Knoxville’s WDVX radio station is now hosting a new radio show on Monday nights from 9:00 – 11:00pm. Beginning with the dawn of the record industry in the late 1890s, until the format’s so-called demise in the late 1980s, millions of records were released to the public, most of which will not cross over into the reissues of the digital age. As a result, a large amount of our musical history lies forgotten, waiting to be rediscovered.

Rare or obscure recordings including classic jazz, blues, country, bluegrass, local radio transcriptions, amateur home recordings, vanity pressings, oddball celebrity records and preserved material from the collections of the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound will be featured on a weekly basis during the Vinyl Frontier, a new radio show airing Mondays on WDVX-FM between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Hosted by TAMIS co-directors Louisa Trott and Bradley Reeves.  The show will feature rare and obscure recordings, many played on the original 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm formats. Preserved or unique material will be played on compact disc preservation copies. Each week, we comb the estate sales, roadside flea markets, thrift stores and junk shops searching for those discarded gems to play on the air.

For more information on the show, click here.