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We’re taking advantage of the recent uptick in new releases by playing them. Then on our Gem of Bluegrass, listeners usually focus on the singing and solos during a bluegrass band performance, not rhythm of a bluegrass band. But the rhythm a band plays is oh so important. Today’s Gem explores bluegrass rhythm. We play a couple of recent songs that reflect the Dust Bowl experience. Later, we talk to Kristin Scott Benson, banjoist for the Grascals, and she plays some of her originals for us.
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We’re taking advantage of the recent uptick in new releases by playing them. Then on our Gem of Bluegrass, listeners usually focus on the singing and solos during a bluegrass band performance, not rhythm of a bluegrass band. But the rhythm a band plays is oh so important. Today’s Gem explores bluegrass rhythm. We play a couple of recent songs that reflect the Dust Bowl experience. Later, we talk to Kristin Scott Benson, banjoist for the Grascals, and she plays some of her originals for us.
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Transcript
Label Artist CD Song
Rounder Larry Sparks Almost Home Blue Mountain Melody
(Compass Gibson Bros Help My Brother Talk to Me)
Niall Toner Band There’s a Better Way There’s a Better Way
Various, River Boy New Cuts of Bluegrass v. 1 Caroline
Gems of Bluegrass 1117 – Evolving Bluegrass Rhythm
Label Artist CD Song
Rebel JD Crowe Bluegrass Holiday Train 45
Rounder Bobby Hicks Fiddle Patch Estrellita
Rebel JD Crowe Bluegrass Holiday Philadelphia Lawyer
Bear Family Flatt & Scruggs 1948 – 1959 I’m Head Over Heels in Love
Nu-Blu Nights How Do I Move On
Ronder Blue Highway Through the Window of a Train Just Another Gravel in the Road
Dust Bowl Bluegrass
Label Artist CD Song
Folkways Woody Guthrie Hard Travelin’
Rounder Alison Krauss & Union Station Paper Airplane Dust Bowl Children
Rural Rhythm Blue Moon Rising Strange New World The Dust Bowl
Break
Rounder Grascals Famous Lefty Flynn’s La...
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Timing and Cues
1) 31:35
2) voice out) 26:02
2) total) 27:25
Additional Credits
The Bluegrass Review is supported by a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.
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