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The Look of Music: Of Beatle Boots, High Heels, and Blue Tuxedos
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: James Brown on stage in 1964, Credit: Getty
As live music venues open up, Gwen talks to New Orleans performers about the look of music in their shows -- and their earliest concert memories.

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
Paul Ingles' MUSIC ARCHIVE SHOWCASE #114 - "Songwriters At Sea" - Part 2 (Lyle Lovett / Shawn Colvin)
From: Paul Ingles
Series: Paul Ingles' Music Archive Showcase
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The second in a series of programs that features interviews and music with some of the top names in Americana music over the last 20 years who, in ...

Bought by North State Public Radio, KUPR low power FM, KUHF, KUPR low power FM, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Oldest Greenhorn - 1 Hour Radio Program
From: Larry W Jones - Kingwood Kowboy
Series: The Oldest Greenhorn
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Experience the adventure, joys and perils in a greenhorn wrangler's account of the 40th annual Sombrero Ranches "Great American Horse Drive". Eight...

  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
Music of the Metro - Paris
From: Timothy Nicastri
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A ride through Paris' underground Metro system to hear it's many in-transit musicians, of all types.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Impossible Blue Rose
From: Veronica Simmonds
Series: Visual Arts News podcast
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From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Postcard from The National Cornbread Festival
From: Big Shed Audio
Caption: Shea Shackelford enjoying a barbecue sundae at the 2005 National Cornbread Festival, Credit: Jennifer Deer
"Oh, I love it. You can't live without corn bread. And you gotta cook it in that skillet, too! ... Corn bread basically was poor man's food that ...

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KTXK, Raven Radio, Cards Against Humanity: The Good News Podcast and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 10
Sagebrush to Steppe(short)
From: Western Folklife Center Media
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Music bridges the language barrier as a group of cowboy musicians trek across the Mongolian steppe on horseback, making friends & singing songs wit...

Bought by KUOW and KVNF


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 2
Talking to Strangers: Chance Encounters with Fellow Americans
From: Aaron Henkin
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a modern American road trip...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2008
  • Length: 49:30
May Your Days
From: Julie Shapiro
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Ghana sounds like everything you might imagine, and some things you never could.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2008
  • Length: 10:44
  • Purchases: 2
Cuban Organ
From: Gianluca Tramontana
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A musical travelogue into rural Cuba

Bought by PRX Remix, WBEZ, PRX to iTunes, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2007
  • Length: 08:45
  • Purchases: 5
Zwoelfzungen#5 Restless
From: Alessandro Bosetti
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fifht installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:56
Zwoelfzungen#6 Claeys
From: Alessandro Bosetti
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sixth installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:05
Zwoelfzungen#3 Advertencia
From: Alessandro Bosetti
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Third installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 06:02
Zwoelfzungen#1 Jana
From: Alessandro Bosetti
Caption: PRX default Piece image
First installment on the 12 portraits of languages I don't understand. Commisioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 05:37
African Feedback
From: Alessandro Bosetti
Caption: PRX default Piece image
When Alessandro Bosetti draped himself in sound equipment and set out for West Africa, it wasn't to record native music, but to play experimental a...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 45:54
SxSw from the sidewalks of Austin
From: David Weinberg
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Music and Mayhem from South by Southwest

Bought by WMNF


  • Added: Mar 23, 2007
  • Length: 13:34
  • Purchases: 1
Jazz Ascona Festival 2005 Long
From: KMHD
Series: Jazz Ascona Festival 2005
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Half Hour Program of Ascona Switzerland Jazz Festival

  • Added: May 25, 2006
  • Length: 29:25
From Sagebrush to Steppe
From: Western Folklife Center Media
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Music bridges the language barrier as a group of cowboy musicians trek across the Mongolian steppe on horseback, making friends and singing songs w...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), PRX to iTunes, Marfa Public Radio, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 16:47
  • Purchases: 9
Music At Sea
From: Amber Edwards
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Brief history of the music played on ocean liners past and present, including the last song heard as the Titanic sank

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT-HD, WKMS, NPR Station Showcase with PRX and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 8
Tokyo "All Aboard" Melodies
From: Andy Raskin
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Melodies heard on Tokyo train platforms.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, KUT-HD, KTNA and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2004
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 7