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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
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
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
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
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
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
Stef Adkins competes in his very first Drag Competition as Barbie Que, juggling issues of identity and boundaries.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 26, 2012
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 2
Today it is commonplace to acknowledge the extent of Bill Monroe’s contribution to bluegrass music: The instruments used, their function in a band...
- Added: May 21, 2012
- Length: 07:44
We know that bluegrass music is blue. The most obvious examples are the seemingly limitless number of songs about lovers breaking up. But in bluegr...
- Added: May 08, 2012
- Length: 05:15
If you think that folk music means singer with guitar, then bluegrass is not really folk. But before you slam the door on the idea of bluegrass bei...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 1
A recent Gem of Bluegrass addressed the recontexting of bluegrass songs. Take a bluegrass song or bluegrass approach and combine it with ideas from...
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 10:53
When you play bluegrass or any type of old time music, you rely on your ear. Sure, some of the music written down, but if you rely solely on writte...
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 07:27
Karen Slade, Eric "Rico" Reed, and Arthur "Sonny" Williams of radio station KJLH remember the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, and KMUD
- Added: Apr 16, 2012
- Length: 02:28
- Purchases: 3
One of the great things about bluegrass is that it is always changing, always evolving. The 60’s was an era with a lot of change, and it may be hap...
- Added: Apr 11, 2012
- Length: 08:28
We know that bluegrass evolves over time. But what causes the evolution? Usually we think it’s caused by the little changes made by players. But wh...
- Added: Apr 06, 2012
- Length: 09:33
The House of the Rising Sun. It’s an old time song that’s been kept alive by a lot of singers. Why do singers like it? It might be that it sings of...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 08:34
After a contemporary bluegrass IIIrd Tyme Out selection, we turn to recent bluegrass treatments of country songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuse...
Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KUCB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 10
Tom Dooley. It’s an American Ballad that has shown staying power. Why? Part of it is what it’s about: sex and violence. Plus, everybody was talking...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 07:16
- Purchases: 1
What’s in a song? You might ask. Well if there is a lyric that is ear catching, people will want to listen to find out what’s in a song.
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 08:35
When the history of bluegrass music is told, it usually begins with the Scots irish people settling in the south. At the time if immigration, Celti...
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 07:28
On the American frontier, the fiddle was the most important instrument. For one thing, the Scots Irish settlers was an instrument used to accompany...
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 07:46
There’s a vein of humor that runs through country music and bluegrass. Over the years there have been different approaches. It’s probably because t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2012
- Length: 09:24
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
