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A light-hearted look at people and other entities imitations fo the banjo.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 04:37
Our show opens with new bluegrass. We muse that few songs are focused on individuals set in one place. But we found a few. And what is the place? “...
Bought by WXXI, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public, WAMU, and WRGY
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
- Added: May 08, 2013
- Length: 01:58:03
- Purchases: 1
Ralph Stanley is a bluegrass icon. To honor him, Don Rigsby put out a tribute CD. We play a selection from the CD, and then play selections from pr...
Bought by KKRN, KUCB, KRZA, KDRP Community Radio, WRGY and more
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
In this episode, we look at one of the most pressing environmental issues;
fracking. There are so many ways to think about an issue like this; with...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 29:20
Today, recorded musical textures are getting denser and denser. Why? Because we can make them that way, I guess. But turn back the clock and textur...
Bought by KDRP Community Radio and WXXI
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 2
Early on the show, listen to some funny bluegrass parodies. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, we consider old recordings before the “wall of sound” wa...
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 18:32
In this short feature Rabbi Neil Blumofe explores what Gillespie's legacy can teach us about the revolutionary aspect of humor, and how we can live...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 03:00
The image of 8 year old Martin Richard holding a handmade sign saying, "No more hurting people- Peace" pretty well broke my heart. To think that he...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 28:12
Jazz trumpeter Clifford Brown is known for his precise and captivatingly smooth technique yet his life was tragically cut short in a car accident w...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:35
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music represents a string band evolution plus 1940s innovations by Bill Monroe, who led a group called the Bluegrass Boys. Bill pitched...
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 07:52
We open with new and recent bluegrass, including a modernistic piece featuring Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Our Gem of Bluegrass feature tells a...
Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KUCB and more
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
Censorship never works for long. People power prevails, eventually. No
matter how much dictators, or religions, try to control the spread of
inform...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 29:59
The musical style of old time music and bluegrass come from Appalachia. The high singing, the accompaniments that are full of notes, are all a blue...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 06:41
Today’s program opens with new bluegrass. Then we introduce a running thread on today’s show: We’re declaring Spring. This sort of pronouncement ma...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 13
In the movie The Interpreter, the character played by Nicole Kidman says,
"Vengeance is a lazy form of grief."
If we're honest, most of us have mo...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 30:08
Awareness is the first step to freedom. You won't leave a relationship,
confront an abuser or change a habit until you become aware of the problem....
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 27:06
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 1
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 02:29
- Purchases: 1
From: Philip Nusbaum
Bluegrass has a number of songs that reflect on working. The nature of the work has changed over the years. But even if it’s office work, it exacts...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 05:22
We open the show with a current ‘grass selection, and then proceed to play three bluegrass songs that use the name John Deere Tractors symbolically...
Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Ian Lawton enjoins listeners to be authentic and mindful of true wisdom, by virtue of knowing our highest sense of self. Jen Sygit and Laura Bates...
- Added: Mar 30, 2013
- Length: 27:38
The program opens with recent blues-tinged bluegrass. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers the somewhat romantic image of the hobo in older bluegras...
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
To some, there is a great advantage to living outdoors. It’s an advantage you can’t put a price tag on. And maybe some romance too, as in the case...
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 07:13
