PRX - Pieces for Format: Soft Feature Atom Feed

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

591 results


Caption: in line for food on Mission St. in San Francisco, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
What does it feel like to wait in line for food?

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 07:51
Piece image
Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:58
Piece image
An upfront "Rhythm Section" with Linda Oh and Rudy Royston, and a wild ride with Wayne Shorter and Imani Winds

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN, WOUB, WSLR, WMHT and more


  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Piece image
Mother & daughter Carline Ray and Catherine Russell make music together on a new album "Vocal Sides"

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN, WMHT, WOUB, WSLR and more


  • Added: May 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Piece image
Vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant evokes the great singers of the past in her own original way

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN, WOUB, WSLR, WMHT and more


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Herman (L) and Sidney Blake
Herman Blake and his brother Sidney remember their childhood during the 1940s

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
Piece image
New releases by great singers including Molly Holm, Richard Lanham, and June Tabor

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KKRN, WMHT, WSLR, WOUB and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: The home of bluesman Memphis Slim, a historic site next to the Stax Museum. A partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plans to turn this house into a place where musicians can practice and record.
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Beverly Johnson is the Program Director at the Alex Haley House and Museum. She is also a relative of Haley.
A century ago more than 60 percent of Americans lived in rural areas. Today 16 percent do. As more and more people flock to cities what used to be ...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Music of the late Chicago bluesman Jimmy Dawkins, and new music from Christian McBride and Eldar Djangirov

Bought by KKRN, WMHT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WOUB, WSLR and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Piece image
Staff Sergeant Daniel Hodd and his mother, Evelyn, talk about Daniel's decision to put aside a promising career as a pianist in order to join the M...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:20
Piece image
Music with native-American themes, from Otis Taylor and the late Jim Pepper

Bought by KKRN, WSLR, WOUB, WMHT, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Adam Leon, San Francisco, CA 4/20/12, Credit: Andrea Chase
Adam Leon talks anxiety attacks, passing the smell test, and taking what New York threw at him.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 14:44
Piece image
New blues from a son of Muddy Waters - and jazz pianist Gerald Clayton is turning up almost everywhere

Bought by KKRN, WMHT, WSLR, WOUB, KEOS and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Piece image
Whitley Newman, also known as Nabintu, isn’t who you’d expect to be teaching a Rwandan dance class. She’s a small, blonde woman from the Midwest.

Bought by KLCC


  • Added: Mar 26, 2013
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Towns in the southern colonies had many residents who were slaves or free blacks., Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln stirred up a lot of talk about what history sounded like. Spielberg even recorded one of President Lincoln’s...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Piece image
Newly issued Hendrix, and new albums from Kendrick Scott and Hiromi Uehara

Bought by KKRN, WMHT, WOUB, WSLR, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Piece image
Reginald Mason remembers growing up in Harlem with his mother during the 1970s.

  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:57
Piece image
Rowena Gore-Simmons speaks with her daughter, Kenya Gore, about the year Rowena spent in prison.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:56
Caption: Bernard Holyfield (R) and Charles Barlow
Bernard Holyfield (R) tells his friend Charles Barlow (L) about a painful memory from his childhood in the 1960s.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:18
Piece image
In this montage of story and song, we hear Blues musicians speaking about their lives, the meaning of the Blues, growing up in hard times, and maki...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Talana, Felicia and Willie Banks
Talana Banks and her brother, Willie, talk with their mother, Chief Warrant Officer Felicia Banks, about her deployment to Iraq in 2005 and their l...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 02:03
Piece image
Roots of the Acid Jazz label - singer Molly Holm's "Permission"

Bought by KKRN, WMHT, WSLR, WOUB, KUOW and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Piece image
Newly issued recordings of Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, Elvis's muse.

Bought by KKRN, WSLR, WOUB, KEOS, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Piece image
25th Anniversary of Acid Jazz Records

Bought by KKRN, WMHT, WOUB, WSLR, 90.5 WSNC and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11