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This airing of Folk Salad is a Bob Dylan playlist, as we are celebrating the opening of The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. Join us for this celebratio...
- Added: May 15, 2022
- Length: 58:57
On Friday, March 13, 2020, Gov. Tim Walz declared a "peacetime emergency" in Minnesota, discouraging large gatherings of people in an effort to ste...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 01, 2020
- Length: 08:51
- Purchases: 1
The Twin Cities Jazz Festival is a highlight of our town’s the annual music calendar and it is right ahead. The festival comes to multiple venues J...
- Added: May 08, 2019
- Length: 08:00
Country music has long been popular in the American South but is gaining popularity in the North, a place with more country roots than you may think.
- Added: Nov 16, 2018
- Length: 05:45
On this episdoe of the Live Feed, we take you to Ed's No name bar in Winona to speak with FrogLeg, a Minnesotan rock band. We'll get to hear some o...
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 34:45
This time, we profile Chris Strachwitz and Mance Lipscomb, whose paths crossed in Navasota, Texas, this week in August 1960.
- Added: Mar 30, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Magic Sam, who appeared this week in 1969 at the legendary Ann Arbor Blues Festival.
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Skip James, whose re-emergence at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival marked the advent of a new chapter in his career.
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we take a look at the American Record Corporation's 1939 field trip to Memphis. For the Bluff City, it marked the end of an era.
- Added: Mar 26, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile guitarist Blue Smitty, who cut his only session for Chess Records, this week in 1952.
- Added: Mar 25, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Muddy Waters, who made an historic appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, this week in 1960.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This time, we profile Mississippi blues legend Charley Patton, who made his debut for Paramount Records, this week in 1929.
- Added: Mar 20, 2018
- Length: 03:29
This week's program was recorded on the road, in Dayton, Ohio.
- Added: Aug 12, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
This is the story of the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra preparing for their final performance of the concert season. They played the Carmina Burana, a...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
Ben Dumbauld explores Sunnyside, Queens and Muzica Populara, a Romanian genre where "the politics was never as important as the dancing."
Bought by WABE
- Added: Apr 12, 2015
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 1
Go inside Sean Costello's previously unreleased 2005 sessions, now available on the new record "In The Magic Shop."
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 01:30
Go inside Rory Block's new album, "Hard Luck Child," a tribute to Blues legend Skip James.
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 01:30
The Books were known for making use of sounds and audio samples that aren’t typically heard in music. The Books disbanded in 2012, but Nick Zammuto...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 29:19
- Purchases: 1
Irish jazz singer and radio host Melanie O'Reilly, visited the Brubeck Festival at the Brubeck Institute in Stockton, in 2007. In this program of...
- Added: Jan 18, 2013
- Length: 51:54
Jimmy LaValle of The Album Leaf talks about the band's EP "Forward/Return."
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 04:17
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
For the fourth week of June (6/27): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a performer who was a real force of nature.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
In the world of string quartets there is before and after Kronos, the ensemble that revolutionized the form, playing new music from Steve Reich to...
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 04, 2010
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
With Crazy Heart winning Academy Awards for best actor and best original song, Rhode Island author Thomas Cobb
says the seeds of his book were pla...
- Added: Feb 25, 2010
- Length: 04:00
