Tag: Bluegrass 4-Pack
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Episode 1993: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 4: Progressive Bluegrass AKA Newgrass
It’s time to crack the final can of our Bluegrass 4-Pack! It contains the history of progressive bluegrass, when younger musicians began to expand and enhance the traditional sounds of Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs.
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Episode 1992: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 3: The Festival Movement
We’re onto part three of the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, in which we take a look at the birth of the bluegrass festival movement, which began with two seminal events in Virginia in the 1960s.
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Episode 1991: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 2: Flatt and Scruggs
We open another can from the Bluegrass 4-Pack today, as Patrick outlines the remarkable career of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. They left Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys in 1948 and went on to take the music to a whole new audience and level of popularity.
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Episode 1990: Bluegrass 4-Pack Part 1: Genre and History with Bill Monroe
It’s time to crack into the Bluegrass 4-Pack! Patrick takes a trip back in musical history to the formation of the band that led to the genre of music known as Bluegrass. That trip begins with Bill Monroe and his brother Charlie in the mid-1930s and continues until Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs arrive in 1946.