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Sitting on top of the world has been around a long time. The song was written by Walter Vinson and Sam Chatmon, members of the blues group, the Mis...
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 05:55
Old Joe Clark has been around forever seemingly. It’s used as a square dance tune, so that helps keep it around. That it crooked and difficult to l...
- Added: Dec 31, 2016
- Length: 07:21
There's no getting around it. 2016 seemed like an especially costly year in the world of music with the deaths of far too many favorites. Music p...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WUTC, KGLP, KHNS, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 9
Old time music has the reputation of looking at it’s own history for inspiration. But it has also has a cutting edge. In general, cutting edges in ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2016
- Length: 05:15
Much of the heated dialog among bluegrass fans concerns new approaches that are evolving. But when new approaches evolve, it does not mean that the...
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:38
Merle Haggard. His dates are 1937 to 2016. He was not a bluegrass performer, but he was loved by bluegrass artists and people. Now that he is gone,...
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 06:41
Fall is Beautiful, right? Well, we hear about it in bluegrass songs, but those beautiful falling leaves are usually meant to symbolize something el...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 06:12
Starting with their association on the Prairie Home Companion radio show, former members of Guy’s old Shoe Band have continued playing as Pat Donoh...
- Added: Sep 08, 2016
- Length: 05:00
There’s a lot in bluegrass song lyrics. And yes, we know that many people use bluegrass music as the background to whatever else is going on, or ev...
- Added: Sep 05, 2016
- Length: 06:46
We begin today with recent bluegrass, including a couple of artists who enjoy re-doing Flatt and Scruggs songs from a half century or more ago. Our...
- Added: Aug 20, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 16
Through electronic manipulation, many kinds of music bands can be recorded so that all of the instruments can be heard. Walls of sound have detract...
- Added: Aug 20, 2016
- Length: 06:55
In every style of music there’s a cutting edge and a musical history. In Bluegrass they both matter.
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 05:14
In every style of music there’s a cutting edge and a musical history. In Bluegrass they both matter.
- Added: Aug 06, 2016
- Length: 05:14
Frank Wakefield. He is one of the most compelling figures in the history of Bluegrass. He is over 80 now, but sees no reason to quit performing and...
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 04:54
Bluegrass is the season everybody waits for, so there must be a lot of songs about it, right? Well, no. But it’s still the bluegrass season .
- Added: Jun 26, 2016
- Length: 06:01
The piece shows that despite that bluegrass is considered a singular styles, it actually stems from a variety of cultural traditions.
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 08:34
Bill Monroe casts a long shadow in bluegrass music. You can tell by the way his influence is felt in bluegrass music. It’s not only that others pla...
- Added: Apr 29, 2016
- Length: 05:58
We are accustomed to using names of music styles. You know, bluegrass, old time music, pop, jazz and on and on. And these styles get mixed together...
- Added: Apr 06, 2016
- Length: 07:55
From: Philip Nusbaum
The history of humanity is told with a relationship to travel. The oxcart was an improvement over walking. Horses got you there faster, and then, t...
- Added: Mar 31, 2016
- Length: 05:43
You know how people say they’re jazzed about some things, including bluegrass. They mean they’re excited. Bluegrass and jazz are different idioms o...
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 07:15
My Wild West may be Lissie’s third album, but she’s been on the scene for well over 10 years in various projects. Still, this new album finds her a...
Bought by KUCB, KSRQ, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT
- Added: Feb 29, 2016
- Length: 07:00
- Purchases: 4
Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a change in music is an evolution or the result of someone’s great idea. For example, Bill Monroe’s bluegrass ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2016
- Length: 07:19
Bill Monroe’s blue grass music was more than one thing. He did many types of songs, and he showed an evolution in his playing and writing. Take his...
- Added: Feb 04, 2016
- Length: 04:00
The Blues tonality and the blues form come from African American people. The blues long been thought to have begun as field hollers and moans, and ...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 07:45
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music has been a long time in the making. The sentimental songs the Carter Family sang and the rough and tumble lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers ...
- Added: Jan 16, 2016
- Length: 06:40
