Category Archives: Back Porch Bluegrass

May is NZ Music Month, and I'm playing some early NZ bluegrass from the 1960s and '70s. Groups include the HCBB, excerpts from the National Banjo Pickers' conventions of 1968 and 1969, the Beale St St...

May is NZ Music Month, and I'm playing some early NZ bluegrass from the 1960s and '70s. Groups include the HCBB, excerpts from the National Banjo Pickers' conventions of 1968 and 1969, the Beale St St...

Back to my deepest shelves for much of today's programme. Charlie Moore, Rich In Tradition, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina, the Lewis Family for a couple of gospel favourites, Merle Travis, Herschel Sizem...

Back to my deepest shelves for much of today's programme. Charlie Moore, Rich In Tradition, Lorraine Jordan & Carolina, the Lewis Family for a couple of gospel favourites, Merle Travis, Herschel Sizem...

We've just had Easter, this Friday we NZers and Aussies celebrate ANZAC Day. I've included songs, appropriate to both these occasions, in this week's show, featuring artists such as High Fidelity, Bil...

We've just had Easter, this Friday we NZers and Aussies celebrate ANZAC Day. I've included songs, appropriate to both these occasions, in this week's show, featuring artists such as High Fidelity, Bil...

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I've just been re-reading Neil Rosenberg's superb book, 'Bluegrass Generation', chronicling the years in the early 1960's that he spent being very involved the music programs at the Bill Monroe's Brow...

Lots of great bluegrass music here, from Sam Bush, Nu-Blu, Cliff Waldron, Jim Hurst and Ricky Skaggs. There's some fine instrumental work from Bill Evans & Fletcher Bright, Jerry Douglas & friends, Iv...

Lots of great bluegrass music here, from Sam Bush, Nu-Blu, Cliff Waldron, Jim Hurst and Ricky Skaggs. There's some fine instrumental work from Bill Evans & Fletcher Bright, Jerry Douglas & friends, Iv...