PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

420 results


Full-Time Blues Radio ep 1318: 2013 Blues Music Awards
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
Piece image
We celebrate the winners at the 2013 Blues Music Awards by playing their music and giving you the full rundown of winners in ever category! Everyon...

Bought by Radio New Zealand and KPVL


  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
You’ll Be Mine: Bringing Musical Tourism To West Memphis
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Piece image
Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
Full-Time Blues Radio ep 1316 - Willie's Blues
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
Piece image
We celebrate the 80th birthday of Willie Nelson by exploring his Blues roots, with music by Willie himself, his Blues brethren, and Blues covers of...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
I'll Take You There: Using Music To Revitalize Soulsville
From: Eleanor Boudreau
Caption: The home of bluesman Memphis Slim, a historic site next to the Stax Museum. A partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plans to turn this house into a place where musicians can practice and record.
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
The Sound of Early America
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
Caption: Towns in the southern colonies had many residents who were slaves or free blacks., Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln stirred up a lot of talk about what history sounded like. Spielberg even recorded one of President Lincoln’s...

Bought by KENW and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Blues Unlimited Special: In Their Own Words - A Conversation with the Blues
From: Steve c/o Ernest Franz
Series: Blues Unlimited
Piece image
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
Full-Time Blues Radio ep 1310 - Kelly Richey Interview
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
Piece image
Johnny Full-Time sits down for conversation with Kelly Richey about her new CD, her new band, and much more. There's also music from the new album,...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Full-Time Blues Radio 1309 - Blues Hall of Fame
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
Piece image
On this special episode we will hear music from all of the artists, albums and singles in the 2013 class of the Blues Foundation's Blues Hall of Fame!

Bought by Radio New Zealand, WSLR, and KPVL


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fresh Talk: Valerie Cassel Oliver
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Valerie Cassel Oliver
In Houston, Cathy Byrd meets Senior Curator Valerie Cassel Oliver at the Contemporary Arts Museum to tour Valerie’s latest exhibition project: Radi...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2013
  • Length: 12:35
Edna the Engineer: Who Gets to be a Scientist?
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
You know the stereotype: white guy in a lab coat with crazy hair and an experiment gone awry. But the picture of science is changing. In this episo...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WFHB, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Full-Time Blues Radio ep. 1303 - Blues By the Numbers
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
Piece image
This week, Full-Time Blues Radio is "By the Numbers," as we feature songs with numerals in their titles. There's also developing news out of Chicag...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
Full-Time Blues Radio 1235 - Vintage R&B
From: John Luttrell
Series: Full-Time Blues Radio
Piece image
This week's episode of FTB Radio features Vintage Soul and R&B - New, original music recorded with a classic sound!

Bought by Radio New Zealand and KPVL


  • Added: Nov 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The R&B Chronicles - Remembering Whitney Houston
From: WHRV
Series: The R&B Chronicles
Piece image
Celebrating the life of Whitney Houston

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KUCB


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:43
  • Purchases: 2
Blues City 4: Missouri
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
Piece image
Going to Missouri: in St. Louis with Jelly Roll Anderson and Albert King; and then KC for the likes of Sonny Kenner and Big Joe Turner.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, KHNS, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 5: Arkansas
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
Piece image
Heading to Arkansas, home legendary blues artists like Big Bill Broonzy and Sonny Boy Williamson, and the King Biscuit Time radio blues show. Inclu...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, KHNS, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 6: Texas
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
Piece image
Time for Texas with Blind Lemon Jefferson, T-Bone Walker, the Vaughan brothers, and ZZ Top.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KMUW, KRZA, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 7: California
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
Piece image
Surf's up for the Blues as we tool out to southern California for T-Bone Walker, Juke Boy Bonner, and Jesse Fuller, as well as a few surprises.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Blues City 8: New York
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
Piece image
Now for the Big Apple for WC Handy and Duke Ellington to start. Then, this where the urban, jazz scene took on a raw southern sound.

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KRZA, KRZA, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Blues City 10: Delta
From: Gary Pitts
Series: Blues City
Piece image
Return to the Delta for Robert Johnson, Son House, Charlie Patton and Lead Belly.

Bought by KRZA, KPVL, WJSU, and Radio New Zealand


  • Added: Jul 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Crown the King: Red Takes Black
From: Adam Kampe
Piece image
One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...

Bought by WABE, KALW, KUOW, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 4
FuseBox Radio Broadcast for Week of June 6 & 13, 2012
From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast
Piece image
Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 03:08:13
I'm Not A Drag Queen! I'm Sylvester!
From: Sarah Danson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A bio of the single best disco artist, who changed performance forever, Sylvester.

  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 18:13
Women and Leadership
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Piece image
From preteen girls to college women to female faculty at the highest ranks of academia—a show about how women are learning to become leaders throug...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WJCT, WMPG, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9