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201227 "Bad Skills" plus Lamp Records and Matt Lucas
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Matt Lucas at the (pre-Katrina) Fats Domino Compound
Whether we like it or not, we pick up skills from our habits. Everyone talks up the good habits and their good skills but nobody talks up the bad ...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:58
  • Purchases: 2
201220 Covid Music is Covid Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Andy Kerr Of More Science High School at His Pep Rally
Live performances are out and putting a record on the hi fi has been obsolete for decades so what's replaced the joy of music? Radio. Music radi...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:37
  • Purchases: 2
201213 Australian, New Zealand, Jamaican Rock and Roll Bands of Post WWII (and my dog's-eye view of my neighborhood).
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Candle Light Dinner For My Dogs
Music from the post WWII era when rock and roll wasn't a term yet but something profoundly different was in music from around the world as the worl...

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:48
  • Purchases: 2
201206 New Orleans Characters
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Bullet that came down 10 feet from my house
The characters in New Orleans this time from a perspective of who's doing crime around here.

Bought by KSLU, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:33
  • Purchases: 3
201129 Neighborhood Characters
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Tank the Modern American Aluminum Miner
It's not the hits and celebrities that predominate your everyday experiences. It's the the local music that never makes it to the big stage and th...

Bought by WYAP, Prairie Public, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:08
  • Purchases: 3
201122 People in my Neighborhood
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
A tour of the characters of my neighborhood. From the "urban camper" who sleeps on my front porch and the neighbor who forgets to put on his pants...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:59
  • Purchases: 2
201115 Neighborhood Characters
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Tielman Brothers on Stage
New Orleans is one of the most integrated cities in the US. Black, Brown, White, poor, rich, sober, and drunk all living on top of each other. An...

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:56:38
  • Purchases: 2
201108 Experiencing Hurricane Zeta From My Front Porch
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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From my eyes, my Hurricane Zeta experiences and just Louisiana music tonight. Be sure to watch the videos through the attached links. Louisiana m...

Bought by WYAP and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:17
  • Purchases: 2
201101 Post Hurricane Zeta Show
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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We're without power, internet, or music bars and I spent the day in Bay St. Louis with the chainsaw, Lumpy the truck, and my tool so I've spent the...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 30, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:54
  • Purchases: 3
201018 Music You've Never Heard By Musicians You've Never Heard Of
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Plus stories from a poi boy wanderings.

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:16
  • Purchases: 2
201004 Music You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Soap Box Derby Cheater and Privilege
Music from the post WWII era when authoritarian, top-down governance was out of fashion and America's third way of using bottom up creativity resul...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:57:28
  • Purchases: 3
Spencer Bohren: A Traveling Life
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Spencer Bohren, Credit: Scotty Hall
Singer-songwriter Spencer Bohren (1950-2019) was raised in Casper, Wyoming, and made his home in New Orleans. In between, for seven straight years,...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
The Liverpool to Hamburg Scene Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
There was the usual Liverpool music scene in Liverpool but there was a spectacular Liverpool musical scene that flourished in ... Hamburg, Germany....

Bought by Prairie Public and KFCF FM


  • Added: Sep 27, 2020
  • Length: 57:42
  • Purchases: 2
200927 America to Liverpool to Hamburg - Before The Beatles
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Howie Casey Derry Wilkie and Band
It's the basis of this radio show, "how did this music work?" without the interference of a commercial narrative. Not the hits, not the oldies, no...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:04
  • Purchases: 3
110416 Romance Story, Diddley Bow,
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
A 15-song sequence of songs put into a sequence where they told the complete story of a romance from start to a memory. Plus the usual unusual.

Bought by KFCF FM and Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:50
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #540 - Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers
From: Matt "The Cat" Baldassarri
Series: Juke In The Back With Matt The Cat
Caption: Juke In The Back with Matt The Cat, Credit: Public Domain
"Juke In The Back" digs deep into New Orleans R&B this week for the highly underrated 1950s vocal group, Bobby Mitchell & The Toppers. Best known f...

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC, WHRV, WOUB, KMXT, and Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting


  • Added: Sep 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
200830 New Orleans Music and Music and Musicians You've Never Heard.
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Willie Mays Sings "If You Love Me" (and he does a good job of it)
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. A good sprinkling of New Orleans music tonight and the sounds of 38 cents rattling a...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 02:56:26
  • Purchases: 1
Irma Thomas: The Influences and the Business
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Irma Thomas, Credit: Rick Olivier
A return visit with singer Irma Thomas, who pays tribute to her musical influences - some surprising - and tells Gwen all about the bottom line of ...

Bought by KMUW


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
200816 Free Covid Vacations!
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: My friend Thai opening the "drive up window" for me to spend some time with my mom.
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
200802 Aladdin and Kent Records
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lee Denson / Jesse James
Record companies often have a "sound" that's uniquely identifiable to them. Of course, Chess and Sun Records had their sounds but they recorded a...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 02:55:51
  • Purchases: 1
Ep. 420: Jami Attenberg, James Kim, and Federale, 7/31/2020
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Jami Attenberg on Live Wire, Credit: Jennie Baker
This episode feature author Jami Attenberg, podcaster James Kim, and music from Federale.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
The Myth Justice is Blind to Money, Part 2: The System
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 2, Episode 2 Part 2 of The Myth Justice is Blind to Money looks at one prior attempt to get rid of money bail, and how this attempt was thw...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 10:05
  • Purchases: 1
This "Bad Child" Became a Judge With a Passion for Justice, Poetry, and Decency
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1.5, Episode 3 Retried Judge Calvin Johnson was a lot of firsts, including the first elected African American judge in New Orleans. Johnso...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 11:51
200730 Blues - Sitting in for the Midnight Creeper
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Jesse Hawthorne, The Midnight Creeper
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
A New Orleans rabbi and her congregants are starting new conversations about mass incarceration
From: Eve Abrams
Series: Unprisoned
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Season 1, Episode 7 Congregants at a New Orleans synagogue study and educate themselves about mass incarceration and form bonds with formerly inca...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1

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