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Colored Musicians Club
From: The Recollective
Series: Sounds and Echoes: A Musical Portrait of Buffalo, New York
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The Colored Musicians Club is one of Buffalo’s oldest music venues. Jazz giants from Count Basie to Billie Holiday played there, but even with the ...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:24
Gems of Bluegrass # 1116 New and Old Cabin Songs
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
One of the enduring symbols of the old bluegrass is the little cabin home. But we know that bluegrass evolves. The little cabin home means somethin...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:21
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1116
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
weekly program for April 16 - 22, 2011. Segments include an update on bluegrass "cabin songs," new honky tonk bluegrass and an interview with Dan M...

Bought by KPVL, WEZU, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KUCB, WAMU and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Gems of Bluegrass #1115
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Philip at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, program for Apr 9-15, 2011. Others use anytime. Piece is about how lyrics of songs are often short pieces that speak to the times.

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 06:33
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1115
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Sejan Yun
program for April 9-15, 2011. Lyrics are important, and that's what the Gems of Bluegrass weekly feature is about. Plus, new bluegrass, an intervie...

Bought by KPVL, WXXI Rochester, KUCB, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Gems of Bluegrass #1114
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, show for April 2-9, 2011. Others use anytime. Piece focuses on how the musical form of the blues plays in bluegrass music.

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Mar 20, 2011
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 2
Better This World - Documentary about the "Texas Two"
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Brad Crowder & David McKay
Two boyhood friends from Midland, Texas – David McKay and Brad Crowder – fall under the sway of a charismatic revolutionary ten years their senior....

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 24:51
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass #1113 Bluegrass and Aging
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass for the most part problematizes aging.

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1113
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Show segments comment on how bluegrass songs treat aging, and performers tell about the lived experiences that let to writing music.

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


  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1112, Bluegrass Exuberance.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
for regular users, piece for mar 19-25, 2011. There are many ways to play bluegrass today but the prevailing mood of bluegrass music is till "exub...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
Keith Cunningham - Riches to Rags to Riches
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Keith Cunningham
Most of us are familiar with the bestselling book by Robert Kiyosaki, "Rich Dad Poor Dad." But most of us don't know that Keith Cunningham is Rich ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 24:23
Gang injunctions roil Oakland politics
From: KALW
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The city of Oakland is currently defending a controversial effort to reduce gang violence. Alameda County Judge Robert Freedman is reviewing a prop...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:05
Gems of Bluegrass # 1111 Booze and Bluegrass
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Sejan Yun
When it comes to taking sides on moral issues, bluegrass picks its battles. As far as booze, bluegrass today has a no tolerance policy.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMU


  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1111
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
program for March 12 - 18, 2011

Bought by WEZU, KUCB, WAMU, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
FAITH IN THE EARTH
From: Voices of Our World
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THE STORY OF TWO MARYKNOLL PRIESTS WHO HAVE MADE LISTENING TO THE EARTH, AND SERVING ITS PEOPLE, THEIR LIVES' WORK.

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 27:59
Gems 1110 Wayfaring Stranger
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The song Wayfaring Stranger first appeared in a mid nineteenth century book of religious songs. Over the years, we've heard the Wayfaring Stranger ...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1110
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with PRX award, Credit: Karen Van Norman
program for February 5 - 11, 2010

Bought by KMXT, KUCB, WAMU, WXXI Rochester, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1109 The Passion of Bluegrass Instrumental Playing
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil with PRX award, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Great interpretation is what everybody is searching for. SOme great examples are presented herein. For regular users, show for Feb 26 - Mar 4, 2011.

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
Reality Check
From: WHJE
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A look into the reality of teen sex.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2011
  • Length: 05:35
Bluegrass Review # 1108
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
program for broadcast Feb 19 - 25, 2011

Bought by WEZU, WAMU, KUCB, WXXI Rochester, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1108 Dark is In
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass has always treated dark subjects. But today, it can present a blue instrumental mood, too, and that is the topic of today’s Gem of Bluegr...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:12
  • Purchases: 1
Robert Beck - Falsely Arrested for Marijuana Possession
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Robert Beck
In March 2009, Robert Beck was arrested for possession of 277 marijuana plants in his home in Taylor, Texas and was placed in jail for 5 months wit...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 25:27
Nuevo Comienzo
From: Voces de Nuestro Mundo
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La vida de jóvenes refugiados en Estados Unidos. Stories of Refugee Youth in America.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2011
  • Length: 28:04
Rob Hodges - Walked Through a Guatemalan Insurgency
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Rob Hodges
In 2005, Rob Hodges and his then-girlfriend (now wife) Kate were in Guatemala, on a chicken bus heading to a lake town for a few days of relaxation...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 21:01
Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon - Father Executed During Iranian Revolution
From: Abigail Mahnke, host of Inner Views
Caption: Khotan Shahbazi-Harmon
Khotan was born in Iran but fled at the age of 13. Shortly after she left, her father was executed, her mother was imprisoned and their home was ra...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2011
  • Length: 25:20

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