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Gems of Bluegrass #1209 Marriage and Bluegrass For regular users, program fo Feb 25-Mar2, 2012.... (00:07:11)
From: Philip Nusbaum

Bluegrass fans get a kick about talking about the main focus of bluegrass love songs: the exit point of the relationship. It’s funny because, unlike the fantasy world of pop ...

Gems of Bluegrass #1208 On Bluegrass Purity (00:06:38)
From: Philip Nusbaum

Bluegrass fans pay close attention to bluegrass, thinking about bluegrass tradition and whether certain songs or groups are traditional or not. They might think about how ...

Gems of Bluegrass #1205 Sounds Like... (00:06:06)
From: Philip Nusbaum

You hear that songwriters and musicians write and play music reflecting their experiences Fair enough but it doesn’t stop there. In old time music and bluegrass, they also ...

Gems of Bluegrass #1207 Bluegrass Waltzes (00:08:26)
From: Philip Nusbaum

When you think about bluegrass, what do you think of?. I’ bet it’s reckless speed and drive, or maybe harmony singing especially the kind of 4-part singing on gospel songs. ...

Gems of Bluegrass #1208 Is Bluegrass Pure? (00:06:38)
From: Philip Nusbaum

Bluegrass fans pay close attention to bluegrass, thinking about bluegrass tradition and whether certain songs or groups are traditional or not. They might think about how ...

Gems of Bluegrass 1206: Game Changing CD: Jed Crowe & the New South 1975 (00:08:49)
From: Philip Nusbaum

In any musical idiom most of what comes out fits a model of normalcy. But then there are the bands and the recordings that signal that a change is going on. Such as CD is the ...

Gems of Bluegrass #1152 "Bill Monroe's Variety" for regular users, piece for Dec 24-30, 2011, ot... (00:06:28)
From: Philip Nusbaum

Bill Monroe’s contribution is combining the traditional types of songs he heard in Kentucky where he grew up and in the south where he performed. But he didn’t combine these ...

Gems #1151 Romance, Fantasy and Realism, Pop and Bluegrass For regular users, program for Dec 10... (00:10:27)
From: Philip Nusbaum

It must be that over half the songs in any music style are concerned with love. That includes bluegrass, though theres’s a lot of everyday life in bluegrass, too. Some of the ...

Gems of Bluegrass # 1148 Brother Duets (00:06:11)
From: Philip Nusbaum

For regular users, piece for Nov 26-Dec 3, 2011. Others use anytime. Since the dawn of the commercial era, there have been performance models in old time music and bluegrass. ...

Gems of Bluegrass #1149 The Evolution of the Guitar in Bluegrass Music (00:07:20)
From: Philip Nusbaum

Rhythm guitar. When you are talking about the old bluegrass and old time music, you scarcely need to use the word rhythm. That’s because guitars were almost always used as ...

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Intro and Outro

Part of the legacy of bluegrass and country music is it's grassroots
connections. You know, frontier farmers, after a day of field work, playing a few
tunes on the violin before bed time. Or, the family gathered together to sing
hymn tunes. Saying or implying that just’ folks play the music makes it seem more accessible. That is why bluegrass and country music artists stress grassroots connections. But the music actually advances in the hands of people who perform full time.

after the UA, you might play bluegrass songs relating to sociable settings for bluegrass. On the Reno Bros CD Acoustic Celebration, there's a great one called Saturday's Jam. I'd also recomment Jim and Jesse's Pickin' and a-Grinnin, Reno and Smiley's Sawin' on the Strings and Y'all come from Bill Monroe.