KFAI's MinneCulture Presents

The Story of Born to Run from Joyride Media In celebration of Bruce Springsteen 's 70th birthday this week, we're going to listen to a radio documentary about the making of his breakthrough album. Born To Run was recorded between January 8, 1974 - July 20, 1975 and its laborious creation has become the stuff of legend . This one-hour music-heavy special tells the inside story and contains outtakes and alternate versions of songs from the recording sessions. Interviewees include the Boss himself, along with members of his E Street Band both past and present. We'll hear from Roy Bittan, Ernest "Boom" Carter, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Nils Lofgren, David Sancious, Patti Scialfa, Garry Tallent, Miami Steve Van Zandt, and Max Weinberg . They will also recall scenes from the tumultuous tour which directly followed, as the album's final mixing continued at the studio back home. Plus, producer Jon Landau, engineer Jimmy Iovine, and manager Mike Appel ...

Poetry As Music  by Dixie Treichel Anthony Ceballos is a Minnesota poet who loves reading his work before an audience. "A live reading of a poem for me is just as important as how it is read on the page," he says. Anthony is starting to appear in a new weekly poetry segment  on  Melissa Olson 's program Sanctuary. Sanctuary: Arts and Activism airs Mondays from 1 to 2pm on KFAI. Dan Keiser, The Oak Man by  Brigitta Greene The Mendota Dakota tribal community honored arborist Dan Keiser [pictured] at their annual pow wow in September of 2019. Keiser goes by "Oak Man," a nickname he acquired during the years-long standoff over the construction of Highway 55 in the late 90s. The protest pitted environmental activists and native communities against MnDOT . A central symbol of the fight were four bur oak trees , well over 100 years old, that native communities believed to be sacred, and highway officials said needed to be cleared. The highway ultimately won o...

Jelloslave Live from Minnesota  Powered by an eclectic mix of cellos and percussion, Jelloslave paints vivid soundscapes which crisscross cultures and musical styles. Jelloslave features Jacqueline Ultan and Michelle Kinney on cello, Greg Schutte on drums, and Gary Waryan on tablas. Recorded live on June 21, 2018 at Spring Cafe at Como Lakeside Pavilion in St. Paul. Produced by Tom Garneau for MinneCulture . Prior to listening to this performance, we'll hear an audio story from KFAI's Nikki Tundel about the origin of Jelloslave and their music-making process.  Michael Yonkers Live from Minnesota  A very rare live performance by groundbreaking Minneapolis garage-surf-noise music pioneer Michael Yonkers . His highly experimental 60s recordings have earned him a cult following and were later re-released by the Sub Pop, Drag City, Get Hip, and De Stijl record labels. Playing a modified guitar with homemade effects, Yonkers creates a wall of distorted sound adding hi...

MinneCulture Podcast, Ep. 24: The Purple One from KFAI For our Season 3 finale, s tories about the late, great Prince Rogers Nelson . We speak to the fella credited with "discovering" The Artist, learn what it was like to get phone calls from Prince at 3 a.m., and we take a tour of "Purple Places" that mark Skipper's roots in North Minneapolis. Episode produced by Nancy Rosenbaum . Prince and the Technician by the Kitchen Sisters In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician, Susan Rogers , one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and help upgrade his home recording studio as he began work on the album and the movie Purple Rain. Susan, a trained technician with no sound engineering experience became the engineer of all that Prince recorded for the next four years. We'll hear what it was like to work with Prince for 24 hours, 36 hours, 96 hours at a stretch, as he layered and perfected his hot, funky sound .  Not So Purple Rain by X...