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Long before the United States became a nation and implemented American democracy as we know it today, there were town meetings. Nearly 400 years l...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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After a tragic loss, a parent is inundated with words of condolences and must ponder the real value and meaning of these words. Are they meant in a...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 1
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The musical journey of Emmylou Harris is explored in this extended play, three-hour version of a special from music documentarian Paul Ingles. G...

Bought by Prairie Public, KLCC, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), Louisville Public Media, KGLT and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 02:59:01
  • Purchases: 6
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Woodstock organizers, artists and audience members recall the 1969 music festival that rocked the world in more ways than one. Music and memories f...

Bought by KFSK, North State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media, KUHF, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A two-part program. Part one shares the story of the victim of a sexual assault who winds up cooperating with her contrite perpetrator to help spr...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Dorothy Day / Archbishop Oscar Romero
Despite the Catholic Church being mired in its sexual abuse scandal which has tarnished the faith's reputation globally, Catholic history also hold...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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A lively special spotlighting Elton John's early work from 8 remarkable albums released in three years from 1970- 1973. Special is timed to synch ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WAER Syracuse, NY, KRCB 104.9, KUNM, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
It’s Christmas on the Bluegrass Review. Bluegrass Artists share some of their thoughts at Christmas.

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


  • Added: Jan 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show we present a Gem of Bluegrass concerned with some of the musical sounds heard on records. Some seem like fads, but others display...

Bought by KVNF and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After playing some recent bluegrass, we present one of this show’s musical interviews. We talk to Rebekah Long about her musical career, and what s...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WTIP


  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After some new bluegrass to open the show, we play a couple of songs that reference “folks.” In bluegrass songs, “folks” are not exactly the same a...

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


  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We take care of a truck-connected overflow of songs, then consider the mood of bluegrass lonesome during the Gem of Bluegrass. We have a musical co...

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


  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
At the beginning of today’s show, we present songs of dangerous occupations, the type that are unlawful, too. Then, or Gem of Bluegrass revisits th...

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


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Realizing that there are a few more “sunny side” side songs to play, we do this that towards the beginning of the show. On our Gem of Bluegrass, we...

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


  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s Gem of Bluegrass focuses on the evolution of bluegrass banjo playing. Later on the show, we talk to Josh Krohn, singer, player and songwrit...

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


  • Added: Oct 15, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Towards the beginning of the show, we present a couple of broken hearted melodies; one recent and the other from 1-20 years ago. On the Gem of Blue...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
You might know that there is a lot of misery in personal relationships depicted in bluegrass songs. But that is not so in the Rebekah long and Donn...

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


  • Added: Sep 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Some say that every person alive has demons. The Grascals has a new song which tackles the subject head on. We follow that up with two songs where ...

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


  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The Broadcast begins with recent bluegrass. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass focuses on how playing the melody serves to ground performance. Later we tal...

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


  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a new piece of bluegrass, we play a couple of nostalgia songs; both bittersweet because while the places in memory are still around, the peop...

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


  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The broadcast opens up with a couple of pieces that depict or embody the musical values of old-time fiddle players. Then comes an instrumental by t...

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


  • Added: Aug 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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At the signing of the declaration of independence, Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all ha...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a new and dreamy song by Dale Ann Bradley, we get a good, bluegrass-style dose of reality, with a couple of recent songs about the bad influe...

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


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
A couple of songs about small towns and small town people opens our broadcast. Eddie Adcock served for well over a decade as the banjoist for the C...

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5