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Bill Frisell was heavily influenced by surf rock and space travel. Hear him in his own words tell you his origin story. Lots of great music in this...
- Added: Oct 20, 2016
- Length: 12:15
NOTE: The :48 intro CAN be removed without prior permission.
Eddie Ramirez remembers a cruising in the newest car he'd ever owned, black, all pow...
- Added: Oct 15, 2016
- Length: 05:34
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Girls Rock NC is a summer music camp that doesn't hide being a feminist organization that embraces all gender identities. Ninety-five teens and twe...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 1
Interrupting my Saturday night music radio show with some words about Muhammad Ali who passed earlier in the day. Ali's impact on me as an 8th gra...
- Added: Jun 07, 2016
- Length: 46:15
This week we take you to Nashville for BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS: stories about the blues, jazz, songwriting and a cabin in the woods.
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 59:00
During the night of November 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks claimed by ISIL killed 130 people and injured 368 in Paris, France. Kansas C...
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 10:05
Hot Rize has been astounding the bluegrass world with their fresh, contemporary approach to traditional music ever since their formation in 1978. T...
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 10
Ginger Commodore, a member of the famed jazz vocal group Moore By Four and experienced band leader, talks to interviewer Phil Nusbaum about the joy...
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 08:25
Olivia Block's compositions have been praised by the likes of The New York Times. But she really loves sounds that don’t often count as music — the...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., PRX Remix, and WUNC
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 3
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
Series: 2015 O Henry Middle School Stories
The child of two Longhorn Band veterans digs into the unseen world of the band's strangest traditions, from "hupping" to the secret "10 til 2" saying.
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 05:06
Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2016
- Length: 28:53
A Song Story is a mini-history of a time, a place, an individual and a song. It's a personal experience, rising from memory every time we hear a ce...
- Added: Jan 09, 2016
- Length: 06:50
This Mortified Mixtape episode is devoted to sensitive teenage guys who aren't afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves. With a special perform...
- Added: Dec 07, 2015
- Length: 30:15
Angus Bossenberry's Song Story takes us on a colorful and funny road trip as he hitchhikes up the Pacific Coast Highway in California.
- Added: Nov 21, 2015
- Length: 05:43
Kristopher Ohlendorf is a Media Studies grad student and ponderer of big questions. Like, why is that bicycle horn honking in the Beach Boys “You ...
- Added: Nov 07, 2015
- Length: 06:08
Frank Sinatra turns 100 on Dec 12. A tribute from a brainy broad who learned to love him, Her Way.
- Added: Nov 06, 2015
- Length: 03:20
Grant Hawkins is a Masters student in Music and a lover of sounds. His Song Story is about love and winter and his song, “Myth” by Beach House, is...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 05:41
Conor McSweeny is a graduate student studying music and popular culture and a lifelong guitar nerd. Naturally, his Song Story fits nicely into his...
- Added: Oct 25, 2015
- Length: 04:44
Law student and former go-go dancer, Armando Torres' Song Story recalls a time when he was a god above all, transmitting his energy from a box in t...
- Added: Oct 11, 2015
- Length: 06:15
My daughter, Anna, turned 20 last month. She's become a wonderful, beautiful, talented, stubborn, artsy, funny, a little crazy and very independent...
- Added: Oct 04, 2015
- Length: 07:27
Joe Donia's Song Story is a memory piece taking him from the music that filled his childhood to his son Natty's performance of Clocks in a rarely h...
- Added: Sep 26, 2015
- Length: 06:56
Join in a pub singalong as Brigitte Stamp remembers her Dad, her ear pressed to his chest to hear the resonance of his voice, as he sang one of his...
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:13
Wandering Sheila Velazco is at home in Mexico, Peru or Ireland as she is in the US.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Patrick Dorey sends us his Song Story about a time in his life when, with the loss of his Mom, he began to question who he was.
- Added: Sep 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19