May 2011
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“When I developed my sound, I realized that the bass strings were more powerful...”
– Duane Eddy, on his trademark twangy sound. We recorded Duane live at the Ponderosa Stomp; hear more by listening to the show.
May 26th
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May 25th
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Ponderosa Stomp Radio →
Ponderosa Stomp is more than just an annual concert. The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation works throughout the year to “ensure that the unsung heroes of American music are given their due: celebrated, included, and remembered, but most of all, heard.” One of the ways they’re doing that is through Ponderosa Stomp Radio, which streams over 15 hours of music from Stomp artists.  ...
May 25th
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Picnic Party Music with the Ponderosa Stomp
Listen to this week’s show! Celebrate Memorial Day weekend with American Routes. We’ll hang out at the Ponderosa Stomp for the best in swamp pop, garage rock and surf music, all live from the House of Blues in New Orleans. Then we’ll visit with the music maestro and arranger known as the “Creole Beethoven,” Wardell Quezergue and learn how he helped build the...
May 25th
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What's in a Name?: The Many Aliases of Bob Dylan
While many, if not most, of his fans know Bob Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman, fewer know that he has taken on a number of other identities throughout his career. Barely out of high school, Bob Dylan took the name Elston Gunn to play piano behind the early rock-and-roller, Bobby Vee. He played harmonica for Ramblin’ Jack Elliot’s 1964 album, Ramblin’ Jack, under the handle of...
May 24th
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A Lonesome Death →
A conversation from The New Yorker with William Zantzinger, real-life inspiration for Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”: In February of 1963, twenty-four-year-old William Zantzinger, armed with a toy carnival cane and wrecked on whiskey, made a spectacle of himself at the Spinsters’ Ball at the Emerson Hotel in Baltimore.
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Bob and Woody
(image via) Robert Zimmerman had begun calling himself Bob Dylan while he was still strumming and howling in the coffee shops around the University of Minnesota. But it was somewhere between a little bungalow at 3520 Mermaid Avenue, only a few blocks from the beaches of Coney Island, and the grounds of Brooklyn State Hospital that the transformation was completed. Dylan left Minneapolis in...
May 24th
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Your Best Bob Dylan Album Calculator →
This is important: The Morning News’ Non-Expert provides a handy test to determine your favorite Bob Dylan album.
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“Dylan learned from me the same way I learned from Woody. Woody didn’t...”
– Ramblin’ Jack Elliot
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Understanding Dylan (or not) | StarTribune.com →
Trying to understand Dylan through what’s been written about him. Amid all those words, the Big Question lurks: Is it possible to understand Dylan the lyricist, Dylan the singer, Dylan the romantic figure, and Dylan-the-everything-else by printing words on paper bound between book covers? The answer: Sort of.
May 24th
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“Resembling a cross between a choir boy and a beatnik, Mr. Dylan has a cherubic...”
– From the first New York Times article written about Dylan — “Bob Dylan: A Distinctive Folk-Song Stylist; 20-Year-Old Singer Is Bright New Face at Gerde’s Club”, published on September 29, 1961 and written by Robert Shelton. At the time, Bob Dylan was only 20 years old.
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Booker T. Jones: Representing Memphis - Today's... →
KCRW’s Top Tune today is Booker T. Jones’ “Representing Memphis”. Booker is backed by the Roots, and joined by Sharon Jones and Matt Berringer of The National. Click through to listen!
May 19th
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“We grew up in a real traditional Mexican-American neighborhood. I lived across...”
– Louie Perez of Los Lobos, on his neighborhood of East L.A. Hear more from Louie on this week’s Los Angeles show.
May 19th
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May 18th
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“I grew up at 69th Street in Long Beach. It’s literally the border between...”
– Cambodian-American rapper Prach Ly, on growing up in Long Beach, California. Hear more from Prach Ly on this week’s show.
May 18th
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