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
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
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
Great renditions of songs from various musical genres composed by Johnny Mercer.
Bought by KMUW
- 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
How -- and why -- Stravinsky revised theatrical pieces for the concert hall
- Added: May 08, 2007
- Length: 13:53
Joe Bussard on his collection of 25,000 78's and his own Fonotone Records label
Bought by KXOT Public Radio and NPR Station Showcase with PRX
- Added: Nov 13, 2006
- Length: 19:35
- Purchases: 2
The first, and biggest, musical superstar from Asbury Park was not Bruce Springsteen, and he didn't play rock & roll
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WFUV
- Added: Feb 06, 2006
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 2
The Ebony Hillbillies prove you don?t have to be white and Southern to play authentic, down home country music...they are hip, urban, and black. A...
Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Public Interactive, WKMS, KCUR and more
- Added: Mar 21, 2005
- Length: 06:41
- Purchases: 8
the "greatest generation" had the greatest music, according to hot jazz bandleader/historian Vince Giordano
Bought by KERA
- Added: Feb 15, 2005
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1