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Zoetrope
‘I saw what you did’ New to Singapore and escaping a bad break up back in the UK, Tamsin’s attempts
Bahama Soul Club
“The Cuban Tapes”, an exotic blend of Cuban rhythms. Very cool stuff. Find the Bahama Soul Club page on Spotify
Stories Mother Told—African folk tales, for the kids, especially. www.storiesmothertold.com
2. Saint Aquinas in the Kitchen
Author Marianne Wiggins gives advice on how to handle the customer from hell in this saucy trip to your local
9. Travelogue
After World War One, some guys sat around a conference table and invented Yugoslavia. This sort of thing seldom ends
Steve Croes
Steve has been a major player/arranger in NY and LA as well as a dean at Berklee College of Music.
8. Take the Pink Bus
Take The Pink Bus features Rob Mounsey and hails from his album, “Dig.” Mounsey has arranged and played on tracks
7. On Hope
ON HOPE is the simple title of a fascinating story written by Spencer Holst. It tells of a Gypsy animal
4. Paolo Conte
Big voice, sublime Mediterranean vibe, and perfect for your al fresco Spotify playlist. One critic said, “Don’t look for meaning
Mr. City
Mr. City is working it out so that for every crook—there’s a cop, or so says Ken Nordine who was
3. Burlington Northern, Southbound
He didn’t know how to talk to her, so he wrote her a poem in which he compared her to—a
11. Train of Thought – story
Get ready for a “clattering onslaught of thought…big overloaded boxcars of thought, thoughts linked together and barreling by—” Writer, Bernard
10. Blue
Planes disappearing, foreign wars raging, and the only fish biting were the sharks. When the visions commenced, followed by an
3. The Burlington Northern, Southbound
He didn’t know how to talk to her, so he wrote her a poem in which he compared her to
Train of Thought Sounds Like the Best Radio Show You Can Imagine
A carefully structured and fully realized production, combining spoken word, music and a host of other, fascinating audio.
It Was Fun. It was Sophisticated. It was Bizarre!
Train of Thought Overcomes a Skeptic…it had panache and verve. It was fun. It was sophisticated. It was bizarre. I
The Perfect Traveling Companion.
THE PERFECT traveling companion on a long journey would be witty, sophisticated, an engaging story teller, musically talented and most important-would
A Lively Mélange of Music and the Spoken Word
Books on Tape are swell companions but they demand prolonged concentration that’s not always possible when driving jogging or just
Train of Thought is Sophisticated Hybrid, Intriguing in Its Possibilities
The production is a slick piece of work, opening with a rumble of tribal drums, the first in a series
March of the Red Beans
“Beans” is a Cajun-flavored piece by composer Steve Croes. Steve was a major session player/arranger in Los Angeles before heading
The Loser
Geoffrey Lewis created “Celestial Navigations,” and produced a number of outstanding compilations. Music is by Geoff Levin, who composes for
The Line
Podcast: The Line— A Righteous Thing, Episode 2. In 2017, during the Battle for Mosul in Iraq, a ISIS fighter
Baghdad Without A Map
Tony Horwitz was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered wars in the Middle East, Africa, and Europe for the Wall
My Dinner With Frank Sinatra
You had to be there—well, you are, sort of. After a show, comedian Dennis Miller takes his mom and his
The Gray Man
We’re in Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where a ghost may appear to warn you of an approaching hurricane. If you
5. Captain Blood
It’s always a wonderful moment preparing to board!… pistol in one hand, naked cutlass in another: So says Capt. Blood
Old Lady From Booster
Old Lady from Booster is from “Been in the Storm So Long,” an extraordinary collection of folk tales, shouts and
13. Stories Mother Told
Our podcast guest features folk tales which have had a major influence on African children. “Stories Mother Told” aims to
1. Car Bomb
That’s the trouble with owning a car—it’s just one thing after another. The Houston Post says reading Mark Leyner is
West Cork
West Cork, Ireland is an outpost at the edge of Europe. Rugged windswept and coastal, it was a place of
