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AG 24-11: June Christy’s Early Capitol LPs, 3/11/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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In the early 1950s, singer June Christy broke away from Stan Kenton’s Orchestra to record solo, helping to establish the “vocal cool” style of jazz...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
AG 24-09: Miss Show Business: Celebrating Judy Garland, 2/26/2024
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we celebrate singer and film star Judy Garland. We’ll chronicle her music career and feature many of her recordings from the 1940s to th...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
WoodSongs 1072: Sugar Harp and Gail Ceasar
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Sugar Harp on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Alabama bluesman Sugar Harp plus Piedmont blues artist Gail Ceasar.

Bought by KDLG, KTRL, KMXT, KBRW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 39
WoodSongs 1061: Christie Lenee and Femina
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Christie Lenee on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes award winning guitarist Chirstie Lenee plus Argentine folk and fusion tri...

Bought by KTRL, KDLG, KMUN, KUPR low power FM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 40
AG 23-13: Tributes To The Lady, 3/27/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we pay tribute to singer Billie Holiday by hearing a few tributes to her from other artists over the years, including Carmen McRae, Abbe...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
AG 23-12: Billie Holiday in the 1940s, 3/20/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the recordings of the great Billie Holiday from the 1940s. We’ll hear her work for the Commodore and Decca...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
AG 23-05: The Underrated Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis, 1/30/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
Caption: Lorez Alexandria
This week, I’ll introduce you to the music of two underrated female singers, revered among jazz aficionados: Lorez Alexandria and Ethel Ennis.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
AG 22-43: Beverly Kenney: Born To Be Blue, 10/17/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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The name Beverly Kenney might be a footnote in jazz history, but this singer had an intelligent, alluring and melancholic style that’s among the be...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
AG 22-12: Unforgettable: A Tribute to Natalie Cole, 3/14/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Afterglow
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It’s been 30 years since Natalie Cole swept the Grammy Awards with the album Unforgettable… With Love. This week on Afterglow, we pay tribute to Co...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
S06 Ep02: In Memoriam, 9/11/2021
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, music written in memory of those days and the effects it had on so ma...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:30
WoodSongs 652: Judy Collins
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Judy Collins on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, the legendary folk icon Judy Collins performs and reads from her new book "Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Mus...

Bought by KUAR, KKRN, KZUM, KLCC, KDLG and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 38
WoodSongs 977: Laurie Lewis and Nefesh Mountain
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Laurie Lewis on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes pioneering Grammy Award-winning musician Laurie Lewis plus a fusion of Je...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KDLG, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), GCR (Global Community Radio), WVRU and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 31
WoodSongs 509: Janis Ian
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Janis Ian on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes legendary folk artist Janis Ian.

Bought by KUAR, KMUN, KDLG, Yellowstone Public Radio, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 35
Raising Vibrations against Gender-Based Violence
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The founder of One Billion Rising and VDay and world renowned playwright, author and activist Eve Ensler, along with activist, singer, songwriter ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 04, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
WoodSongs 978: Celebrating the Music of Kentucky
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Newtown's Kati Penn on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, we're celebrating the music of Kentucky with the Appalachian bluegrass sounds of Newtown plus Lark Watts, Logan...

Bought by KSRQ, WEJP-LP 107.1, KDLG, KDLG, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 21
WoodSongs 967: Catherine Britt and Lockwood Barr
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Roots songwriter Lockwood Barr on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes award winning Australian singer/songwriter Catherine Britt plus Nashville...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KDLG, KVNF, WVRU, WSLR and more


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 21
Musician's Spotlight - Beth Nielsen Chapman - 687
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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Singer songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman has carved out a career of over two and a half decades writing hit songs for artist like Faith Hill, Willie ...

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


  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 3
WoodSongs 945: Mandy Barnett and Gina Sicilia
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: World-Class Vocalist Mandy Barnett on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes World-Class Nashville Vocalist Mandy Barnett plus decorated blues singer ...

Bought by WOUB, WEJP-LP 107.1, Yellowstone Public Radio, WVRU, WLIW and more


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 21
the Feeling Mode
From: Rachel Ishikawa
Caption: Rikki Bates playing drums., Credit: Kayana Szymczak.
Rikki Bates started drumming as a kid and hasn’t stopped since. She’s played drums for a variety of bands on Cape Cod for the past 30 years. In 201...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 07:18
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 680
From: Bree Noble
Series: Women of Substance Music Show
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Music by Laura Rice, Jackie Venson, Ava Miralles, Watershed Productions, StellaRising, Jill Detroit, Maria Venuto

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 26:28
Episode 678
From: Bree Noble
Series: Women of Substance Music Show
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Music by Maycke Jensen & The Marveltonez, Kaite Kittermaster, Bree Noble, Kaya Jones, Oh., Ireland, Yes You Are

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 25:03
Full Moon Hacksaw # 1461 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/29/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Our favorite Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic starts a Hacksaw groove, then from Ruthie Foster's seasoned voice thru samba snow and vintage main...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WKAR, WOUB, KPVL, WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:53
  • Purchases: 7
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Lorraine Gordon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The owner of the legendary club, The Village Vanguard, a 2013 NEA Jazz Master, talks about her life in jazz. [32:52]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 33:52
  • Purchases: 1
Centerstage Minnesota: Breanne Marie talks with Amy Clark
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Breanne Marie
Breanne Marie is a relatively new country western musician who is rapidly becoming visible, along with her band The Front Porch Sinners, in Duluth...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
An Evening with the Be Good Tanyas
From: Southwest Stages
Series: Southwest Stages
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An hour of Music & Interviews with The Be Good Tanyas, recorded live at the 2006 Thirsty Ear Festival in Santa Fe, NM.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KGOU, and KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2009
  • Length: 58:29
  • Purchases: 3