Pan American Blues: Radio Stories from Nashville
December 18th, 2007 by Steve BowbrickHere’s a lovely example of the kind of material that the Kitchen Sisters gathered for their Lost and Found Sounds show on NPR (the show itself is off the air). This one’s got stories from early radio in Nashville, a really marvelous train whistle and the legendary Sam Phillips from Sun Records. I ripped this MP3 from a 2000 Real stream. There are lots of other shows - all excellent and unbelievably varied - here and you could, if you felt like it, give the Kitchen Sisters some money to help them make more.
You’d think with four contributors (four!) things might have picked up round here. So, just to show we haven’t gone bankrupt or on holiday, here’s an almost perfect Archive Hour from March 2005 about idiosyncratic genius sound recordist (and calypso fanatic) Emory Cook - another man I would really like to have met. That’s all I’m saying. You’ll just have to listen (
