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The piece focuses on what it means when people call bluegrass "pure." For some reason, "pure" equals "good" in the eyes of many.
- Added: Dec 20, 2015
- Length: 10:19
What would Bluegrass music be like if its original home was New York City? It's a fun speculation that Phil Nusbaum provides.
For regular users, p...
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 06:31
Everybody knows what bluegrass is, right? Well, if that’s true, why do bluegrass fans spend so much time trying to define it. Today’s Gem of Bluegr...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 07:30
Old time music is a cover term for all of the styles handed down over the generations primarily through the oral tradition. Bill Monroe is credited...
- Added: Oct 17, 2015
- Length: 06:29
What’s the spirit of bluegrass music? Is it fast instrumental playing? Well, flashy instrumental work does grab one’s attention. Is it in lead sing...
- Added: Oct 07, 2015
- Length: 04:57
When the story of the creation of bluegrass is told, usually it starts and ends with Bill Monroe. It’s a kind of big bang theory, and it is true th...
- Added: Aug 19, 2015
- Length: 05:30
Bluegrass and old time music are often called poor folk’s music. And there’s a good case for that point of view. Most songs do not concern themselv...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 07:19
Historically, bluegrass music is a an evolved type of old time string band. But although bluegrass follows the old time string band in history that...
- Added: Jun 03, 2015
- Length: 07:18
Old time and bluegrass music. Many fans consider them as distinct phenomena. But there is reason to consider both as part of the same musical tree.
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 06:39
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
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....
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 04:58
- Purchases: 1
Professor André de Quadros believes that music is for everyone, including prison inmates. Here, he shares his moving experiences teaching in two Ma...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 10:38
- Purchases: 1
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
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...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 13:30
- Purchases: 1
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
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 ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 1
