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Music Archive Showcase #166 - Celebrating the Late Paul Buckmaster
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: Paul Buckmaster
Paul Ingles hosts a music mix special that elevates some of the finest examples or orchestrator and conductor Paul Buckmaster's contributions to so...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
THE 2023 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL (Optional Hour 2)
From: Paul Ingles
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Part 2 of music special producer Paul Ingles' thoughtful, heart-felt, year-end music mix program that allows us all to honor many of the music grea...

Bought by WORT, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, KSJE, KFSK, KRVS and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
TINA TURNER: Simply the Best (A Tribute)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Tina Turner
In this special from producer Paul Ingles, listeners will hear a mix of tracks from over 50 years of recording and performing by Tina Turner - firs...

Bought by WFDD, WJCT, KMUW, Prairie Public, WVIA and more


  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 36
2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - (OPTIONAL) HOUR 2
From: Paul Ingles
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More names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this optional second hour long special hosted by music historian and docume...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, North State Public Radio, KUHF, KSJE and more


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
THE 2022 MUSICIANS MEMORIAL SPECIAL - HOUR 1 (with an optional HOUR 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: Christine McVie, Coolio, Jerry Lee Lewis, Loretta Lynn
Some of the top names in music who passed away in 2022 are noted and celebrated in this hour long special hosted by music historian and documentari...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KRCU Public Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
13 (4) 9/11 (a 10,000 GOOD SONGS SPECIAL)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: 10,000 Good Songs
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As a remembrance of all that was felt on September 11, 2001 - the day of coordinated terrorist hijacking attacks on the USA - we present 13 of the ...

Bought by KGLP and KRVS


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Musicians' Memorial 2020 - Jazz/R&B/Soul Edition
From: Paul Ingles
Caption: McCoy Tyner / Bonnie Pointer / Wallace Roney
Music documentarian Paul Ingles hosts 1 of 4 hours remembering musicians who passed away in 2020. This edition spotlights jazz/R&B/soul artists lo...

Bought by KSJE, Prairie Public, Troy Public Radio, KMSU, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
When Beethoven Ruined Beethoven
From: Dale McGowan
Series: How Music Does That - Shortcuts
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In addition to being a great composer, Beethoven was a world-class pianist. But his last performance did not go at all well, as Dale McGowan explains.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:48
In Memoriam 2019
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at the musicians we lost in 2019.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 57:44
In Memoriam 2018
From: WBJB
Series: In Memoriam
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A look back at some of the people the rock world lost in 2018

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 57:09
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen - Paul Ingles Music Archive Showcase #42
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.

Bought by KFSK, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, WRVO Public Media, North State Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 8
Connecting With a Once Shunned Finnish Past Through Song
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Courtesy of Diane Jarvi
Finnish immigrants to Minnesota often faced discrimination. Many were radicals. To avoid the "Dirty Finn" label, some Finns shunned their heritage....

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Working Tapes: Piano Player
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Working Tapes
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In 1972, Studs Terkel interviewed hotel piano player Norman "Hots" Michels for his book "Working." Hots was the last live entertainment at the Sher...

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


  • Added: May 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 3
Centerstage Minnesota: Charlie Pulkrabek Uses "Songs For Slim" As A Launching Point
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Bob "Slim" Dunlap
Sadly, Slim Dunlap, the second guitar player for The Replacements, has been suffering from serious health issues stemming originally from a stroke....

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Centerstage Minnesota: Remembering Jim Miller
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Jim and Kristi Miller
On Saturday, July 6, the musician who has given the Bemidji area its honest and gritty musical swagger for decades, Jim Miller, passed on. Jim's lo...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:11
  • Purchases: 2
Three Records from Sundown
From: Charles Maynes
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Producer Joe Boyd remembers musician Nick Drake.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, KFAI Minneapolis, Radio New Zealand and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 27:00
  • Purchases: 7
This Week in Texas Music History: Townes Van Zandt
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of March (3/7): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the states most gifted songwriters who went ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Centerstage Minnesota: Big Walter Smith
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Big Walter Smith
This week, in honor of Big Walter Smith, we focus on the blues in Minnesota. The feature segment is an intimate interview recorded in 2010 in which...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTIP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 3
Compact Discoveries 196: Yours, Anne
From: Fred Flaxman
Series: Compact Discoveries
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A dramatic musical based on "The Diary of Anne Frank," with music by Michael Cohen and libretto by Enid Futterman. Perfect for scheduling in April ...

Bought by KPVL and KENW


  • Added: Apr 22, 2012
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Fountain City
From: Caleb Pringle
Caption: RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
James Carroll Booker the Third: The Life, Music, and Mystique of the Bayou Maharajah Part 2.
From: David Kunian
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Part 2 of 2 part radio documentary about the legendary New Orleans pianist James Booker

Bought by Prairie Public, NPR Illinois, and WNCU


  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 3
Mahler in America
From: Eric Molinsky
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Mahler creates the New York Philharmonic but he's still considered a failure.

Bought by PRX Remix and PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 08:48
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat Goes On #108: "Time Has Told Me: The Songs of Nick Drake"
From: Travis Parkin
Series: The Beat Goes On
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A beautiful collection of songs written by one of the most influential songwriters of the past 50 years, Nick Drake. Program includes selections r...

Bought by KMUN and KWMR


  • Added: Sep 11, 2007
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 2
The Lo-Fi Ballad of Daniel Johnston
From: KUT
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He's been called the 'Brian Wilson of Indie Rock', but the true story's a little more complicated....

Bought by KUOW and PRX Administrator


  • Added: May 01, 2006
  • Length: 08:32
  • Purchases: 2
The Lord God Bird
From: Long Haul Productions
Series: Song/Story
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An innovative story about the rediscovery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Brinkley, Arkansas that blends interviews and an original song by Sufja...

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:57
  • Purchases: 10