The Bluegrass With Mustard Show

Series produced by Dan Sadowsky

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Bluegrass With Mustard is the Bluegrass variety show that dares to be delirious, but is really a deep cultural immersion in the music, musicians, and historical matrix of America's folk music on steroids. Host Pastor Mustard, long-time emcee of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, brings insight and humor to a playlist that straddles the decades and traditions of a century of music on records.

Welcome to the Church of the Nifty Blue Chrysler where we bust Bluegrass out of a narrow niche. We air it out and have a ball with it. That’s the thesis. And Pastor Mustard runs with it by giving Bluegrass a chance to breathe. By letting it bump into its neighbors, country, rock, blues, swing, gypsy, new braingrass orchestral, and folky singer-songwriters. Ask yourself, why does (almost) every great musician end up in Nashville recording with Bluegrass session people? Chops, that’s why. And do those musicians have a sense of humor? You betcha.
Bluegrass With Mustard starts with a great playlist and wraps it in great interviews, celebrity ambushes, themes, radio cartoons, nutty bumpers, and in-studio house concerts. And another thing, forensic ethnomusicology, Pastor’s equivilant of Paul Harvey’s, “The Rest of the Story.”
Not your flat public radio deadpan reportage. If you gave Soupy Sales a Bluegrass radio show, it might sound like Bluegrass With Mustard—making listeners smarter and better-looking since 2004. Hide full description

Welcome to the Church of the Nifty Blue Chrysler where we bust Bluegrass out of a narrow niche. We air it out and have a ball with it. That’s the thesis. And Pastor Mustard runs with it by giving Bluegrass a chance to breathe. By letting it bump into its neighbors, country, rock, blues, swing, gypsy, new braingrass orchestral, and folky singer-songwriters. Ask yourself, why does (almost) every great musician end up in Nashville recording with Bluegrass session people? Chops, that’s why. And do those musicians have a sense of humor? You betcha.
Bluegrass With Mustard starts with a great playlist and wraps it in great interviews, celebrity ambushes, themes, radio cartoons, nutty bumpers, and in-studio house concerts. And another thing, forensic ethnomusicology, Pastor’s equivilant of Paul... Show full description


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Aired Oct 16, 2011 KAJX, Aspen Public Radio. Sometimes you don't want a you know, theme—just a good road mix. It's what BGWM strives for above all ...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
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Deep immersion in Blind Alfred Reed covers and originals, an extended “Kontrast ‘n’ Kompare©” segment. Then onto, “More Than You Ever Wanted To Kno...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: The Bluegrass With Mustard Show
Bluegrass, yes. Humor, why not. Alternate aural pathways to ultimate all-knowing truth, jeez I guess. Bluegrass you can listen to with your shades ...

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  • Added: Aug 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 2