by kitchensisters | Jul 23, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS The story of the birth of the Grand Ole Opry on radio station WSM in Nashville, TN and the story of “Harmonica Wizard” DeFord Bailey, the Opry’s first African American performer. WSM’s most popular show, the Grand Ole...
by kitchensisters | Jan 22, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast, The Keepers
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS The story of an aging pile of forgotten reel-to-reel tapes discovered on the shelf of a tribal elder on the Fort Mojave Reservation. Recorded by an amateur ethnographer in the 1960s, these tapes of the last Creation...
by kitchensisters | Sep 12, 2017 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS The Great Galveston Hurricane arrived on a Saturday, September 8, 1900 — almost without warning. Galveston, the grand dame of Texas, a vibrant port city sitting haughtily on a sand bar facing the Gulf, was reduced to a...
by kitchensisters | Aug 8, 2017 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In 1967 thirty men left Trinidad with 97 steel drums to represent their country at the World’s Fair in Montreal. None of them had ever been off their island before. They were members of the Esso Trinidad Tripoli...
by kitchensisters | Apr 10, 2017 | Fugitive Waves, Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Cab drivers, children’s jump rope rhymes, folk songs, dialects, controversial TV ads, interviews with blacklisted artists and writers during the McCarthy Era — Tony Schwartz was one of the great sound recordists...
by kitchensisters | Feb 28, 2017 | Fugitive Waves, Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Recording sound pioneer Sam Phillips — the father of Sun Records, the man who discovered Howlin’ Wolf, Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash…, the creator of WHER, The First All Girl Radio Station in the World —...