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On her 2018 album project, "Rifles & Rosary Beads", singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier shares the stories of American veterans by writing the songs wi...

Bought by WWNO, KWSO, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, KAAD-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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On her 2018 album project, "Rifles & Rosary Beads", singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier shares the stories of American veterans by writing the songs wi...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier appeared at McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica, Cal. as part of her nationwide tour for "Rifles and Rosary Beads.", Credit: Libby Denkmann/American Homefront
For her new album, Nashville singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier collaborated with veterans to write songs about war, service, and life after the milit...

Bought by WUSF, KMUD, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Texas Public Radio, and KPBS


  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 5
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U.S. troops turned to popular music as a way of coping with the war in Vietnam. In this sound-rich show, the authors of “We Gotta Get Out of this P...

Bought by KUNM, WGZS, KMUN, WABE, and WGZS


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
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U.S. troops turned to popular music as a way of coping with the war in Vietnam. In this sound-rich show, the authors of “We Gotta Get Out of this P...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WGZS, KVMR, WVTF and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 6
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It has always been a political act, a practice in strength and defiance, to be a woman and a bandleader, a female electric guitarist and composer, ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2018
  • Length: :45
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Chanticleer sings music of war and peace

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KMXT, and KWAX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
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As much as some hate to admit it, violence has been part of the shared human heritage from the beginning of recorded time. Even today, in some part...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 3
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A musical journey showcasing bandleader Glenn Miller's transformation from the nation's most popular recording artist into the greatest morale boos...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 11:12
  • Purchases: 1
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.

Bought by KVCR


  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to the Vietnam War -- Women journalists on the front lines in Vietnam -- The psychological effects of ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WCNY, KVCR, KVSC, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 19
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Two scholars go searching for the soundtrack to Vietnam

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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The release of Ken Burns’ new documentary series has drawn fresh attention to the Vietnam War. And while many of us have an idea of what the war lo...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 3
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The second hour of the two-part series, Time to Lay it Down ~ The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War. Listen to the soundtrack of the Vietnam War as ...

Bought by KWSO, Radio Bristol, WQLN, Prairie Public, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 13
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Vietnam was the first war fought to a soundtrack, with over 4000 war-related songs written and recorded between 1965-73. The lyrics were patriotic,...

Bought by KHNS and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ahmad Naffory is pictured on a Beirut rooftop. He founded the band Assa'aleek,  but after being denied re-entry to Lebanon,  was granted asylum in the Netherlands. The band endures without him, and he has continued making music in his new home., Credit: Photo courtesy of Mohamad Khayata
Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for anothe...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 27:05
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Sounds of bluegrass, jazz and that slippery, sometimes rock-infused sonic space between that are absolutely perfect for listening to in the first 1...

Bought by KMXT and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 01:56:35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance, Credit: Julia Meek
It's a time of military memorials in our world, and that's the hallowed path we walk on this week's edition, with musical reflections on battles--a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WVIA, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 17
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Veterans Day has been celebrated in many different ways under several different names over the time from 1919 until now. That journey has kept many...

Bought by 'The Sea', RadioFreePalmer, and WUAL


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Film music you remember, even if you've forgotten the film.
In honor of our veterans, Quinn Riley and Robert Bruce take a tour through some of the many movies made about Americans at war.

Bought by KUCO, KMXT, WYAP, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 4
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-Before the Korean War, the bodies of American soldiers killed in conflicts abroad were buried in overseas cemeteries. But the nature of the confli...

Bought by WCNY, KWMR, WFAE, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WXDU and more


  • Added: May 06, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 11
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Album review for New Jersey band Titus Andronicus's break out Lit-Punk album The Monitor. By Paolo Rosen

  • Added: Mar 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:14
Caption: Susan McDonald, Credit: J.M. Lennon
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! is titled “Live from NY, Syria, and Brazil, and features performances recorded at the 2015 Barrios i...

Bought by KXIQ , Ohm Radio , New Hampshire Public Radio, KXIQ , WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 38