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Tonight on The Live Feed we revisit the Boats and Bluegrass festival to hear more from People Brothers Band. The group is originally from Madison, ...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 55:41
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This week's search for the first rock and roll record is in songs about satellites, songs with the word "zoom" in the lyrics, Mexican rocanrol, and...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and KPRG


  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:34
  • Purchases: 4
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It's Covid time so Mardi Gras is going to be less on the streets and more in our heads. But Mardi Gras and music are so similar that we really don...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:21
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Gene Vincent
The Writer takes over to program music and run the board.

  • Added: Mar 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:52:49
Caption: Loren Greene On the Ponderosa
I never guessed there would be so many singing groupies for Ringo Starr but you would never believe how many songs I didn't play because they were ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Urban musicians often chose country music because it was lucrative. They wore the country music costumes, played the instrumentation, and made the...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:52:29
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I think this show worked as a deep dive into late Saturday night radio. Starting the night with the novelties of me juggling chopsticks and shoes ...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:50:33
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In preparing my show, I rapidly listen to many snippets of many songs which is a process of dis-assembling and re-assembling sounds separate from t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:01:26
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to the 1970s. Plus... More sleepless musings on radio. The Fowler doc...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2016
  • Length: 03:43:24
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Tonight's show - obscure New Orleans musicians playing that New Orleans sound.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:37
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The night before Easter and there are many more songs about rabbits than Easter so I only cobbled together a set of music. Usually it is a rabbit...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:47:27
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From the 1950s to 1970s - the golden era of American music. Collectors music for non-collectors who simply enjoy the joy of discovering the musica...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 27, 2016
  • Length: 02:50:07
  • Purchases: 1
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A rebroadcast of the unusual December 2012 show on American music that imitates... Well it's a 1960s Americana perspective on what we thought Chin...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:29
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (who's first names are either Jimmy or Bobby). To start the show - in honor of the Pr...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 02:54:43
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The term "Indo Rock" was worn by Indonese bands from Netherland during the music's peak from 1958 to 1968. Similar to the US-originated rock and r...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 02:59:38
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I must have fallen into the "Bobby" and "Billy" section of the music library because almost every musician featured tonight has one of those names....

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:55:53
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all singing about Shirley and pink "stuff."

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 02:51:31
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the 1950s to the 1970s. All the non-hits (because adding money to music has nev...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:11
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Combining a card trick with the card games, 52 pickup and slap jack also didn't work on radio.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:02:48
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I do a card trick on radio. Without cards. Without anything tricky. And it I did have cards, it wouldn't have improved the trick. "Oh yeah, a...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:03

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:04
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Ranting and raving like a motivational speaker for musicians... Oh quit being a big baby waa waa and just try listening for ten minutes. Nope, i...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:44:54
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Music about being robbed at a hotel on your one-nighter (more like a one-half nighter) and black bubblegum music. As always, music you've never h...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:42:45
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Something happened to create such a fertile ground for Americana music in post WWII era of the 1950-70s of this show's focus. However whatever ser...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:49:20
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From the renaissance of Americana culture, 1950 to 1970s when we were searching for a uniquely American musical identity in the 20th century that c...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:46