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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
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, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KUCB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 10
Tom Dooley. It’s an American Ballad that has shown staying power. Why? Part of it is what it’s about: sex and violence. Plus, everybody was talking...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 07:16
- Purchases: 1
What’s in a song? You might ask. Well if there is a lyric that is ear catching, people will want to listen to find out what’s in a song.
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 08:35
When the history of bluegrass music is told, it usually begins with the Scots irish people settling in the south. At the time if immigration, Celti...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 07:28
On the American frontier, the fiddle was the most important instrument. For one thing, the Scots Irish settlers was an instrument used to accompany...
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 07:46
There’s a vein of humor that runs through country music and bluegrass. Over the years there have been different approaches. It’s probably because t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 09:24
Bluegrass fans get a kick about talking about the main focus of bluegrass love songs: the exit point of the relationship. It’s funny because, unlik...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 07:11
Bluegrass fans pay close attention to bluegrass, thinking about bluegrass tradition and whether certain songs or groups are traditional or not. The...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 06:38
You hear that songwriters and musicians write and play music reflecting their experiences Fair enough but it doesn’t stop there. In old time music ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2012
- Length: 06:06
When you think about bluegrass, what do you think of?. I’ bet it’s reckless speed and drive, or maybe harmony singing especially the kind of 4-part...
- Added: Jan 26, 2012
- Length: 08:26
Bluegrass fans pay close attention to bluegrass, thinking about bluegrass tradition and whether certain songs or groups are traditional or not. The...
- Added: Jan 26, 2012
- Length: 06:38
When you think about bluegrass, what do you think of?. I’ bet it’s reckless speed and drive, or maybe harmony singing especially the kind of 4-part...
- Added: Jan 25, 2012
- Length: 08:26
In any musical idiom most of what comes out fits a model of normalcy. But then there are the bands and the recordings that signal that a change is ...
- Added: Jan 15, 2012
- Length: 08:49
Craziness and bluegrass. Well, you know the demented boyfriends is songs like the Banks of the Ohio. But not every crazy person appearing in a blue...
- Added: Dec 31, 2011
- Length: 09:10
Bill Monroe’s contribution is combining the traditional types of songs he heard in Kentucky where he grew up and in the south where he performed. B...
- Added: Dec 08, 2011
- Length: 06:28
It must be that over half the songs in any music style are concerned with love. That includes bluegrass, though theres’s a lot of everyday life in ...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Nov 30, 2011
- Length: 10:27
- Purchases: 1
For regular users, piece for Nov 26-Dec 3, 2011. Others use anytime.
Since the dawn of the commercial era, there have been performance models in ol...
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and WAMU
- Added: Nov 20, 2011
- Length: 06:11
- Purchases: 2
Rhythm guitar. When you are talking about the old bluegrass and old time music, you scarcely need to use the word rhythm. That’s because guitars w...
Bought by WXXI Rochester, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and WAMU
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 3
The blues is a pervasive influence in American music, and it some of its musical ideas affect everybody who plays the blues. But there are some dif...
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 2
The fiddle is the bluegrass instrument that is most like the human voice, and you can make it sound like birds or automobiles and trains. And over ...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 1
In bluegrass we know that the size of a place matters: big cities are often bad, and little towns good. but what about places not built up at all? ...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 05:32
- Purchases: 1
