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Song and conversation with "Chunky" Sanchez
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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For forty years, Chunky Sanchez has playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
Perry Brown of Fire Mountain (Full Music Radio Version)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: All Dies Down by Fire Mountain, Credit: Official Album Cover
Perry Brown is a graphic designer in Montgomery by day, and a musician in his hometown of Troy -- 90 minutes away -- by night. As a band currently...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, KSRQ, KKRN and more


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Interview With John Howie, Jr (Music Version)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: John Howie, Jr & The Rosewood Bluff, Everything Except Goodbye, Credit: Cover Art By Skillet Gilmore
John Howie, Jr. has been regionally successful with his prior band, The Two Dollar Pistols, but when he broke up the band to bring in other influen...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, WLPR , and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Conversation with Sherrie Maricle
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Sherrie Maricle and Diva, Credit: Shaun Mader
Sherrie Maricle has played with Jazz legends, leads an all-woman big band, and forges new roads for woman in jazz.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Lee Tasjan Interview #1411
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Aaron Lee Tasjan, Credit: Crooked River Burning album cover
Aaron Lee Tasjan has played guitar for the New York Dolls, Drivin N Cryin, and The Golden Palominos, his own bands, Semi Precious Weapons and the M...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WLPR , WLPR , KFOK-LPFM and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Country Fried Rock: The Defibulators
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Debt'll Get 'Em, Credit: Album Cover
Bug Jennings never thought he'd leave Ft. Worth, Texas for Brooklyn and form a country band, but that's just what happened -- thanks to a chance me...

Bought by KZYX, Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KFOK-LPFM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock Interviews The Whiskey Gentry
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Album Cover
Lauren Staley fronts The Whiskey Gentry, a roots band from Atlanta that draws heavily from bluegrass and traditional country storytelling. With a ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, WSLR, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Country Fried Rock Interviews Ben Tanner of Single Lock Records & Alabama Shakes
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Ben Tanner by ConcertCapture.com, Credit: Daniel DeSlover
Keyboard player and audio engineer, Ben Tanner, plays music with the Alabama Shakes, and has joined with his long-time friend, John Paul White, of ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, WLPR , KKRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 58:02
  • Purchases: 6
Howard Smith interviews Joe Cocker 11/21/1969
From: Ezra Bookstein
Series: The Smith Tapes
Caption: Collection 4 - Woodstock, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with Joe Cocker, Nov. 21st, 1969. Riding on his new success from Woodstock, Cocker and his band return to the US for a qui...

Bought by KVNF, KUOW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 3
Country Fried Rock #1326: Samantha Martin & The Haggard
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Samantha Martin And The Haggard, Credit: Press Photo
Americana music is not the sole purview of the United States, as Canadian, Samantha Martin, the chief songwriter for Samantha Martin & The Haggard,...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KKRN, WLPR , WSLR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock #1324 Cold Satellite (Jeffrey Foucault)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Cold Satellite -- Cavalcade, Credit: Official Album Cover
What happens when a poet turns over her work to a songwriter on a recent electric guitar kick? Find out with Cold Satellite, the composite project...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, KKRN, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Country Fried Rock Show #1321: Randall Bramblett
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Randall Bramblett
Sloane Spencer interviews rock veteran, Randall Bramblett, about why he keeps making new music after his success with Bonnie Raitt, Traffic, and Gr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KRPS, WSLR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Gospel Roots of Rock and Roll
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and was an early influence on Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and ...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8
Vintage Synths Enjoy a Renaissance
From: Kimberly Haas
Caption: The Album Leaf
A growing group of musicians are returning to old analog keyboards, sometimes refurbishing and playing instruments older than they are.

  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:46
What's What: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning?
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
Caption: Bertie Pearson, Credit: Rama Hughes
Bertie Pearson is an Episcopal priest in San Francisco. Before becoming a priest, he led two lives: one as a churchgoer, one as a rocker. So he w...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 46:31
Radiohead's Thom Yorke on Wankers & Confronting Who You Are
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Thom Yorke, lead singer and songwriter for the band Radiohead, tackles the challenges that just about everyone faces: confronting who you are and ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Al "Dick" Perry for President
From: Sarah Bromer
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Al Perry, Tucson country singer, is running for president. His middle name is Richard, so he registered himself as Al "Dick" Perry on the Arizona R...

Bought by WSLR


  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
Gail & Emile
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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In the 1970?s, dancer Gail Lyons and drummer Emile Latimer discovered love in Buffalo, New York through West African music. After all these years,...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
In Global Culture Space - Rana Dasgupta & Hung-Kuan Chen
From: Open Source
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We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
Indie duo, The Knots - No slaves to fashion.
From: Katie Ball
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The Knots are an Orlando-based duo whose original songs meld the retro stylings of 1950s croon-tunes with gut-bucket blues and tasty jazz; pretty c...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2010
  • Length: 07:19
American Conversations with Andrew Bacevich & Vijay Iyer
From: Open Source
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This week we're talking with the soldier-turned-author of Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich. Then we sit down at the piano with the jazz improv sta...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR -- Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on the interview 50 years in the making
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: Vikram Jayanti, September 10, 2010, San Francisco, CA, Credit: Andrea Chase
Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti on lies, truth, and Hollywood Babylon in his doc, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY OF PHIL SPECTOR

  • Added: Sep 13, 2010
  • Length: 21:01
Ten Cents a Dance
From: With Good Reason
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. Listen to some of the gems and the stories behind them.

Bought by KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KFAI Minneapolis, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
10 Greats You've Probably Never Heard
From: KUT
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Think you know music? NPR music critic Tom Moon has found ten artists you probably don't know...but should.

Bought by KLCC, KGLT, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2009
  • Length: 55:16
  • Purchases: 3