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Guitar: An American Life

Author : Tim Brookes

Performed By : Tim Brookes

Publisher : Blackstone Audio Inc

Runtime : 11 hours 30 minutes

Categories : Music Related
Music Related

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One man's quest for his dream guitar inspires him to explore the instrument's

largely untold history.



What was it about a small, humble folk instrument that allowed it to become an American

icon? The guitar represents freedom, the open road, protest and rebellion, the blues, youth,

lost love, and sexuality. The guitar was picked up by everyone, miners and society ladies,

lumberjacks and presidents' wives, Hawaiians, African-Americans, Cajuns, jazz players,

spiritualists, cowboys, and teenagers. In time, it became America's instrument, its

soundtrack.



Tim Brookes explored these ideas while on a quest for his dream guitar that took him to

Vermont's Green Mountains where an amiable curmudgeon master guitarmaker, Rick Davis,

chose a rare piece of cherry wood and went to work with saws and rasps. When Tim wasn't

breathing over Rick's shoulder, he was trying to unravel why the guitar is "wall-to-wall popular

in the United States" and, to a lesser degree, throughout the world.



A regular commentator on National Public Radio's Sunday Weekend Edition, Tim Brookes has also had his work appear in National Geographic, Outside, American History, and Vintage Guitar.

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A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Episode 1: DEBUTANT IN DANGER

Author : Sable Jak

Performed By : Colonial Radio Theatre

Publisher : Colonial Radio Theatre On The Air

Runtime : 26 minutes

Categories : Dramatizations
Detective
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"When a woman's husband is killed, you're susposed to do something about it."

Phil (short for Philomena) Byrnes and her husband ran their Gloucester MA detective agency until he was killed at his desk. It's not a case of her stepping into his spot to keep the family business running  -- she was a working detective long before his death -- and she makes for a refreshingly prickly widow.

Now Phil runs the agency with the help of her assistant Buzzy, with occasional forays to Papa's Bar, for a little liquid refreshment now and then, and some occasional paternal advice from Papa. She's also helped out in her investigation by Detective Jim Colman, a member of Gloucester's finest, who has a soft spot for Phil, though she seems largely unaware of it. Evidently she's still trying to come to terms with her husband's murder.

THE COLONIAL RADIO THEATRE presents A PHIL BYRNES MYSTERY. Starring DIANE CAPEN. JAMES TURNER. J.T. TURNER and the Colonial Radio Players. Produced by Chris Snyder and Matt McLaren. Music By Jeffrey Gage. Directed by Jerry Robbins. (c)2006 by Sable Jak (P) 2006 by CRT