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In the late 1940s when bluegrass was new, it was considered an innovation. But in time, bluegrass became its own tradition with its own conventions...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 05:39
After opening up the show with new bluegrass by Big Country Bluegrass, we play some songs of commitment. First it is the Trinity River Band’s song ...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 58:59
You meet all kinds of people in bluegrass songs. Some of them seem lost. Who knows why? However, these types of people make compelling bluegrass so...
Bought by WXXI, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public, KPVL, and WAMU
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
That’s it! I’m Outa Here! Well, that’s one way to make an exit. And that works sometime. But there is much more to leaving than being at the end of...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 04:44
A light-hearted look at people and other entities imitations fo the banjo.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 04:37
The program begins with new bluegrass, then presents a contrast of songs: Jim Reams’ song about not being able to settle down and Flat and Scruggs’...
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Our show opens with new bluegrass. We muse that few songs are focused on individuals set in one place. But we found a few. And what is the place? “...
Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KRZA, KDRP Community Radio, KPVL and more
- Added: May 12, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Ralph Stanley is a bluegrass icon. To honor him, Don Rigsby put out a tribute CD. We play a selection from the CD, and then play selections from pr...
Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KUCB, KRZA, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
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
Early on the show, listen to some funny bluegrass parodies. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, we consider old recordings before the “wall of sound” wa...
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
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
We open with new and recent bluegrass, including a modernistic piece featuring Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Our Gem of Bluegrass feature tells a...
Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KUCB and more
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
We open the show with a current ‘grass selection, and then proceed to play three bluegrass songs that use the name John Deere Tractors symbolically...
Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
The program opens with recent blues-tinged bluegrass. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers the somewhat romantic image of the hobo in older bluegras...
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
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
The program opens up with recent bluegrass. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers the ways children have been depicted over the years in bluegrass so...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
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
Our program opens with new bluegrass. Many say that bluegrass is in a period of change, with a new generation taking over. There are conflicting ve...
Bought by WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
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
We break out of the gates with new bluegrass by Dale Ann Bradley, Tina Adair and the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. Then, on our Gem of Bluegrass, we note ...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
Right at the show’s beginning, we play new bluegrass. Then we consider the Celtic / bluegrass connection. Accordionist Paddy O’Brien and singer Eri...
- Added: Feb 24, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
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
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...
Bought by WRGY, WTIP, KKRN, WOUB, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 12
