PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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At a recent vinyl record convention, having mostly struck out with my shopping list, I took a chance on an album with a cool, very 'of the period' ...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Sep 23, 2023
- Length: 56:13
- Purchases: 1
Professor Mikey's Old School Christmas special presents a detention hall you may not remember but you will never forget!
Bought by KDUR and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Dec 13, 2022
- Length: 59:29
- Purchases: 2
Music from pianist Connie Han, exploring the theme of the goddess Inanna of Sumerian mythology
Bought by KJZX-Austin, GCR (Global Community Radio), KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KHNS and more
- Added: Oct 12, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
previously unissued tracks from Dave Brubeck's classic 1959 album "Time Out" and more piano music from contemporary jazz pianists
Bought by KJZX-Austin, KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, KHNS and more
- Added: Jun 30, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.
- Added: Apr 16, 2021
- Length: 04:20
August 21, 1965, the Beatles invaded Metropolitan Stadium for their first ever Minnesota concert, bringing together a high school photographer with...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 2
An empty church, an orphaned organ, a solo organist. Scott Lariviere is 26 years old and volunteers to try to keep a magnificent 4,500 pipe Casavan...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 08:27
- Purchases: 2
David Holt: Sharing His Love of Mountain Music For Over Four Decades
Bought by WOUB
- Added: Nov 06, 2019
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
Carlene Carter, proud member of the long celebrated Carter family of music, stops by Up Close And Acoustic to talk about music, legacy, family hist...
- Added: Apr 26, 2019
- Length: 55:08
- Purchases: 2
Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 05:45
Glenn & Lula Bolick, NC Heritage Award Winners
Bought by WART FM
- Added: Jun 07, 2018
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Saunders King and Elder Utah Smith — two early pioneers of the electric guitar.
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Wynonie Harris, who hit the top of the Billboard Rhythm & Blues charts with "Good Rockin' Tonight," this week in 1948.
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Eddie Boyd, who recorded the only national chart hit for Chicago's J.O.B. label, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 18, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Woodrow Adams, who made his recording debut in Memphis, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Wilbert Harrison, who landed at the top of the R&B charts in 1959 — but created a headache for producer Bobby Robinson.
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica wizard Little Walter, who cut "the national anthem of blues harmonica," this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at one historic day of recording — May 5th, 1937 — that changed the course of blues history.
- Added: Mar 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
