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When you listen to old bluegrass and the singing styles popular in country music at the time, you can appreciate the early bluegrass as a combinati...
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 07:51
Any Natural Treatments to Help With Alzheimers? Let's take a look
- Added: Feb 16, 2015
- Length: 03:18
When modern people talk about winter, the talk a lot about inconvenience. You know, you have to dress in layers. The daily commute takes twice as l...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 05:03
Most definitions of bluegrass tell you that the bluegrass instruments are the guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and bass. And it might tell you that ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 06:21
What a beautiful thing it is when you see someone pull out a 5-dollar harmonica out of an overalls pocket and proceed to catch everyone’s attention...
- Added: Jan 01, 2015
- Length: 07:34
Bluegrass music has always been driven by a combination of full time pros and amateurs. Their reasons for playing and singing are not always the sa...
- Added: Dec 27, 2014
- Length: 07:08
Marc Steiner Show producer Mark Gunnery shares an appreciation and review of the latest John Coltrane release, Offering: Live at Temple University....
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- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 04:58
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Professor André de Quadros believes that music is for everyone, including prison inmates. Here, he shares his moving experiences teaching in two Ma...
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- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 10:38
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Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture, conceived broadly. Each Gem ...
- Added: Nov 20, 2014
- Length: 05:58
Bluegrass, especially the old bluegrass, has a lot of nature references. There are many songs about spring. But what about Autumn?
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 05:13
Interview With Jennifer Gonzalez, Girlfriend Of A Cook County Jail Inmate. Interview conducted by Hugo Antunez for 96 Acres. Audio produced by Voc...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:20
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, then Stevie Wonder should know the feeling of flattery well. His son...
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- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 13:30
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For a long time, the fiddle was the only bluegrass instrument with a really deep catalog of tunes. But the other instruments have their places in t...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Does it matter that we are being watched? This story explores young people's views on social media and government surveillance. Produced at Vocalo ...
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- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 07:49
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Many view the violin or fiddle as the king of the instruments played within the bluegrass tradition. If you hold that view. Why? It has to do with ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2014
- Length: 07:47
These days there are no rules regarding what a song should be written about. Why not motorcycles? We’ve got two, and they display contrasting visio...
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 07:48
Bluegrass Music came into being in the 1940s, a combination of the evolving string band, Bill Monroe’s genius, and with a big assist from Earl Scru...
- Added: Aug 24, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Not too long ago, Adam Granger and the late Lyle Lofgren guested on the show, talking about bluegrass disaster songs. As you know, many bluegrass s...
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 08:38
Nothing drove Europeans to the United States like the promise of personal independence. In England, there was a lot of cooperative farming. In the ...
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- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 08:16
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Nostalgia and happiness. They are not all they are cracked up to be. Well, at least not in Bluegrass Songs. It’s because in bluegrass songs, nostal...
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Play bluegrass music from the 1940 and compare it to what’s being played today. You’ll hear some changes, but overall, you can tell that the two so...
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 07:21
When Bill Monroe started the bluegrass boys, he was looking for a new sound. But his ideas about what that sound would be were not well formed. Ove...
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 06:02
When it comes to well-known songs, there are always multiple versions. You might even say that songs become vehicles for the individual styles of p...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 05:33
Tunes inspire other tunes. How so? It’s well-known that you can take an already existing piece, make some changes to it, and then you have a new pi...
- Added: Apr 12, 2014
- Length: 06:24
Reina del Cit, a Twin Cities 4-piece group plays Sat April 12 at the 331 Club in Minneapolis, and every Monday at 10 at the Amsterdam in Saint Paul
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- Added: Apr 05, 2014
- Length: 05:00
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