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Episodes
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
(Finster with Keith Haring)
Welcome to our third and final installment of our series on folk artist and preacher Howard Finster. If you haven’t heard the first two episodes, these recordings were made in the late 1990’s at Finster’s Paradise Gardens in North Georgia.
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Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Tuesday Apr 04, 2023
Originally published in 1961, Houdini’s Fabulous Magic was written by Walter B. Gibson and Morris Young, both of which knew and worked with the said most famous magician of all time. The two authors were able to write the revolutionary book because they not only had had access to Houdini himself but his personal notes and the assistance of friends and family of the performer. The book fell out of print for many years but has finally been reprinted by Vine Leaves Press. Morris Young’s son Charlie Young comes Back By The Woodpile to talk about the contents and history of the book and his own personal memories of growing in a setting where magic and wonder was appreciated and embraced.
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Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Here's part two of filmmaker Todd Zeller's talk with Spun Counterguy regarding his 1980s fantasy homage, The Ten Tracks Mixtape Tasks!
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Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Tuesday Jan 31, 2023
Your host Spun Counterguy wrote a book called The Ten Tracks Mixtape Tasks and filmmaker Todd Zeller talks to him about it, including questions from readers.
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Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
On this third installment of our series on singer, songwriter and musician Una Mae Carlisle we talk with Charlie Young, the nephew of music publisher Barney Young. We will learn about Barney Young's life and career as it intersected with such figures as Machito, Harry Blackstone, Gloria Parker, Artie Shaw, Mez Mesrow and of course Una Mae Carlisle.
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Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Tuesday Jan 10, 2023
Music journalist and author Bill Adler is Back by the Woodpile to talk a little more about his memory of the history of hip hop. In this episode we’ll touch on Salt n’ Pepa, Run DMC, Fat Boys, Boogie Boys, Whodini and others in addition to the issues of mob activity in the music industry and anti-Semitism. Adler was the director of publicity at Def Jam Recordings and is the author of Tougher Than Leather: The Rise of Run-DMC
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Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Before the United States Constitution, Americans lived under the government of the Articles of Confederation. So why the overhaul? This episode tries to explain the crises that created the American's second government.
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Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
We’re back with another installment of our talk with Reformation scholar Carlos Eire. This time we discuss the joys of historical research and discovery, the devil getting credit for miracles and The Blues Brothers and Oh Brother Where are Thou as films of faith.
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Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Wednesday Oct 26, 2022
Uncle Paul is back for a third chapter regarding his interesting life and experiences. This time we talk about climbing into a girl’s dormitory to deliver kisses, literarily demolishing a girls dormitory, a sleeping projectionist, a whooper eating contest, falling from grace and finding restoration but what it was like to working a sour kraut cannery.
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Friday Oct 14, 2022
Friday Oct 14, 2022
In early 1980, a city bus crashed into the Peruvian embassy in Havanna Cuba. Somehow this incident would lead to the mass exodus of over 100,000 Cubans mostly via small boats from the communist Island to the democratic United States. But there were a lot a lot of anticedents that brought the peoples of the two nations to that point. Here to helps fill in some of those gaps is historian Victor Triay, author of Mariel Boatlift: A Cuban American Journey.
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Franklin Pierce is not one of the better known presidents in U.S. history but is still worth examining if for anything the lessons that can be learned on how not to run a country or a political party. Dr. J. David Alvis comes Back By the Woodpile to explain.
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Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
The 1920’s were a time marked by new and more affordable technology, massive economic growth, a renewed push for civil rights and relative peace, its daily life beating along to a new music genre called jazz. But one element of the roaring 20’s that is lost on most of us these days is how it contrasted with the decade previous. To help us compare the 1910s to the 1920s, is historian Dr. David F. Krugler who has written and taught extensively on those early 20 years of the 20th century.
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