Bluegrass Review 820

Summary:

program for broadcast May 10 - 16, 2008

Website:

http://www.bluegrassreview.com

Tones:

Engaging, Polished, Thoughtful

Language:

English

Description:

First half hour

As is our usual practice, we open the show by playing highlights from CDs of current bluegrass. With a little production, we showcase new work by Corbett, Chrishman and Tice that features the Hammered dulcimer in a progressive acoustic music setting. In our Gem of Bluegrass feature we consider the evolution of the murder ballad from the inexplicable murdered girl songs to a clever lyric written recently by Marci Salyer.

We conclude the first half hour with a classic murder ballad known as Little Mattie Groves. It is an English ballad that has been collected in the United States, sung by Ralph Stanley; and about the royal couple, unfaithfulness, and gore.

Second half hour
The spotlight is on Tom Rozum. He is known to most bluegrass fans as the partner of Laurie Lewis, but Tom has had a varied career in music. He shares his history with us, and plays some musical examples. And we play recordings of Tom doing an Everly Brothers classic with Laurie Lewis and doing some jazzgrass with Peter McLaughlin.

The show concludes with important new bluegrass by Longview and an important new reissue by fiddler Benny Martin.

The Bluegrass Review presents bluegrass in an engaging, entertaining and informative package. Each week, the show presents current and historical bluegrass music, as well as interviews, produced segments and commentary. The result is in-depth and entertaining bluegrass programming that presents two or three thematic bursts within each show, and appeals to a wide audience of music lovers. The Bluegrass Review is available free of charge to stations that run it in a consistent timeslot.

Each week there is a 5-8 minute produced "Gems of Bluegrass segment available separately from PRX or from Phil Nusbaum at pnusbaum@bitstream.net.

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