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Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Ma Rainey
Hear Me Talkin’ to Ya is the title of a 1920s song written by Ma Rainey. It is also a book by Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro that tells stories from t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Matt Mullins & the Bringdowns
From: WNCW
Series: Appalachian Vibes
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Matt Mullins and the Bringdowns come from Beckley, West Virginia with howling harmonicas, a raw blues guitar, and bone chilling vocals. Matt Mull...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:12
Betsy Woodman & Chris Plante
From: Art of the Song
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SHOW 942 (Air Dates Jan 16 - 22, 2023) Our guests this week on Art of the Song are Betsy Woodman and Chris Plant. Brought together by their musical...

Bought by KRZA, KUNM, and WETS


  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cumar Combines Irish and African Song and Dance
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Cumar poster, Credit: Nick Lethert
Cumar means confluence in Irish Gaelic, and Cumar is also the name of a Twin Cities group that combines African and irish Music and Dance. Phil Nus...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2023
  • Length: 08:00
Quoting in Rhythm
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Zutty Singleton
One way to truly enjoy the earliest days of jazz is to hear directly from the musicians themselves. Only they can tell the story as it really was.

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ian Tyson Tribute
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 941 (Air Dates: Jan 9 - 15, 2023) We at Art of the Song are sad to learn that Canadian singer-songwriter-rancher, Ian Tyson passed away on Dec...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KRCB 104.9 and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Episode 323: Kena: Bridge of Spirits
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Many artists collaborated to create the soundtrack to Kena: Bridge of Spirits, including composer Jason Gallaty and the traditional Balinese orchestra Gamelan Çudamani.
Hear Kena: Bridge of Spirits' atmospheric and emotional original score.

Bought by WBAA, Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, KECG, WKAR and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Lost Chords part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Bunny Berigan
The first glimmer that there was something new in the world of music became apparent in the deep south. It was long before Louis Armstrong and Bix ...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beth Hart
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 940 (Air Dates: Jan 2 - 8, 2023) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, Beth Hart. She is a chart-toppi...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRCB 104.9, KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 26, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Mannheim Steamroller
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 939 (Air Dates: Dec 29, 2022 - Jan 1, 2023) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is the Grammy Award winning founder of Mannheim Steamroller...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KHEN-LP, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Christmas with the Club
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: 1920s Christmas Wish
Despite being one hundred years old, this is a very similar scene to what we experience today. In her research, author Betty Owens discovered that ...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Chords part 1
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Adrian Rollini
In the early 1990s, jazz trumpet Richard Sudhalter decided he needed to correct, what he perceived as a historical error: that the White jazz music...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 322: Kristin Naigus
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: Multi-instrumentalist Kristin Naigus in her studio.
Hear our interview with the video game industry’s go-to woodwind soloist and music that features her playing.

Bought by Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media, WBAA, KECG and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Chris Haddox
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 938 (Air Dates: Dec 19 - 25, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is West Virginia singer/songwriter Chris Haddox. In the vein of tra...

Bought by WOMR, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WRFA-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
The Jazz Dance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Dance
In the 1920s, dozens of new dances were introduced to a dance hungry public. From America to Europe, people were feeling the rhythm in their feet.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Wilko Johnson Tribute - Roger Daltrey
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 937 (Air Dates: December 12 - 18, 2022) On November 21, 2022 British punk rocker Wilko Johnson passed away. The headline read: “Wilko Johnson,...

Bought by KRZA, WHRV, KUNM, KHEN-LP, WETS and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
New Orleans part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Freddie Keppard
The early Crescent City cornets set the standard for the decade of the 1920s. This program is a followup recognizing those creative artists who gen...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 321: Babylon's Fall
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: A team of composers led by Hiroshi Yamaguchi scored the 2022 action role-playing game Babylon’s Fall. The original soundtrack contains over five hours of music.
Sometimes, fantastic video game scores come from games that fail commercially and critically.

Bought by Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media, WBAA, KECG and more


  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
New Orleans Horns
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Buddy Bolden
The tradition of Crescent City cornetists and trumpeters begins with Buddy Bolden and ends with Henry “Red” Allen. It’s well documented on record t...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Sizzling Syncopators
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Noble Sissle
He joined his first society orchestra in 1916, helped organize a regimental band during WWI, teamed up with rag time pianist Eubie Blake, and forme...

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  • Added: Nov 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 320: Animal Control
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: In the 2006 game Okami players take the role of white wolf Amaterasu, the Shinto sun goddess. The original score uses traditional Japanese instruments.
Hear a musical menagerie of themes from video games with animal protagonists.

Bought by Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media, KECG, WKAR and more


  • Added: Nov 14, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
The Big Band
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Duke Ellington Orchesrtra
Long before the age of the “Big Band Era”, bandleaders were creating swing in their orchestras. Nineteen-twenty-seven to 1936 was a decade of expe...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 319: Game Brass Spotlight
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: GAMEPLAY
Caption: The members of The Game Brass explore the vastness of outer space on their 2022 album BRASS EFFECT, which features over 40 musicians.
Classical chops meet video game music with brass ensemble The Game Brass.

Bought by Vermont Public, WXXI Rochester, WGTE Public Media, GCR (Global Community Radio), KECG and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Gretchen Peters
From: Art of the Song
Series: Art of the Song
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SHOW 933 (Air Dates: November 14 - 20, 2022) Our guest this week on Art of the Song is Grammy nominated, Nashville singer-songwriter Gretchen Peter...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUNM, WHRV and more


  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
KC Gems
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: the Club McKenzie: Your 1920s Jazz Speakeasy
Caption: Benny Moton Orchestra
Kansas City developed a unique style of jazz in the 1920s. Musicians borrowed heavily from blues and ragtime. In the process, the band leaders deve...

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  • Added: Nov 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1