"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
November 15, 1947 – An approaching Winter and a time of much discontent in the Postwar world. The slow rebuilding of Europe was complicated by mass flooding which wiped out crops and added a severe food shortage to the already…
– CBS Radio – Back Where I Come From – August 19, 1940 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection.- In an attempt to broaden the musical tastes of mainstream America, CBS Radio in 1940 experimented with the idea of presenting Folk…
A very special and rare concert tonight from a very special and rare legend. Tim Buckley, like his son, left us far too soon. What Tim left behind, much the same as what Jeff left behind, is a recorded legacy…
– Chester Himes – Interviewed on Soul! – March 15, 1972 – NET-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Chester Himes – one of the great American writers of the 20th century, was one of many artists of color who…
Squeeze – In Concert at Oxford Polytechnic – Recorded by BBC Radio 1 for In Concert series – 1981 – BBC Radio 1 Squeeze to kick off this rather hair-raising week. In concert from Oxford Polytechnic and recorded by BBC…
A Night At The Ash Grove with Les Claypool – KRHM-FM – October 24, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Anybody living in Los Angeles from the 1950s through the 1970s will instantly recognize The Ash Grove. It was one…
– Joni Mitchell – Live at The Second Fret – November 1966 Since it’s Joni Mitchell’s Birthday Week . . . It’s always been fascinating (and instructive) to have the opportunity to hear an artist at the threshold of their…
– NBC Radio – Story Behind The Headlines – Palestine – 1948 – With the current escalation of violence over Gaza, casualties rising by the minute and a ground war underway, here’s a reminder that the entire region has been…
– Lowell Thomas And The News – Nov. 7, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This is the week for election postmortems, it seems. This day, November 7th, was a day-after in the 1962 Mid-term election cycle. Not as…
– CBS Radio – Where The People Stand w/Elmo Roper – November 6, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – For all the complaints and bafflement over just how badly informed the American people are, not only with History, World…