Episodes

Music from Leo Kottke, The Jacques Loussier Trio, 10 String Symphony, The Quebe Sisters, The Quintet of the Hot Club of San Francisco, The Beatles, Terri Lyne Carrington, Al Petteway & Amy White, Suzy Bogguss, and Little Feat

Music from David Helbock, Neko Case, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Herbie Mann, Tegan & Sara, Sarah McLachlan, Paolo Fresu, Angel Olsen, and Bob Dylan

Songs & pieces with one-word titles, from Gregory Alan Isakov, Pat Metheny, Billy Joel, Julie London, Patsy Cline, Chick Corea & Bela Fleck, The Beatles, Eva Cassidy, The Ray Bryant Trio, The Shadows, Lisa Hannigan, and Harry...

Music from U2, Blondie, The Pat Metheny Group, Paul Simon, Robyn Hitchcock, Pink Floyd, Kim Carnes, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Taco, and Egberto Gismonti

Music from Father John Misty, Joshua Bell & Edgar Meyer w/Mike Marshall & Sam Bush, Jean-Luc Ponty, Ambrosia, The Pretenders, Queen, The California Guitar Trio, Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki, Steely Dan, Cry Cry Cry, an...

Music from guitarist John Williams w/Stanley Myers, Judee Sill, Allen Toussaint, Procol Harum w/the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, John Carpenter, Bill Evans, Alan Hull, Tower of Power, Randy Newman, Kate Wolf, Manhattan Transf...

This KPB features seven of the Burt Bacharach-Hal David songs that their most prolific interpreter, Dionne Warwick, recorded throughout the 1960's. The playlist also includes performances by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, ...

Music from Philip Aaberg, The Soundtrack & Theme Orchestra, George Winston, Ani DiFranco, Kate Wolf, Grant Green w/Sonny Clark, Simon & Garfunkel, Dar Williams, Dave Grusin, The Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Itzhak Perlman, and ...

Music from Madison Cunningham, Donna the Buffalo. Adam Rafferty, Bob Weir, Pressing Strings, David Lanz & Paul Speer, Zero 7 w/Jose Gonzalez, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Steve Young

Music from Grant Green, Earth, Wind & Fire, Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, Beach House, Pink Floyd, The B-52's, Wes Montgomery, Cyndi Lauper, and Fiona Apple

Music from Becca Mancari, Colter Wall, Ennio Morricone, Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, Greg Allman, Bruce Hornsby & the Range, Molly Tuttle (with Old Crow Medicine Show and with Golden Highway), The Byrds, Ian Noe,...

Music from Loreena McKennitt, The Baltimore Consort, The Chieftains w/the Decemberists, The Pogues, Altan, John Mellencamp w/Meshell Ndegeocello, Imelda May, Flogging Molly, Sinead O'Connor, and Capercaillie

This program commemorates the accomplishments of the "godfather of electronic music," Vangelis (1943-2022), presenting a bit of his film music and studio work, along with other music that fits right in, from Mikis Theodorakis...

Music from Flook, Robert Plant, The London Jazz Four, Lee Ritenour w/Kurt Elling, Al DiMeola, Nancy Rumbel, The Traveling Wilburys, The Head and the Heart, Richard Stoltzman, and Bruce Springsteen

Music recorded and released in the 1990's, from Uncle Tupelo, Counting Crows, Ween, Madeleine Peyroux, R.E.M., Jerry Garcia & David Grisman, Doc Watson & David Grisman, Mazzy Star, The Cranberries, Lisa Loeb, and Ellis & Bran...

Nashville and Memphis, located just 200 miles apart in Tennessee, have long been important in American music. You'll travel between the two cities, and through time, with performances by John Hiatt, Jason Isbell & the 400 Uni...

Both Laura Nyro and Bob Dylan wrote songs that are about or that mention bells and chimes, and those songs are combined with a couple of other bell songs and a few other Nyro and Dylan songs not about bells. …

Music from John Fogerty, Elvis Presley, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Guy Clark, Johnny Cash, The Beegie Adair Trio, Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters, Shocking Blue, The Eagles, The Old 97's, and Chris Proctor

Music from Ulf Wakenius, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Paul Simon, Al Stewart, Melody Gardot, Hank Mobley, Wes Montgomery, Calexico, South Austin Jug Band, and Florist

Music from Nat King Cole, The Association, The Paul Winter Consort, Leonard Cohen, Jin Ah Kwon, Natalie Merchant, 10,000 Maniacs, Louis Armstrong, Bud Shank, The Marshall Tucker Band, and Rhiannon Giddens

Blues and blues-influenced sounds from Albert King, Sam Cooke, Nanci Griffith, T-Bone Walker, The Allman Brothers Band, Adia Victoria, Blue Mitchell, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Steely Dan, and Freddie King

The inspiration for this KPB is a piece called "1968," which starts the program. From there, what you'll get is a tasty combination of songs recorded and/or released in 1968, along with a later cover of a 1968 song, and …

A small cross-section of Frank Sinatra's 1960's output for the label he founded, Reprise Records, along with complementary music by some Sinatra fans and admirers, including John Coltrane, Sheila Jordan, Diana Krall, and Lee ...

An oddball collection of diverse personal favorites! Music by Ron Carter, Max Richter, Pierre Bensusan, Tommy James & the Shondells, Buddy Miller w/Patty Griffin, Thea Gilmore, Emmylou Harris, Tuck & Patti, Alela Diane, and L...