Radio
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FEATURED ALBUM
Pieta Brown - Freeway
Airing Monday, Tuesday, Thursday at 3pm and 7pm CST and Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 3pm & 8:30pm CST
FEATURED POEM
by Ani DiFranco
FEATURED BOOTLEG
This week: Asheville, NC 10-8-1999
New bootlegs featured every week, airing Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights at 9pm CST and Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings at 4am CST.
Find featured bootlegs archived here.
FEATURED CONVERSATION
This week: Petticoat Rule: The Abby Gross Episode
Each episode aims to develop an intimacy with the artist so as to illuminate her unique relationship with her creative spirit. We hope to inspire listeners to put in the work and unleash their unique inventive talents!
Saxophonist extraordinaire Abby Gross joins Petticoat Rule to share with us the 'glamour' of road life with soul-rock band The Commonheart as well as her passion for music education, and gives insight into what it's like to write a song about something meaningful without using any lyrics. We also touch on the challenges of work-life balance as a professional musician on tour, and her long-term origins as a jazz player, embedded all the way back in the influences of her great-grandmother.
First aired Jan 29th 2018. https://petticoatrule.fireside.fm/
The conversation will air Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 12pm and 5pm CST.
Find selected conversations archived here.
WOODY'S VOICE
Join the Woody Guthrie Center on Sunday at 12pm and again at 4pm CST for "Woody's Voice" on Righteous Babe Radio. "Woody's Voice" will explore struggle and overcoming issues together, and you'll be hearing from Woody, artists who collaborated with his words, and some new music that continues Woody's message. The show is curated by the Center, with Ani hosting and sharing our message. We will rebroadcast Woody's Voice at 12pm CST on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Find selected Woody's Voice episodes archived here.
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn’t repeat itself; it rhymes. To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. That’s where this newsletter comes in. Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of American history. She believes that you can’t get a grip on today’s politics without an outline of America’s Constitution, and laws, and the economy, and social customs, her newsletter explores what it means, and what it has meant, to be an American. These were the same questions a famous observer asked in a book of letters he published in 1782, the year before the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book “Letters from an American Farmer.” History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. We will broadcast a recording of Heather Cox Richardson reading the daily letters at 6pm, 11pm and 8am the following day CST.
You can find the Letters and more about our Resident Professor here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
Hear a sample Letters from an American broadcast below.
PUTUMAYO WORLD MUSIC HOUR
Hosted by former KFOG personality Rosalie Howarth, the Putumayo World Music Hour (PWMH) is an internationally syndicated radio show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures. The program is heard on more than 100 commercial and non-commercial stations around the world. PWMH playlists include a blend of music from well-known artists and exceptional, underexposed international artists. The one-hour radio program also features interviews with world-class music makers such as Los Lobos, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, and Taj Mahal who eagerly support and have been influenced by world music. Airing new episodes Monday and Saturday at 10am CST and Wednesday morning at 4am CST.
ACOUSTIC CAFE
Each week, listeners around the globe tune in to Acoustic Café to hear the latest from today’s great songwriting talents. It’s hard to put a definitive label on Acoustic Café’s music selections. After all, a good song is a good song… any individual set of music could contain a bit of country, rock, blues, folk, pop… and more!
In addition to classic songwriters (oh, you know who they are…), Acoustic Café wants to bring as many newer talents to the table as possible. That’s the best description we can conjure… now, hear this week’s program by clicking here! Also, you can hear a few year’s worth of our interviews and performances by visiting our archives here. Enjoy.
We are looking at RBR Radio as an open source opportunity. We hope to integrate podcasts from like-minded souls around the world into the fabric of RBR Radio. We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas as to what it is you would really like to have discussed and represented musically on this your radio station. Please send submissions and ideas to radio@righteousbabe.com. The RBR content management staff will review all submissions and ideas presented.
