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Bluegrass Review # 1012

Series: The Bluegrass Review
From: Philip Nusbaum
Length: 00:59:00

program for March 19 - 25, 2011. Weekly show features highly produced segments and interviews, and announcer provides additional deep contexts for bluegrass music. Read the full description.

Phil2-web_small We get going with some important new bluegrass. Then for a while, we present bluegrass with difficult subject matter, including a new issue by Thea Wescott about incest and forgiveness. Then, or Gem of Bluegrass turns the tables on heavy subject matter, and focuses on the most important bluegrass mood over time: Bluegrass exuberance. Later, we talk to Jeff and Vida about their songs documenting their Katrina-era move from New Orleans to Nashville.

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We get going with some important new bluegrass. Then for a while, we present bluegrass with difficult subject matter, including a new issue by Thea Wescott about incest and forgiveness. Then, or Gem of Bluegrass turns the tables on heavy subject matter, and focuses on the most important bluegrass mood over time: Bluegrass exuberance. Later, we talk to Jeff and Vida about their songs documenting their Katrina-era move from New Orleans to Nashville.

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Transcript

Label Artist CD Song
Rounder Larry Sparks Almost Home Almost Home
Rounder Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers Rare Bird Alert Best Love
Rebel Country Gentlemen Award Winning Hickory Hollow’s Tramp
( Thea Wescott Cromwell and Other Roads The Miller’s Daughter)

Gems of Bluegrass 1112 – Bluegrass Exuberance
Label Artist CD Song
Primo Flatt & Scruggs Mountain Breakdown Foggy Mountain Breakdown
Bear Family Stanley Bros 1953-1958 & 1959 Big Tilda
County Various, Uncle Dave Macon Hard Times in the Country Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train
County Skillet Lickers Old-Time Fiddle Tunes and Songs from North Carolina Leather Breeches
Columbia Charlie Poole You Ain’t Talking to Me White House Blues
MCA Bill Monroe 1936-1994 White House Blues
Primo Flatt & Scruggs Mountain Breakdown Salty Dog Blues
Rounder Tony Trischkas Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular Doggy Salt

Label Artist CD Song
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he Bluegrass Review is supported by a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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