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Most musical idioms in the United States are touched by the blues. That includes bluegrass of course, Many consider the combining of African Americ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2017
- Length: 05:12
What is traditional about bluegrass lyrics? The definition of tradition usually has to do with continuing something over time. Some bluegrass songs...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 07:47
Who enjoys work? Old-time farmers? That was a work all the time existence on the family farm. It had its satisfactions such as working with nature ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 07:18
Back in the 1930 era, farm work engaged most members of the old time music audience, and it of course was hard work, and it could be 24/7. The sin...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 07:57
Some view traditional music styles as singular, insulated from other styles. And that has been true at certain times in certain places. But owing t...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 06:03
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
As we approach the end of the calendar year, most of us will be flooded with requests for year end donations, but what difference does donating mak...
- Added: Jan 02, 2017
- Length: 30:15
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
There’s a recent trend to question historical icons with complicated histories—Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson, and of course the confederate flag. ...
Bought by WCPN, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 13, 2016
- Length: 10:32
- Purchases: 3
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
