Gems 928 What is American about Bluegrass

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Gems 928 What is American about Bluegrass

Series: Gems of Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum
Length: 00:07:24

Bluegrass is a combination of many styles originating in America, Europe and Africa. But bluegrass is considered American. Ask bluegrass players wherever you go they say the same thing. But why is bluegrass considered American? Maybe because it’s sung in American English, or that it sounds more like other North American styles than anything else. But is that it? Read the full description.

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Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multiple song clips with commentary over music beds. For an insightful weekly 1-hour bluegrass show that includes Gems of Bluegrass, see the Bluegrass Review, available from PRX. Contact Phil Nusbaum at pnusbaum@bitstram.net to download the show from www.bluegrassreview.com.

Playing: Gems 928 What is American about Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum

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Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multiple song clips with commentary over music beds. For an insightful weekly 1-hour bluegrass show that includes Gems of Bluegrass, see the Bluegrass Review, available from PRX. Contact Phil Nusbaum at pnusbaum@bitstram.net to download the show from www.bluegrassreview.com.

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Piece Description

Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture. Each Gem consists of multiple song clips with commentary over music beds. For an insightful weekly 1-hour bluegrass show that includes Gems of Bluegrass, see the Bluegrass Review, available from PRX. Contact Phil Nusbaum at pnusbaum@bitstram.net to download the show from www.bluegrassreview.com.

Transcript

Rebel Country Gentlemen Early Rebel Recordings Battle Hymn of the Republic
Old Line Ray Hesson Sunrise Stars and Stripes Forever
MCM Various, Del McCoury Moneyland Moneyland
Pinecastle Jim & Jesse McReynolds The Old Dominion Masters ‘Mid the Green Fields of Virginia
Wolf Tracks Art Stevenson & High Water Dusty Boxcar Wall Ice Covered Birches
Rebel Seldom Scene Best of v.1 Paradise
Rounder Rhonda Vincent Good Thing Goin’ Good Thing Goin’
Wayne Taylor and Appaloosa Dirt Roads
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Bluegrass is a combination of many styles originating in America, Europe and Africa. But bluegrass is considered American. Ask bluegrass players wherever you go they say the same thing. But why is bluegrass considered American? Maybe because it’s sung in American English, or that it sounds more like other North American styles than anything else. But is that it?

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after the piece and UA, play some bluegrass about American lifestyles...Bill Monroe's Heavy Traffic Ahead for example (about housework) or Laurie Lewis' song Willie Poor Boy about the urban bus driver who takes the law into his own hands are good ones.

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