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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...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • 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
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
A Conversation with NEA Jazz Master, Randy Weston
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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Randy Weston talks about the music he loves.

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 26:05
A Conversation with Martina Arroyo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2010 NEA Opera Honoree and legendary soprano Martina Arroyo talks about her career in opera, including working with such luminaries as Leonard Bern...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 27:18
  • Purchases: 2
SITPE # 1131
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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Variety Pack.

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2011
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Gems of Bluegrass # 1131 History of Clawhammer Banjo
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Sejan Yun
For regular users, piece for July 30-Aug 5, 2011. Others use anytime. In old time music today, clawhammer is the most popular style of banjo playin...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 11:36
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1130
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
For regular users, program for July 23 - 29, 2011. Others use anytime. Bluegrass has a lot of musical conventions. But a lot of the conventions cou...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1131
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Program for July 30-Aug 5, 2011. We open with a popstscript on the western music / bluegrass connection we investigated a few shows back. It seems ...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bluegrass Review # 1129 program for July 16-22, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
program for July 16-22, 2011. Songs about unusual people open this week's show. The person depicted in Shade Tree Mechanic lives in a world of car ...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Bluegrass Review #1128 program for July 9-15, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show opens with a couple of great instrumental pieces. But these two tunes, recorded about 80 years apart are quite different in approach. Then...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 59:32
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1128 - Bill Monroe's western infuence
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
After Bill Monroe and brother Charlie parted ways in the late 1930s, Bill started searching for new musical combinations that would catch on. He mi...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass #1127 Bluegrass/Country Crossover
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass music has a history of being connected to, but also distinct from country music. But country and bluegrass are close enough, that some pl...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2011
  • Length: 08:17
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1127 piece for July 2-8, 2011.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with Zeitfunk 2011, Credit: Karen Van Norman
It’s the first of 8 summer broadcasts this year with guests Adam Granger and Lyle Lofgren. Adam is the guitarist who wrote the standard reference o...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 8
Bluegrass Review # 1126
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil and Zeitfunk 2011, Credit: Claire Nusbaum
Home is a major focus of bluegrass music. But how the music views home has expanded in recent years. The show opens with three songs about home. On...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Tales from the South 037: Delta Music Show
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Summer Season 2011
Caption: Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett, and Steve Azar, Credit: Shutter That! Photography
In conjunction with the Little Rock Film Festival, our Delta Music Show features Arkansas blues musician Jim Mize, Mississippi native and Ride Reco...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1125 Worlds We Have Lost
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2010 Zeitfunk award from PRX, Credit: Claire Nusbaum
Today's Gem of Bluegrass focuses on the vocal tone of many old time performers. Regardless of their age at the time of recording, they sounded old.

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  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 06:06
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1125
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Program for June 18-24, 2011 Mexico is close to the United States but for whatever reason, seems a bit exotic. On our show today, we play recent so...

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  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Gems of Bluegrass #1124 Crying in the Chapel
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil with 2010 Zeitfunk award, Credit: Claire Nusbaum
What’s the difference between musical idioms? In large part it is the way you interpret and accompany a song. Like the song Crying in the Chapel. I...

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  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1124
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2010 Zeitgeist award, Credit: Claire Nusbaum
Program for June 11-17, 2011. Some people get all the rough breaks. Early on this show we play a couple of songs depicting folks with plain old bad...

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  • Added: May 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7