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Caption: Bee Taylor makes her debut on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Texas songwriter Bee Taylor and raw Americana duo Goldpine.

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KBRW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KJZX-Austin, KMSU and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 30
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The 1960s is one of the most talked-about, argued-about, mythologized periods of American history. This edition of Night Lights highlights some wom...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 59:02
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A profile of the pianist, singer, actress, and civil-rights activist, whose music drew on influences from classical to boogie-woogie, and who was t...

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Turning the spotlight on the music of Joni Mitchell.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 59:03
Caption: Emerald Fennell, San Francisco, CA 10/10/23, Credit: Andrea Chase
Emerald Fennell talks fashion, squeezing genres, and power plays with Barry Keough.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2023
  • Length: 12:08
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A survey of the singer's 1960s recordings with Cannonball Adderley, George Shearing, Gerald Wilson, and others.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Jim Capobianco and Robert Rippberger talk the warmth of imperfection, grocery lists in odd places, and not killing the animators.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 18:24
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Anita Monga talks dark humanity, the first female animator, and when Sessue Hayakawa was arguably the sexiest actor in Hollywood.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 20:37
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Carla Bley is renowned today for her big-band writing, but it was small-group recordings of her work in the 1960s that introduced her to the jazz w...

  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
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Paul Weitz talks lunching with Lily, keeping actors apart, and being a grownup.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 09:29
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An hour-long program of classic jazz featuring female jazz performers and composers of the 1960s.

Bought by WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WNMU-FM, KMUN, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 39
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A decade that saw female artists making further inroads into the male-dominated world of jazz.

Bought by KLCC and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 2
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As the 1990s brought the 20th century to a close, women musicians continued to increase their visibility in the jazz world and to erode the notion ...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KLCC, and KMUW


  • Added: Mar 01, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Throughout jazz history the harp has rarely been heard as a soloing or primary instrument, but in the 1950s and 60s Dorothy Ashby, a musician out o...

Bought by WJCT, KRCU Public Radio, WVTF, KLCC, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Celebrating Oklahoma Women of Song, highlighting 3 important Oklahoma singer/songwriters, who are no longer with us, Gus Hardin, Debbie Campbell, a...

  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's broadcast of WoodSongs, it's roots music triple header as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes The Mastersons, Whitmore Sisters and...

Bought by KBRW, KENW, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVIK, KUAR and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: Ben Proudfoot, San Francisco, CA 3/5/2022, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ben Proudfoot talks shameful gaps, pandemic filmmaking, and the false promise of donuts.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 20:53
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Trumpeter Billie Rogers, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, and other unsung heroines of the World War II era in jazz.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:04
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We take a look at Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, one of the singer's busiest and most memorable years on record.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:04
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In 1952 Billie Holiday began her last great period on record with a series of small-group sessions that capture the twilight glow of a jazz star. ...

Bought by KMUW, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KLCC, High Plains Public Radio, WKMS and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Prune Nourry, San Francisco, CA 10/9/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Prune Nourry talks creation, lipstick, and what happens when chance meets intuition

  • Added: Oct 28, 2019
  • Length: 21:04
Caption: Jillian Bell and Paul Downs Colaizzo, San Francisco, CA 8/30/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jillian Bell and Paul Downs Colaizzo talk expressions, committing, and what to do with a crying cowboy.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 11:55
Caption: Ryan White, San Francisco, CA 4/21/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Ryan White talks luck, sex, and calling his mother.

  • Added: May 02, 2019
  • Length: 16:50
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We’ll hear some McPartland recordings with a special emphasis on her own compositions, as well as excerpts from a 1975 interview in which she talks...

Bought by KLCC and High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2019
  • Length: 59:04
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Evan Dumouchel & MacLeod Andrews, San Francisco, CA 2/10/19, Credit: Andrea Chase
Evan Dumouchel and MacLeod Andrews talk monsters, motives, and the magic of serendipitous loons.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2019
  • Length: 15:53