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Boats & Bluegrass 2021: People Brothers Band
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Tonight on The Live Feed we revisit the Boats and Bluegrass festival to hear more from People Brothers Band. The group is originally from Madison, ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 55:41
220305 First Rock and Roll Song - Sandy Nelson and Glen Campbell As You've Never Heard Them
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Los Crazy Boys
The great rock drummer Sandy Nelson sound like a very traditional swing drummer and Glen Campbell sounds like a primitive surf band as our perspect...

Bought by KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, Prairie Public, KFCF FM and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 6
Karate Camp 2021: My Grandma's Cardigan
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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Tonight on The Live Feed we hung around Karate Camp to hear from Winona's own, My Grandma's Cardigan. They would describe themselves as an upbeat f...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:44
A Global Rosh Hashanah Playlist
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Tune in to the next Sounds Jewish for a global Rosh Hashanah playlist inspired by the holiday liturgy and some deep thinking.

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Shortcuts Back To Work
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: The Worker
Labor Day extended special with history of worker's daily struggles mixed with cultural and musical references

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:07
The Granite City Radio Theater Season 9 Episode 3 with Special Musical Guest Keith Secola
From: KVSC
Series: Granite City Radio Theater
Caption: Keith Secola at the Granite City Radio Theater 6.16.2021, Credit: Jo McMullen
WE GOT OUR LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE BACK! That's the big deal here! Well, special musical guest and Native American Music Awards Hall of Fame induct...

Bought by WGZS


  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:26
  • Purchases: 1
210324 Satellites Zooming, Mexico Singing, and Girl Groups
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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This week's search for the first rock and roll record is in songs about satellites, songs with the word "zoom" in the lyrics, Mexican rocanrol, and...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and KPRG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:34
  • Purchases: 4
210314 The First Rock and Roll Record - Fund Drive Edition
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Creeps (with Ronnie Dawson on the far left)
A special show featuring songs that include mouth noises as a substitute for SFX (special effects) noises. Unlike SFX, humans imitate natural soun...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:16
  • Purchases: 1
210214 Mardi Gras and Girl Groups
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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It's Covid time so Mardi Gras is going to be less on the streets and more in our heads. But Mardi Gras and music are so similar that we really don...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:21
  • Purchases: 3
Shortcuts 2020 Tributes
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
Caption: Fred Willard
An additional hour of tributes from just a few of those lost in 2020

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
Chanukah Klezmer Special (Vol.2)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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WoodWarbler's JazzGrass presents another two 'klezmerizing' hours of music to celebrate Chanukah's "Festival Of Lights" with this season. This show...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
WoodSongs 722: Bluegrass from Ireland
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Michael Johnathon opens the broadcast with a song., Credit: Paul Dolan
Encore Broadcast from the Convention Center in Dublin, Ireland, this show spotlights the connection between Irish traditional music and American bl...

Bought by WVTF, High Plains Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KBBI Alaska, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 32
200307 Ghost With Rider
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Gene Vincent
The Writer takes over to program music and run the board.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:52:49
Ghost and Writer - Writer Sings Along
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: PRX default Piece image
End of the show are Paladins songs as they probably first heard them.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2020
  • Length: 02:58:58
200128 Ringo's Groupies, Girl Groups, and The Best Of
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Loren Greene On the Ponderosa
I never guessed there would be so many singing groupies for Ringo Starr but you would never believe how many songs I didn't play because they were ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:32
  • Purchases: 1
PE 1951
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide

Bought by KEOS, KSRQ, KWMR, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
Traveling Music
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Howard Johnson's
On the road home with Art Linkletter, Warren Oates, Jon Hamm, Jessica Pare, Marshall Efron, Bob & Ray, John Witherspoon, Ice Cube, James Taylor, Jo...

Bought by WLRH and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:08
  • Purchases: 2
191019 Rocking Country By The Ghost
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Urban musicians often chose country music because it was lucrative. They wore the country music costumes, played the instrumentation, and made the...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:52:29
Tales of Brave Ventriloquists, Warthogs, Pressed Rats & Drummers
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Freeform Pioneers, Credit: Richard Avedon
Join us for tributes to Ginger Baker, Marshall Efron, Jimmy Nelson, Diahann Carroll. Jessye Norman, and WBAI with Steve Post, Spiro Agnew, Richard ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:29
Daniel Johnston-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Yip Jump! Music, Credit: Daniel Johnston
Celebrating the great outside artist, songwriter and performer with his music and exclusive interviews.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 32:35
Nobody Swung Harder: The Jazz Violin of Stuff Smith
From: David Schulman
Caption: Stuff Smith and friends, Credit: family photo
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon “Stuff” Smith was the most important American jazz violinist of the 20th Century. He recorded with Ella Fitzgerald. Oscar Pet...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
An Expose on The Essence of Hip Hop and The Culture that's brought the world closer with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
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An Expose on The Essence of Hip Hop and The Culture that's brought the world closer with Paul Miller aka Dj Spooky.

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: May 27, 2019
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 1