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Who knew a hit and run could end in friendship?
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
A man with a microphone meets a small town neighbor on a mission.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is m...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, gentrification advances with a cautionary yellow light as a local property manger paints the town his own special hue.
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 2
Virginia Miller and her husband Tim recount the night a tornado hit Apison, Tenn., and how it changed their relationship with their neighbors.
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:14
- Purchases: 3
Rudy has lived on this bizarre little block since 1953, before a dozen railroad tracks and nearly as many highway lanes separated it from other res...
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 3
Mirroring US society, the 1960s were a time of big change in bluegrass. On the Gem of Bluegrass, guests Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger report on how...
Bought by KSJD, WRGY, KKRN, WOUB, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio and more
- Added: Jul 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
Bluegrass has evolved greatly over time. Perhaps the greatest change is in how the voice sounds. It’s more like pop music toady, and the reason mig...
- Added: Jul 22, 2012
- Length: 07:25
From the mid 50’s onward rock and roll captured a big share of the music market, and from the 1960’s onward, it was apparent that rock and roll was...
- Added: Jul 22, 2012
- Length: 10:04
In May 2012, over 8000 people took part in the Great Limerick Run in south west Ireland. Alison Turner ran the 6 mile race to raise funds for char...
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 13:31
In the 1920’s there was a lot of idiosyncratic old time music recorded. But by the bluegrass era, there were fewer idiosyncrasies and more that was...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 08:19
Tight pants! Leather jackets! Body hair! What would you wear if you wanted to "look gay"? How do these stereotypes affect us?
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 2
Since Bluegrass came into existence, there has been a vague feeling that the electric guitar somehow did not fit in a bluegrass band. But why? Toda...
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 06:57
Woody Guthrie might seem pretty remote in time now. His dates are 1912 to 1967, and from about 1950 onward, his health was in decline. In his good ...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
The 1920’s was a great era for country music recordings, but it was an era that ended with the Great Depression of the 1930s. The depression caused...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 08:26
The fiddle has the longest tradition in bluegrass music. Now there exist banjo tunes, mandolin tunes, but by far, there are more fiddle tunes. But ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 06:47
Bluegrass songs evolve for all sorts of reasons. Take footprints in the snow. There’s more than one way you can understand the song, which begins w...
- Added: Jun 06, 2012
- Length: 04:40
Today it is commonplace to acknowledge the extent of Bill Monroe’s contribution to bluegrass music: The instruments used, their function in a band...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 07:44
Why is music getting louder? And why is it bad? Is it bad?
- Added: May 18, 2012
- Length: 13:06
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: 05:15
If you think that folk music means singer with guitar, then bluegrass is not really folk. But before you slam the door on the idea of bluegrass bei...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 1
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: 10:53
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: 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: 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: 09:33
