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Should be able to put the definition of this show's sound into a thirty-second introduction but for the last seven years I've changed the definitio...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 03:04:52
Music from the 1950s - 70s "that you've never heard before by musicians you've never heard of..." although it sound familiar. Really familiar beca...
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 02:52:27
The Louisiana rock and roll that didn't utilize the New Orleans sound associated with Dave Bartholomew and Cosimo Matassa. Music from west of the ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 01:49:30
Lyrics referring to Mars with interstitials from Spock. If you like this, you'll need to move out of your parent's basement and leave the record s...
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 02:59:36
Music for the weekend after Mardi Gras - a celebration of Ash Weekend. Plenty of Louisiana swamp blues music for the geared-down mood. Then again...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 02:54:24
Songs about outer space, satellites, rockets and hot rods with plenty of instrumentals you can "do it yourself" sing over. Even an example of Jami...
- Added: Feb 08, 2015
- Length: 02:51:43
More music you've never heard by musicans you've never heard of. This week's special - 100% less mass-hypnotism!
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 02:53:16
I was the guy who screamed at the horror picture, "The murder is in there. Don't go into the basement ..." Same thing happens when I hear a girl...
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 02:52:50
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (but somehow seem more relevant than what is recorded today). The second hour of the s...
- Added: Jan 11, 2015
- Length: 02:48:49
The group is nothing if not individualistic, with a collection of acoustic instruments and hard-edged singing. It's acoustic rock with a a lot of e...
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 05:00
In talking with people about music, we regularly discuss Indie music. Unlike what some think, Indie is not a genre or type of music but a classific...
- Added: Nov 14, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Oct 22, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
In the 1930’s, the clarinetist and bandleader, Benny Goodman, brought jazz stylings to mainstream America. With this short feature jazz historian a...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 22, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Charles Mingus is considered one of the most creative and original voices in American jazz. Uniquely sensitive to the plight of the dispossessed, h...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 2
For the second week of September (9/14): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman recalls an unexpected incident that helped propel the state`s punk music ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
This week the Global Guru explores the rural Sicilian cure for spider bites. Put on your dancing shoes!
Bought by WTIP, HCC Radio The Dragon, PRX Remix, and KUT
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 4
This week the Global Guru goes to Mali to learn the art of a griot, where storyteller, historian, political advisor, detective and genealogist are ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 3
Slaid Cleaves may not be the most well-known Texas musician, but he does boast some influential fans, including novelist Stephen King and public ra...
- Added: May 18, 2009
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
The Proclaimers are Scotland's Charlie and Craig Reid. Here in the States they're best known for the tune "I'm Gonna be (500 miles) popularized in ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Dec 05, 2008
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
For the 5th week of September: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells the story of a Texas singer who earned the first gold album in country music ...
Bought by The Texan Radio Network
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 01:35
- Purchases: 1
For the fourth week of September: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells the story of a Texan who performed in both churches and bordellos before b...
Bought by The Texan Radio Network
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
For the second week of October: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman recounts the story of a popular artist who stopped making records in order to prot...
Bought by The Texan Radio Network and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
For the fourth week of May: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman tells us about a musician who was turned down by numerous nightclubs and record compan...
Bought by The Texan Radio Network
- Added: Oct 08, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
For the second week of September: Texas music scholar Gary Hartman introduces us to the 'other' King of Western Swing.
Bought by The Texan Radio Network
- Added: Sep 08, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
For the first week of September (8/31): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who was born in a railroad boxcar but went on to ...
Bought by The Texan Radio Network and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Sep 03, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
