Jun 25, 2013
On this week’s program, we change things up quite a bit. For the
first time in the history of the podcast, we have a full music
program. I call it, “The History of Jazz – Part 1”.
The
fact is the Jazz isn’t really a genre at all. The term “Jazz” has
so many different sub-genres that it will be
impossible...
Jun 18, 2013
On this
week’s program, we have a train wreck……. No really it is true an
actual famous train wreck that occurred on September 27,
1903.
The Old 97 was a Southern Railway train officially known as the Fast Mail. The train started its career in December of 1902. It ran mail from Washington DC to Atlanta, Georgia and...
Jun 11, 2013
A few weeks back I took a podcast off and basically just played a story. However, the feedback I got on the show was so good it made me think that should take more podcasts off. I am not going to do that, but this week I play another episode of Richard Diamond, Private Detective. Also, on this episode I will tell you...
Jun 4, 2013
This week we talk about the origins of Western. I am sure I don’t have to tell you that Western fiction is a genre that tells stories from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century. Well known writers of the subject include Zane Grey from the early 1900s and Louis L'Amour from the 1950s. The field peaked in...