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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about a new book in the "Decades" series that documents the band Faith No More and thei...
- Added: May 02, 2023
- Length: 27:59
The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...
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- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been a sad 2022 for music in India. Even while India was mourning the loss of its greatest singer, Lata Mangeshkar, the empress of song, it lo...
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- Added: Feb 22, 2022
- Length: 06:00
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For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Dec 13, 2021
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
When lyrics have no meaning, singing becomes pure emotion.
- Added: Aug 21, 2020
- Length: 04:40
Delbert McClinton is still going as strong as ever after 60 years of performing and working in the music industry. His latest release is stellar in...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:17
Diane Blue has been a voice in the Blues music scene for years as a vocalist and harmonica player. This show highlights her solo career as well as ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:39
In 1971 one of the most successful "Blues" recording labels was founded. This show explores the early history of Alligator Records.
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 01:00:04
This hour begins with a short history of the area, the “Return of the River Ranger,” a former local radio personality; children reading aloud to do...
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 57:30
Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Jul 25, 2018
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 1
Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
Once Asha effortlessly brought India to my kitchen in California. Now she transported me from a balmy night in a park in Kolkata to a foggy evening...
- Added: Oct 26, 2017
- Length: 06:00
In this mostly musical piece, we settle down into the audience of nearly 200 supportive students and staff at the University Program Board's Fall 2...
- Added: Oct 13, 2017
- Length: 28:16
Monsoon Wedding by Mira Nair was an unlikely hit in 2001. A movie set in India but not a British Raj nostalgia film. Nor a Passage to spiritual Ind...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Steve Downing visits the Edge Center for the Arts, in Bigfork, to see the musical "Annie Jr.", presented by Stages Theatre Company.
- Added: Oct 10, 2016
- Length: 03:51
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns.
But Baluji...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Produced on the day the legendary singer-songwriter passed away in 2016, music host Paul Ingles guides listeners through a tour of some great Guy C...
Bought by KRCB 104.9, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Louisville Public Media, KMSU and more
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 8
While strongly rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk music, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades produces a sound that draws on the vaults of music collect...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 59:30
- Purchases: 9
After more than 20 albums (including Live from the Big Top) and more than three decades of performing, this co-founder of the influential indie roo...
- Added: Mar 12, 2016
- Length: 59:21
- Purchases: 10
The Blue Canvas Orchestra and special guests open up the show in the first half followed by Jamaican and Australian musical group Nattali Rize & Notis
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 12
