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The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Pender
It comes in at just over 650 pages, and weighs-in at just under three-and-a-half pounds. It’s also worth every word. Why? Because, if there’s anyth...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
From Community Dance to Dance Community: Recalling the Old Farmer's Ball
From: Carla Seidl
Caption: The original Farmer's Ball, and an OFB dance today, Credit: Phil Jameson/Carla Seidl
The Old Farmer's Ball is a regional folk dance organization in Asheville, North Carolina that is best known for its lively Thursday night contra da...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2021
  • Length: 49:50
Myth - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Grant Hawkins is a Masters student in Music and a lover of sounds. His Song Story is about love and winter and his song, “Myth” by Beach House, is...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
Curse of the Traveller - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Colin Bartlett takes us to East Germany before the wall came down.

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 04:20
Lindberg - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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In his Song Story, Rod Clarance reminds everyone born in Montreal something we all intuitively know. You can leave Montreal, but Montreal will neve...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2015
  • Length: 06:06
Cinnamon Girl - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Artist and medical technician Deb Mueller Peate take us to her youth and back in a Song Story that covers four decades of memory.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:42
Wonderful Tonight - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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Here's a Song Story guaranteed to make you smile, if not tear up.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:41
Fun, Fun, Fun - A Song Story
From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories
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At 15, Melanie Clarance's world was turned upside down.

  • Added: Aug 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:54
Hurricane Katrina's Impact on the New Orleans Hip Hop Scene
From: Scott Gurian
Caption: MC Know One
Musical profile of the founder of a New Orleans hip hop label and one of his rappers discussing how they were impacted and influenced by Hurricane ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:12
  • Purchases: 1
Wayne Coyne on Living with Death
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I’m pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time" - Wayne Coyne, as told to Jennifer Van Evra by phone in 2002. The Flamin...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WOUB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 05:50
  • Purchases: 3
Scott Miller Interview #1421
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Scott Miller, Credit: Official Press Photo
Scott Miller is miles away from his days with the V-Roys, but Knoxville still claims him as their own, even if he has since returned to rural Virgi...

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


  • Added: Aug 04, 2014
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock Interviews Caitlin Cary of NC Music Love Army #1339
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: We Are Not For Sale: Songs Of Protest, Credit: Skillet Gilmore
Caitlin Cary and Jon Lindsay formed the NC Music Love Army after a long phone conversation inspired by a song quickly written and posted on YouTube...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
Country Fried Rock: Austin Lucas #1336
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Austin Lucas Stay Reckless
Austin Lucas quit a prestigious children's choir that toured the world when he walked in one day in a Ramones tee shirt and decided to form his fir...

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


  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:06
  • Purchases: 7
Kurt Cobain the Lost Interview
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I even thought that I was gay. I thought that might be the solution to my problem." - Kurt Cobain. Interview by Jon Savage in New York City on Jul...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KALW, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 5
Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy (Muscle Shoals Musician, Formerly of Drive-By Truckers)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Press photo from the band
If you think you know Shonna Tucker from her years playing bass with Drive-By Truckers, then you are in for a surprise with her debut album of her ...

Bought by Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock: Allen Thompson Interview (Encore From 2011)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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Allen Thompson hails from Appalachia, and the well-read Virginian has meshed his mountain roots with his literary affinity to create comfortable mu...

Bought by WLPR , WSLR, and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Diva on Oxygen: The Esther England Story
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: Esther England
Esther England was good at everything she did. Singing opera around the world, teaching university students who wanted to be her, doing that even a...

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 09:40
Part 1 - Hip-hop Artist One Be Lo talks Music, Youth, and Empowerment.
From: Noah Chandler
Series: Imagine 2050 Podcast
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Part 1 of an interview with indie- hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
More Than Just A Song
From: WHJE
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That song comes on. You listen to it and suddenly this unwarranted emotional reaction happens and you are taken to another world, happy or sad.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
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
Texas Music Matters featuring Janis Joplin
From: KUT
Series: Texas Music Matters
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Texas Music Matters revisits an award-winning documentary honoring "The Queen of Rock and Roll and Psychedelic Soul" Janis Joplin. Join Kris Kristo...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, Marfa Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 24, 2011
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 3
Remixing Grandma's Voice
From: Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Caption: My grandmother as an infant, Credit: Family collection
When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...

Bought by KALW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 3
Theme Songs
From: ayme frye
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
Piece of My Heart: The Story of Janis Joplin
From: KUT
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Winner of the Grand Trophy 2011, International Radio Festivals! An intimate reconsideration of Janis' journey from a tiny Texas refinery town to t...

Bought by KCNP, Prairie Public, WRGY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WCPN and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2010
  • Length: 57:31
  • Purchases: 20
From Out Of The Blues
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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A profile of a blues musician in Maine.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 1