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In the earliest years of jazz, the process of recording wasn’t close to being perfected. Microphones didn’t exist. Vocalists had to belt out their ...

Bought by KVCR and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Lars Vogt
The magical sound of Sharon Kam's clarinet. Violinist Christian Tetzlaff and a piece he's been working on for forty years and still finds astonishi...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 01:57:57
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SHOW 820 (Air Dates: Feb 8 - 14, 2021) Today on Art of the Song we explore the music and mission of FlipSyde. Mixing together rap, guitars, politi...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KNBA, WETS, WOMR, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
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This week on Tent Show Radio, living legend, songwriter and singer, Arlo Guthrie. Mr. Guthrie has performed everywhere from Carnegie Hall too, wel...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Sierra Hull on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Tennessee-bred virtuoso mandolinist Sierra Hull plus the eccentric Ameri...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KTRL, Radio Bristol, WEJP-LP 107.1, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: young Sidney Bechet
Soprano saxophonist Sidney Bechet is among the giants of early jazz. An equal of Louis Armstrong. Yet, he is not that well remembered. Part of the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 839 (Air Dates: Jan 25 - 31, 2021) Over the years, we’ve had the opportunity to interview some pretty amazing artists. Here we dust off a show...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Henry "Red" Allen
Although the isn’t as well known today, Red Allen was favorably compared with Louis Armstrong in the 1920s and ‘30s. He managed to perform with som...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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SHOW 837 (Air Dates: Jan 11 - 17, 2021) This week on Art of the Song our guest is singer-songwriter Danny O’Keefe. Probably best known for his 1970...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KNBA, WETS, High Plains Public Radio, WRFA-LP and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 24
Caption: Mike Scott of The Waterboys on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Mike Scott the Scottish bandleader of the legendary group The Waterboys.

Bought by KUAR, Angelica Community Radio, KTRL, KTRL, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 31
Caption: Cotton Club
By the mid 1920s, Harlem had completed its renaissance in art and literature. Now it was time for the music to complete the circle. At its height, ...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Victor Wooten on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Victor Wooten five-time Grammy winner and founding member of the super-gr...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 30
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SHOW 835 (Air Dates: Dec 28, 2020 - Jan 3, 2021) We were sad to learn of the passing of Chad Stuart of the legendary 1960s British Invasion duo Cha...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 22
Caption: Louis Prima
In the transition from traditional jazz in the late 1920s and the emergence of the Swing Era of the 1930s … the big bands managed to hold on to the...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption:  Richie Havens, one of the most recognizable voices in popular folk music, performs on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, it is a combination of two of our legacy shows. The first half hour is taken from show #500 with the legendary ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KKRN, KTRL, KDLG, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 30
Caption: Jack Hilton
Jack Hilton was one of the biggest names in music across Europe in the 1920s and ‘30s. Inspired by symphonic jazz popularized by Paul Whiteman in A...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Alberta Hunter
This program is a cross section of Southern jazz artists who brought their music to the big stage in the 1920s. Alberta Hunter, Sippi Wallace, the ...

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  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Another two hours featuring women players of bluegrass music, jazz and the shapeshifting sonic pathways linking them together known variously as ne...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:40
Caption: Jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Ross Sutter sings and plays songs representing a variety of European cultures. But like most artists, Covid nearly ended all of his work. But Ross ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 07:59
Caption: Biderbecke & Trumbauer, Credit: Scott Chantler illistration 1931
This program is devoted to the music of corniest Bix Beiderbeck in 1927, when he and saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer teamed up. This is the year the ...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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As we mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, WCMU is pleased to offer for your air "Beethoven: Beyond the Silence." This special producti...

Bought by WOSU, WRCJ-FM, WLRH, KRPS, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Eddie South
Jazz fiddlers weren’t considered a core component of early jazz, yet they were a key to popularizing a new music. Eddie South, Stuff Smith, Stephan...

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  • Added: Nov 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Josephine Baker
Charleston, Jitterbug, black bottom, shimmy, one-step foxtrot, waltz, tango, Breakaway and Charleston. And don’t forget the Grizzly Bear, Turkey Tr...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Emmylou Harris on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, it's a celebration of Appalachia with Emmylou Harris, Darrell Scott and more.

Bought by KUAR, KTRL, KDLG, WEJP-LP 107.1, KLCC and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 32