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Join host Mike Canton for a tribute to the quiet musical hero Skip Scarborough, who wrote numerous hits for Bill Withers, Earth, Wind & Fire, Patti...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 02:56:57
- Purchases: 2
Embedded in the usual eclectic mix is an Hour 2 feature on Stevie Wonder's 1972 masterpiece, Talking Book. Enjoy!
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Nov 03, 2022
- Length: 02:56:57
- Purchases: 1
Add curator to a long list of Chaka Mkali's professional accomplishments. In the tradition of fellow Afrofuturists who have looked to the sky for i...
- Added: Jan 29, 2022
- Length: 06:16
Minneapolis musician Taylor Seaberg turned strife into music and healing.
"I’m experimental. I go completely against the grain of what a lot of Mi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2020
- Length: 05:23
An historical and musical examination of the history of lynching and racial protest over the past 100 years.
- Added: Jun 30, 2020
- Length: 58:02
Michigan native Marcus Wicker reads from his 2011 National Poetry Series winning collection, MAYBE THE SADDEST THING, which was also a finalist for...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Interview with Author, speaker, TV and Radio show host Jesse Lee Peterson. Also featuring music by George Hendrickson and The Mistics.
- Added: Mar 15, 2017
- Length: 59:13
Davu Seru is the current Studio Z composer in Residence. Among his goals is combining west African-based traditions such as drumming and the blues...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 05:00
"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 06:15
- Purchases: 5
Micah Tron is a rapper born and raised in San Francisco. She’s a queer woman of color, but the hurdles she has faced go even beyond her race, sexua...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
Its another blockbuster of music mayhem on the soul show with an archive feature of one of the best funk bands to come out of Dayton Ohio- Slave. T...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Oct 14, 2012
- Length: 01:59:54
- Purchases: 1
Do you feel like busting loose? NEA Heritage Fellow Chuck Brown talks about his career, from honing his chops in prison in Lorton, Virginia, to dev...
- Added: Aug 02, 2011
- Length: 28:49
One hour special follows the creation and influence of Miles Davis' heaviest album.
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 27
From the urban ghetto of the American Midwest, one of the most promising rappers rising through the ranks right now is Freddie Gibbs. He comes from...
Bought by Vocalo.org
- Added: Aug 03, 2010
- Length: 07:16
- Purchases: 1
Pianist Omar Sosa explores the roots of Cuban and African music. A visit to his home in Barcelona.
- Added: Apr 02, 2009
- Length: 06:59
American icon Nina Simone in words and music
- Added: Oct 22, 2008
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 54
Billy Higgins was reportedly the most recorded jazz drummer in history. Higgins talks about his music and life. This profile also features intervi...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WNCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KRCB 104.9 and more
- Added: Jan 09, 2007
- Length: 09:14
- Purchases: 6
