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These days there are no rules regarding what a song should be written about. Why not motorcycles? We’ve got two, and they display contrasting visio...
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 07:48
Bluegrass Music came into being in the 1940s, a combination of the evolving string band, Bill Monroe’s genius, and with a big assist from Earl Scru...
- Added: Aug 24, 2014
- Length: 05:16
Nothing drove Europeans to the United States like the promise of personal independence. In England, there was a lot of cooperative farming. In the ...
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- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 08:16
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Nostalgia and happiness. They are not all they are cracked up to be. Well, at least not in Bluegrass Songs. It’s because in bluegrass songs, nostal...
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 04:55
Play bluegrass music from the 1940 and compare it to what’s being played today. You’ll hear some changes, but overall, you can tell that the two so...
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 07:21
When Bill Monroe started the bluegrass boys, he was looking for a new sound. But his ideas about what that sound would be were not well formed. Ove...
- Added: May 05, 2014
- Length: 06:02
When it comes to well-known songs, there are always multiple versions. You might even say that songs become vehicles for the individual styles of p...
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 05:33
Tunes inspire other tunes. How so? It’s well-known that you can take an already existing piece, make some changes to it, and then you have a new pi...
- Added: Apr 12, 2014
- Length: 06:24
The old rockabilly cats were fans of Bill Monroe. Well, Elvis Presley, the original rock and roll icon recorded Bill’s Blue Moon of Kentucky early ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2014
- Length: 07:29
Blue Moon of Kentucky was Bill Monroe’s greatest hit. He first recorded it in 1946, and then recorded it later in his career. The song has had stay...
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 09:03
Back in the 1950s, the music world was becoming aware that musicians and fans now had easy access to many styles of music. Today, the internet is d...
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 05:42
Where does the musical organization of a bluegrass band come from? Some might find it a little surprising how large a role was played by pop music.
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- Added: Jan 26, 2014
- Length: 07:34
- Purchases: 1
Breakups are tough. That’s why there are so many breakup songs in bluegrass. But when you think about it, bluegrass deals with other kinds of parti...
- Added: Jan 20, 2014
- Length: 06:13
From: Philip Nusbaum
If you listen to bluegrass, you know about cabin songs. You know, songs frequently set long ago, and is rustic places. Some say cabin songs are irr...
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 05:02
From: Philip Nusbaum
The 1920s is considered the golden era of string band recording. While times were tough on consumers in rural America, record companies still found...
- Added: Dec 07, 2013
- Length: 05:11
One of the best loved tunes around is Bonaparte’s Retreat. But why? Is it the title? The melody? Lyle Lofgren and Phil Nusbaum seek a solution to t...
- Added: Nov 24, 2013
- Length: 12:00
The nautical tragedy of the Titanic is perhaps the most sung about disaster in the history of old time music and bluegrass. But what do the singers...
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 08:44
One of the best loved tunes around is Bonaparte’s Retreat. But why? Is it the title? The melody? Lyle Lofgren and Phil Nusbaum seek a solution to t...
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 12:00
The piece recounts great things about bluegrass music and the bluegrass community
- Added: Nov 15, 2013
- Length: 10:19
Our show opens with recent bluegrass by Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins. You might know that there are not very many bluegrass songs where “regular” po...
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- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
The old bluegrass songs about work suggest that work defines a person. And maybe that was true with work that was 24/7. But today it seems to be mo...
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- Added: Oct 04, 2013
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
Certain people, including me say that Bill Monroe’s greatest innovation was weaving the blues into all of his playing. The way and his followers do...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 06:47
You can view the rise of bluegrass in the 1940s as an evolution, or as the result of musical innovations by Bill Monroe. One of Bill’s great innova...
- Added: Sep 12, 2013
- Length: 08:14
Before the arrival of electricity and invention of sound reinforcement, a dance or performance required several musicians capable of playing loud a...
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 06:57
The notion of what is considered bluegrass is slowly migrating. Today, Lyle Lofgren, Adam Granger and Phil Nusbaum comment on the situation.
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 07:23
