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Music from the 1950s - 70s "that you've never heard before by musicians you've never heard of..." although it sound familiar. Really familiar beca...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:52:27
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The Louisiana rock and roll that didn't utilize the New Orleans sound associated with Dave Bartholomew and Cosimo Matassa. Music from west of the ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:49:30
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Time to show off Arizona musicians like Prince Shell, Dave Cook and Tommy Dukes, plus international drummer Steve Gadd recorded in Arizona. We alwa...

Bought by KVRZ, WYAP, WOUB, and WVBI-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:56
  • Purchases: 4
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (but somehow seem more relevant than what is recorded today). The second hour of the s...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:49
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Chanukah, the eight-day Festival of Lights, arrives this week.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Color Schemes, Credit: Julia Meek
This week on Folktales, life is a coloring book, and we're filling it in with bold strokes of audio from every corner of the globe! Got your paint ...

Bought by WFIU, WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Music that came just before rock and roll became a formula. Not the hits but music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. And may...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:22
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The music that made rock and roll but that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the 1950s to 1970s, a time just before the ...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:22
Caption: Lesli Wood of The Redwood Plan, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Lesli Wood has achieved almost every goal she's set for herself. She's a professional lawyer. And her band, The Redwood Plan, has played to big cro...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard from the 1950s to the 70s but, then again, it sounds so familiar. Familiar because my show features that precursor music ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:46:41
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Somethings you can't take for granted - roots music and gravity. Both are down to earth but ignored. Music you've never heard by musicians you've...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:18:32
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Topical sets of music about Russia and a return to the WWOZ kitchen/sound effects department where I found the makings of my own Prairie Home Compa...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:49:58
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Interview with rhythm guitar player from the Grateful Dead. Ranges from stories about The Reverend Gary Davis to Garcia's addictions.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
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Part one of the "other music of Bo Diddley" and black pioneers of rock and roll. This is a draft version awaiting the recovery of a backup recordi...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:04:32
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A panel of music writers and Lou Reed fans sample the late musician's catalog through the years and suggest what made him important to the history ...

Bought by WUTC, WPVM 103.7, KDUR, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KUCB and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 23
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Music from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to 1970s that you would have heard if public radio existed. Oh, just give it a listen and hear...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:49:17
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Sheik Azzurri of the French Quarter
Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because you really are sick of the same old stuff but you still remember that music was...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2013
  • Length: 03:27:36
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Another Saturday night in the French Quarter of New Orleans serving up music you've never heard from musicians you've never heard of. Tonight feat...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:55:53

  • Added: Jun 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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A pop up music club that is so local to you that you're already there. Just open your ears and close your eyes to experience New Orleans' best mus...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:50:31
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Music from before David Bowie, Lou Reed, Harry Nillson, Vanilla Fudge and others found their commercial sound. Guess what? It sounded like what w...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:02:24
  • Purchases: 1
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KUT’s award winning Texas Music Matters unit revisits the story of Texas music by turning a spotlight on the women who’ve helped shape it –and who ...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio, KUHF, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Levi Fuller, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Levi Fuller discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Written and perf...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: natural gas well, Credit: long haul productions
Producers Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister traveled to Arkansas to talk to people about what's going on under their feet ... both the extraction ...

Bought by HowSound, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 10:55
  • Purchases: 3