The Kitchen Sisters Present

18 – A Man Tapes his Town: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy

17 – Unfinished Business: Ali vs Frazier VI, Daughters of Destiny

16 – The Green Street Mortuary Band

15 – Electronic Memories: R.A. Coleman’s Memphis

14 – Taylor Negron: Portrait of an Artist as an Answering Machine

13 – Sam Phillips and the Early Years of the Memphis Recording Service: We Record Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

The Nights of Edith Piaf

11 – Cigar Stories: El Lector—He Who Reads

10 – Dissident Kitchens

9 – Atomic Wine

The Pizza Connection + Turnspit Dogs

7 – Just Girls: The Hidden World of Patti Smith and Judy Linn

6 – Cry Me A River: A story of three pioneering river activists and the damming of wild rivers in the west

5 – The Making of the Homobile: A Story of Transportation, Civil Rights & Glitter (and further stories of making…)

4 – The French Manicure – The Long Shadow of Shirley Temple

3 – Eel Pie Island

2 – Tennessee Williams: The Pennyland Recordings

1 – The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise of Thomas Alva Edison

This episode of Fugitive Waves explores the complex legacy of Thomas Alva Edison, focusing on his triumphs and failures in the recording industry. Despite inventing the phonograph and pioneering mass production of recordings, Edison's conservative business practices and artistic preferences hindered his success compare...