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All Episodes

American Song — 57 episodes

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1

The New Wave Fun House: Blondie, Talking Heads, DEVO, The Cars, Oingo Boingo

2

New Wave — Up From the Ooze (How Kraftwerk, The Ramones, Television, Patti Smith and CBGB - a Twelve-Foot Room on the Bowery - Accidentally Invented the Future)

3

The Greatest Music You've Never Heard: The Songs of Mark Davis (2)

4

The Greatest Music You've Never Heard: The Songs of Mark Davis (1)

5

Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Last Man Standing

6

Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Breakups, Ghosts, and Trump’s America

7

Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Darkness, The River, Nebraska, and Berlin ’88

8

Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Born to Run, Bomb Scares, and the Edge of Fame

9

Bruce Springsteen and the American Reckoning: Freehold to Cherry Hill

10

Lives in the Balance: Jackson Browne and the Fight for America’s Soul

11

Warren Zevon's Beautiful Wreckage

12

God’s Song and Other American Prayers: The Story of Randy Newman

13

If a Tree Falls: Bruce Cockburn and the Angry, Necessary Songs Nobody Else Would Write

14

Save Something for Yourself: Judy Collins, Joni Mitchell, and the Art of Radical Honesty

15

Bob Dylan - America’s Nobel Poet Laureate

16

The Minstrel and the Symphony: Jethro Tull, ELP, and Progressive Rock's Wilder Shores

17

Close to the Edge: How Yes and Genesis Took Progressive Rock to Its Furthest Reaches

18

From Kent State to King Crimson: How the Counterculture Invented Progressive Rock

19

Punk - The Shot Heard Round the World

20

From CBGB to Dublin to Odessa: The Ramones, Blondie, The Pogues, and Punk's Unstoppable Global Spread

21

Coast to Coast Chaos: New York and LA Spark the American Punk Revolution!

22

Sweet Home Alabama: Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Band, Charlie Daniels, and the Music of a South at War With Itself

23

Southern Rock: Coming to Terms with a Complicated Past

24

Redemption Song: The Life, Music, and Unstoppable Legacy of Bob Marley

25

From Slavery to Ska: The Jamaican History That Made Reggae Inevitable

26

The Masters of Funk: James Brown, the Meters, Sly Stone, Stevie Wonder, George Clinton

27

Reelin' in the Years: Steely Dan, Traffic, and Supertramp's Blueprint for the Perfect Record

28

The Other Side of Fusion: Jazz Rock

29

After Miles: Herbie Hancock, Weather Report, and Jazz Fusion's Golden Generation

30

Bitches Brew: How Miles Davis Blew Up Jazz and Invented the Future

31

Action: Reaction - American Bands and American Society Respond to the English Invasion

32

America's Music Comes Home: The Beatles, the Stones, the Yardbirds, and How England Gave Us Back Our Rock and Roll

33

Before the Beatles: How American Blues Conquered England First

34

Puerto Ricans Sing Out for Justice.

35

American Song and the Fight for Hispanic Equality.

36

Land of A Thousand Dances - Latin American Music

37

The Roots of Latin Music in the New World

38

Folk Music Played the Changes in American Society.

39

1960’s Folk Music: How the Fire Spread

40

The Second Folk Revival – A Passing of the Torch.

41

Musique Concrete: A Radical Re-Thinking of Sound and Performance

42

The Celestial Pulse of Minimalism.

43

When the World Was In Chaos, Music Became Atonal

44

Special Feature: 1950's American Culture; the Seedbed of Rock and Roll

45

Hail Hail Rock and Roll

46

R&B Was Born on the American Song River

47

Folk Music Stood For America

48

Jazz in Defense of Equality and Justice For All

49

The Rising of Gospel Music and How It Inspired the World.

50

Country Music Blazes a Trail.

51

The Duality of the Blues; Episode 7 of American Song

52

The Classical-Jazz Affair

53

The Early Days of Jazz

54

The Early Days of Country Music

55

The Roots of Jazz - Ragtime, Stride, Boogie Woogie and the Blues

56

The Many Musical Threads in Our National Fabric; Early American Music by Region

57

(If World Cultures Were Musical Notes), Early America Was a Ready-Made Symphony.