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For the last week of December (12/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at folk songwriter who became a somewhat reluctant ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the first week of July (7/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a songwriter who entertained audiences in European ca...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of August (8/9): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneer of barrelhouse piano who started his car...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the third week of July (7/17): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer who had a minty fresh moniker.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of October (10/10): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a popular artist who stopped making records in ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:50
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For the fourth week of May (5/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a record label that was a real feather in the cap of...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of November (11/22): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at an artist who could really sink his teeth into...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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For the first week of April (4/4): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a West Texas wild man who contributed to both 1950s ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
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For the third week of February (2/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at about a world renowned musician who chose to mak...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:31
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For the fourth week of January (1/24): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the most successful yet least well-known ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
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For the second week of December (12/14): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who used music to break down the barri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the last week of October (10/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who wrote the state’s first known English...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the fourth week of August (8/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musical icon who once sold soda bottles in orde...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:57
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For the third week of July (7/16): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a musician who proved that it’s not such a small wor...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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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
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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
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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
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
Caption: Sophie Tucker in 1927
The use of the term Red Hot Mama’s supposedly emerged in the early 1920s. In 1929, songsters Jack Yellen and Milton Ager wrote, I’m the Last of the...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fats Domino in J&M Studios
New Orleans’ J&M recording studio birthed rhythm & blues in the late forties as well as proto-rock & roll. It had it’s own self-contained backing b...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 07:56
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Etta James "At Last!" 1960, Credit: Argo Records
We remember the remarkable life and amazing career of one of the greatest female performers in music history, the legendary Miss Etta James, who pa...

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Remembrance of the late great blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, a special report

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 1
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“Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound” is a one-hour broadcast special from AIR hosted by Katie Davis celebrating tales from some of public...

Bought by KUER, KPIK-LP, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, KCUR and more


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 27
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Southern hospitality and down-home Southern cuisine meet to create a dining experience that can only be found on the corner of 1st Ave. and 8th St....

  • Added: Mar 29, 2010
  • Length: 07:13
Caption: Paul Robeson
An exploration through the life and times of singer, activist, athlete and entertainer Paul Robeson.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 10, 2009
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 2