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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 WNTI-FM, WXXI, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public, KPVL and more
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 6
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
We pack some recent bluegrass into the beginning of the show, including recent tributes to the Stanley Bros, Carter and Ralph. Carter died in 1966 ...
Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KUCB, KRZA, KDRP Community Radio and more
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 11
A light-hearted look at people and other entities imitations fo the banjo.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 04:37
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Hawk Henries (Nipmuc), a gifted flutist and flute maker.
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 14:36
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Jack Gladstone (Blackfeet), a storysmith sharing his unique brand of music inspired by the stories...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 18:56
Production Assistant Landon Mattison speaks with Swil Kanim (Lummi Nation), an award-winning, world-class virtuoso violinist and inspirational spea...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 19:47
Executive Director Shirley Sneve speaks with Brent Michael Davids (Stockbridge Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation), a classically trained musician a...
- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 17:40
Interactive Media Specialist Eric Martin speaks with Raven Chacon (Navajo) an experimental musician, composer and educator.
Bought by KSJD
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 13:28
- Purchases: 1
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
The musical style of old time music and bluegrass come from Appalachia. The high singing, the accompaniments that are full of notes, are all a blue...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 06:41
Today’s program opens with new bluegrass. Then we introduce a running thread on today’s show: We’re declaring Spring. This sort of pronouncement ma...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 13
From: Philip Nusbaum
Bluegrass has a number of songs that reflect on working. The nature of the work has changed over the years. But even if it’s office work, it exacts...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 05:22
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
In commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Andy features songs w/themes of sadness & loss to courage & defiance.
Bought by KPVL
- Added: Apr 05, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
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
To some, there is a great advantage to living outdoors. It’s an advantage you can’t put a price tag on. And maybe some romance too, as in the case...
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 07:13
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
