"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Hurricane Katrina Coverage – Part 1 Hurricane Katrina Coverage – Part 2 August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina made land and New Orleans has never been the same. Initially, reports put the eye of the Hurricane away from New Orleans as was previously thought and that maybe New Orleans had dodged...
WNNR-AM – The Black Pope – May 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Just a hunch, but I would bet even money that, if you were born and raised in New Orleans and they did a DNA test, they would find musical notes mixed up in there. Music is...
Tower Of Power – In Concert from Paris – live at l’Olympia – 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending up the weekend with a short set from Tower Of Power, recorded live from l’Olympia in Paris in 1975. One of the most recognizable and admired practitioners of Bay...
September 12, 1987 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 12, 1987 – To the tune of When The Saints Go Marching In, Pope John Paul II made a stop and an appearance in New Orleans during his tour of the U.S. After a busy...
April 7, 1983 -CBS Radio News + Shuttle Challenger Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 7, 1983 – A day for the NASA history books. The Shuttle Challenger staged the first walk in space made by an American team in over a decade happened on this...
La Femme – in concert at Rock en Seine – August 27, 2016 – FIP/RFI – La Femme, who bill themselves as a French Krautrock/Psych-Punk-New Wave band have been stirring up festivals of late. Together since 2010, with a string of eps starting shortly after, with their debut lp coming...
September 1,2005 – CBS Radio News On The Hour/WTOP Newsradio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection September 1, 2005. The worst of Hurricane Katrina was over – but the horror had just begun. As the storm passed, the devastation was overwhelming – the loss of life hadn’t even begun to be...
Stiv Bators – Live at Jay’s Longhorn – Minneapolis – March 19, 1980 – Club soundboard – Taking a look at the U.S. version of the Punk invasion with a 1980 concert by Stiv Bators, former frontman of The Dead Boys, during his solo period, after the demise of his...
– Allen Toussaint with Guitar Slim Jr. – Live At Jazz Fest 2013 – Day 1 – WWOZ-New Orleans – The very sad news today of the passing of musical legend Allen Toussaint – a fixture in the sound of New Orleans, a guiding light to so many musicians –...
– Dr. John Live At Mardis Gras 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Heading into the weekend, and Halloween to boot – sounds like a good time to get into some Dr. John. Maybe not Halloween, but a rockin’ good time at Mardis Gras in New Orleans – with...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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