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This Week in Texas Music History: Clifton Chenier
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of June (6/25): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped blend Texas and Louisiana music int...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
This Week in Texas Music History: George Strait
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of May(5/18): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who was turned down by a number of night cl...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:42
This Week in Texas Music History: Fredrick Lemsky
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of March (3/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the very first Czech musicians to perform i...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Julien Blitz
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the third week of July(7/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a child prodigy who helped launch one of the state’s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
This Week in Texas Music History: Ike Reynolds
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the last week of September (9/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped establish the first Baptist mus...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:43
This Week in Texas Music History: Jimmy Dean
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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For the second week of August (8/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a country singer who found his fortune at the bre...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Omer Simeon
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Omer Simeon-front row, 3rd from left
Born in New Orleans in 1902, Omer Simeon is the least known of the early clarinetist of the 1920s. He was apparently very quite and reserved, didn...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 58:58
The Wizards of Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Apollo Theater, Chicago, 1920s
It’s Windy Hear! But, in the late 1920s and early ‘40s, much of that wind was coming from the great horns of musicians like Ruben Reeves and Louis...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass With Mustard 2011 11-20 1hr
From: Dan Sadowsky
Caption: Sundays 10am MT Aspenpublicradio.org
Three radio-magazine articles: A survey of "Home Sweet Home" and its unknown backstory; The goofy provenance of "Kansas City Kitty;" Meet Solomon B...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
West Texas 1941: The Story of Guy Clark
From: KUT
Caption: Susanna and Guy Clark, Credit: Music Road Records
Join a who's who of Texas Music, including Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Willie Nelson and many, many more in a 70th birthday celebration o...

Bought by KSUT, Prairie Public, Marfa Public Radio, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and KGLT


  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 53:47
  • Purchases: 5
Squeezebox Stories
From: Julie Caine
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Squeezebox Stories, a sound-rich, narrative-driven public radio documentary hosted by Marco Werman of PRI's The World, explores the rich musical wo...

Bought by WCNY, WWNO, KZUM, KLCC, Marfa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 20
A Shortcut Back Through The 20th Century
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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A unique audio retrospective...A Shortcut Back through the 20th Century is an impressionistic glance back at the last one hundred years, featuring ...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:36
Smithsonian Folkways
From: Arndt Peltner
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An amazing treasure chest of music, sounds and spoken word of the 20th century from around the world

  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:53
Woodstock ReMashed - 2 Hours Of Peace & Music
From: Jay Spill
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Someone beamed the Woodstock festival into the new millenium: Woodstock Artists remixed, mashed-up and mixed with original festival speeches and at...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 13, 2010
  • Length: 01:59:26
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz and Civil Rights
From: With Good Reason
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Musicians' impact on the Movement.

Bought by WVAS, WVAS, WABE, WVAS, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
Porgy & Bess: A Jazz Transcription (Parts 1 & 2)
From: PVP Media
Series: Rivewalk Jazz
Caption: 1942 Souvenir Program for stage production of Porgy & Bess, Credit: Courtesy Dubois Learning Center at www.duboislc.org
Free to all PRI Affiliates - Hot Jazz meets classic American opera as Riverwalk Jazz celebrates the 75th anniversary of Gershwin's great folk opera...

Bought by KTEP, KXCR, WSMC, Spokane Public Radio, and WFIU


  • Added: Apr 20, 2010
  • Length: 01:58:10
  • Purchases: 5
Texas Nuggets: Three Chords and a Station Wagon
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
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The incredible story of a lost chapter of music history...and the equally incredible songs now rediscovered.

Bought by KGLT, Marfa Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 12, 2010
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 3
Earl Wild at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam
From: Boyce Lancaster
Caption: Pianist Earl Wild
Pianist Earl Wild performed before an enthusiastic audience at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam to celebrate his 90th birthday.

Bought by WFIU and BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2010
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 2
Return to Camelot PT. 2
From: Boyce Lancaster
Series: Return to Camelot: Music in the Kennedy White House
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As the Kennedy presidency begins, a veritable Who's Who of artists, writers, and composers visit the White House.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Return to Camelot, PT. 3
From: Boyce Lancaster
Series: Return to Camelot: Music in the Kennedy White House
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In a matter of moments, hope and joy turns to despair and sorrow.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:05
Return to Camelot, PT. 4
From: Boyce Lancaster
Series: Return to Camelot: Music in the Kennedy White House
Caption: Marion Anderson sings at President Kennedy's memorial service
In the months following President Kennedy's assassination, musicians and composers the world over expressed their sorrow through music

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
The Children of Children Keep Coming
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
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Through story and song, author Russell Goings has adapted his epic poem “The Children of Children Keep Coming” into an hour-long spoken word perfor...

Bought by WVTF, WRKF, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Allegheny Mountain Radio, WVIA and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 51:01
  • Purchases: 37
An Early Music Christmas
From: WFIU
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An hour-long program of seasonal music from the distant past and through the ages -- both sublime and earthly, across time and place, across belief...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WCNY, RadioStPete Florida, Kansas Public Radio, WHRV and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2009
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 12
A Shortcut Back To 1969
From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts
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The 50th Anniversary Mix

Bought by KMUN, KMUN, KMUN, KZYX, NPR Illinois and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2009
  • Length: 55:31
  • Purchases: 7
The Jayhawks: Music From The North Country
From: Joyride Media
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The history and musical trajectory of the veteran Minnesota rock band The Jayhawks.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, WCWP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KVSC and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14