PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
You may not know Jon Hopkins, but you’ve heard him on albums by Coldplay, Massive Attack, Imogen Heap and Brian Eno. On Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
Ben Neill is the sole player of an instrument called the mutantrumpet. It has three different bells, two sets of valves, a mini-trombone slide and ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 29, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
The music and musician behind TV’s best Sci-Fi show
- Added: Sep 25, 2009
- Length: 03:30
Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman came to renown in Prince's 1980s band, The Revolution, helping him compose the music of albums like Purple Rain. But...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
A pioneer of Nouveau Flamenco guitar expands in cinematic colors
- Added: Sep 03, 2008
- Length: 03:30
A handpicked collection of songs that traces the history of 1950's and 60's Swamp Pop, a musical genre indigenous to the Acadiana region of south L...
Bought by KMXT, Panhandle Community Radio, KSRQ, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), and NPR Illinois
- Added: Sep 11, 2007
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 5
A collection of handpicked songs from a very wide range of musical styles that address the subject of rhythm as it pertains to music and dance.
- Added: Sep 11, 2007
- Length: 58:52
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 1
Weekly eclectic music program: Great coffee songs from a wide variety of musical genres.
- Added: Sep 07, 2007
- Length: 58:55
