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A light-hearted look at people and other entities imitations fo the banjo.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 04:37
Today, recorded musical textures are getting denser and denser. Why? Because we can make them that way, I guess. But turn back the clock and textur...
Bought by KDRP Community Radio and WXXI
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 2
Bluegrass music represents a string band evolution plus 1940s innovations by Bill Monroe, who led a group called the Bluegrass Boys. Bill pitched...
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 07:52
The bluegrass tradition’s depiction of young people is changing. A hundred years ago, songs about children often presented horrible things happenin...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 06:31
Old Time Music and bluegrass enjoyed a burst of interest in the 1950s into 1960s. At that time, the media got interested, and the folk music establ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 08:45
Bluegrass is considered old fashioned, and old time string bands even more so. After all, it is the old time string band that gave birth to the blu...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 06:27
Bluegrass fans say that one of the great things about the music is that it
values its heritage. The fans like it when it sounds old, and they enjoy...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music is a combination of the Scots-Irish heritage of many of the first generation of bluegrass player, with the blues woven through the ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 06:33
The Blues has had a big influence on most forms of American music, including bluegrass. In recent years, we’ve seen a spate of bluegrass covers of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 04:06
When one thinks of the hallowed traditions of bluegrass and old time music, people always mention fiddling. Duet singing, gospel. But what about th...
- Added: Jan 19, 2013
- Length: 06:59
Though it is a music that frequently looks to the past for inspiration, bluegrass has a modern edge. There is plenty of innovation going on in the ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:12
What catches the ear in a song? It could be the beat, or it could be the story. And in some cases, it just could be the words chosen to relate the ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 05:45
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 06:23
One of the earliest types of performing entities in old time music was the brother duet. Rooting in family music, this type of unit had a show-busi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 07:38
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 06:23
They played only a short time till the act ended in 1930. They recorded only about 40 songs, but so many of them have become standards that on a pe...
Bought by KDRP Community Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 08:01
- Purchases: 1
Grayson and Whitter played only a short time till the act ended in 1930. They recorded only about 40 songs, but so many of them have become standar...
- Added: Nov 03, 2012
- Length: 08:01
In the 1940’s Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys recorded an original song called Down the Road. It was just one of many recordings that...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 04:16
Through the 1950’s the Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys act was building momentum. Not only was the act good for bluegrass, it was goo...
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM/FM-WLHV FM
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 06:20
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music evolves. It changes because of the great ides of players, current events, and with the changes in other musical genres. You can rea...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 07:10
Today when you see a bluegrass band, it almost always features a guitarist who plays with a flat pick. Holding the pick with the thumb and first tw...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 07:28
In this idiom, there are raucus rounder, gunslingers, broken hearts. But aside from all that, the downtrodden are treated with a great deal of resp...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 05:10
Bluegrass was pretty radical stuff in the 1940’s when it was introduced. It offered a combination of ingredients that seemed new: the mandolin and ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 06:57
From: Philip Nusbaum
The key to traditional songs staying around is getting adapted to new situations. You might change a lyric or a style of accompaniment, and in that...
- Added: Sep 08, 2012
- Length: 05:08
Country scenes and images have refreshing effects on people. Songs featuring those kinds of motifs open the show today. The Gem of Bluegrass descri...
- Added: Sep 08, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
