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Our 1920s retrospective continues this week on Afterglow, as we dive into the year 1922, exploring songs that resonated with audiences and singers ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 59:00
This week on Afterglow, I’ll explore the influence of country music on jazz and traditional pop songs from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. We’ll hear coun...
- Added: Jan 02, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Author Karen Fults Kaler talks about her new book "Eastcliff"
- Added: May 11, 2023
- Length: 08:52
The Earth's temperature is rising and time is running out to change direction according to the IPCC. But veteran organizer/strategist Ben Jealous (...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Apr 19, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
The “conditional love song” became a staple of musical theater in its golden age, and this week on Afterglow, we’ll listen to jazz interpretations ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
In the last of three episodes celebrating Judy Garland’s 100th birthday, we take a closer look at her final years in the 1950s and 60s, and her man...
- Added: Jul 19, 2022
- Length: 59:00
From 1939 to 1945, as World War II raged on, American Popular Music responded. On Afterglow’s Memorial Day special this week, we look at the songs ...
- Added: May 11, 2022
- Length: 59:00
The last episode of 4 with wonky sound. We got all the bugs out. (get it...bugs- cause its an episode about bees. *nudges in dad joke*
Many cultur...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Aug 18, 2021
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
This spring marks the 80th anniversary of the 1941 blizzard that killed dozens of people in Minnesota and North Dakota. The region has a reputation...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2021
- Length: 05:07
- Purchases: 2
Today's Rough Draft Diaries celebrates Veterans Day, a holiday honoring military veterans while marking the anniversary of the end of World War I. ...
- Added: Nov 10, 2020
- Length: 06:12
Ellis Marsalis joins Gwen Thompkins for a wide-ranging talk about his life in music - from modern jazz pianist, to jazz educator, to father of four...
- Added: May 20, 2020
- Length: 51:58
American Forces Network (AFN) was the radio station for the US military personnel in Germany. But it had a huge shadow audience - Germans. AFN beca...
- Added: Jul 02, 2019
- Length: 58:00
Music historian Paul Ingles takes listeners through a heart-felt retrospective of New Orleans music-legend Mac Rebennack - best known as Dr. John. ...
Bought by KMUW, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KSUT, KVNF and more
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
Hospital administrator Galen Laserson recounts the time she got an unexpected call in the middle of the night, which prompted her to learn all abou...
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 30:10
The Rough Draft Diaries is finally covering The Old West End Festival! This week we'll chat with members of the OWE Festival board to get a behind-...
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 06:01
This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're going back in time! I visit with Betty Metts the current president of The Oregon-Jerusalem Historical So...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Five previously undiscovered Kurt Vonnegut short stories have been discovered in Indiana University's Lilly Library.
- Added: Sep 11, 2017
- Length: 07:04
Emily Graves Webb as written and performed by Laurie Akin.
- Added: Apr 10, 2017
- Length: 11:40
We’ll hear music from early and late in Aaron Copland’s career on this What’s New.
Bought by KMUN, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), WETS, KMUN and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
It's not surprising that our last episode on The Rough Draft Diaries, an interview with a local Lt. firefighter, has led The RDD to a firefighters ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2016
- Length: 06:13
According to Rolling Stone magazine, this is the list of the top selling double albums in rock history.
- Added: Aug 26, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Host, Richard Hadlock devotes an entire program to the Blues featuring creative guitarists including the late BB King and Leadbelly among others.
Bought by WJAB
- Added: Jun 25, 2015
- Length: 57:43
- Purchases: 1
Host, Richard Hadlock traces his formative years from 1945-1959 when he left Brazil at age 17 to go to College in Philadelphia. He reminisces his f...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 59:45
Piano players with "royal" nicknames are featured from Nat "King" Cole to Duke Ellington. Host, Richard Hadlock showcases musicians deserving of th...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 58:41
Clarinetist/Saxophonist, Omer Simeon played for many years with some of the best bands in jazz as a sideman and never had the desire to lead his ow...
- Added: Jun 04, 2015
- Length: 58:52