KFAI's MinneCulture Presents

Tapestry Turns Fifty from Joyride Media ~ Carole King's 1971 masterpiece celebrated its half-century anniversary on February 10th, 2021. All these decades later, it’s easy to take Tapestry for granted. For many, it has just always seemed to be there. But last year Rolling Stone labeled it as the 25th Greatest Album of All Time and, upon its initial release, it was the Number One record in the country for an astonishing 15 weeks straight. In this music-heavy one-hour special, we'll hear insightful interviews with King herself, producer Lou Adler, her friend Graham Nash, and journalist David Wild of Rolling Stone. Their comments touch on nearly every aspect of the album's production, its impact on the music industry, Carole King's songwriting process, and how her career developed from the Brill Building to Tapestry . This documentary was produced by the team of Paul Chuffo and Joshua Jackson at Joyride Media and is hosted by Rita Houston .

Sonic Flavor: The Lyricism of D Mills by Dixie Treichel  ~ A sonic portrait of Minneapolis rapper Diane Miller aka D Mills who creates thought provoking hip hop work that expresses her authentic self and engages the audience with a fusion of sonic flavors. Thunder Chases Lightning: Vicky Emerson's Music and Mentorship  by Dixie Treichel  ~ Vicky Emerson is a Minneapolis based singer/songwriter/producer of Americana music. She co-founded Front Porch Music Group and mentors women with producing their own albums. Her most recent album is Steady Heart . Time Signatures Explained, Then Deranged by Sheila Regan  ~ These Twin Cities musicians go beyond the metronome in their explorations of odd measures. Using uncommon time signatures or, in some cases, no time signatures at all, their shifting uses of time offer a window into the limitless musical possibilities. KFAI’s Sheila Regan visits the Cedar Cultural Center for this Minnesota music story. Genre Bending Music by...

A Brief History of Women in Bars: A Minnesota Story in Three Rounds  from MinneCulture ~ One hundred years ago, two major constitutional amendments went into effect. The 18th marked the start of Prohibition and the 19th granted many   women   the right to vote. It wasn’t a coincidence that these laws went into effect adjacent to one another. The movements were linked in some surprising ways. In this new   documentary , Fulbright Fellow, historian, and podcaster   Katie Thornton   looks at how the state’s temperance movement set the stage for its women’s suffrage movement. But she also looks at how temperance leaders—and, by proxy, many early suffragists—failed to engage many women who weren’t wealthy, White, Anglo-Saxon Protestants. The   Minnesota   women who didn’t fit that bill empowered themselves in other ways—sometimes through the economic and social opportunities presented by the alcohol industry. The Bootleg Cocktail   from MN90 ...