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Using "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" film now out on Netflix, we look at how she influenced the blues with selections from her, Sterling Brown, Bessie...
- Added: Feb 12, 2021
- Length: 56:40
Roughly 40 million people live in poverty in the USA. Can you imagine living under $24,000 a year for a family of four? If you can’t, why not? Sure...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 25, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7th) and Baltimore activist Dominique Stevenson discuss activism, political involvement and why leaders...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: May 31, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s hard to keep teachers in Utah's Monument Valley. It's beautiful there, sure, but you're hours away from a real grocery store or a movie theate...
- Added: May 09, 2018
- Length: 19:07
World-renowned naturalist Joe Hutto, subject of the Emmy winning BBC documentary "My Life As a Turkey", discusses how he became a wild turkey mothe...
Bought by WITF, WWNO, WGCU, Troy Public Radio, Mississippi Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 61
The band fronted by Winona native Jake Ilika and features 3 other familiar faces to the area, Jim Trouten (electric, lap steel guitar, vocals), Jam...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 30:39
On this episode of "The Live Feed" we continue our coverage of Midwest Music Fest 2016. KQAL's Mohammed El-Roos visits with Minneapolis act, Apollo...
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 29:04
On this episode of The Live Feed, KQAL’s Mohammad El-Rous talks with Minneapolis-based band, Al Church, as they discuss the highs and lows of a mus...
- Added: Jul 14, 2016
- Length: 31:44
Frank Kostrencich has been working the night shift as a crane operator at the Port of Los Angeles for the past 26 years. Using his precision and ex...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 01:00
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 20:00
- Purchases: 1
Not just great music -- Silvia Pérez Cruz & Raúl Fernández Miró (Refree) — with their tour "Cruzmiró" unlocks some reflections by Dave Ellwand
- Added: Mar 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
We continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 in Winona Minnesota with a band that continues to push the musical envelope while combining a ...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 35:36
We continue our coverage of Boats & Bluegrass 2012 with a visit and performance by Hurricane Herold with friends Jeff Ray, and Mikkel Beckmen. This...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 43:20
Out Boats and Bluegrass 2012 coverage continues with Saint Anyway. The eccentric members of the group will tell us about how they came up with thei...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 58:16
We continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 with Corpse Reviver. This group is a collaborative of bluegrass performers paying tribute to t...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 36:45
Don Hodges studies music psychology. Here, he discusses one of his latests studies that gives us some insight into what our favorite song (and musi...
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- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 11:25
- Purchases: 1
This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll meet a singer who seemed to have an answer for everything.
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of January (1/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an early Texas radio show that helped launch a nat...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of May (5/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an often-overlooked musician who helped lay the founda...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a legendary Texas event that became a success almost ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of May (5/12): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at the unlikely origins of one of the states best known...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the second week of August (8/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a historic recording session that helped set the s...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the first week of January (1/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who performed in one of the first Africa...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of February (2/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a home recording studio that helped produce som...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
