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This show’s Gem of Bluegrass addresses how bluegrass music honors its own heritage. We play a couple of songs relating to old lovers. Later, we tal...
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
Singing and playing a bluegrass song involves being true to the song and being true to your own musical identity. A case in point is the song Body ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 06:04
Bluegrass Lonesome has many dimensions. Among them are songs where lovers are separated forever by fate or acts of God. We open the show with a few...
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- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 12
In bluegrass, songs about relationship tend to focus on the exit point of the relationship. So, to buck the trend, we present positive relationship...
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- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
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
Whatever goes around comes around you might say. One of the great things about bluegrass is how groups reference the history of bluegrass in their ...
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- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
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
The banjo is a bluegrass iconic instrument. But what about two banjos? Well, that’ll double your pleasure! On the show today, we play some early 19...
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- Added: Jan 19, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Towards the beginning, the show plays some philosophical songs. Then, the Gem fo Bluegrass presents the evolution of the song “Take the Hammer.” It...
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- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 10
There is a lot of swing-influenced bluegrass on today’s show. The Gem of Bluegrass focuses on the connection between the two idioms, and then we pl...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
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
Back in the 1930s, Roy Acuff was known as the king of the hillbillies, and then as the king of country music. He led a string band that others emul...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 06:29
In recent bluegrass, there’s been a little bump in the number of songs about war and songs in which war is a metaphor. We play a few as the show op...
- Added: Dec 26, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
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
The show opens with songs about money. On the Gem of Bluegrass, we present some new thoughts about duet singing, and its crucial role in bluegrass....
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Eavesdrop on the kinds of conversations among songwriters at late-night diners after gigs. Country Fried Rock: Music Uncovered.
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- Length: 58:00
It was a great year for bluegrass music and we play the highlights on this program.
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- Added: Dec 07, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
Eavesdrop on the kinds of conversations among musicians at late-night diners after gigs.
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- Length: 54:00
Eavesdrop on the kinds of conversations among musicians at late-night diners after gigs. Gordy Quist of award-winning roots rock Band of Heathens ...
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- Length: 58:00
Eavesdrop on the kinds of conversations among musicians at late-night diners after gigs. Soulful roots rocker Patrick Sweany left his native Ohio ...
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- Length: 54:00
It’s Christmas Time on the Bluegrass Review. We play songs of the season, and mix in reminiscences by bluegrass performers.
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 12
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
