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Up Close And Acoustic with JM Stevens
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: JM Stevens, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic
JM Stevens is a singer/songwriter based out of Austin, Texas. He grew up in West Point, Mississippi fortunate enough to have a mother who was a sin...

  • Added: May 11, 2024
  • Length: 58:05
Up Close And Acoustic with Madrigal
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: The Madrigal album, American release, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic pic of my copy
At a recent vinyl record convention, having mostly struck out with my shopping list, I took a chance on an album with a cool, very 'of the period' ...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Sep 23, 2023
  • Length: 56:13
  • Purchases: 1
Up Close And Acoustic with Norman Taylor
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Norman Taylor, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic
Norman Taylor is a Philly-based Country-Blues artist. His style is based around such blues greats as Robert Johnson and Skip James, along with mode...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Jul 04, 2023
  • Length: 56:20
  • Purchases: 1
Up Close And Acoustic with Ben de la Cour
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Ben de la Cour, Credit: Up Close And Acoustic
I first encountered Ben de la Cour and his songs when he opened a concert in support of Peter Case. To say I was immediately smitten by his songwri...

  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 57:42
Up Close And Acoustic with Peter Case
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Peter Case/Sunset Blvd Records, Credit: Ekevara Kitpowsong the Aperturist
After turning 16 Peter Case left home in Buffalo, New York and headed West to California. He became part of the street musician scene out there and...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 05, 2023
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 1
THE EMERGENCE OF MARVIN GAYE - E 2 of 2 - [1972 - 1984]
From: Paul Ingles
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Music specials host Paul Ingles and a panel of music scholars recall and celebrate the career of Motown music legend Marvin Gaye. This second of 2 ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KAZU Seaside, Calif., WXXI Rochester, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
JEFF BECK: Essential Artist
From: Paul Ingles
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JEFF BECK: ESSENTIAL ARTIST – a remembrance of the multi-talented, multi-genre British guitar great JEFF BECK, who passed away January 10, 2023 at ...

Bought by WUTC, KSJE, KUPR low power FM, KTNA, WRGY and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Up Close And Acoustic with Cosmograf's Robin Armstrong
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Robin Armstrong, Credit: Robin Armstrong Facebook
Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2022
  • Length: 01:56:11
Up Close And Acoustic with Arielle Silver
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Arielle Silver, Credit: Arielle Silver Music Facebook
Arielle Silver, based out of Burbank California, is a singer/songwriter of the highest caliber. Maybe it's an innate ability, maybe it comes down t...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Aug 20, 2022
  • Length: 56:28
  • Purchases: 1
Up Close And Acoustic with Jessica Graae
From: Charlie Silvestri
Series: Up Close And Acoustic
Caption: Jessica Graae by Carolyn Miller, Credit: Jessica's Facebook
What do you get when you blend a folk-rock style with classical training? You get Jessica Graae! Her latest album is 'Wild River', and to me, many ...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:10
Snub or Flub
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A tribute to Lata Mangeshkar from Amul Dairy
The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ode to Lata
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.

  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 06:00
The Latin-Jazz Way
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
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A variety of Latin-Jazz-styled music blended together to create an exciting hot experience.

Bought by KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2022
  • Length: 54:38
  • Purchases: 1
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #143 - GEORGE HARRISON: Best Year Ever - 1971 (HOUR 2 of 2)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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HOUR 2 of 2. GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 197. In the first hour (alread...

Bought by WRVO Public Media, KSJE, and KUHF


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
A booster shot of vitamin ABBA
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A still from the official ABBA Voyage website, Credit: http://abbavoyage.com
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Lil Nas' Joy of Being
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Screen shot of Lil Ns X's Instagram account
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 06:00
Harlem Keeps Jazz Traditions Alive As Pandemic Restrictions Ease
From: Catharine Smith
Caption: Josh Morris, 15, onstage in Harlem.
While New York City reopens, Harlem musicians continue one of jazz's most revered traditions at the historic Minton's Playhouse.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:20
Mariachi Arcoiris
From: Ruxandra Guidi
Series: Surviving California
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Carlos Samaniego created Mariachi Arcoiris de Los Ángeles, or Mariachi Rainbow, back in 2000 for a pride event. Almost two decades later, the group...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 06:53
Dispatch 289 - Manna Dey at 100
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Blues America 117 - Tail Dragger
From: Drew Verbis
Series: Blues America
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The Tail Dragger got his name from the Howlin' Wolf and is one of the most notorious singers on the Chicago blues scene over the past 35 years. He ...

Bought by KMUW, WLPR , WYAP, KRZA, Public Radio East and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 10
Rock n' Roll Billboards of the Sunset Strip
From: Anny Celsi
Caption: The Beatles - Abbey Road, Credit: Robert Landau
The very first rock billboard arrived on the strip fifty years ago, just in time for the Summer of Love. It was the brainchild of Elektra Records...

Bought by KALW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 4
Sunset Cube: Composer camps out in his own music box on Sunset Strip
From: Anny Celsi
Caption: Manuel Lima in The Cube, Credit: Anny Celsi
A man, a plan, a piano: For 10 days, Brazilian composer Manuel Lima ate, slept and played the piano in a 10 x 10 foot square cube erected on a tria...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2016
  • Length: 08:03
Baluji Shrivastav has an Inner Vision
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Baluji Shrivastav, Credit: Sandip Roy
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns. But Baluji...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Musicians Rally to Sing Harry Nilsson into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
From: Anny Celsi
Caption: Music Director Willie Aaron leads the Harry Nilsson Chorus, Credit: Gabriel Szoke
The late singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson is, and always was, a musician's musician. In Los Angeles, a chorus of Harry-philes hope to use the power ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2016
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+ Evolution
From: Anny Celsi
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Jazz musician Esperanza Spalding took up the violin at age five, was a concertmaster at fifteen and graduated from the Berklee School of Music at a...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:51