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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: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music has always been driven by a combination of full time pros and amateurs. Their reasons for playing and singing are not always the sa...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:08
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
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
On today's show, we focus on the bluegrass highlights of the previous year, including cutting edge bluegrass, combinations with Americana and pop, ...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
It’s Christmas on the Bluegrass Review. Robin and Linda Williams and Donna Ulisse talk about some of their Christmas-related songs.

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
In folk music including bluegrass, musicians have always learned from other musicians. But where it used to be person to person locally, now its fr...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 07:07
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
At the show’s beginning, we play recent bluegrass. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, we discuss the evolution of the song “The House Carpenter.” In so...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Recent bluegrass opens our show. Then we present two lighthearted looks at aging; one instrumental and one an old time song. The Gem of Bluegrass f...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Gems of Bluegrass are 5 - 8 minutes drop-in modules that look at bluegrass / old time history, aesthetics and culture, conceived broadly. Each Gem ...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:58
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Each week, the show presents current and historical bluegrass music, as well as interviews, produced segments and commentary. The result is in-dept...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk           , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s broadcast begins with a new bluegrass song. Then, we play a couple of songs about young women leaving home. The first is tragic, while the ...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 59:28
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
It’s always been true that when cultures contact each other they influence each other. And with the variety of music styles old and new so easily a...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:22
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with recent bluegrass. On the Gem of Bluegrass, the subject is Autumn and bluegrass songs. Then we play a couple of songs where Autu...

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9