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Musicians on the Record: Rodney Crowell
From: WXPN
Series: Musicians on the Record
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When he was thirteen, Rodney Crowell discovered Bob Dylan's "Bringing It All Back Home". The album irrevocably changed Crowell's view of the world.

Bought by WTIP, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and KUT


  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 3
Musicians on the Record: Ted Leo
From: WXPN
Series: Musicians on the Record
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Punk Rocker Ted Leo reflects on the personal value of the Curtis Mayfield album, "Curtis"

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KWCW


  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 2
Musicians on the Record: Alison Brown
From: WXPN
Series: Musicians on the Record
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Banjo Player Alison Brown reflects on Flatt & Scruggs "Foggy Mountain Banjo", a work that launched her love affair with the banjo

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2005
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
Russell Simmons: Hip Hop and Katrina
From: KCUR
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The importance of hip hop (and Kanye West) in the reaction to Katrina.

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Sep 26, 2005
  • Length: :33
  • Purchases: 1
In Praise of New Orleans Brass Bands
From: Eve Abrams
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This oral essay sings the praises of one of New Orleans' greatest gifts to the world: brass bands.

Bought by 90.5 WSNC and WKMS


  • Added: Sep 25, 2005
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Things I Love New Orleans
From: Eve Abrams
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This is an homage to magnificent New Orleans.

Bought by WMNF, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WMPG


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
Blues File: Otis Taylor "Below The Fold"
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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review new Otis Taylor CD "Below The Fold"

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2005
  • Length: 02:23
  • Purchases: 6
Blues File: B. B. King & Gatemouth Brown
From: WXPN
Series: Blues File
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Contrast music & personality of B. B. King & Gatemouth Brown

Bought by KKRN, KHNS, WEFT, WQJC, KUHB and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2005
  • Length: 03:01
  • Purchases: 6
Aspiring Teen Musicians
From: Youth Ideas Radio Project
Series: Youth Ideas Radio Project 2005
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Teen musicians hoping to become successful artists, from the perspective of an aspiring singer.

Bought by WXLV-FM


  • Added: Sep 21, 2005
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Music in Retail Settings
From: Youth Ideas Radio Project
Series: Youth Ideas Radio Project 2005
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An exploration into the use of music in retail settings, including its psychological impact on shoppers.

Bought by WXLV-FM, KPFT, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: Sep 21, 2005
  • Length: 07:58
  • Purchases: 3
Twilight's Breaking Dawn
From: Jacob C. Norman
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Poetry by Jacob C. Norman set to music.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2005
  • Length: 09:48
Missing New Orleans: Popular Music Remembers a City
From: WXXI Rochester
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A special musical tribute to the city of New Orleans

Bought by KBYS 88.3 FM, Internet Partnership Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and WCOM


  • Added: Sep 15, 2005
  • Length: 57:22
  • Purchases: 4
Bud's Magic
From: Ed Kliman
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A short story (accompanied by the song Bud's Back Porch Stomp) about the ripple effect that happens when human beings make magic.

  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 06:12
Living Room
From: Ed Kliman
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The back-story of two people on a midnight drive to Texas is illuminated by the inclusion of the song Living Room. in this audiodrama short story

  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 05:21
Music Box Man
From: Jonathan Menjivar
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A profile of Chicago's last theatre organist

Bought by PRX Remix, Remix Radio, and WFUV


  • Added: Sep 09, 2005
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 3
Recorders: You Don't Know Them like This...
From: Sarah Elzas
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The recorder as a modern classical instrument?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WFUV, WUNC, and WILL


  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 4
"Memories" meets Susan McDougal
From: Bernadette Cahill
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"The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk"

  • Added: Sep 08, 2005
  • Length: 58:56
Blues File: retrospective on R. L. Burnside
From: WXPN
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retrospective on career of the late R. L. Burnside

Bought by KERA


  • Added: Sep 07, 2005
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
No Depression
From: KUT
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One of the most literate and influential music magazines in recent memory turns 10.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and NPR Station Showcase with PRX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2005
  • Length: 10:03
  • Purchases: 2
Tibetan Bells & Bowls
From: Michael Johnson
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Tibetan Bowls explaination & demonstration by Karma Moffett

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 04, 2005
  • Length: 08:04
  • Purchases: 2
Music Will Help New Orleans Rebuild
From: WTMD
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A Commentary on Music and New Orleans

Bought by WNCU, WUAL, KTOO, KTOO, KVNF and more


  • Added: Sep 03, 2005
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 6
From Sideman to Stevie Ray
From: KUT
Series: The Godfather
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Part one of a two-part special on W.C. Clark, the Godfather of Austin Blues and Soul

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 09:35
  • Purchases: 1
A Place of His Own
From: KUT
Series: The Godfather
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Part 2 of a two-part special on W.C. Clark, the Godfather of Austin Blues and Soul.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2005
  • Length: 06:23
Klaus Schulze - German Electronic Music Pioneer
From: Arndt Peltner
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A one hour special about Klaus Schulze

Bought by WMUH, Radio Catskill, Radio Catskill, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Sep 01, 2005
  • Length: 01:00:21
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Imagination is the Instrument of Compassion
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Of the many books which have appeared in new genre which has been called “post-9/11 fiction” one of the most striking is Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Ex...

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1

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