PRX - Pieces for Tagging: New Orleans
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It wasn't exclusively "the blues" that started rock and roll. In previous shows we heard how the cha cha, mambo, bolero, and even sea shanty were ...
Bought by KPRG, KCHU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WYAP, KFCF FM and more
- Added: Aug 22, 2022
- Length: 04:59:00
- Purchases: 8
Similar to my WWOZ midnight shows, The Ghost covers the post WW era (WWI) where western or cowboy music was similar to jazz music. Outside of some...
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 02:01:21
There's not much difference between post WWI western or jazz musics. The similarities? These musics are great.
- Added: Oct 31, 2019
- Length: 02:56:51
Music historian Paul Ingles takes listeners through a heart-felt retrospective of New Orleans music-legend Mac Rebennack - best known as Dr. John. ...
Bought by KMUW, KUNM, Spokane Public Radio, KSUT, KVNF and more
- Added: Jun 07, 2019
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
A faux live broadcast from your prom. As you can imagine, it didn't go well for me.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 03:49:54
To Dr. Michael White, it's not just a clarinet, but a time machine.
“I listened to Johnny Dodds’ recordings. I listened to Sidney Bechet. I listen...
Bought by KMUW
- Added: Nov 09, 2017
- Length: 52:12
- Purchases: 1
"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." Radio has been a tonic for almost half-a-century. I have radio obligations to fu...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 02:52:34
Music about being 16 years old. Not 15 or 17 or any other age. Just 16 years old. A segment from the 170527 broadcasts.
- Added: May 30, 2017
- Length: 39:12
It was a classic New Orleans ad hoc lunch at the corner bar, three hours of talk, laugh, drink, eat and repeat. Bar owner, Donna and Charlie plus ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:24:04
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Aug 07, 2015
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This was the winning story on the night of June 4th, 2013. The theme of the evening was "Famous Last Words." It took place at the Alvar Library in ...
- Added: Oct 13, 2014
- Length: 05:30
In this audio Postcard, the musicians and band leader of New Orleans' Landry-Walker marching band show what it takes to prepare for the Mardi Gras ...
- Added: Sep 04, 2014
- Length: 05:00
Storyville is a new collaboration between of the University of New Orleans and WWNO. These are true stories about New Orleans written by the studen...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
Also skinny and running songs and a bunch of music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of
- Added: Mar 24, 2013
- Length: 02:46:54
