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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
They played only a short time till the act ended in 1930. They recorded only about 40 songs, but so many of them have become standards that on a pe...
Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 08:01
- Purchases: 1
Grayson and Whitter played only a short time till the act ended in 1930. They recorded only about 40 songs, but so many of them have become standar...
- Added: Nov 03, 2012
- Length: 08:01
In the 1940’s Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys recorded an original song called Down the Road. It was just one of many recordings that...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 04:16
Through the 1950’s the Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys act was building momentum. Not only was the act good for bluegrass, it was goo...
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 06:20
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music evolves. It changes because of the great ides of players, current events, and with the changes in other musical genres. You can rea...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 07:10
Today when you see a bluegrass band, it almost always features a guitarist who plays with a flat pick. Holding the pick with the thumb and first tw...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 07:28
In this idiom, there are raucus rounder, gunslingers, broken hearts. But aside from all that, the downtrodden are treated with a great deal of resp...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 05:10
When bluegrass singers sing about their sweethearts, what exactly do they sing about? Frequently its their eyes, but why is that?
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 07:52
Bluegrass was pretty radical stuff in the 1940’s when it was introduced. It offered a combination of ingredients that seemed new: the mandolin and ...
- Added: Sep 14, 2012
- Length: 06:57
From: Philip Nusbaum
The key to traditional songs staying around is getting adapted to new situations. You might change a lyric or a style of accompaniment, and in that...
- Added: Sep 08, 2012
- Length: 05:08
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
One block from my apartment sits the Capitol Pool Checkers Club where, each week, men with nicknames like the Hammer, the Pressure Man, and the Raz...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, The Story, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:32
- Purchases: 4
"I'll interview you, then you interview someone else."
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 1
The story of how I helped a neighbour move thousands of his tiny friends to a new home
Bought by The Story, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 4
Hello neighbor the weather is fine outside and my old stuff is all yours all free, well, kind of.
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Under Ernie’s Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger’s possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, rememb...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Who knew a hit and run could end in friendship?
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
A man with a microphone meets a small town neighbor on a mission.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 2
Through their journey down Letaba road, Brandon, Keith, and Jameel quickly realise that appearances may not be the entire story and that there is m...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
