Sound Beat

National Library Week – Mary Baker Eddy

How a serious injury influenced the founding of the Church of Christ, Scientist.

National Library Week – Greek Folk

The NYC folk music scene you probably didn't know about.

National Library Week – The Prisonaires

A pretty little tune written by a couple of fellas…just walking around…prison.

National Library Week – Hans Kronold’s Lecture

We’re spoiled here at Sound Beat, listening to and learning about the very best recordings ever made. But as Syracuse University Libraries Cataloger Jennifer Vaughn tells us, sometimes great stories come out of the…not so great recordings. Read the article right now. Sound Beat is produced at the Belfer Audio Archive, Syracuse University Libraries. I’m Brett Barry.

75 years of Rudolph

Tolkien’s First Monsters

Even before Gollum, Shelob, and the Nazgul, JRR Tolkien had monsters on the brain.

Deep Elem Blues

We’re going back to the Grateful Roots: songs that influenced the Grateful Dead.

100 Years of Woody Guthrie – Tom Joad

You’re on the Sound Beat…with Anna Canoni, the granddaughter of Woody Guthrie.

100 Years of Woody Guthrie – Oklahoma Hills

Woody wrote this tune and his cousin Jack recorded it in 1945. It went to the top of the charts…a feat that a Woody Guthrie record never matched. But it’s Woody’s version, not Jack’s, that serves as Oklahoma’s state song. Others have had success with Guthrie songs as well… (Interview) And, bet you weren’t thinking about Woody during “The Departed”… (Interview)

Happy Birthday To Us!

They grow up so fast, don't they?