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Early in the show we play a classic country song built on a convict’s optimism. Each night in his cell, he dreams happily of his family. The contrast is with songs about depression, which leads into the Gem of Bluegrass, about the booze-bluegrass connection. Bluegrass has a no tolerance policy for booze. Later, we talk to Roland White. Roland is a bluegrass veteran who has played previously with the Kentucky Colonels, Bill Monroe, Country Gazette and the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and now leads the Roland White Band. He talks to us about his recent composing.
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Early in the show we play a classic country song built on a convict’s optimism. Each night in his cell, he dreams happily of his family. The contrast is with songs about depression, which leads into the Gem of Bluegrass, about the booze-bluegrass connection. Bluegrass has a no tolerance policy for booze. Later, we talk to Roland White. Roland is a bluegrass veteran who has played previously with the Kentucky Colonels, Bill Monroe, Country Gazette and the Nashville Bluegrass Band, and now leads the Roland White Band. He talks to us about his recent composing.
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Transcript
Label Artist CD Song
Compass Gibson Bros Help My Brother Frozen in Time
Rebel Country Gentlemen Early Country Gentlemen I’ll Break Out Again
(Rounder Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass The Room Over Mine The Room Over Mine)
Patuxent Travis Chandler and Avery County State of Depression
State of Depression
Gems of Bluegrass 1111 – Alcohol and Honky Tonks
Label Artist CD Song
Voyager Skillet Lickers A Corn Licker Still in Georgia A Corn Licker Still in Georgia #1
Proper Roy Acuff King of Country Music Wreck on the Highway
Rebel Lost & Found A Ride Through the Country Swingin’ Doors
Atlantic The Clovers One Mint Julep
Bear Family Flatt & Scruggs 1948 – 1959 Dim Lights Thick Smoke
Bear Family Lonesome Pine Fiddlers Windy Mountain Honky Tonk Blues
Label Artist CD Song
Rural Rhythm Blue Moon Rising Strange New World Hearts to Stone
County Various, Bartow Riley Texas Howdown Revisited Waynes...
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Timing and Cues
1) 29:30
2) voice out) 28:30
2) total) 29:30
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The Bluegrass Review is supported by a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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