The show opens with Kenny Baker & Josh Graves from their 1972-73 album The
Puritan Sessions. Baker was a fiddler with Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass
Boys, and Graves was primarily known as Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs' Dobro
player. For Baker, the session marked a return...
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This month seems like a good time to continue my 'Long Time Gone' special.
With this special, I'm featuring the songs with the longest gaps between
performances and you'll hear the bookends of that gap. To create this
series, I've culled through three different extensive ...
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This November Portland voters will have an opportunity to vote on a complex
measure that would amend the city charter in some drastic ways. The changes
include rank choice voting, expanding the city council to 12 members who
would each represent one of four districts, and s...
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Spark Plug 05 is hard beats, addictive grooves, and incredible flows. Thanks
all over hip hop and electronica for this episode, but if it got my head
moving some kinda way, it made the playlist. Enjoy :)
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After a whirlwind tour of some recent releases, from Los Angeles, Jeff Godsil
briefs us on My Man Godfrey. and Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time tracks down
another pop culture treasure. Finally we assess two new books on the cinema
of Sofia Coppola.
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