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Bluegrass Review #1642.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Losing one’s way somehow in life is a frequent topic in bluegrass songs. But how this topic is handled differs from period to period. We listen to ...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1639. Program for Sept 24-Sept 30, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Sweet 16. It should be joyous to be sweet 16. But in bluegrass, it can be not-so-sweet 16. We play a few examples, and then an old and frivolous so...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1640.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The blues plays a large role in the bluegrass style. There are many ways to use the blues, from the blues tonality to creating song segments that r...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Preview of Upcoming Special "The Emergence of Otis Redding"
From: Paul Ingles
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A 14:30 sampler of comments and music from an upcoming public radio special on the legendary soul singer Otis Redding. Commentators in this previe...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 14:27
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1638.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The Bluegrass Review opens with a couple of songs instructing on the dangers of forgetting where one comes from. Later on the Gem of Bluegrass, we ...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1634.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After some great current bluegrass by the Trinity River Band, we play a few bluegrass songs where the departed have not completely departed. The Ge...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1633.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
On today’s show we continue playing some excellent recent bluegrass. We have new work to play by fiddle virtuoso Mark O’Connor. As usual, we presen...

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 18
Bluegrass Review #1632.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We break out with new bluegrass, then proceed to play two related songs, one old and one new, but both grim: They reference short lives of trouble....

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1631.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Shortly after the show opens, we play songs related to various types of towns. Later, we feature Frank Wakefield on the Gem of Bluegrass. Frank is ...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1625. Program for June 18-June 24, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After we open the show with high lonesome singer Bradford lee Folk, we note a couple of lines of influence. First, the influence Dock Boggs had on ...

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  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1624. Program for June 11-June 17, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
April Verch put one of the unconventional songs of the late John Harford on her current CD. That was all the inspiration we needed to put on a song...

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  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1622. Program for May 28-June 3, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our first order of business today is to play a new bluegrass song from an experienced source, Jeff White. In the current state of evolving bluegras...

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  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1621. Program for May 21-May 27, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens with some recent bluegrass blues. Then, we continue to present a couple of “lonesome as it gets” songs. One is from the perspecti...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Bluegrass Review #1620. Program for May 14-May 20, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early in the show, we welcome Spring which is taking place in almost every location the show is broadcast. Then we present songs that are as loneso...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1618. Program for Apr 30-May 6, 2016
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
“Hey. Bartender,” calls the distraught. Our show features a couple of hey, bartender songs in the early going. Our Gem of Bluegrass considers playi...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1617. Program for Apr 23-29, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
North Americans love their automobiles. On the Gem of Bluegrass, we explore the connections between bluegrass and old-time music and the automobile...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Bluegrass Review #1616. Program for Apr 16-22, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We play the numbers on today’s show. In other words, we play songs whose titles contain numbers. On the Gem of Bluegrass feature, we focus on the c...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1614. Program for Apr 2-8, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Throughout the history of bluegrass and old time music, songwriters have taken stands on issues related to working. At the beginning of the show, w...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Gems #1614 The Deep Melancholy: A Recent Bluegrass Mood. Piece suggested for Apr 2-8, 2016. But there's no real date peg.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk Karen Van Norman
The history of bluegrass is mostly evolution. So what’s new under the bluegrass sun? Some say it’s a new kind of sung expression: the deep melancholy.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 06:49
Bluegrass Review #1613. Program for Mar 26-Apr 1, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
In the old days of bluegrass there were the happy sounding sad songs. But sad songs today frequently embody musical textures that are also sad. Our...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1612. Program for March 19-25, 2016
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There are many songs about trains in bluegrass, but what the trains stand for vary greatly. We open the show with a couple of recent examples. Then...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1610. Program for Mar 5-12, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show open has plenty of new bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass poses the question of whether Bill Monroe’s early bluegrass represented innovation ...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1609. Program for Feb 27-March 4, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There always seems to be a trickle of songs about working, and we play 3 good ones at the beginning of the show. Our Gem of Bluegrass concerns blue...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1608. Program for Feb 20-26, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Laurie Lewis’ new Cd pays tribute to Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard. One of the Hazel and Alice themes was singing traditional songs. We play one b...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1606. Program for Feb 6-12, 2016.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show today, we acknowledge that bluegrass specializes in all kinds of “unhappy” including breakups. We play a couple of stylistically ...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7