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Bluegrass Review #1647.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
When Bluegrass goes downtown, it’s generally to have fun, and sometime too much! After a few “downtown” songs, the Gem of Bluegrass features bluegr...

Bought by WTIP, WOUB, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Gem of Bluegrass 1644: Another Look at Autumn in Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Fall is Beautiful, right? Well, we hear about it in bluegrass songs, but those beautiful falling leaves are usually meant to symbolize something el...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 06:12
Bluegrass Review #1645. Program for Nov 5-Nov 11, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After an HDS (hard-driving song) to open the show, we play three examples of the Unfortunate Rake song cycle, where, before death, the protagonist ...

Bought by WVRU, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WRGY and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Bluegrass Review #1643. Program for Oct 22-Oct 28, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Old songs about driving trucks frequently center on the power of trucks and the long drives. More recent ones also focus on the relationships conne...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1642.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Losing one’s way somehow in life is a frequent topic in bluegrass songs. But how this topic is handled differs from period to period. We listen to ...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1641.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There are lots of songs about trains, and at least two with the name Old Train. We spin them. We focus on a new tune by Grascals banjoist Kristin S...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1639. Program for Sept 24-Sept 30, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Sweet 16. It should be joyous to be sweet 16. But in bluegrass, it can be not-so-sweet 16. We play a few examples, and then an old and frivolous so...

Bought by KKRN, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1637
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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...

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, WVRU, WAMU, WDSE and more


  • Added: Aug 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Gems of Bluegrass #1637. Another Look at the Bluegrass Wall of Sound
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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
Gems of Bluegrass #1635. Bluegrass Music and Cover Songs
From: Philip Nusbaum
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
Bluegrass Review #1636.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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...

Bought by WVRU, WOUB, KBRP Community Radio, KRZA, WAMU and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1631.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Bluegrass Review #1630.
From: Philip Nusbaum
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...

Bought by WOUB, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE, KRPS, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1628.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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...

Bought by WEZU, WVRU, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1627.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Gems 1627: Bluegrass Music: A Great Tradition from Many Sources
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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
Bluegrass Review #1626.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KBRP Community Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1625. Program for June 18-June 24, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After we open the show with high lonesome singer Bradford lee Folk, we note a couple of lines of influence. First, the influence Dock Boggs had on ...

Bought by KKRN, WOUB, KRZA, WXXI Rochester, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1624. Program for June 11-June 17, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
April Verch put one of the unconventional songs of the late John Harford on her current CD. That was all the inspiration we needed to put on a song...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1623. Program for May 28-June 3, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
What would anyone give to replay something in the past with the benefit of what’s been learned along the way? A couple of songs on that theme open ...

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  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1622. Program for May 28-June 3, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our first order of business today is to play a new bluegrass song from an experienced source, Jeff White. In the current state of evolving bluegras...

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  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1620. Program for May 14-May 20, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early in the show, we welcome Spring which is taking place in almost every location the show is broadcast. Then we present songs that are as loneso...

Bought by KKRN, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1619. Program for May 7-May 13, 2016
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The music world lost a great songwriter, Merle Haggard lately. Merle was known a a writer and singer of country songs, but his influence was felt w...

Bought by KKRN, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
Gems #1617. The Automobile and Bluegrass Songs. Piece suggested for Apr 23-29, 2016. But there's no real date peg.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The history of humanity is told with a relationship to travel. The oxcart was an improvement over walking. Horses got you there faster, and then, t...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
Bluegrass Review #1615. Program for April 9-15, 2016
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Songs about guns. We play three at the start of the show. The first is told from the point of view of a bullet. Then we play a hard-hitting song fr...

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  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15