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On this week's episode, I got to dig through the AK Public Media CD library & came out with some AK music gems! So this week is going to be mostly ...
- Added: Sep 25, 2023
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Challenges faced by LGBTQ teens who are dating and how straight friends, teachers, and hopefully parents can support them.
- Added: Dec 31, 2020
- Length: 11:56
A caller to my radio show asked me about how you manage your defensiveness in a work setting. Here is an excerpt of my dialog with Ann, a book edit...
- Added: Apr 13, 2019
- Length: 06:11
Bluegrass music is in a constant state of evolution. Bluegrass artists are drawn to the catalog of songs by the Father of Bluegrass music, Bill Mon...
- Added: Oct 03, 2017
- Length: 06:44
The banjo was not in style in the 1940s. But that situation changed a short time after the end of World War II when Earl Scruggs showcased his styl...
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- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 06:35
- Purchases: 1
You keep hearing about sticking to the melody when you play. But every player knows that there are times to build off the melody of a song or time....
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 07:35
Bluegrass is American. Bluegrass and America are obviously connected. But there are few songs about the connections. The strongest connections lie ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 07:07
We know that bluegrass is not a ritual, nor a catalog of rules that have to be followed. But still bluegrass fans, business people, players and sch...
- Added: Jun 01, 2017
- Length: 07:59
There is always a group of fans and music industry people who proclaim that the future will be won by bluegrass groups that become more like Progre...
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 08:47
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture, conceived broadly. Each Gem ...
- Added: May 23, 2017
- Length: 04:36
Old Time Fiddle Music is a highly developed form, but the world surrounding bluegrass and old time music don’t always treat it that way. Today’s Ge...
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 06:29
Most musical idioms in the United States are touched by the blues. That includes bluegrass of course, Many consider the combining of African Americ...
- Added: Apr 22, 2017
- Length: 05:12
What is traditional about bluegrass lyrics? The definition of tradition usually has to do with continuing something over time. Some bluegrass songs...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 07:47
Who enjoys work? Old-time farmers? That was a work all the time existence on the family farm. It had its satisfactions such as working with nature ...
- Added: Feb 09, 2017
- Length: 07:18
Back in the 1930 era, farm work engaged most members of the old time music audience, and it of course was hard work, and it could be 24/7. The sin...
- Added: Jan 31, 2017
- Length: 07:57
Some view traditional music styles as singular, insulated from other styles. And that has been true at certain times in certain places. But owing t...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 06:03
Sitting on top of the world has been around a long time. The song was written by Walter Vinson and Sam Chatmon, members of the blues group, the Mis...
- Added: Jan 10, 2017
- Length: 05:55
Old Joe Clark has been around forever seemingly. It’s used as a square dance tune, so that helps keep it around. That it crooked and difficult to l...
- Added: Dec 31, 2016
- Length: 07:21
There's no getting around it. 2016 seemed like an especially costly year in the world of music with the deaths of far too many favorites. Music p...
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- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 9
Old time music has the reputation of looking at it’s own history for inspiration. But it has also has a cutting edge. In general, cutting edges in ...
- Added: Nov 26, 2016
- Length: 05:15
Much of the heated dialog among bluegrass fans concerns new approaches that are evolving. But when new approaches evolve, it does not mean that the...
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 05:38
Merle Haggard. His dates are 1937 to 2016. He was not a bluegrass performer, but he was loved by bluegrass artists and people. Now that he is gone,...
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 06:41
Fall is Beautiful, right? Well, we hear about it in bluegrass songs, but those beautiful falling leaves are usually meant to symbolize something el...
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 06:12
There’s a lot in bluegrass song lyrics. And yes, we know that many people use bluegrass music as the background to whatever else is going on, or ev...
- Added: Sep 05, 2016
- Length: 06:46
We begin today with recent bluegrass, including a couple of artists who enjoy re-doing Flatt and Scruggs songs from a half century or more ago. Our...
- Added: Aug 20, 2016
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 16
