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One of the best loved tunes around is Bonaparte’s Retreat. But why? Is it the title? The melody? Lyle Lofgren and Phil Nusbaum seek a solution to t...
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 12:00
The nautical tragedy of the Titanic is perhaps the most sung about disaster in the history of old time music and bluegrass. But what do the singers...
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 08:44
One of the best loved tunes around is Bonaparte’s Retreat. But why? Is it the title? The melody? Lyle Lofgren and Phil Nusbaum seek a solution to t...
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 12:00
Our show opens with recent bluegrass by Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins. You might know that there are not very many bluegrass songs where “regular” po...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
The old bluegrass songs about work suggest that work defines a person. And maybe that was true with work that was 24/7. But today it seems to be mo...
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- Added: Oct 04, 2013
- Length: 05:43
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Certain people, including me say that Bill Monroe’s greatest innovation was weaving the blues into all of his playing. The way and his followers do...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 06:47
You can view the rise of bluegrass in the 1940s as an evolution, or as the result of musical innovations by Bill Monroe. One of Bill’s great innova...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 08:14
Before the arrival of electricity and invention of sound reinforcement, a dance or performance required several musicians capable of playing loud a...
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 06:57
The notion of what is considered bluegrass is slowly migrating. Today, Lyle Lofgren, Adam Granger and Phil Nusbaum comment on the situation.
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 07:23
In the late 1940s when bluegrass was new, it was considered an innovation. But in time, bluegrass became its own tradition with its own conventions...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 05:39
That’s it! I’m Outa Here! Well, that’s one way to make an exit. And that works sometime. But there is much more to leaving than being at the end of...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 04:44
Early Bluegrass is often viewed as a post WWII idiom reflecting great changes in the US. With that in mind, it makes sense that early bluegrass is ...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 04:50
A light-hearted look at people and other entities imitations fo the banjo.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 04:37
Bluegrass music represents a string band evolution plus 1940s innovations by Bill Monroe, who led a group called the Bluegrass Boys. Bill pitched...
- Added: Apr 20, 2013
- Length: 07:52
The musical style of old time music and bluegrass come from Appalachia. The high singing, the accompaniments that are full of notes, are all a blue...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 06:41
From: Philip Nusbaum
Bluegrass has a number of songs that reflect on working. The nature of the work has changed over the years. But even if it’s office work, it exacts...
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 05:22
To some, there is a great advantage to living outdoors. It’s an advantage you can’t put a price tag on. And maybe some romance too, as in the case...
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 07:13
The bluegrass tradition’s depiction of young people is changing. A hundred years ago, songs about children often presented horrible things happenin...
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 06:31
Old Time Music and bluegrass enjoyed a burst of interest in the 1950s into 1960s. At that time, the media got interested, and the folk music establ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 08:45
Bluegrass is considered old fashioned, and old time string bands even more so. After all, it is the old time string band that gave birth to the blu...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 06:27
Bluegrass fans say that one of the great things about the music is that it
values its heritage. The fans like it when it sounds old, and they enjoy...
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- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 06:10
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The Blues has had a big influence on most forms of American music, including bluegrass. In recent years, we’ve seen a spate of bluegrass covers of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 04:06
When one thinks of the hallowed traditions of bluegrass and old time music, people always mention fiddling. Duet singing, gospel. But what about th...
- Added: Jan 19, 2013
- Length: 06:59
Take This Hammer. It’s an old song that has been performed on stage for well over half a century. But how it’s been performed has varied, depending...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 07:12
We have all these categories of music. But most players have access to multiple styles, and it’s normal for a player in one tradition to develop an...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 07:39
