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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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show begins with songs of emotional hardness. It can happen as a result of a failed relationship or just because a person doesn’t allow the tim...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2015
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Towards the beginning of the show, we play a couple of songs about difficult or impossible journeys; and then one about a psychologically tough jou...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The city represents many contrasting points of view in bluegrass music. Towards the start of the show we pick out a few songs with contrasting view...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
When a relationship seems to be going well but one of the partners announces that “you’ll be better off without me,” that is an unexpected goodbye....

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Most definitions of bluegrass tell you that the bluegrass instruments are the guitar, banjo, fiddle, mandolin and bass. And it might tell you that ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with prison songs that speak of different aspects of the prison experience. Then, it is time for our Gem of Bluegrass. This week’s g...

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  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We kick off the show with some current bluegrass. Then, it’s a couple of songs relating to phases of life, and each song references a “garden wall....

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show, a couple of songs in which age plays a factor. One is about hanging around an old man, someone your parents warned you against b...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a little contemporary bluegrass, the show slides into some songs where one person is telling off another. Let’s just say that we sing some th...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with new bluegrass, and a couple of songs about the California and Alaska gold rushes. After the Gem of Bluegrass about the bluegras...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17