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Bluegrass Review #1539. Program for Sept 19-25, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The word moonshine can mean more than one thing, and that’s the way it is in bluegrass songs. We play two where the reference is definite, and one ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB, KSKQ, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Gems of Bluegrass 1538 – Old-Time String Band – Bluegrass Transition. For regular users, piece suggested for Sept 12-18, 2015. But there's no real date peg.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk Karen Van Norman, Credit: Karen Van Norman
When the story of the creation of bluegrass is told, usually it starts and ends with Bill Monroe. It’s a kind of big bang theory, and it is true th...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 05:30
Bluegrass Review #1538. Program for Sept 12-18, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our broadcast opens with songs expressing contrasting views regarding working in cotton mills. The Gem of Bluegrass comments on the evolutionary fa...

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1537. Program for Sept 5-11, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with recent bluegrass by the Gibson Brothers. Then, a couple of songs that reflect the American obsession with automobiles. Work is ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KPVL, KSKQ, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Gems of Bluegrass #1537 Traveling for Work
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Most of us think of work as something we do in our home communities. That applies to farm, factory and office work yesterday and today. Except that...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 05:41
Bluegrass Review #1535. Program for August 22-28, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on we feature a couple of songs with the “Georgia Rose” as part of the title. Then we consider the influence of traditional balladry on the s...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1534. Program for Aug 15-21, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens up with a couple of surprising songs about strangers. In the new one by Dale Ann Bradley, everybody is a stranger, including listene...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1533. Program for Aug 8-14, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a piece of new bluegrass, the broadcast considers songs about looking back and looking forward. Then the Gem of Bluegrass feature considers J...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1532. Program for Aug 1-7, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We have a little more honky tonk bluegrass towards the beginning of the show. Old time fiddle dance music is a key reference point in both old-tim...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Bluegrass Review #1531. Program for July 25-31, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show today begins with Americana-influenced bluegrass. Or is it Bluegrass-influenced Americana? Out Gem of Bluegrass features the fiddle as the...

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Gems #1530 Poverty and Bluegrass Songs
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass and old time music are often called poor folk’s music. And there’s a good case for that point of view. Most songs do not concern themselv...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 07:19
The Bluegrass Review #1528. Program for July 4-10, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s show has a Fourth of July motif, but it opens with a couple of songs about relationship troubles. In each of these songs, the male singer f...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Bluegrass Review #1527. Program for June 27-July 3, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The bluegrass hammer. It is usually what you swing as part of your job or because you are in prison. We play a few bluegrass songs containing hard-...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Gems of Bluegrass #1527 Old Time String Band’s Bluegrass Borrowings. For regular users, piece for Dec June 27-July 3, 2015. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Historically, bluegrass music is a an evolved type of old time string band. But although bluegrass follows the old time string band in history that...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 07:18
Bluegrass Review #1526. Program for June 20-26, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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The American Dream and Bluegrass music. Most bluegrass songs that touch on the subject tell how the dream is yet to be fulfilled for the singers. T...

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  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1525. Program for June 13-19, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens today with recent bluegrass music including a new one about the Gunfight at the OK Corral, the old west’s most notorious gun battle....

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  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1524. Program for June 6 - June 12, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Love and money: Is there a connection? Not for the two lucky guys in the first two songs, whose sweethearts don’t care a whit about money. Then we ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 18
Bluegrass Review #1523. Program for May 30 – June 5, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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Early on, we play a couple of scary prison songs, where moments of anger lead to violence and long prison sentences. The Gem of Bluegrass features ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1521. Program for May 16-22, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
After playing a recent bluegrass selection, we play some interesting truck driving songs, where the connection between truckin’ and family life is ...

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  • Added: May 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gems of Bluegrass #1521 Bluegrass Progressivism Over the Years
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
When you play bluegrass and old time music should you play it the way it’s been handed down? Or should you use the music as a basis for imagining n...

  • Added: May 03, 2015
  • Length: 05:12
Bluegrass Review #1518. Program for April 25 - May 1, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
A couple of “hillbilly wedding” songs lead off the show. Then we turn our attention to sung duets. Over time, this type of song treatment has serve...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Gems #1518 Duet Singing and Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
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
Bluegrass Review #1516. Program for April 11-17, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show today begins with songs between the generations. There is one where a younger person addresses an older one, and where an older once addre...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 14
Bluegrass Review # 1515. Program for April 4 - 10, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program begins with two songs named Amanda. The recent song by Volume Five concerns a woman whose life story contains a lot of unwanted goodbye...

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1514. Program for march 28 - April 3, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with current bluegrass by the Grass Cats. Then, it’s two songs that focus on hobos. The first, a recent one by Cody Shuler tells of ...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 16