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Country Fried Rock Interviews Ron Gallo of Toy Soldiers
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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What happens when half of a band does not go on their first long tour, and the rest of the band members bail while on the road? Find out how Ron G...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KKRN, KSRQ, and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Country Fried Rock Interviews Jack Logan
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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From his early underground comic book series pitting Peter Buck of R.E.M. as "Pete Buck, Superhero," to his prolific songwriting and diverse catalo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , WSLR, KKRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock: Allen Thompson Interview (Encore From 2011)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
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Allen Thompson hails from Appalachia, and the well-read Virginian has meshed his mountain roots with his literary affinity to create comfortable mu...

Bought by WLPR , WSLR, and KKRN


  • Added: Aug 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Country Fried Rock #1328 Interview With Andrew Leahey
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Official Press Photo
Sloane Spencer turns the tables on music journalist, Andrew Leahey, interviewing him about his latest release, Summer Sleeves.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , WSLR, KKRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock #1327: Dustbowl Revival
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Official Press Photo
Sloane Spencer chats with Zach Lupetin of Southern California music collective, The Dustbowl Revival.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WSLR, WSLR, KKRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock #1326: Samantha Martin & The Haggard
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Samantha Martin And The Haggard, Credit: Press Photo
Americana music is not the sole purview of the United States, as Canadian, Samantha Martin, the chief songwriter for Samantha Martin & The Haggard,...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KKRN, WLPR , WSLR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock #1325 Tea Leaf Green
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Press Photo
Trevor Garrod of Tea Leaf Green shares how the San Francisco jam band shook up their sound by changing their recording process, resulting in a lush...

Bought by KMUD, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Country Fried Rock #1324 Cold Satellite (Jeffrey Foucault)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Cold Satellite -- Cavalcade, Credit: Official Album Cover
What happens when a poet turns over her work to a songwriter on a recent electric guitar kick? Find out with Cold Satellite, the composite project...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KRPS, KKRN, KKRN, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jul 08, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Country Fried Rock Show #1321: Randall Bramblett
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Randall Bramblett
Sloane Spencer interviews rock veteran, Randall Bramblett, about why he keeps making new music after his success with Bonnie Raitt, Traffic, and Gr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , KRPS, WSLR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 7
STACCATO
From: Judlyne Lilly-Gibson
Caption: STACCATO LOGO , Credit: Judlyne A. Lilly
STACCATO is a weekly 2:30 feature covering events, trends and news in classical music.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
The Gospel Roots of Rock and Roll
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe became the first superstar of gospel music and was an early influence on Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and ...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KMUN, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 8
00: An Introduction
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Craig and George introduce the show and discuss sounds relating to their lives.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 07:50
Radiohead's Thom Yorke on Wankers & Confronting Who You Are
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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Thom Yorke, lead singer and songwriter for the band Radiohead, tackles the challenges that just about everyone faces: confronting who you are and ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 08, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Man Who Recorded the World - Alan Lomax
From: Open Source
Caption: Alan Lomax with unidentified man. [Library of Congress photo]
Open Source "Shorties" are 7 to 8 minute cuts of our best timely and evergreen material. Today, we're joining biographer John Szwed in thanking the...

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 4
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
From Pakistan to Tanglewood - Vazira Zamindar & Composers
From: Open Source
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Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "wound of partition" in today's Pakistan. Then, we meet three young composers - Cynthia Lee Wong, Jacob B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
In Global Culture Space - Rana Dasgupta & Hung-Kuan Chen
From: Open Source
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We're with two artists--musical and literary--working that busy space high above the old boundaries of East and West. Rana Dasgupta is the English-...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
The Great Migration that Changed America - Isabel Wilkerson
From: Open Source
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Isabel Wilkerson is the epic tale teller of the Great Migration of Southern black people that remade America — sound, substance and spirit — in the...

Bought by KWMR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 90.5 WSNC, WSKG, WRPI and more


  • Added: Jan 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 6
James Kaplan's Sinatra - "an almost operatic version of the blues"
From: Open Source
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James Kaplan has a fresh take on the life of Frank Sinatra, the iconic—maybe the greatest—performing artist of the American Century, with more and ...

Bought by NPR Illinois, KREV-LP, WCPN, KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
American Conversations with Andrew Bacevich & Vijay Iyer
From: Open Source
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This week we're talking with the soldier-turned-author of Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich. Then we sit down at the piano with the jazz improv sta...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Loaded Radio
From: Scott Penfold
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Loaded Radio is a 1 hour weekly hard rock and metal broadcast catering to the casual to hardcore listener.

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Jan 07, 2010
  • Length: 55:41
  • Purchases: 1
Ten Cents a Dance
From: With Good Reason
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During and despite the Great Depression, the entertainment industry was working overtime. Listen to some of the gems and the stories behind them.

Bought by KUER, WGBH Radio Boston, KFAI Minneapolis, and WRPI


  • Added: Jul 09, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 4
Every Move You Make
From: With Good Reason
Caption: The Four Rings, Credit: Limsonline.org
Each day most of us wave to a friend or gesture in a meeting with colleagues. Dance professor Karen Studd sees patterns and language in all of the...

Bought by WFIU and CKMO


  • Added: Jun 01, 2009
  • Length: 28:54
  • Purchases: 2
Mid- career Interview with the late Pulitzer Prize winning composer STEVEN STUCKY
From: Out of Bounds
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An engaging conversation with award-winning composer and educator STEVEN STUCKY

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 27:00
Interview with legendary folk singer PEGGY SEEGER
From: Out of Bounds
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The legendary Peggy Seeger talks about her life, music and travels

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR)


  • Added: Jan 05, 2007
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1