Random Rotations

Host(s): 
Caleb Paul
Timeslot: 
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 7:00pm
Length: 
1 hour
Type of Show: 
Music

free form or a healthy variety of sound for listening pleasure

Past Episodes

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP28 - India, Part 2 Aired: Tuesday, August 5, 2025

    Second of two shows featuring a mix of music from India with recordings spannning from the 1910s to recordings made in the 60s and 70s by Jean Jenkins, John Levy, and others

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP27 - India, Part 1 Aired: Tuesday, July 29, 2025

    First of two shows featuring a mix of music from India with recordings spanning from 1902 to the 70s

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP25 - Juneteenth Aired: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

    Juneteenth show celebrating Black American vernacular music with an emphasis on east Texas where that holiday tradition began

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP24 - Caribbean 2: Waves & Rhythm Aired: Tuesday, June 3, 2025

    Another visit to the Caribbean that runs the gamut from Gwo-ka Modèn to the music of a Jamaican Zion Revivalist church 

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP23 - American Porch Music & Miscellany Aired: Tuesday, May 20, 2025

    Attempting to channel that porch music, etc. 

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP22 - Gov't Grant Funded or the NEA Blues Aired: Tuesday, April 29, 2025

    Hear a show composed entirely of music whose release was made possible by funding from National Endowment of the Arts, and other American government cultural agencies from which grant funding has been recently eliminated.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP20 - Jazz Appreciation Month Aired: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

    A mix show of jazz that features instruments and flavors from other traditions such as Balafon, Koto, Bossa Nova, Flamenco, and others.​

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP18 - Truckers, Preachers, Country Localismo Aired: Tuesday, March 25, 2025

    Songs about trucking and trucker culture, the vice of pinball, road companionship, gospel and some regional country, and bluegrass gems, including places as far flung as Canada and Montana. Labels like Starday and regional records pressed at Rite Records Productions and Arthur Smith Studios.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP17 - Éire Aired: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

    A "pure blend" of traditional music from Ireland. Hear reels, jigs, hornpipes, and the most delicate aires, from all over the Emerald Isle played on fiddles, pipes, button accordions, tin whistles, dulcimer, and more. Recordings of Seamus Ennis, Margaret Barry, Michael Coleman, Paddy Killoran, the McPeakes, John Rea, and more, on Gael-Linn, Topic, Shanachie, Folkways, etc. With ballads sung in both the native and the foreign tongue, and songs of resistance mixed in.

  • Vernacular Sounds - EP15 - Balkans and Beyond Aired: Tuesday, February 18, 2025

    A mix of regional styles and traditional music from the Balkans and Southeastern Europe. Hear ethnographic field recordings of music from the former regions of Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Rumania, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Hungary. Tree leaf-playing choruses, kolo flute, lute, hurdy gurdy, fiddle, bagpipes, jaw harp, Traveller (gypsy) ballads, etc.

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