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In Episode #2, Dr. Joe Marshall, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Omega Boys Club in San Francisco, discusses the program’s 150 college gra...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 30:43
Mirroring US society, the 1960s were a time of big change in bluegrass. On the Gem of Bluegrass, guests Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger report on how...
Bought by KSJD, WRGY, KKRN, WOUB, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio and more
- Added: Jul 22, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 11
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 22, 2012
- Length: 07:25
From the mid 50’s onward rock and roll captured a big share of the music market, and from the 1960’s onward, it was apparent that rock and roll was...
- Added: Jul 22, 2012
- Length: 10:04
Six decades ago Queen Elizabeth was on safari in Kenya when she her father, King George VI died, making her Queen. William Kimosop describes the si...
- Added: Jul 22, 2012
- Length: 04:16
Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 03:01:06
- Purchases: 1
Mike Seeger died in 2009. At a distance of a few years, it’s good to assess his contributions as a player and promoter of the music. And when you d...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Jul 15, 2012
- Length: 10:24
- Purchases: 1
The program begins with songs of personal disconnection between family members. The last of the set is actually a song of reunification by Dock Bog...
- Added: Jul 15, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
program for MN stations July 21-27, 2012
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 59:01
In the 1920’s there was a lot of idiosyncratic old time music recorded. But by the bluegrass era, there were fewer idiosyncrasies and more that was...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 08:19
There seems to be no end of “nostalgia ‘grass, so we play a few more examples today. Then Lyle Lofgren, Adam Granger and host Phil Nusbaum tackle t...
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 14
Michele Simon, JD, MPH, public health lawyer, discusses her report: “Food Stamps, Follow the Money: Are Corporations Profiting From Hungry American...
- Added: Jul 09, 2012
- Length: 28:00
Interview with Jacob Tilley, guitarist of Young the Giant.
- Added: Jul 04, 2012
- Length: 08:51
In Episode #1, Gil Kerlikowske, Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (the White House "Drug Czar"), discusses ending the "War on ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2012
- Length: 30:03
Since Bluegrass came into existence, there has been a vague feeling that the electric guitar somehow did not fit in a bluegrass band. But why? Toda...
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 06:57
Today’s program opens up with some bluegrass songs about hard work, including two startling songs concerning gravediggers. Show host Phil Nusbaum g...
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 13
Woody Guthrie might seem pretty remote in time now. His dates are 1912 to 1967, and from about 1950 onward, his health was in decline. In his good ...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 1
The 1920’s was a great era for country music recordings, but it was an era that ended with the Great Depression of the 1930s. The depression caused...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 08:26
Swing: It’s a style bluegrass bands have approached over the years. We survey some bluegrass swing fusion. Then Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger visit...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 13
Losing: it’s an ever popular concern of bluegrass songs, and we begin our show with three outstanding examples of that type of song. Then Lyle Lofg...
- Added: Jun 23, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
In the early days of sound recording, in the early and mid 1920s, record labels recorded many local instrumental and singing groups. But no really ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2012
- Length: 10:21
At the beginning of the show, we play some powerfully uplifting numbers. Our Gem of Bluegrass compares the violin to the human voice. Later, we exp...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 10
The fiddle has the longest tradition in bluegrass music. Now there exist banjo tunes, mandolin tunes, but by far, there are more fiddle tunes. But ...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 06:47
Join the Koch brothers for all their zany adventures in this upcoming series. Laverne & Shirley redux.
- Added: Jun 14, 2012
- Length: 01:51
Bluegrass songs evolve for all sorts of reasons. Take footprints in the snow. There’s more than one way you can understand the song, which begins w...
- Added: Jun 06, 2012
- Length: 04:40
