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Why instrumental songs with any American Indian tribe other than "Cherokee" seem more authentic than songs with "Cherokee" in the song title. Plus...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 02:50:25
Substituting for Peggy Lou after I cancelled Hurricane Nate. Trying to mimic her light touch and California sensibilities ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2017
- Length: 01:31:37
I think this show worked as a deep dive into late Saturday night radio. Starting the night with the novelties of me juggling chopsticks and shoes ...
- Added: Sep 18, 2017
- Length: 05:50:33
Long sets of Louisiana music and music about names like "Bud, Shorty and Irma. Bud as in "Uncle Bud" the dirty ditty that is based on Froggy Goes ...
- Added: Sep 10, 2017
- Length: 02:52:04
Esoteric and topical enough?
- Added: Sep 04, 2017
- Length: 04:25:07
The burst of musical creativity from the 1950s to 70s and how the British band successfully marketed Americana to Americans.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 02:48:30
An economic history of New Orleans doesn't involve military statues or big men to build a mythological story and capture the romantic's view of her...
- Added: Aug 28, 2017
- Length: 03:45:50
Meridian Trio is today’s jazz really going somewhere, sticking in the head long after its heard. Like-minded pianist Jessica Williams totally indiv...
Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Aug 16, 2017
- Length: 01:59:59
- Purchases: 6
Broadening the Saturday night sound but keeping the connections to the theme of foundational music. Tonight including Sun Ra's doo wop phase, musi...
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 03:45:58
Conductors lead orchestras and other musical groups during performances and recording sessions. Composers write and arrange original music.
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Trying to find the roots of "Roots Music" by avoiding the overwhelming commercial aspects of music. It's an interesting exploration. Come along f...
- Added: Aug 07, 2017
- Length: 04:47:38
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. The roots of rock and roll from before "rock and roll" decayed into another commercia...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 03:50:15
Life is But A Dream mix with current affairs blending music and politics with celebrations of the famous & infamous on "Nuit sur Les Champs-Elysees...
- Added: Aug 02, 2017
- Length: 01:57:49
The Minnesota Mandolin Orchestra has 25 mandolins and plays a combination of specially composed mandolin music and tunes everybody has heard. Lon H...
- Added: Jul 27, 2017
- Length: 07:59
Mstislav Rostropovich was one of the great cellists of all time. Over 100 works were written for him by composers as diverse as Krzysztof Pendereck...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 10
The Trumps explain meeting with Russians and the power of email in this explosive mix of political manipulation and music-also featuring a look bac...
Bought by KDUR
- Added: Jul 17, 2017
- Length: 01:59:39
- Purchases: 1
Three broadcast-ready segments with out-cues (one hour total) of weekly new music show, radio UNLEASHED, based out of Woodstock NY.
- Added: Jul 14, 2017
- Length: 55:44
East to west as in coasts, Cecil Brooks III knocks out a tempo built upon by Ray Brown and improvised over by Alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe, all i...
Bought by WMOT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WVBI-LP, WOUB, WJSU and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 02:00:02
- Purchases: 6
Louisiana musicians and songs you've never heard plus songs about monkeys! What else could anyone want? How about sound-a-like songs and a radio...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 03:41:39
Toronto’s Bill King starts off with Hammond B3 music, then into the semi-abstract Summertime with Sonny Greenwich’s guitar. Minneapolis’ Connie Evi...
Bought by WMOT, WVBI-LP, WJSU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR
- Added: Jun 21, 2017
- Length: 02:00:00
- Purchases: 5
Music from around the world that is indistinguishable from Americana roots music. Oh yeah, songs about dogs and monkeys in rockets, Indo Rock and...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 03:27:20
Some Louisiana music and plenty of the usual dreck.
- Added: Jun 04, 2017
- Length: 02:49:46
We’ll hear some amazing musicians you might not know, including Pultizer Prize winner John Luther Adams and pianist Elizabeth Joy Roe on today’s Wh...
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 6
We’ll speak to some talented conductors in America’s melting pot from Finland and Poland, plus the young composer Adam Schoenberg
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 8
