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- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Warriors and Knaves on a Stormy Monday
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Morning is our mantra except for mambo made by Moody, Johnny Nocturne's band jumps to an interlude. In the beginning instruments imitated voices, b...
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 01:59:58
- Purchases: 8
Brother Twelve ran a colony on Vancouver Island in the late 1920s. What started as a utopian community ended in pieces. This is a weird exploration...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 43:00
Over 25 years ago curators Alan Teller and Jerri Zbiral went to an estate sale in Illinois. Jerri says they stumbled upon a shoebox that would cha...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Mose Allison shouts out the Hacksaw handle, heavyweights Oscar Peterson and Art Blakey, who probably never played together, take turns on our stage...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WVBI-LP, WYAP, KCMJ Community Radio, WOUB and more
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 01:59:57
- Purchases: 6
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
San Francisco's legendary club, the Black Hawk located at Turk and Hyde street presented a who's who of Jazz luminaries from Dizzy Gillespie, to Bi...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 01:00:10
This week we explore the concept of a concept album including the album's conception and how the music is thematically conceived. When does a conc...
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
We as a culture and as humans spend a lot of time with technology, all focused on the newest, latest and most updated this, that and the other. We ...
- Added: May 21, 2015
- Length: 59:02
Come usher in Part VII of Sometimes a Saint & Sometimes A Sinner. We’ll tread between the two worlds with a rich collection of old spirituals, murd...
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 01:56:18
The Aleppo Codex is a thousand year-old manuscript that medieval scholars declared an accurate biblical text. It has been worshiped, pillaged, salv...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 17:18
Buddy Montgomery leads a reunion which inspires a batch of above average lady singers and then substantive rhythms. A long comfortable cushion of ...
- Added: Jan 21, 2015
- Length: 01:59:55
- Purchases: 6
Legendary blues kick into hard funk. Experience freedom in dance, musing and introspection. We'll pay tribute to a recently departed clarinet mas...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 01:59:53
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 12
Tribute to a couple drummers we lost in July, Frankie Dunlop & Idris Muhammad. We'll hear recordings of one with Thelonious Monk, the other drummi...
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 01:59:56
- Purchases: 2
Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London.
One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 09:46
Interview with rhythm guitar player from the Grateful Dead. Ranges from stories about The Reverend Gary Davis to Garcia's addictions.
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 07:49
Free, audio book excerpts. To elevate the decorative arts in the early 20th century, women were encouraged to participate in the creation of beauti...
- Added: Nov 08, 2013
- Length: 08:20
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:53:25
First half of the show focuses on the rarely heard New Orleans R&B songs and artists of the early 1950s. Rick Coleman who authored the definitive ...
- Added: May 19, 2013
- Length: 05:48:17
The story of a unique landmark off the eastern coast of England - a packing shed built in the 1890s for the cleaning, sorting, and packing of oysters.
- Added: Mar 12, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Veering off the beaten path.
Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS and more
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 9
A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...
- Added: Jan 06, 2013
- Length: 03:10:23
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney with politics: past, present and future; John Cale, Adele, Neil Young & The Rolling Stones with...
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 57:58
