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The Lost Forty Sing Songs of Irish Minnesota Lumberjacks
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: The Lost Forty, Credit: Natalie Jennings
In the 1840s and 1850s, many men who emigrated from Ireland to Minnesota went to work as lumberjacks in the booming logging industry. They brought ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Black Vocal Harmony Groups of the 1930s & 40s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A hour-long program of jazz music, exploring the music of African-American singing ensembles in the decades of the Great Depression and the Second ...

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WEZU, and WNCU


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
We Shall Overcome: Civil-Rights Jazz
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Black History Special A one-hour program of jazz music, exploring the connection between jazz and civil rights in 20th-century America.

Bought by KALW, WLRH, Morehead State Public Radio, KLCC, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
211226 The Fleetwoods Demos Aligned With Sun Ra's Doo Wop
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Little Joe Cook and The Thrillers
The Fleetwoods of Olympia Washington were White kids who did precise harmonies much like the more ethnic "doo wop" groups of the same era. Sun Ra...

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


  • Added: Dec 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 4
WoodSongs 838: Michael Martin Murphey and The Kentucky Headhunters
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Greg Martin of The Kentucky Headhunters on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes legendary cowboy singer/songwriter Michael Martin Murphey plus country b...

Bought by Radio Bristol, KENW, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHNS, KEDT and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 26
TALK MUSIC WITH ME: Why Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones Matters (Single Hour Version)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Talk Music With Me
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UPDATED WITH COPY ANNOUNCING THE DEATH OF CHARLIE WATTS, AUG 24, 2021. Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts is celebrated in this One-Hour version...

Bought by WYSO, WRVO Public Media, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WSLR, KMSU and more


  • Added: May 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 25
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #130 - The Music and Philanthropy of Harry Chapin- Hour 2
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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Part 2 of 2 spotlighting a 2020 documentary called HARRY CHAPIN: WHEN IN DOUBT, DO SOMETHING. Music host Paul Ingles talks about the late singer/so...

Bought by KUHF and KSJE


  • Added: Mar 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
DWF 20-21: Currentzis and Kopatchinskaja, 2/22/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts
Caption: Teodor Currentzis
The charismatic Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis is a sure-bet for exciting concert programs, also with the Southwest German Radio Symphon...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:57
NL 21-01: Swingers: Hugh Hefner, Playboy Magazine, and Jazz, 12/28/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Hugh Hefner was best known as the founder of Playboy Magazine, but in the early days of his media empire he often showcased jazz performers and spo...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
Places (Vol.2)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: Sangre De Cristo Mountains, Taos, NM as seen from Rio Grande Gorge, Credit: Brian Aust
Various places as illuminated by folks who perform bluegrass music, jazz and that shapeshifting sonic continuum of material that lies between. Incl...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
YOU SHOULD KNOW BILLY JOE SHAVER
From: Paul Ingles
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YOU SHOULD KNOW BILLY JOE SHAVER is a program about the Texas singer-songwriter who ROLLING STONE magazine called "an outlaw-country pioneer who wr...

Bought by WUTC, KMSU, KUHF, KAZU Seaside, Calif., and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
SPRINGSTEEN: Writers' Favorites (HOUR 1)
From: Paul Ingles
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"...articulate, thoughtful, moving" A LIMITED SERIES. Producer Paul Ingles gathers 7 top music writers to talk about their favorite Bruce Springs...

Bought by WHRV, KUOW, KSUT, KSRQ, and KRCU Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 5
TRAILER TO- Springsteen: Writers' Favorites
From: Paul Ingles
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A trailer to an upcoming series of 3 - hour long programs featuring 7 top music writers picking Bruce Springsteen songs to do deep-dive commentary ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2020
  • Length: 10:00
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #121 - TALK MUSIC WITH ME w/ Producer John Leventhal (Part 1)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
Caption: John Leventhal
Today on the Music Archive Showcase, the first of a two part visit with top record producer and musician JOHN LEVENTHAL, who’s had a guiding hand i...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUHF, and KSJE


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Music That Keeps on Giving: #262
From: WILLIAM CROMWELL
Series: Classical Music on The Third Floor
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Chopin’s Sonata for Piano and Cello, Brahms Piano Quintet, and in the third and final hour of the program, a specially arranged version of a Schube...

Bought by KWAX, WMTNradio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WHQR, and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:48
  • Purchases: 5
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #115 - "Songwriters At Sea" - Part 3 (Patty Griffin / Joe Ely)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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The third in a series of programs that features interviews and music with some of the top names in Americana music over the last 20 years who, in 2...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Pulsations with Angele Dubeau - A Little Chaos by Peter Gregson
From: Crossover Media Max Horowitz
Series: Pulsations with Angele Dubeau
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A pulsation marks time

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 1
Corpse Reviver Polishes Gems of American Folk Music this Sunday Night at the Hook and Ladder in Minneapolis
From: KBEM
Caption: Corpse Reviver, Credit: Pete Lee
This Sunday at 7 at the Hook and ladder in Minneapolis, Corpse Reviver plays songs from The Harry Smith Collection of American folk music. The coll...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 08:00
Shop Till You Drop!
From: melodically challenged
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we will shop till we drop in shops, stores, malls, and every possible place to blow your payche...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 01:07:16
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
A Mindfulness Teacher Considers Managing One's Mindset, An Educator Discusses the Importance of Protecting Childhood and a Poet Contemplates his Sp...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:00
Taylor Swift - Big Machine
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week on the show we talk about superstar Taylor Swift.

Bought by KWIT, WOUB, KTRL, KRSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
"Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns" Radio Companion
From: Joyride Media
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The filmmakers behind "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns" offer an inside view of how they created the documentary series and share highlights fro...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WKMS, KSRQ, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
A Baroque Christmas in the New World
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music: Specials
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An hour-long program of early music, celebrating the holiday season with festive music from 17th- and 18th-century Mexico, Peru and Bolivia perform...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KWIT, High Plains Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNIJ and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Hoaxer is Back Together for a Big Show at Jazz Central in Minneapolis June 14
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Hoaxer, Credit: Lee Tran
The guys from Hoaxer have reconvened after another period of study in locations across the continent. They are bassist Charlie Lincoln, drummer Edm...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
The Jack Brass Band Plays its Modern New Orleans-Style Jazz next Thursday at Vieux Carre in Saint Paul
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jack Brass Band, Credit: Jackson Tyler Eddy
The Jack Brass Band plays with the kind of interplay of instruments that has been part of New Orleans Jazz for a hundred years or more. But there’s...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2019
  • Length: 08:00