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Bluegrass Review #1120

Series: The Bluegrass Review
From: Philip Nusbaum
Length: 00:59:01

Program for May 14 – May 20, 2011 Because we’ve got a lot of new bluegrass to play, we start out the show that way, and we include a couple of additional songs about coal. Our Gem of Bluegrass is about songs of leaving…and we think the idea of focusing on the past and not the future is a special bluegrass characteristic. Later we talk to song writer and picker, Wayne Taylor, focusing on song choruses. The show winds up with more Beatles in Bluegrass selections. Read the full description.

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The Bluegrass Review presents bluegrass in an engaging, entertaining and informative package. Each week, the show presents current and historical bluegrass music, as well as interviews, produced segments and commentary. The result is in-depth and entertaining bluegrass programming that presents two or three thematic bursts within each show, and appeals to a wide audience of music lovers. The Bluegrass Review is available free of charge to stations that run it in a consistent timeslot.

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The Bluegrass Review presents bluegrass in an engaging, entertaining and informative package. Each week, the show presents current and historical bluegrass music, as well as interviews, produced segments and commentary. The result is in-depth and entertaining bluegrass programming that presents two or three thematic bursts within each show, and appeals to a wide audience of music lovers. The Bluegrass Review is available free of charge to stations that run it in a consistent timeslot.

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Transcript

Song Artist CD Label
What Do You Say Sierra Hull Daybreak Rounder
Diggin’ on the Mountainside Town Mountain Steady Operator Pinecastle
Roll Coal Roll Scott Holstein Cold Coal Town
(The Travelin’ Kind Iron Horse New Tracks )

Gems of Bluegrass 1120 – Leavin’
Song Artist CD Label
Toy Heart Bill Monroe 1940 – 1947 ASV
Roads Travelled
Edgar Loudermilk Roads Travelled
Mountain Fever
I Washed My Face in the Morning Dew Bluegrass Pals Deep from the Catalog
Leaving Baker County Junior Sisk Blue Side of the Blue Ridge Rebel
Whiskey Holler Thea Wescott Cromwell…and Other Roads

Song Artist CD Label
I’m Only Passing Through Ashlee Blankenship Mountain Fever

Railroad Blues Michael Cleveland Fired Up Rounder

Break

Autumn Leaves Donna Hughes New Cuts of Bluegrass v. 1 New Cuts of Bluegrass

Wayne Taylor interview
Wayne Taylor interview Any Way I Please
Wayne Taylor interview Out in the...
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Timing and Cues

1) 29:20
2) voice out) 29:18
2) total) 29:40

Additional Credits

The Bluegrass Review is supported by a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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