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Bluegrass Review #1535. Program for August 22-28, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on we feature a couple of songs with the “Georgia Rose” as part of the title. Then we consider the influence of traditional balladry on the s...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1534. Program for Aug 15-21, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens up with a couple of surprising songs about strangers. In the new one by Dale Ann Bradley, everybody is a stranger, including listene...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Powderhorn Park in Minneapolis Hosts a Fourth of July Festival
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Jazz 88, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Powderhorn Park always does it with flair, and this 4th of July, it hosts musician Greg Herriges and troupes of puppeteers and dancers. Phil Nusbau...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ray Barnard Brings His Updated Old School Soul to the Dakota Late Night Stage
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Ray Barnard, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Ray Barnard writes and performs songs based on old-school soul. Over the years he has developed a unique songwriting voice, and he tells Phil Nusba...

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1527. Program for June 27-July 3, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The bluegrass hammer. It is usually what you swing as part of your job or because you are in prison. We play a few bluegrass songs containing hard-...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1526. Program for June 20-26, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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The American Dream and Bluegrass music. Most bluegrass songs that touch on the subject tell how the dream is yet to be fulfilled for the singers. T...

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  • Added: May 31, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1525. Program for June 13-19, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens today with recent bluegrass music including a new one about the Gunfight at the OK Corral, the old west’s most notorious gun battle....

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  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1524. Program for June 6 - June 12, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Love and money: Is there a connection? Not for the two lucky guys in the first two songs, whose sweethearts don’t care a whit about money. Then we ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 18
After 7 Years Playing Together, Jazz Group Celebrates its First CD
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: JaAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske, Credit: Laurenb Photography
JoAnn Funk and Jeff Brueske. Jazz for voice, piano and bass. They’ve been holding forth Friday and Saturday nights at the St Paul hotel lobby for 7...

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  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1521. Program for May 16-22, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
After playing a recent bluegrass selection, we play some interesting truck driving songs, where the connection between truckin’ and family life is ...

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  • Added: May 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gems of Bluegrass #1521 Bluegrass Progressivism Over the Years
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
When you play bluegrass and old time music should you play it the way it’s been handed down? Or should you use the music as a basis for imagining n...

  • Added: May 03, 2015
  • Length: 05:12
Bluegrass Review #1518. Program for April 25 - May 1, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
A couple of “hillbilly wedding” songs lead off the show. Then we turn our attention to sung duets. Over time, this type of song treatment has serve...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1519. Program for May 2-8, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Ralph Stanley is perhaps the greatest living bluegrass icon representing the past of bluegrass. Lately, Ralph’s grandson seems to be following in R...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Cuban Charanga Music Comes to Studio Z in St Paul
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Charanga Tropical, Credit: Walter Horishnyk
Doug Little leads Minnesota’s great Charanga Band, Charanga Tropical. Charanga is a substyle of salsa, one that adds three violins to the mix. The ...

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1516. Program for April 11-17, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Bluegrass Review # 1515. Program for April 4 - 10, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Bluegrass Review #1514. Program for march 28 - April 3, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
BR Spring Fund Raising Edition II
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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secind of two Spring 2015 fund raaising editions fo the Bluegrass Review show

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2015
  • Length: 38:02
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1512. Program for March 14-20, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Bluegrass Review #1511. Program for Marcy 7-13, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Bluegrass Review #1510. Program for Feb 28-March 6, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on, we have fun playing a couple of songs with almost the same name. The Gem of Bluegrass reflects on poor people in bluegrass: they may be p...

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  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1509. Program for Feb 21-27, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Bluegrass Review #1507. Program for Feb 7-13, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Bluegrass Review #1506. Program for Jan 31 - Feb 6, 2015
From: Philip Nusbaum
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
Bluegrass Review #1505. Program for Jan 24-30, 2015.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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