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  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 39:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Early in the show, we play a couple of “second choice” bluegrass songs. One is ironic, the other a good old-fashioned broken hearted melody. Our Ge...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
We open the show with a favorite type of song: the telephone bluegrass song. Funny how the telephone symbolizes a close connection, even closer tha...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show opens with current wave bluegrass. Then our Gem of Bluegrass considers modernistic bluegrass takes on booze. These viewpoints are not as m...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
On today's show, we focus on important trends n bluegrass, and play the cream of the crop.

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Back on Oct 11th, Esera Tuaolo presented his talk "America's Favorite Sport: Alone in the Trenches-My Life as a Gay Man in the NFL" at Winona State...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 48:20
  • Purchases: 1
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On this edition of "Art Beat" KQAL's Brianna Klapperich sits down with Minnesota artist, Karl Unnasch. Karl's art is anything but ordinary. He expr...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
A disproportionate number of bluegrass songs about money have a $40 price tag. We open with two. On our Gem of Bluegrass, it is "Romance, Fantasy a...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our program opens with bluegrass takes on poverty. Three of the four or actually positive spins. Then, the fourth is an angry one….it’s a song comp...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Many Appalachian people have headed north for work. But they give up something in the process. The show starts with Detroit and Bluegrass. On the G...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass to Be Thankful For. It is a show of listener requests of especially meaningful bluegrass, and listeners tell us why the songs are meaning...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
A good song connects with an audience. A songwriter accomplishes this is by putting a frame around some activity, or by telling us just the what is...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a few redone classics, leading to the Gem of Bluegrass which displays different orientations to the blues. Later on the sho...

Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KUCB, WXXI Rochester, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
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? ...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1