On Halloween night, both the Voodoo Festival and Daylight Savings Time come
together. Consider that New Orleans has always been the Petri Dish of music
so tonight we'll turn back the clock not just one hour but one generation as
we focus on the music of this unusual city. ...
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In honor of this weekend's spectacular blues festival in Lafayette Park,
tonight's show will feature Wild Jimmy Spruill. Who?
You've not only heard Wild Jimmy Spruill tart ultra-twangy guitar, you loved
his music. Unfortunately you probably heaped your praise not on sidema...
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This Week's Show Themes: A couple topical themes to tie the music and sound clips together during the fund drive show. Starting with a tragic case of domestic violence between the Earth and its Moon.
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I believed the 4am infomercial. And only $29.99 for a Life-Coach-In-A-Box
seemed like a steal. Then when they threw in a collection of mystery soul
artist music, I took the bait. Unfortunately, when the cassette tapes(!)
arrived, the coach was Fabio and the music was tha...
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In a dream, the Riddler and Alex Trabek asked for this Saturday night's drunk
drive time shift theme - songs and quotes that ask a question. Oh you big
baby, don't reach for the TV remote and give up on this theme. New Orleans
greats Lloyd Price and Allen Toussaint lead th...
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Last week I had a "killing two birds with one stone" trip. I got a chance to
visit with one of my oldest friends, Leon Anderson and his family, in
Detroit, Michigan. And I also got the advantage of attending all four days of
the Detroit Jazz Festival. Unlike our very famous...
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Another not-so-special show by Jamie using topical sound clips and music
about "lying" to prove ...
Well wait, this requires some background before the blockbuster news story of
the year:
During the last week's joint session of Congress, Congressman Joe Wilson
heckled Pre...
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Tune in Wednesday night September 9th (09-09-09) for a special "Number 9"
show celebrating the number nine.
Join us at a special time of 9:00 p.m. as we play music with a NINE
association. We may even spin some backwards. Does this make it a 6
association?????????
We will...
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It started with that HUH! that was worked your core better than Pilates. It
was the key ingredient in mambo music and the mambo was so popular that it
worked itself into every musical style imaginable. R&B, blues, jazz and yep
plenty of New Orleans music including the cla...
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Everything He Did Was Funky: Lee Dorsey - a radio documentary produced by
David Kunian has its rough mix premiere tonight - Wednesday 8/19/09 10 PM CST
- on WWOZ 90.7 FM www.wwoz.org.
The documentary features Dorsey's many hits and should-have-been hits and
commentary from...
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