Producer and Host Michael Pollitt with Co-producer Lance Smith

Producer and Host Michael Pollitt with Co-producer Lance Smith

About the Show

"C'mon in. Let's Spin A Tale or Two!"

Human beings have made music and spun stories throughout our history on this planet. In many ways, these songs and stories tell us a lot about who we are, where we've been and where we are going.

Spinning Tales is a two hour weekly radio show that embraces both music--with an emphasis on archival early recordings and contemporary music performed in these traditional or "roots" styles--and stories ranging from the recordings of traditional storytellers to stories collected from local people.

In this day of multi-media presentations and multi-layered digital studio productions, we hope you'll enjoy this return to simpler fare; music often recorded live by a group of musicians gathered around a single microphone, stories shared over a cup of coffee with a neighbor.

The show is written and produced by Michael Pollitt, who hosts the show, broadcasting live from WMCB lp FM in downtown Greenfield, MA USA each week.  Co-producer Lance Smith produces its website and YouTube channel and helps out with other production tasks.  On occasion Michael gets lonely and drags Lance into the studio and puts a microphone in front of him.  (Our research hasn't clarified whether this enhances or detracts from the show.)  

Now that the show streams live (and is rebroadcast 3 times a week on the web), we've found that there is a keen interest in the roots of American music in Europe.  So, in many ways producing this show has turned out to be a some sort of Star Trekky Space-Time Machine journey, taking us from the earliest days of the 20th century's fledgling recording industry through satellite internet feeds across the world in the 21st.  Who could have imagined?


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Friday Live 4-6 PM EDST
Europe 2000 GMT
Saturday (web only) 4-6 AM EDST
Europe 0800 GMT
Sunday 1-3 PM EDST
Europe 1700 GMT
Monday (web only) 1-3 AM EDST
Europe 0500 GMT

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Spinning Tales has an extensive collection of Playlists on our YouTube Channel!

Roots Cajun

The Blues Come to the City

Las Mujeres del Norteño

Jug Band Music:Beale Street and Beyond

And Much More!!

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