Linda Ronstadt: “Heart Like a Wheel”
In 1974 Linda Ronstadt had released four solo albums to moderate acclaim. Her albumDon’t Cry Now had peaked at #45 on the Billboard chart, after a drawn-out production that brought in […]
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The Sounds of America: Flaco Jiménez’s Partners album BMPAudio
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The Sounds of America: The Harder They Come Soundtrack BMPAudio
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Science Of Happiness 76: If You Want to Be More Productive, Cut Yourself Some Slack BMPAudio
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Science of Happiness 73: How to Switch Off Your Critics BMPAudio
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Science of Happiness 72: How To Reconnect With Your Partner BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 71: Do You Want To Be More Patient? BMPAudio
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Red, White and the Blues BMPAudio
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The Science Of Happiness 70: How To Love People You Don’t Like BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 69: What’s Your “Why” In Life? BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 68: From Othering to Belonging BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 67: Taking Small Steps toward Big Goals BMPAudio
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1A Memorial Day Special BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 66: How to Connect When You Must Stay Apart BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 64: Helping Kids Think About the Good BMPAudio
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The Science of Happiness 63: Remembering to Breathe BMPAudio
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The Sounds of America: “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh” BMPAudio
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Celia & Johnny: They Invented Salsa
In 1974, Latin music in the US was about to get a kick in the pants. The audience for the big bands was (as we say today) graying; younger, US-born […]
Making Fun of the Kennedys
The 1963 Grammy award for Album of the Year didn’t go to Tony Bennett, Stan Getz, or Ray Charles, all runners-up. It went to somebody named Vaughan Meader, whom no […]
Buck Owens Goes to Carnegie Hall
Buck Owens may best be remembered for Hee Haw, the TV variety show he hosted from 1969 to 1986. But Owens — born Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. — was no […]
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The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger
This one-hour special aired in 2009 to celebrate the 90th birthday of this American icon. In an exclusive interview, Pete discusses his career, the view from 90, and how music […]
Leontyne Price’s A Program of Song
Mississippi in the 1920s produced some of our country’s greatest blues artists. It also produced one of our greatest operatic singers, soprano Leontyne Price. The bar she set for singers […]
Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come
In 2013, the Library of Congress placed 25 new works into its National Recording Registry, a collection of historic music, speeches, and other audio documents that the Library will preserve […]
Will Rogers’ Bacon, Beans, and Limousines
Before there was Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, even before Lennie Bruce, there was Will Rogers, America’s first political comic. “There was a real gentleness to his form of satire […]
The Wild Tchoupitoulas
If you’ve spent time in New Orleans – or watched the HBO show Tremé — you may know about one of the most idiosyncratic customs of that highly idiosyncratic town. […]
