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Bluegrass Review # 1240 Show for Sept 29, 2012– Oct 5, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with a couple of recent tributes to bluegrass legends, Bill Monroe and Doc Watson. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass considers “what is pro...

Bought by KSJD, WRGY, WOUB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KRZA and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Bluegrass Review #1239 Program for Sept 22-28, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Country scenes and images have refreshing effects on people. Songs featuring those kinds of motifs open the show today. The Gem of Bluegrass descri...

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review 1238. Show for Sept 15-21, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Recent songs with train motifs open up our broadcast. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass considers bluegrass songs that take place in caves, marginal place...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1237
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: karen Van norman
The show beings with the social class overflow from last week. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers bluegrass attitude songs. Later, we talk to blue...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Bluegrass Review #1230. Piece for July 21-27, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s program opens up with some bluegrass songs about hard work, including two startling songs concerning gravediggers. Show host Phil Nusbaum g...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Bluegrass Review #1229. Program for July 14, 2012– July 20, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Swing: It’s a style bluegrass bands have approached over the years. We survey some bluegrass swing fusion. Then Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger visit...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Bluegrass Review #1228. Program for July 7-13, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Losing: it’s an ever popular concern of bluegrass songs, and we begin our show with three outstanding examples of that type of song. Then Lyle Lofg...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Gems of Bluegrass #1228. The Carter Family and Jimmy Rodgers
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
In the early days of sound recording, in the early and mid 1920s, record labels recorded many local instrumental and singing groups. But no really ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2012
  • Length: 10:21
Bluegrass Review # 1226. Program for June 23-29, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
Out show opens with new and recent bluegrass. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass we consider the evolution of the song “Footprints in the Snow.” It was ...

Bought by WRGY, KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KUCB and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1223 Program for June 2-8, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with songs where finance matters. Then our Gem of bluegrass surveys the forms bluegrass anthems take. Later a conversation with Lynn...

Bought by WRGY, KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Bluegrass Review #1219. Program for May 5-11, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass depicts tragedy from the point of view of those affected, very well. A couple of flood songs open the show. Then a lengthy Gem of Bluegra...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KKRN, KUCB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Bluegrass Review # 1216 program for April 14-20, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Exciting new bluegrass opens this week’s broadcast. After that we investigate a major way bluegrass evolves: by recontexting music; you might say, ...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Bluegrass Review #1215 program for April 7-13, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a contemporary bluegrass IIIrd Tyme Out selection, we turn to recent bluegrass treatments of country songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuse...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KUCB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Bluegrass Review #1214 program for March 31-April 6, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with new selections. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass focuses on Tom Dooley, an American ballad that was given new life by a pop recordi...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Bluegrass Review #1213 program for March 24-30, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at a radio conference, Credit: Karen Van Norman
How does a songwriter catch a listener’s ear? Frequently it’s a good song hook, a telling phrase that references more than the action of a given so...

Bought by KKRN, KUCB, KRZA, KTRL, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1212 show for Mar 17 – Mar 23, 2012 "The Celtic-Bluegrass Connection"
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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Today’s show is concerned mostly with the Celtic-Bluegrass connection. The original Scots-Irish immigrants to the Appalachians formed the overall s...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Bluegrass Review #1211 show for March 10-16, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a little “goodbye, so long farewell.” But then the Gem of Bluegrass switches to a consideration of Twin fiddling. Following...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KUCB and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Bluegrass Review #1210 program for March 3-9, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a little “goodbye, so long farewell.” But then the Gem of Bluegrass switches to a consideration of Twin fiddling. Following...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1208 Feb 18 – Feb 24, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
There are several great new Civil War songs released lately and we play the cream of the crop. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass addresses bluegrass “puri...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bluegrass Review SPring 2012 fund drive I
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
4 segments totaling about forty minutes.

Bought by WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and WAMU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 39:54
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1207 program for Feb 11-17, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Early in the show, we play a couple of “second choice” bluegrass songs. One is ironic, the other a good old-fashioned broken hearted melody. Our Ge...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KRZA, KUCB and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Gems of Bluegrass #1205 Sounds Like...
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
You hear that songwriters and musicians write and play music reflecting their experiences Fair enough but it doesn’t stop there. In old time music ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:06
Bluegrass Review #1203 Program for January 14-20, 2012
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show opens with current wave bluegrass. Then our Gem of Bluegrass considers modernistic bluegrass takes on booze. These viewpoints are not as m...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Bluegrass Review #1151 Show for Dec17-23, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
A disproportionate number of bluegrass songs about money have a $40 price tag. We open with two. On our Gem of Bluegrass, it is "Romance, Fantasy a...

Bought by KUCB, KRZA, WXXI Rochester, KKRN, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bluegrass Review #1150 program for Dec 10-16, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our program opens with bluegrass takes on poverty. Three of the four or actually positive spins. Then, the fourth is an angry one….it’s a song comp...

Bought by KRZA, KUCB, KKRN, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

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