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Bluegrass Review #1606. Program for Feb 6-12, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show today, we acknowledge that bluegrass specializes in all kinds of “unhappy” including breakups. We play a couple of stylistically ...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1608. Blues Influence in Bluegrass Music. Regular users piece for Feb 20-26, but there's no real date peg. Piece relates to Black History Month and
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The Blues tonality and the blues form come from African American people. The blues long been thought to have begun as field hollers and moans, and ...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY


  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1607. Program for Feb 13-19, 2016
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The murder ballad, where a demented male lover for no known reason, kills his sweetheart has cast a long shadow in bluegrass music, and in our cult...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Gems 1606 Virtuosity. Piece suggested for Feb 6 -Feb 12, 2016. But there's no real date peg.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music has been a long time in the making. The sentimental songs the Carter Family sang and the rough and tumble lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:40
Bluegrass Review #1603. Program for Jan 16-22, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early in the show we play some new recordings that reference the work of bluegrass founder Bill Monroe. On our Gem of Bluegrass, people sometimes c...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Gems of Bluegrass #1603. The Beauty of Bluegrass and the Beauty of Jazz. Piece suggested for January 16-22, 2016. But there's no real date peg.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There is a lot to like about jazz and a lot to like about bluegrass. Each has appealing legacy, each owes to the blues, and each is a musician’s mu...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Bluegrass Review #1553. Program for Dec 26, 2015-Jan 2, 2016
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early during the show, we compare a couple of songs where the guy doesn’t get the girl. Some bluegrass fans believe that bluegrass, or some bluegra...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Bluegrass Review #1549. Program for Nov 28 – Dec 4, 2015, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After opening with new bluegrass by Bradford lee Folk, the program plays some trains songs that give us more than the power of a train as a metapho...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1548. Program for Nov 21-27, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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We present a couple of bluegrass songs, one old and one new, where Fall represents the ending of relationships. The Gem of Bluegrass reflects blueg...

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  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1547 Program for Nov 14 – Nov 20, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Because the show has presented a good deal of old-time music lately, we play a couple of fiddle tune recordings, one old and one recent, that are p...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 16
Gems #1547 Bluegrass Music Combinations.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Everybody knows what bluegrass is, right? Well, if that’s true, why do bluegrass fans spend so much time trying to define it. Today’s Gem of Bluegr...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 07:30
Bluegrass Review #1544. For regular users, piece for Oct 24-30, 2014. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The mood of bluegrass is often blue, even when the musical accompaniment is lively. But sometimes, the blue musical accompaniment matches the mood ...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2015
  • Length: 07:19
Bluegrass Review #1543. Program for Oct 17-23, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We begin with a couple of songs about farm sales. These are taking place because the family farmers depicted are not able to compete in the agricul...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1541. Program for Oct 3-9, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open today with a couple of truckin’ songs not heard previously. Then it’s a couple of songs about dogs. The first is a recent recording by Big ...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
Bluegrass Review #1540. Program for Sept 26 - Oct 2, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Songwriters often say that their songs tell stories. It’s usually done by telling what happens to whoever is depicted in a song. But there is a na...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Gems #1540 Celtic - Bluegrass Connections
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
One of the major roots of the bluegrass and old time music tree is the Celtic that came over with Scots and Irish settlers. The old and new world t...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 06:54
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 ...

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  • 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...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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