A femurl is a production of IHurt Radio.

One of the most rewarding of this project has been getting to meet so many brilliant people, then plying them with questions.

Turns out if you tell people you have a podcast, they will just talk to you and let you record it.

One of the hardest parts is editing. No matter what, there was always too much great tape left over.

These are some of my favorite heretofore unaired moments from four interviews of the past season.

Though everyone is speaking on a different subject, one thing they all have in common is a passion

for this work. Ian Nagosky is a music researcher whose label, Canary Records, does mostly reissues of music and languages other than English.

The collection, To What Strange Place, the music of the Ottoman- American Diaspora, 1916 through 1930,

introduced me to his work and became the basis for our season one episode entitled Diaspora.

With the music, Ian has collected amazing stories of performers that otherwise may have been forgotten.

Here is a little bit of his story.

I was a person who dug through records and went looking for old music ever since I was a kid.

Sometime in my late teens, I started buying 78 RPM discs, just thinking there would be something

maybe interesting on them, because I'd heard

reissue records of old country and blues and jazz and that kind of stuff while I was growing

up. And went and looked and started digging in flea markets and things, going like, well,

what is this stuff? Is there anything good on here that maybe I don't know about that I hadn't run into

before? So I wound up intentionally buying anything that wasn't in English. And it turned out,

yeah, there were some good music I'd never heard of before and that nobody I knew knew anything

about. And I just started kind of gathering these things up real cheap, 10 cents

apiece, dollar apiece. And over the years, I would play them for friends. And then eventually,

I wound up with a lot of them. And I kept asking questions of people, do you know what this is?

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