All Pieces for Philip Nusbaum

 
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We begin today with recent bluegrass, including a couple of artists who enjoy re-doing Flatt and Scruggs songs from a half century or more ago. Our...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Through electronic manipulation, many kinds of music bands can be recorded so that all of the instruments can be heard. Walls of sound have detract...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:55
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
In every style of music there’s a cutting edge and a musical history. In Bluegrass they both matter.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
At the top of the show, we play cuts from two new banjo albums. Both tracks feature the banjo on vocal numbers, and not instrumentals. Bluegrass ha...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with recent songs of desperate men, and focusing on train robbery and the famed gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Later, we consider the ...

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  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
In every style of music there’s a cutting edge and a musical history. In Bluegrass they both matter.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2016
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After some great current bluegrass by the Trinity River Band, we play a few bluegrass songs where the departed have not completely departed. The Ge...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
On today’s show we continue playing some excellent recent bluegrass. We have new work to play by fiddle virtuoso Mark O’Connor. As usual, we presen...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The Cuckoo Bird is a very old song. It’s iconic recorded version is done solo, but in recent years, it’s evolved into a group song.

  • Added: Jul 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:31
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We break out with new bluegrass, then proceed to play two related songs, one old and one new, but both grim: They reference short lives of trouble....

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Shortly after the show opens, we play songs related to various types of towns. Later, we feature Frank Wakefield on the Gem of Bluegrass. Frank is ...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Frank Wakefield. He is one of the most compelling figures in the history of Bluegrass. He is over 80 now, but sees no reason to quit performing and...

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 04:54
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens with a bit of new bluegrass, then gives spins to songs about letters. On our Gem of Bluegrass, we express final thoughts regardin...

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  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
By the turn of the twenty-first century, Ralph Stanley had become synonymous with traditional bluegrass. After world war two in the late 1940s, Ral...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 05:56
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
As we get going we continue to feature new bluegrass music, including a release by rock/bluegrass synthesizer Sam Bush. Then the Gem of Bluegrass f...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open by continuing to showcase what’s new in bluegrass. On the Gem of Bluegrass, we comment on the imprint of summer on Bluegrass music. It’s th...

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  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass is the season everybody waits for, so there must be a lot of songs about it, right? Well, no. But it’s still the bluegrass season .

  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: hilip Nusbaum w/ 2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Suddenly there is a group of new bluegrass recordings to play, so we spin some of the finest of the new crop. Bluegrass music has a singular niche ...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk , Credit:  Karen Van Norman
The piece shows that despite that bluegrass is considered a singular styles, it actually stems from a variety of cultural traditions.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 08:34
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Interesting new bluegrass on today’s show, including the show’s opening track by Sister Sadie. But later, we go old-school with something by bluegr...

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  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17