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- Added: Feb 13, 2022
- Length: 05:26
The Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks have transitioned thousands of acres of farmland back into the prairie habitat, reconstructing parts o...
- Added: Apr 19, 2021
- Length: 05:39
Steve Saklad - Production Designer - Thank You For Smoking, Juno, Drag Me to Hell, The Muppets, The Front Runner
- Added: Mar 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
January 1953 was a busy month for recording in Chicago, involving sessions, this week, with Little Walter, “Honeyboy” Edwards, Muddy Waters, and J....
- Added: Jul 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Ruth Brown, one of the biggest R&B singers of the 1950s, who first hit the top of the Billboard charts, this week in 1950.
- Added: Apr 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile The Howlin’ Wolf, who made his debut on the Billboard R&B charts in 1951.
- Added: Apr 17, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who first recorded with an electric guitar, this week in 1941.
- Added: Apr 15, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time we profile Professor Longhair, who first recorded a beloved Mardi Gras classic, this week in 1949.
- Added: Apr 14, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Henry Thomas, whose two dozen recordings for Vocalion, made in the late 1920s, hark back to a time before the blues.
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile harmonica ace Junior Wells — who was in the studio laying down some classic tracks for Delmark Records, this week in 1965.
- Added: Apr 08, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Little Richard and Specialty Records owner Art Rupe, who, at first anyway, wasn’t too impressed by Little Richard.
- Added: Apr 06, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile blues piano mystery man, Black Bob — who was in the studio this week with Memphis Minnie, in 1935.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 03:29
The Dating Show - Hot Air Balloon Ride and History, Caricature Artists, Italian Wedding Soup
- Added: Mar 25, 2016
- Length: 27:06
- Purchases: 2
"The Florida Rocks Again! Deluxe Sampler" Mal Thursday cherry-picks some of his favorite Florida-related records from the '60s, '70s, and beyond.
- Added: Mar 06, 2015
- Length: 54:59
"The Neal Ford and the Fanatics Story"
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 59:57
You could not find two more opposite musicians forming a partnership: Stephane Grappelli and Django Rienhardt. In the early ‘30s they created the h...
- Added: Feb 07, 2014
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
The Starr Piano Company opened the doors to their new recording studio in Richmond, Indiana in 1916. The first few years they waxed the standard fa...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford was in danger of being shut down back in 2008 after years of bad financial management. But the struggl...
- Added: Mar 25, 2013
- Length: 13:00
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting December 29th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, our nerd host, opens with the latest news o...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 53:57
Computer Talk Radio weekly show for the broadcast week starting December 29th, 2012. Benjamin Rockwell, our nerd host, opens with the latest news o...
- Added: Dec 28, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Some of the earliest Blue Note recording sessions featured the trumpet of Sidney DeParis, clarinet of Edmund Hall, and piano of Art Hodes. They ca...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 58:52
New Orleans, Chicago and New York were the primary hubs for jazz by the mid 1920s. The influences from each location enriched the result. Musicians...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Jazz Historian Albert McCarthy writes in his book, Big Band Jazz (Exeter Books, NY 1974), “When jazz and dance music began to dominate American pop...
- Added: Apr 20, 2012
- Length: 58:57
A deep listen to Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell's new release, Back To The Woods. The disc is a heartfelt and upbeat tribute to blues piano pion...
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Mar 08, 2012
- Length: 58:40
- Purchases: 1
An hour long feature on the recently released concert from Hampton, VA on 12/18/81. Show is the latest release from the Stones Archives.
Bought by KRPS
- Added: Feb 03, 2012
- Length: 01:00:51
- Purchases: 1