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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
Today, recorded musical textures are getting denser and denser. Why? Because we can make them that way, I guess. But turn back the clock and textur...
Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio and WXXI Rochester
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 2
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...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
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
Retired educator, Lorie Yourd, shares her insightful, reflective poem "After Hearing About the Rain."
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:08
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
Though it is a music that frequently looks to the past for inspiration, bluegrass has a modern edge. There is plenty of innovation going on in the ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:12
What catches the ear in a song? It could be the beat, or it could be the story. And in some cases, it just could be the words chosen to relate the ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 05:45
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 06:23
One of the earliest types of performing entities in old time music was the brother duet. Rooting in family music, this type of unit had a show-busi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 07:38
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 06:23
