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Season 2: Episode 1
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hour 12: Ascent of the Tenor - Coleman Hawkins
From: WTJU
Series: Jazz at 100
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We have to remember that the clarinet dominated the reeds throughout the 1920s. Sidney Bechet made a stand with the soprano sax and Frankie Trumbau...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KENW, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:55
  • Purchases: 22
The Working Tapes: Car Hiker
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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Studs Terkel interviews Al Pommier, aka 'One Swing Al', a parking lot attendant in Chicago, Illinois. This story aired as part of a week long serie...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 4
Minnesota SkyVault Theater brings Shakespeare to life, 21st-century style
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: Rebekah Novinger & Aidan Driscoll
The award-winning Minnesota SkyVault Theater, from Rochester, was in town for Shakespeare week. Troupe members Aidan Driscoll and Rebekah Novinger,...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 23:00
Art Underground
From: Daniel Richards
Caption: Image of Daniel Ricketson's 'Shanty', circa 1870, Credit: New Bedford Free Library
Brooklawn Park in New Bedford, MA has a soccer field, a playground, and asphalt paths winding around a small, grassy hill. It also contains the bur...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Irish Poet Anne-Marie Fyfe
From: New Letters on the Air
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Irish poet Anne Marie Fyfe explores parallels in her poetry with work of the renowned William Butler Yeats for the "Mapping Yeats Symposium" at the...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
2017 Anniversaries - Part 2
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Hear what happened this week in rock-n-roll history to lay the groundwork for today's musical landscape.

Bought by WOUB, KSRQ, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, and KSKQ


  • Added: Dec 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Season 1: Episode 13
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new. In this episode,...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 02:00:38
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 12
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:14
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 11
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Dec 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:56:54
  • Purchases: 1
Billboard Hot 100 - 100
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Here are the top 100 songs of all time from Billboard.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, KSRQ, and 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Season 1: Episode 10
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Dec 02, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:43
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 9
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new. In this episode,...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:09
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 8
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new. In this episode,...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 7
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:56:52
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 6
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new. In this episode,...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 5
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new. In this week's e...

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:22
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 4
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 02:03:04
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 3
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 15, 2016
  • Length: 01:59:11
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 2
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 02:03:37
  • Purchases: 1
Season 1: Episode 1
From: KDHX
Series: Steam-Powered Radio
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Steam-Powered Radio with host Kelly Wells transports you across a musical landscape spanning great American music from old to new.

Bought by WART FM


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:57:52
  • Purchases: 1
Tell Us a Tale Episode 144
From: WTJU
Series: Tell Us A Tale
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"Gertrude McFuzz" and "Horton Hatches the Egg"

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 28:12
Bigfoot Bluegrass Festival in Remer, MN
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: bigfoot warning in forest, Credit: bigfootevidence.blogspot.com
Bigfoot is the subject of many tales and lore around the community of Remer, MN. This weekend kicks off their first annual Bigfoot Bluegrass festi...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:16
  • Purchases: 1
Play It Again Sam
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Irving Berlin
Here is a selection of songs from the early years of jazz that had longevity. Their popularity lasted for decades.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rock Bio Pic Goofs #1
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we feature flaws in biopics of rock legends. Yeah, it's petty, but it's still a bunch of fun!

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT, WYAP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5

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