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Episode #559 - 1951: Jukebox Rhythm Review, Pt. 2
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the jukebox is in the spotlight as Matt The Cat takes you back 70 years and highlights the top jukebox hits of the second half of 1951. ...

Bought by WHRV, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 27: He Left in a Storm, He'll Return in a Storm
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
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There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she be...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 27:04
Singer Songwriter Annie Mack Finds Her Truth in The Blues
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Singer Songwriter Annie Mack, Credit: Shelly Mosman
African American singer songwriter Annie Mack does it all, from powerhouse blues to New Americana and beyond, highlighting her unique vocal presenc...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
WoodSongs 867E: Jean Ritchie
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
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On this week's WoodSongs, it's a very special rebroadcast featuring The Mother of Folk Jean Ritchie.

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, WETS, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 23
#20-47 Lera Auerbach’s Chimera
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Works by Caroline Shaw and Lera Auerbach

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, RadioFreePalmer, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
WoodSongs 614: Emmylou Harris, Darrell Scott and more
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Emmylou Harris on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, it's a celebration of Appalachia with Emmylou Harris, Darrell Scott and more.

Bought by KUAR, KTRL, KDLG, WEJP-LP 107.1, KLCC and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 32
WoodSongs 593: Wanda Jackson and Billy Bragg
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Wanda Jackson on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes the First Lady of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson plus revered folksinger and s...

Bought by KTRL, Delmarva Public Media, KDLG, KTRL, Radio Bristol and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 31
InsideApp201021: 3 Stories About Fierce Appalachian Women, 10/15/2020
From: West Virginia Public Broadcasting
Series: Inside Appalachia
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This episode is all about one of Appalachia’s most critical natural resources — fierce women. We hear what happens when Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
Episode #546 - Unsung Ladies of R&B
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
This week, the "Juke In The Back" solutes the Unsung Ladies of R&B! We'll dig deep into a stack of shellac from some women you know, like Varetta D...

Bought by KCSM, WHRV, Raven Radio, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
WoodSongs 958: Muriel Anderson and Sister Sadie
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Muriel Anderson
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes master guitarist Muriel Anderson plus the 2020 IBMA Bluegrass Music Enter...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, Yellowstone Public Radio, WRGY, KHNS, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 33
Dispatch #354: The Shadow of Caste
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Headlines from the Telegraph, Credit: Sandip Roy
The caste system is a long and controversial cultural norm in India, but now the Dalits may be getting a boost from America’s civil rights movements.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
In North Nashville, Line Dancing Becomes A Lifeline Out Of Isolation For Senior Citizens
From: David Condos
Caption: The Hadley Park Line Dancers in action, Credit: David Condos
Before the pandemic, a group of older Nashvillians founded a free line dancing class at the Hadley Park Community Center. The bonds they’ve formed ...

Bought by iPondr


  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #543 - Early Etta James
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
Etta James was one of the grittiest and most influential R&B singer of all-time. This week, Matt The Cat focuses on Etta's early records from 1954-...

Bought by WHRV, KTRT RADIO INC, WOUB, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Hadley Park Line Dancers
From: David Condos
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Meet Joann Jones. She's 79 years old, and she loves to dance. So, she helped start a line dancing class for senior citizens at the Hadley Park Comm...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 15:57
  • Purchases: 1
Working through History
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We explore how Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. And:Now is the ideal time for work...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WLPR , WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 13
Working through History
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Women at Work
Jim Crow maintains a strong legacy even today in the segregation of the American labor market. Historian Steven Reich suggests ways to change that.

Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KRDP, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Up Close And Acoustic with Melody Walker and Jacob Groopman
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Melody and Jacob, Credit: Melody Walker Facebook
Melody Walker and Jacob Groopman boil down their stories of travel into a concoction that Up Close and Acoustic christens Calicana. Melody says she...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2020
  • Length: 56:32
kaMAla, Kamala
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The furor over a Kamala seems much ado over very few syllables, but how one handles the mispronunciation can be telling.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Up Close And Acoustic with Carola Baer
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Carola Baer, Credit: Carola Baer Facebook
I came across Carola Baer from Woking, England giving an online concert on Facebook from her 'she-shed' in her back yard. It was different enough f...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 57:40
Women's Suffrage
From: Wind & Rhythm
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm, we honor the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, with songs by female composers. ...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KWAX, GCR (Global Community Radio), Delmarva Public Media, WBAA and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 8
20-36 Merce Font Interview, Molino, Rodrigo, Quarantine by Andrew Shiels, & Baden Powell
From: Tony Morris
Series: Classical Guitar Alive!
Caption: Merce Font, Credit: Merce Font
This week's edition of CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE! features music by Molino, Rodrigo, and a 2020 interview with the young Catalan guitarist Merce Font,...

Bought by KXIQ , WVIA, KCME, Yellowstone Public Radio, KTOO and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 50
Choosing Joy Over Boxes
From: Diana Opong
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Living life as a multi-ethnic person in the entertainment industry can have it's challenges, but one performer has found a way to choose joy despit...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 03, 2020
  • Length: 14:26
  • Purchases: 1
All is Fair in Love and Pharma
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Johnson & Johnson Fairness skin creams
In the midst of Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. Johnson & Johnson has announced it will stop selling skin whitening creams.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Up Close And Acoustic with Louise Patricia Crane
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Louise Patricia Crane, Credit: Louise Patricia Crane Facebook
Louise Patricia Crane is not a newcomer to the music scene. But after a stint in the Goth rock band Solemn Novena, and more time spent in a band th...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2020
  • Length: 56:01
Up Close And Acoustic with Liz De Lise
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Liz De Lise, Credit: Liz De Lise Facebook
Liz De Lise discovers Portland, OR is weird, but maybe not as funny as in Portlandia. Liz, a singer and songwriter based out of Philadelphia, is a...

  • Added: May 30, 2020
  • Length: 58:16

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