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Nostalgia is big in bluegrass. The show opens with two nostalgia songs. In the first by the Bankesters, the singer expresses that she longs to be n...
Bought by WHDD
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 1
Folks, friends, and neighbors, The Back Road Radio Show has even more goodness in store for you this week! Tune in as we welcome our good friend an...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 00:59:51
This is a sample episode of Music City Roots: Live From The Loveless Cafe, recorded on May 2, 2012 in Nashville. Read on to learn how to access the...
- Added: May 22, 2012
- Length: 01:49:09
Fans of the good-time, git-down music! Join us as we reach deep in to the Back Road Radio Show Studio Vault and find all of our favorite LIVE perfo...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 00:59:51
This show has a couple of songs where poverty is woven into the lyrics to start out. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, we discuss the recorded Bill Mo...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
- Purchases: 2
Full-Time Blues Radio features a full rundown of the winners at the 2012 Blues Music Awards, and we listen to music from the big winners. There's m...
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
Bill Monroe’s band was called the Bluegrass Boys after his home state of Kentucky. It was considered part of country music, and bands that adopted ...
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 00:08:03
Our show opens with songs where finance matters. Then our Gem of bluegrass surveys the forms bluegrass anthems take. Later a conversation with Lynn...
- Added: May 15, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
- Purchases: 2
This week's episode features a clean slate of new and indie Blues music, as well as a tribute to the late Michael "Iron Man" Burks.
- Added: May 11, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
We know that bluegrass music is blue. The most obvious examples are the seemingly limitless number of songs about lovers breaking up. But in bluegr...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 00:05:15
The show begins with a couple of songs using “dirt road” in the title. Similar phrase, but the songs are very different. Remember the song “Long Bl...
Bought by KRZA, KUCB, WNTI-FM, WXXI, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 00:59:00
- Purchases: 8
This week's edition of Full-Time Blues Radio previews the upcoming Bluegrass and Blues in the Burgh festival, by spotlighting artists on the Blues ...
- Added: May 05, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
Overflowing with new releases from heavyweight names like B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt, and Dr. John, this episode of FTB Radio also features a touching...
- Added: May 03, 2012
- Length: 00:59:10
We open with a couple of evocative songs whose impact comes from mentioning a series of related images. Then, on our Gem of Bluegrass, the focus is...
Bought by KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KUCB, WNTI-FM, WXXI and more
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
- Purchases: 9
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 o...
Bought by KKRN, KUCB, KRZA, KDRP Community Radio, WNTI-FM and more
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
- Purchases: 8
A recent Gem of Bluegrass addressed the recontexting of bluegrass songs. Take a bluegrass song or bluegrass approach and combine it with ideas from...
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 00:10:53
Bluegrass depicts tragedy from the point of view of those affected, very well. A couple of flood songs open the show. Then a lengthy Gem of Bluegra...
Bought by KDRP Community Radio, KKRN, KUCB, WNTI-FM, KRZA and more
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
- Purchases: 10
When you play bluegrass or any type of old time music, you rely on your ear. Sure, some of the music written down, but if you rely solely on writte...
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 00:07:27
One of the great things about bluegrass is that it is always changing, always evolving. The 60’s was an era with a lot of change, and it may be hap...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 00:08:28
We know that bluegrass evolves over time. But what causes the evolution? Usually we think it’s caused by the little changes made by players. But wh...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 00:09:33
Exciting new bluegrass opens this week’s broadcast. After that we investigate a major way bluegrass evolves: by recontexting music; you might say, ...
Bought by KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, WHDD, KRZA, KUCB and more
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 00:59:02
- Purchases: 9
This week, Full-Time Blues Radio is "By the Numbers," as we feature songs with numerals in their titles. There's also developing news out of Chicag...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
Another great hour of the best Blues music on radio is on the air! Full-Time Blues Radio is back with a full slate of music, along with news about ...
- Added: Apr 05, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
The House of the Rising Sun. It’s an old time song that’s been kept alive by a lot of singers. Why do singers like it? It might be that it sings of...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 00:08:34
After a contemporary bluegrass IIIrd Tyme Out selection, we turn to recent bluegrass treatments of country songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuse...
Bought by KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KRZA, KUCB, WNTI-FM and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 00:59:01
- Purchases: 10
