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Bluegrass Review #1730. Program for July 22-July 28, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with a couple of songs about mountain men. The second one is also a song of separation, which slides into another separation song. O...

Bought by KVNF, RadioFreePalmer, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public, and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Bluegrass Review #1729. Program for July 15-July 21, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Most bluegrass songs relating to separation have it as a result of a breakup. But that isn’t true in this show’s opening group of songs. In these s...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public, and WTIP


  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1728. Program for July 8-July 14, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with songs about love, and the majority are happy ones. If you know bluegrass, you know that’s not the normal ratio. The Gem of Blue...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1727. Program for July 1-July 7, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with new bluegrass from the record labels. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass treats the connections between bluegrass and America. The grea...

Bought by WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gems 1727 Further Thoughts about Bluegrass and America
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass is American. Bluegrass and America are obviously connected. But there are few songs about the connections. The strongest connections lie ...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2017
  • Length: 07:07
Bluegrass Review #1726. Program for June 24-June 30, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Cold. In Bluegrass, the word frequently refers to emotion, not the temperature. We open with a few “cold” songs from different eras of the music. O...

Bought by WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gems 1726 Further Thoughts on What is Traditional About Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We know that bluegrass is not a ritual, nor a catalog of rules that have to be followed. But still bluegrass fans, business people, players and sch...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 07:59
Bluegrass Review #1725. Program for June 17-June 23, 2017.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens with a couple of songs where mistaken identity plays. The Gem of Bluegrass adds some ideas to the current ferment about bluegrass...

Bought by WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gems of Bluegrass #1725. A Look at Bluegrass Modernity
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There is always a group of fans and music industry people who proclaim that the future will be won by bluegrass groups that become more like Progre...

  • Added: May 25, 2017
  • Length: 08:47
Gems of Bluegrass #1724. Drums in Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 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: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:36
Bluegrass Review #1724. Program for June 10-June 16, 2017.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
A couple of love songs that are a little out of the ordinary begins our broadcast. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers drums in bluegrass. Because ...

Bought by WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1723. Program for June 3-June 9, 2017.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass songwriters have long thought and wrote about old family homes. But it is fare from a complete nostalgia trip, as many of the songs lamen...

Bought by WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1722. Program for May 27-June 2, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The city is at best a necessary evil when it comes to bluegrass songs, Our show opens with a couple of songs about people who live in northern citi...

Bought by WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1721. Program for May 20-May 26, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on today’s broadcast, we play a couple of recent songs about love. They are not broken-hearted melodies, but romantic songs depicting happy c...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1720. Program for May 13-May 19, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music concerns itself with farm work. Many, including those on this show concern themselves with how hard the work is. The Gem of Bluegra...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, and Prairie Public


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 3
Gems of Bluegrass #1719. Update on the Bluegrass-Blues Connection
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Most musical idioms in the United States are touched by the blues. That includes bluegrass of course, Many consider the combining of African Americ...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2017
  • Length: 05:12
Bluegrass Review #1719. Program for May 6-May 12, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There is a steady stream of bluegrass treatments of country songs a generation and more old. We play a couple of gems from the current crop of blue...

Bought by WTIP, RadioFreePalmer, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 22, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1718. Program for April 29-May 5, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
In bluegrass songs, bad things seem to happen to marginal people in marginal places. We comment on that characteristic during the Gem of Bluegrass....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1717. Program for April 22-April 28, 2017.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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A vein of Bluegrass and Old-Time songs are set by bodies of water. We play a couple of these songs. One has the singer feeling further removed from...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1716. Program for April 15-April 21, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
One was current bluegrass differs from first generation songs is that today, songwriters write about self-discovery. We play a couple of them. On t...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1715. Program for April 8-April 14, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusabaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with new bluegrass, and throughout the show, spin some great new banjo music. On the Gem of Bluegrass we track the evolution of th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1714. Program for April 1-April 8, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show we play a couple of songs whose subject matter is coal, one of the compelling bluegrass stories in the history of the genre. The ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 16, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1713. Program for March 25-April 31, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show begins with a couple of songs where the singers, tired of seemingly being hit from all sides, all the time, seek getting away from it all....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Gems 1713 What is Traditional in Bluegrass Lyrics
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
What is traditional about bluegrass lyrics? The definition of tradition usually has to do with continuing something over time. Some bluegrass songs...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 07:47
Bluegrass Review #1712. Program for March 18-March 24, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
So many ways to feel unbalanced mentally; and so many ways to sing about it. We play some recent songs depicting the condition, and one representin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WTIP, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4