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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
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
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
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
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bill Monroe’s bluegrass is often viewed as a musical big bang. But while it was different than the string band music preceding Monroe’s Blue Grass...

  • Added: May 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:23
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
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
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
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
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....

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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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...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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...

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
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A sampling of ideas and best practices for raising girls into adulthood. Three women who all have daughters and are also scholars and writers in t...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
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....

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
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...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Senior Producer, Tony Gannon, and Post Production Editor, Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle, Credit: Nancy Mullane
What do radio silence, the FCC, net neutrality, President Trump's first solo press conference, and Richard Wagner have in common? Welcome to In-Stu...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
4 programming segments adding up to about 40 minutes

  • Added: Feb 18, 2017
  • Length: 38:28

  • Added: Feb 18, 2017
  • Length: 40:25
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Who enjoys work? Old-time farmers? That was a work all the time existence on the family farm. It had its satisfactions such as working with nature ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 07:18
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with spins of recent broken hearted melodies. There have always been bluegrass songs that depict work. But does anyone enjoy the wor...

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


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Back in the 1930 era, farm work engaged most members of the old time music audience, and it of course was hard work, and it could be 24/7. The sin...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 07:57
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
What does it mean to drift? We open with a few “drifting” songs. On our Gem of Bluegrass feature, we address work and song depictions of drudgery. ...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 4