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Ray Barnard writes and performs songs based on old-school soul. Over the years he has developed a unique songwriting voice, and he tells Phil Nusba...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
JoAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske. Jazz for voice, piano and bass. They’ve been holding forth Friday and Saturday nights at the St Paul hotel lobby for 7...
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- Added: May 09, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Old time and bluegrass music. Many fans consider them as distinct phenomena. But there is reason to consider both as part of the same musical tree.
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 06:39
Doug Little leads Minnesota’s great Charanga Band, Charanga Tropical. Charanga is a substyle of salsa, one that adds three violins to the mix. The ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 04, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
When you listen to old bluegrass and the singing styles popular in country music at the time, you can appreciate the early bluegrass as a combinati...
- Added: Apr 03, 2015
- Length: 07:51
When modern people talk about winter, the talk a lot about inconvenience. You know, you have to dress in layers. The daily commute takes twice as l...
- Added: Feb 02, 2015
- Length: 05:03
Most definitions of bluegrass tell you that the bluegrass instruments are the guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and bass. And it might tell you that ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 06:21
What a beautiful thing it is when you see someone pull out a 5-dollar harmonica out of an overalls pocket and proceed to catch everyone’s attention...
- Added: Jan 01, 2015
- Length: 07:34
Three experienced players have formed a new organ trio that is one of the more promising groups on the scene, the JT Bates Organ Trio. In the piece...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
In the piece, Bill talks about songwriting, and about working with his young bandmates, Sarah & Derek Birkeland.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
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: Nov 20, 2014
- Length: 05:58
Bluegrass, especially the old bluegrass, has a lot of nature references. There are many songs about spring. But what about Autumn?
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 05:13
For a long time, the fiddle was the only bluegrass instrument with a really deep catalog of tunes. But the other instruments have their places in t...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Many view the violin or fiddle as the king of the instruments played within the bluegrass tradition. If you hold that view. Why? It has to do with ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2014
- Length: 07:47
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
- Purchases: 1
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
Apollo Male Chorus artistic director Sean Vogt talks about the development of new choral works that relate to jazz and pop.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 23, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
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
