1980’s are back, at least in our reminiscing. This time around: high school hard boiled press hounds, fist fighting everyone from Tennessee to Chicago, club Medusa’s...
Solitude, books, gardens, shady trees, being defined by enemies, honesty and man-children! Hear all these topics rolled around and discussed with folks from various walks of...
Jack Teagarden, Louis Jordan, Ukulele Ike and Percy Mayfield are all names that aren’t heard much on the lips of folks these days. But musicologist...
Unconnected stories! From the back of the recording drawer we’ve got folks talking about inventing an Amiga computer for the domestic engineer, the blossom and...
We’re back over in China’s interior for another lesson in the ways of the Taoism. This time around we’re talking with a “Mr. Wu” who...
Foxy Chinese lady spirits, a mud-faced mexican witch, meat rain, prison haunts, oujia manipulations, Sudanese brotherly betrayals and tunnels from of the dead offsprings of fornicating clergy. It’s...
More creepy Patches From a Second-Hand Planet stories! These two called “When you went away” and “Worse in it’s absence” involve travelers and the ghosts they pick...
Mr. Mister’s liturgy, Margaret Thatcher’s reign, hiding in the ceiling, talking to girls, climbing up the school building, falling off the school building, first crushes...
Half of this episode will be in the ocean depths and the other half will be over in China; and a guy we’ll call ShuǐXià LaoWai will...
To some Falun Gong is just way to exercise or meditate, to others it’s brought them great inner peace and then to others it somehow...
Miami Vice, mullets, shoes but no socks, a video game starring the members of the band Journey, Flock of Seagull hair, Mexican female bodies stuffed...
Not everyone in the 1980’s were walking on sunshine. On this installment of our look back podcast, we talk back to bullies, go to Southern...
Been a long time since you strained your brain? Come join us Back by the Woodpile for more word wrestling as we discuss saints, sinners,...
Welcome to another dig through the often overlooked music of the 1980s! This time around journalist and author John J Thompson of True Tunes fame...
The final in the series of interviews conducted at the 2016 International Association of Jazz Record Collectors, music enthusiastic Phil Oldham talks about the state...
Dr. Ming Wang is an Ophthalmologist and scientist who’s pioneered both the fields of health technology and molecular biology, having published research papers and...
Thieves have stolen all the arms and legs of a sweet child’s baby doll collection! Who would do such an inconsiderate thing? We’re not sure...
Joe Torre has been around the computing block both in soft and hardware since the 1970’s. By taking advantage of his luck and pushing discipline...
DJ Ron Slomowicz has been pumping dance beats out onto the club floors, airwaves and media avenues for over 20 years now. In a moment of...
Another flip through our 1980s back pages, this time around: interning at one of the first hip hop radio stations ever, getting that first kiss...
More philosophical tango, this time around touching on suppression of speech, everyone getting offended, riding on the fumes of past dreams, unheard words, thoughts missed...
As Jews, Geralda & Yuri Zhislin’s parents miraculously survived the Nazi invasion of the Ukraine only to next feel the persecution of the Soviet Union’s...
Tito Puente was considered hands down the “King of the Mambo”, pushing and molding the genre of Latin jazz known by many names over time....
Even when Charlie Coleman was a kid, hot jazz was fading from the mainstream public’s musical preferences. But knowing great music when he heard it,...
Master Hu is Taoist scholar who discusses with us the relationship between the philosophical and religious spectrum of Taoism, the attempt to incorporate Confucianism, making...
More highlighting of overlooked artists from the 1980’s decade. Including Pseudo Echo, The Lazy Cowgirls, the Roxanne Roxanne answer records, 鄧麗君, 15 60 75 Numbers...
This episode features a guy named Steve C who’s had a lot of disappointment in his life. Date-killing bad memory and bowels, opening for a...
Another philosophical discussion, this time around on such light subjects as martyrdom, socialism, forgiveness, failure and spilling huckleberries. Click here to find on iTunes! Click...
More tubular tripping backwards to the 1980’s where this time around we chat about The Kinks doing it again, a Tennessee Waltz crush in Zimbabwe,...
On this week’s episode of In the Corner Back by the Woodpile, African-American Hattie Bruce comes from the past tells about her own simple but...