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Gems #1144 Orange Blossom Special for regular users, show for Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The fiddle is the bluegrass instrument that is most like the human voice, and you can make it sound like birds or automobiles and trains. And over ...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 1
Gems #1043 Nowhere
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
In bluegrass we know that the size of a place matters: big cities are often bad, and little towns good. but what about places not built up at all? ...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1143. Show for Oct 22 - 28, 2011.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our program begins with some songs reflecting odd notions of the concept “justice.” The its time for the Gem of Bluegrass, which reflects on bluegr...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Bluegrass Review #1142 program for Oct 15-21, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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We lead off with a couple of recent “coal” songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuses on a subtle change in bluegrass band approaches over the last ...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 8
Gems 1141 The Broad Effects of Bluegrass Banjo
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass music is an idiom that has evolved over time, but has had several great ideas that changed aspects of the music markedly. Regarding blueg...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1141. show for Oct 8 - 14, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our show begins with songs about kids. In bluegrass there are a lot of tragic songs about kids, but this time we mix in a lot of cute and uplifting...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Bluegrass Review #1140. Piece for Oct 1-7, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
This week, after a new Blue Highway song, we play a new bluegrass follow up song…it follows up Dolly Parton’s Jolene,” massive country hit from yea...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass # 1140 Narratives and Implied narratives
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Stories. There are a lot of them out there. A story, whether its told, written or sung, has a premise acted on by a plot that leads to a conclusion...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review # 1139; show for Sept 24 - 30, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show opens up with a couple of new Bill Monroe tributes, including a Frank Wakefield interpretation of Monroe’s Bluegrass Stomp. Wakefield is a...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
br fall 2011 fund raising edition II
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
2nd of 2 fund Bluegrass Review fund raising editions

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 40:28
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass #1138 Banjo Sea Change
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
: Folk traditions such as bluegrass evolve over time. But evolution is sometimes hastened by a great idea. When Earl Scruggs unveiled his syncopate...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1138:
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Program for Sept 17-23, 2011. The program starts with new bluegrass by Blue Highway. Then, two views of romance. One is full of excitement, the oth...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bluegrass Review #1137
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Sept 13 is 100th anniversary of the birth of the father of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe’s. Today’s show tells of the great contributions of Monroe,...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 8
Gems of Bluegrass #1137 Bluegrass Music's 2nd Golden Era
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Many bluegrass fans, even ones who do not remember the first generation bluegrass artists get nostalgic about the old days. Well, fair enough. It r...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1136
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The world seems to reset in Fall. Those lake homes get locked up, school starts. And every professional organization in the world seems to have its...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1136
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The program opens with recent bluegrass, including a brand new recording by April Verch, the Canadian fiddling virtuoso. With fall approaching, the...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Is Foster Care a Good Thing? One Teenager's Opinion
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
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After going through foster care, this Minneapolis High School kids wonders about the good accomplished by foster care.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Benefits of Being Mixed Race
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Darshon Moore, Credit: Philip Nusbaum
Darshon Moore speaks from experience of having parents representing differing cultural backgrounds

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Gems of Bluegrass #1135 Fiddling Traditions
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Of all the bluegrass instruments, it is the fiddle that has the greatest history. The fiddle is a traditional instrument in many cultures, and it a...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1135. Show for Aug 27-Sept 2, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The program opens with some western songs we wish we’d had time to play earlier this summer. After that, our Gem of Bluegrass focuses on fiddling t...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Gems #1134 What if Bluegrass Were Popular
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass is reaching a new height in popularity, but it still is nowhere near the popularity of popular forms like rock. But still, it’s awfully s...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 09:33
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1134
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Program for July 30 - Aug 5, 2011 We open with a postscript on the western music / bluegrass connection we investigated a few shows back. It seems ...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 8
Bluegrass Review #1133
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
We open with songs about rounders, those mean to everybody individuals we are engaging in songs, but whom we would not like to meet in a dark alley...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Gems of Bluegrass #1132 Old Time Music, Bluegrass and songs of War
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Sejan Yun
Coming up next, our Gem of Bluegrass. Today’s Gem concerns itself with old time music, bluegrass and songs of war. The thing that really comes acro...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 17:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Bluegrass Review #1132
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The opens by returning to one the underlying themes of bluegrass music: heavy burdens. Then, Lyle Loftgren and Adam Granger collaborate with host P...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8

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