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Bluegrass fans get a kick about talking about the main focus of bluegrass love songs: the exit point of the relationship. It’s funny because, unlik...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 07:11
Bluegrass fans pay close attention to bluegrass, thinking about bluegrass tradition and whether certain songs or groups are traditional or not. The...
- Added: Feb 05, 2012
- Length: 06:38
You hear that songwriters and musicians write and play music reflecting their experiences Fair enough but it doesn’t stop there. In old time music ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2012
- Length: 06:06
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 26, 2012
- Length: 08:26
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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- Added: Nov 30, 2011
- Length: 10:27
- Purchases: 1
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
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...
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- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 3
President Obama continues to tout his jobs bill, though it hasn’t been getting much traction in Congress. Still, there are a few industries that ha...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 07, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 1
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...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2011
- Length: 09:11
- Purchases: 1
A local art and theater group the We Players has also been in residence on Alcatraz for the past three years. Their work is designed to spark discu...
- Added: Oct 31, 2011
- Length: 05:40
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...
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 2
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 ...
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- Added: Oct 14, 2011
- Length: 09:48
- Purchases: 1
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
Our program begins with some songs reflecting odd notions of the concept “justice.” The its time for the Gem of Bluegrass, which reflects on bluegr...
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- Added: Oct 11, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 7
Bluegrass music is an idiom that has evolved over time, but has had several great ideas that changed aspects of the music markedly. Regarding blueg...
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- Added: Sep 30, 2011
- Length: 06:14
- Purchases: 1
If you hang around with bluegrass people, you’ve heard the concept, “drive.” It is a musical element strong in bluegrass, maybe even unique to blue...
- Added: Sep 13, 2011
- Length: 06:08
Many bluegrass fans, even ones who do not remember the first generation bluegrass artists get nostalgic about the old days. Well, fair enough. It r...
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 10:00
- Purchases: 2
The world seems to reset in Fall. Those lake homes get locked up, school starts. And every professional organization in the world seems to have its...
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 06:52
- Purchases: 2
After going through foster care, this Minneapolis High School kids wonders about the good accomplished by foster care.
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 01:00
Darshon Moore speaks from experience of having parents representing differing cultural backgrounds
- Added: Aug 24, 2011
- Length: 01:00
