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Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a new bluegrass song, we play a couple of instances of the Spanish-bluegrass connection. The Gem of Bluegrass is concerned with the developme...

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  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
For a long time, the fiddle was the only bluegrass instrument with a really deep catalog of tunes. But the other instruments have their places in t...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:47
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with a little recent bluegrass. Then, we survey the bluegrass catalog regarding songs about “boots.” Subject matter ranges from song...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Even though bluegrass music is undergoing change, one of the story lines in today’s Bluegrass music is the founder of bluegrass, Bill Monroe. Bill’...

  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 06:23
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s show opens with new bluegrass from the Lonesome River Band. It’s a tribute to the singer’s sweetheart who values her man for things that do...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
It rains in Virginia, you know. Our show opens with a couple of “raining in Virginia.” You might know that rain frequently signifies the blues and ...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Many view the violin or fiddle as the king of the instruments played within the bluegrass tradition. If you hold that view. Why? It has to do with ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 07:47
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We have an overflow situation from a recent show when we played songs relating to home. So we air a recent compelling one and a classic about home ...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Home is a primary preoccupation among bluegrass songwriters. Today’s show begins with recent “home” songs. One concerns itself with trying to get h...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Nothing drove Europeans to the United States like the promise of personal independence. In England, there was a lot of cooperative farming. In the ...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
What does “moon” mean in bluegrass? The show opens with songs with very different views on that subject. Then, Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger with h...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The broadcast opens with some relationship songs focusing on the man’s disappointment. The relationships were just too burdensome. Then, Lyle Lofgr...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with compelling new bluegrass, and then an intriguing recent song by Laurie Lewis. Laurie asks, what happened to the Pharaoh’s daugh...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show today begins with recent and great bluegrass harmony singing. Then Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger take their places at the microphones. Blu...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens up with recent bluegrass. Then guests Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger and host Phil Nusbaum discuss bluegrass nostalgia. Frequently, i...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Towards the start of the show, we present some bluegrass love songs. These are not those depicting exit points of relationships, but ones that refl...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show begins with relationship songs, some old and some new. Then it’s on to our first foray into old time music and bluegrass with Lyle Lofgren...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Nostalgia and happiness. They are not all they are cracked up to be. Well, at least not in Bluegrass Songs. It’s because in bluegrass songs, nostal...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with a couple of songs about lives: The first depicts some kids waling on a dirt road, and wonders about what kinds of people they...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Honky Tonk, USA. That’s where bluegrass lives some of the time. After a recent Darrell Webb song, our show settles into a set of interesting Hony-T...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Jesse James was a bad outlaw, one of the first to rob trains. The traditional song about him portrays him as a Robin Hood figure, but nothing of th...

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  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Play bluegrass music from the 1940 and compare it to what’s being played today. You’ll hear some changes, but overall, you can tell that the two so...

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show begins with recent bluegrass. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass discusses the second bluegrass revolution, taking place in the 1960s-1970s. One o...

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  • Added: May 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
When Bill Monroe started the bluegrass boys, he was looking for a new sound. But his ideas about what that sound would be were not well formed. Ove...

  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:02
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music’s history is one of evolutions and revolutions. It began with a stylistic revolution when Bill Monroe, after a period of trial-and-...

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  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17