Soundtrack
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A tribute to to jazz pianist, composer and Philadelphia studio owner Tony Luisi.

  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:31
001 Amde Hamilton - Watts Prophets
From: Tim Ayres
Series: Borderland Jukebox
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On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
OHR002: OHR Presents: Dale Jett & "Hello Stranger", 9/16/2019
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Dale Jett
Carter Family legacy Dale Jett & "Hello Stranger" recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews w...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 7
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 7 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 14:47
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 6
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 28:13
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 5
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 5 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 21:45
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 4
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 4 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 24:52
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 3
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
An eight part series, tracing the 25 year career of one of the UK's finest Jazz sax players. It covers initial promise, highs, lows and recovery, w...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 11:47
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 2
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 2 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, some series-excl...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 15:18
Chris Bowden: The Lost Concert pt 1
From: Robin Valk
Series: The Lost Concert - a Jazz story, serialized
Caption: Bowden shot at a concert in 2017, Credit: Elliott Taylor
Part 1 of an 8 part series tracing the 25+ year career of UK Jazz player Chris Bowden, from early promise to highs, terrible lows, series-exclusive...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2018
  • Length: 13:31
OHR003: OHR Presents: Willie Watson, 10/24/2016
From: Ozark Highlands Radio
Series: Ozark Highlands Radio
Caption: Ozark Highlands Radio
Old Crow Medicine Show founder Willie Watson performs live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, interviews with W...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
Jazz Master Archie Shepp-- A Life in Music
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Archie Shepp: I Hear the Sound, Credit: Created by WOZNIAK
Archie Shepp shares his musical biography—and his thoughts about the legacy of African-American music.

Bought by KMUW, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Aggie Barkhouse "Don't Waste the Music"
From: Will Heron
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NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission. Ninety-year-old Nova Scotian, Aggie Barkhouse, reminisces about the hard life of the...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:59
Jimi Hendrix on The Experience
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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On September 11, 1970, Jimi Hendrix gave an interview to Keith Altham. A week later Hendrix was dead. This was his final interview. It's Hendrix on...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KBGA 89.9 FM and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2014
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 7
The Man Who Recorded the World - Alan Lomax
From: Open Source
Caption: Alan Lomax with unidentified man. [Library of Congress photo]
Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 4
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Pete Seeger on "We Shall Overcome"
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Folk music legend Pete Seeger explains the history behind the civil rights anthem, "We Shall Overcome", and why this famous song has many brothers ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, XRAY.fm, KWEMradio.com/KWEM LP and more


  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 06:34
  • Purchases: 17
The Great Migration that Changed America - Isabel Wilkerson
From: Open Source
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Isabel Wilkerson is the epic tale teller of the Great Migration of Southern black people that remade America — sound, substance and spirit — in the...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC, WSKG, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
Ten Cents a Dance
From: With Good Reason
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. Listen to some of the gems and the stories behind them.

Bought by KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KFAI Minneapolis, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
10 Greats You've Probably Never Heard
From: KUT
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Think you know music? NPR music critic Tom Moon has found ten artists you probably don't know...but should.

Bought by KLCC, KGLT, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2009
  • Length: 55:16
  • Purchases: 3
Serbian Church Choirs: A Musical Tradition
From: Cissy Rebich
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A musical documentary about Serbian Orthodox church choirs today

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2008
  • Length: 25:10
  • Purchases: 1
Abbey Road Reunion
From: Tim Riley
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EMI engineers gather at book launch party

  • Added: May 31, 2007
  • Length: 26:23
Old Maid Aunts
From: Bernadette Cahill
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The Story of a Song

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 05:19
Womemories 03 -- Shelley Graff
From: Bernadette Cahill
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Womemories Host Bernadette Cahill talks with Shelley Graff

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 09:59