"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio player: Meters1976-10-01KingfishLoungeBatonRougeLA 2 You can’t do a week of posts featuring the essence of Funk without adding The Meters into the mix. They were almost singlehandedly responsible for cultivating and exporting New Orleans…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Pres. Wm McKinley Address – Sept. 1901 If you were hoping for on-the-scene coverage of the assassination of President William McKinley with eye-witness reports and team coverage – I’m afraid you’re out…
Click on the link here for Audio player: CBS Radio – Virginia Integration – 1958 When the Supreme Court handed down its decision on Brown vs.The Board of Education, declaring segregated schools unconstitutional in 1954, you would have thought the…
Click on the link here for audio player: FDR – 1932 Convention address As we get ready to close the 2012 Democratic convention tonight, I thought I would run another closing speech, this one from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, accepting…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sen. Ted Kennedy on National Health Care The debate over affordable Health Care has been groaning on for decades, it makes for great soundbites, and sometimes it gets votes. But the seemingly…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Jam in session – July 19, 1977 The thing about the Punk movement in the UK was that it was truly about social upheaval and a reaction to the Thatcher years.…
Click on the link here for Audio player: Nirvana – BBC Session – Nov. 22, 1989 Starting off the holiday weekend with grunge pioneers Nirvana and their first session for the BBC on November 22, 1989. Here’s what they play:…
Click on the link here for audio player: Wilkie Acceptance Speech – 1940 No frills, no send-ups, no films, no slide-shows. Wendell Wilkie accepted the nomination as Presidential candidate for the Republican party in the 1940 election. His speech lasted…
Click on the link here for audio player: NET- Conservatism – 1970 Before the GOP succumbed to the lunatic fringe, becoming a burned out shell of its former self, there was something of a broader definition of who a conservative…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: T. Rex In Session – 1970 Probably one of the more eclectic entries in the Encyclopedia of Glam, Marc Bolan and T. Rex. Begun in the late 1960’s as a quasi-hippie/folk duo…