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Country scenes and images have refreshing effects on people. Songs featuring those kinds of motifs open the show today. The Gem of Bluegrass descri...
- Added: Sep 08, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
Not all songs are set in specific places. But when they are, they contribute to songs’ moods. Like those old murder ballads that take place in remo...
- Added: Sep 02, 2012
- Length: 05:26
Every song is created to express something. But does the expression come from the lyrics or from the singer? Well, it can be both but not in equal ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 04:37
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 07:33
When you think of California and the west coast, you often think of the new or the cutting edge. But bluegrass in the west coast began its run with...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 05:37
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 27, 2012
- Length: 07:25
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 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
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
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
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
