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WoodSongs 1104: Alice Peacock and Charlsey Etheridge
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Charlsey Etheridge on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Cincinnati-based folksinger Alice Peacock plus North Georgia Appalachian ...

Bought by Radio Bristol, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WEJP-LP 107.1, KTRL, WVTF and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
WoodSongs 1098: Bee Taylor and Goldpine
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Bee Taylor makes her debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Texas songwriter Bee Taylor and raw Americana duo Goldpine.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBRW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KJZX-Austin, KMSU and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
NL 24-10: Jazz Women of the 1960s, 3/4/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
To Be Somebody: The Hazel Scott Story
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Joni
From: WFIU
Series: PorchLight with Tom Roznowski
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Turning the spotlight on the music of Joni Mitchell.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
NL 23-40: Jazz Her Way: Nancy Wilson in the 1960s, 9/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
NL 23-20: The Carla Bley Songbook, 5/8/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Jazz Women of the 1960s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
Jazz Women of the 1980s*
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
Jazz Women of the 1990s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
WoodSongs 835: Sweet Honey in the Rock
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: The legendary Sweet Honey in the Rock on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Grammy winning folk and civil rights legends, an all-woman, African-Am...

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Radio Bristol, GCR (Global Community Radio), Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KHNS and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 49
Appalachian Vibes: Karlee Raye & Griffin Haley
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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This week I took a trip to Fainting Goat Studios in rural Bedford Virginia to meet with a couple of indiepndednt artists from Appalachia. Karlee R...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:54
Appalachian Vibes: Indee, Omegawolfe & James Lagueux Band
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
Caption: Amanda Bocchi, Credit: Jaimie Phillips
This week my guests are the lovely Indie from Indie Killed the pop star, an Atlanta artist who started out as an opera singer and transitioned to e...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
The Fantastic Jazz Harp of Dorothy Ashby
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
FOLK SALAD AIRING 5-8-2022 WOMEN OF SONG
From: SCOTT Aycock
Series: Folk Salad- Certified Organic Music
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Celebrating Oklahoma Women of Song, highlighting 3 important Oklahoma singer/songwriters, who are no longer with us, Gus Hardin, Debbie Campbell, a...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Ladies' Choice (Vol.7)
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
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A fresh two hour set of all-women musicians who play bluegrass, jazz and/or that visionary continuum of sounds in between

  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:40
WoodSongs 1033: The Mastersons/Whitmore Sisters and Tammy Rogers & Thomm Jutz
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, it's roots music triple header as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes The Mastersons, Whitmore Sisters and...

Bought by KBRW, KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVIK, KUAR and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
NL 22-12: Jazz Women of the 1940s, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
A New Territory of Dance Party
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Mpls Adonia & DJ Shannon Blowtorch, Credit: Photo Courtesy of DJ Shannon Blowtorch
DJ Shannon Blowtorch & Host Mpls Adonia have years of experience working the crowds and pumping up the energy in the room. Keeping their love for e...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
Genre Bending Music By A Constant Cough
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A Constant Cough, Credit: (Photo courtesy of the artist)
“A Constant Cough” is a Minneapolis duo that plays an eclectic array of music. Their unique electric, reverb, bending sound features Victoria Carpe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
NL 20-13: Ella '57: Ella Fitzgerald Flies High, 3/23/2020
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights
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We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
Late Lady: Billie Holiday On Verve In The 1950s
From: WFIU
Series: Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Evolution of Singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Caption: Singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea, Credit: Paul Vienneau
Duluth-based indie musician Gaelynn Lea made headlines when she won National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016. But she almost didn’t enter ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 08:41
Musician's Spotlight -Howard Levy - Moira Smiley Remixed Mspot Part Two- 711
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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A two part encore broadcast featuring musicians who consistently push themselves and the boundaries of the music they perform and compose. Piano an...

Bought by WMUU-LP, RadioFreePalmer, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2019
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 3
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8