PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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the 1920s the watchful eye of a moralist group of private citizens known as the Chicago Vigilance Committee delivered an urgent message to the pub...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...
- Added: Feb 22, 2021
- Length: 49:50
This time we profile Floyd Jones, a serious and thoughtful songwriter, who was in the studio for Chess Records in 1951.
- Added: Apr 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile guitarist Big Joe Williams and harmonica ace John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, who last recorded together, this week in 1947.
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Robert Johnson, who made his recording debut the week of Thanksgiving, 1936.
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Big Maceo, who recorded his “magnum opus” — the barnstorming instrumental “Chicago Breakdown” — this week in 1945.
- Added: Apr 11, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile the Memphis Jug Band, whose 1929 recording, “K.C. Moan,” was one of the 84 selections on the “Anthology of American Folk Music.”
- Added: Apr 09, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Sid Hemphill, who was recorded by Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, this week in 1942.
- Added: Mar 31, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This program is devoted to the creative composers, vocalists and musicians who were so important in the early years of jazz.
- Added: Mar 01, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Archie Shepp shares his musical biography—and his thoughts about the legacy of African-American music.
Bought by KMUW, WMUU-LP, WNJR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 4
Rona Steinberg recalls the time a cancer-stricken Bob Marley came into her hospital and her life.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 22, 2011
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
They have no band. No backup. No room for error. In a barbershop quartet the only instrument is the vocal chords.
- Added: Jun 07, 2010
- Length: 06:14
You know his music, now get to know the man behind these classic songs.
Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KUPR low power FM, Radio New Zealand, KFOK-LPFM and more
- Added: Dec 05, 2008
- Length: 55:35
- Purchases: 12
One of the most stunning comebacks in the history of rock and roll...
- Added: Mar 10, 2008
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 2
