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Bluegrass is considered old fashioned, and old time string bands even more so. After all, it is the old time string band that gave birth to the blu...
- Added: Mar 04, 2013
- Length: 06:27
Bluegrass fans say that one of the great things about the music is that it
values its heritage. The fans like it when it sounds old, and they enjoy...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Feb 18, 2013
- Length: 06:10
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music is a combination of the Scots-Irish heritage of many of the first generation of bluegrass player, with the blues woven through the ...
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 06:33
The Blues has had a big influence on most forms of American music, including bluegrass. In recent years, we’ve seen a spate of bluegrass covers of ...
- Added: Jan 26, 2013
- Length: 04:06
When one thinks of the hallowed traditions of bluegrass and old time music, people always mention fiddling. Duet singing, gospel. But what about th...
- Added: Jan 19, 2013
- Length: 06:59
Take This Hammer. It’s an old song that has been performed on stage for well over half a century. But how it’s been performed has varied, depending...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 07:12
We have all these categories of music. But most players have access to multiple styles, and it’s normal for a player in one tradition to develop an...
- Added: Jan 15, 2013
- Length: 07:39
Though it is a music that frequently looks to the past for inspiration, bluegrass has a modern edge. There is plenty of innovation going on in the ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 07:12
What catches the ear in a song? It could be the beat, or it could be the story. And in some cases, it just could be the words chosen to relate the ...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 05:45
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 06:23
One of the earliest types of performing entities in old time music was the brother duet. Rooting in family music, this type of unit had a show-busi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 07:38
They played only a short time till the act ended in 1930. They recorded only about 40 songs, but so many of them have become standards that on a pe...
Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 08:01
- Purchases: 1
Grayson and Whitter played only a short time till the act ended in 1930. They recorded only about 40 songs, but so many of them have become standar...
- Added: Nov 03, 2012
- Length: 08:01
In the 1940’s Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys recorded an original song called Down the Road. It was just one of many recordings that...
- Added: Oct 25, 2012
- Length: 04:16
Through the 1950’s the Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys act was building momentum. Not only was the act good for bluegrass, it was goo...
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920
- Added: Oct 21, 2012
- Length: 06:20
- Purchases: 1
Bluegrass music evolves. It changes because of the great ides of players, current events, and with the changes in other musical genres. You can rea...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 07:10
In this idiom, there are raucus rounder, gunslingers, broken hearts. But aside from all that, the downtrodden are treated with a great deal of resp...
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 05:10
When bluegrass singers sing about their sweethearts, what exactly do they sing about? Frequently its their eyes, but why is that?
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 07:52
From: Philip Nusbaum
The key to traditional songs staying around is getting adapted to new situations. You might change a lyric or a style of accompaniment, and in that...
- Added: Sep 08, 2012
- Length: 05:08
Country scenes and images have refreshing effects on people. Songs featuring those kinds of motifs open the show today. The Gem of Bluegrass descri...
- Added: Sep 08, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
Not all songs are set in specific places. But when they are, they contribute to songs’ moods. Like those old murder ballads that take place in remo...
- Added: Sep 02, 2012
- Length: 05:26
Every song is created to express something. But does the expression come from the lyrics or from the singer? Well, it can be both but not in equal ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 04:37
American ethos is that we’re all equal. We’re all middle class. But we know that there’s them’s that’s got. And them’s that not. In the old folk mu...
- Added: Aug 07, 2012
- Length: 07:33
When you think of California and the west coast, you often think of the new or the cutting edge. But bluegrass in the west coast began its run with...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 05:37
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 27, 2012
- Length: 07:25
