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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
Harvey Milk, first gay elected official in San Francisco, was assassinated in 1978. The Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, which has been performing for...
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 05:02
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.
Bought by WVRU
- 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
Twin Cities Salsa band has earned honors, and plays a new Spot
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
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
We meet Mark and Lisa from Monroe Crossing and talk about the season and some of the group's songs.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 28, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, RadioFreePalmer, KUCB and more
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 15
Friday night Nov 1, Cornbread Harris continues his run of 6 -10PM shows at the Loring Pasta Bar in Minneapolis. On the piece we meet Cornbread, who...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 26, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Oct 04, 2013
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
Piece centers on a swing dance hosted by the Park Grove Library in Cottage Grove, MN. We hear from Gary Schulte, the swing violinist leading the tr...
- Added: Sep 18, 2013
- Length: 05:00
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
In the late 1940s when bluegrass was new, it was considered an innovation. But in time, bluegrass became its own tradition with its own conventions...
- Added: Jun 18, 2013
- Length: 05:39
That’s it! I’m Outa Here! Well, that’s one way to make an exit. And that works sometime. But there is much more to leaving than being at the end of...
- Added: Jun 05, 2013
- Length: 04:44
