Down In the Flood: Episode 10: Best of 2005

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Episode 10: Best of 2005

It's year-end list-making time, and DITF celebrates our records of the year:

Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows 1926-1937

You Ain't Talkin to Me: Charlie Poole and the Roots of Country Music

Soul's Chapel - Marty Stuart

I've Got My Own Hell to Raise - Bettye Lavette

Song X - Ornette Coleman & Pat Metheny

Listen to Down in the Flood Episode 10: Best of 2005 (38.5 MB, 41:06 Min)

Comments

Congrats on your nomination for the BoB Awards! Good Luck

Posted by: Jim Turner | December 20, 2005 at 07:04 PM

Loving the best of 2005 podcast. It's an aural education for me.

Posted by: Raj Bala | December 24, 2005 at 04:45 PM

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Down in the Flood is a non-commercial podcast for educational and critical purposes exploring the history and development of American popular music from the 1830s to the present.

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Jason Chervokas was the 1993 winner of the Emily Genauer Prize in Arts Criticism from the Columbia University School of Journalism, and the co-host and co-producer of the WKCR-FM P.Funk Radio Thang, a nine-hour retrospective covering the music of George Clinton and compatriots. His writing has appeared in various publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Stereophile, The Absolute Sound, and Goldmine.

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