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3am Sunday morning introspections on life in New Orleans from the only sober guy in the French Quarter - the all-night show guy at the community ra...
Bought by KPRG
- Added: Sep 19, 2022
- Length: 34:13
- Purchases: 1
Thoughts on "group harmony" as a category of music (including "doo wop" and the wide range of group vocals with instrumentation). This music was e...
Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and WQCS
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 04:04:55
- Purchases: 5
We feature the first rock and roll songs that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because public radio can ignore the overwhelmin...
Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, WQCS, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]
- Added: Feb 14, 2022
- Length: 02:57:01
- Purchases: 5
A vacation give-away on the radio that you don't need to be the fifth caller or know the name of any of the songs or musicians. (In fact, you bett...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Aug 14, 2020
- Length: 02:56:15
- Purchases: 1
Jesse Hawthorne used to do the Friday midnight to Saturday 5am shift (a day before my show) and the Sunday morning gospel show. That's a grueling ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 01:54:55
- Purchases: 1
Took a tour of early 1970s rock from the western half of the US at the end of the third hour.
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 04:54:15
Regretfully, I traveled outside the levees and into the Forbidden Zone. I felt like Kurtz descending into the hellish desert of commercialism, co...
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 02:55:19
It wasn't until the 1980s that music featured anger. Some would say that introduction was liberating and progressive. That the anti-war music was...
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 03:39:09
To stay in New Orleans is to abandon health, wealth and reasonableness in favor of enjoying the moment. Living the non-commercial life of quality ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 01:57:23
I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 02:49:23
Saxophonist Charles Neville was born into one of New Orleans' most famous musical families, and enjoyed a career spanning more than 60 years before...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 51:59
- Purchases: 1
Chess Records' first release was a disastrous Tibbs Brother song expressing displeasure with the then recently deceased racist Mississippi Governor...
- Added: May 01, 2017
- Length: 01:08:20
This is the short segment focusing only on Bo Diddley, Indo Rock and Surf musics' similar sounds. Taken from the 170429 show.
- Added: Apr 30, 2017
- Length: 01:20:55
A show about that small step, the stumble from being an artist to being homelessness and helplessness. Music and readings by those folks who lived...
- Added: May 09, 2016
- Length: 02:57:43
Increasingly, police don’t live in the neighborhoods, or even the cities they patrol. But is that a problem? Law enforcement agencies around the ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Nov 24, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A look back at the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, 15 years later, to hear how some of New Orleans' best-loved musicians endured - and why. Gwen T...
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 51:58
Ten years after New Orleans flooded following Hurricane Katrina, the city has changed. New Orleans is now home to far fewer Black people and far fe...
Bought by KZYX and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 27, 2015
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 2
New Orleans is a weather town. As hurricane season begins, hear the most emotional federal weather bulletin ever written. Plus, more on how the Nat...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 17:53
- Purchases: 1
The Lower 9th Ward's Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle of today is what is called a “ghost swamp”. Until the 1960s, it was a full of cypress trees, ...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 18:02
Three hours of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collector's music so that you don't need to spend your adulthood in yo...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:55:29
