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Bluegrass Review #1752. Program for Dec 23-Dec 29, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
It’s Christmas on the Bluegrass Review. Bluegrass Artists share some of their thoughts at Christmas.

Bought by KVNF, KRPS, RadioFreePalmer, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
Bluegrass Review #1803. Program for Jan 13, 2017-Jan 19, 2018
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show we present a Gem of Bluegrass concerned with some of the musical sounds heard on records. Some seem like fads, but others display...

Bought by KVNF and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2018
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1802. Program for Jan 6, 2017-Jan 12, 2018.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After playing some recent bluegrass, we present one of this show’s musical interviews. We talk to Rebekah Long about her musical career, and what s...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1751. Program for Dec 16-Dec 22, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After some new bluegrass to open the show, we play a couple of songs that reference “folks.” In bluegrass songs, “folks” are not exactly the same a...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1749. Program for Dec 2-Dec 8, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We take care of a truck-connected overflow of songs, then consider the mood of bluegrass lonesome during the Gem of Bluegrass. We have a musical co...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
219: Clash Of Civilizations / 220: Artificial Creativity, 11/11/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Clash Of Civilizations" - President Trump thinks Western Civilization is in trouble. But does the West need saving? HOUR TWO: "Artific...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Bluegrass Review #1748. Program for Nov 25-Dec 1, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
At the beginning of today’s show, we present songs of dangerous occupations, the type that are unlawful, too. Then, or Gem of Bluegrass revisits th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KSRQ, and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Split Ends
From: Nikola Marcich
Caption: Pretoria All Girls School in South Africa Protesting the Mandate to Straighten Hair, Credit: BBC News
We looks in to the roots of colonialism in South African education.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
Bluegrass Review #1746. Program for Nov 11-Nov 17, 2017.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Realizing that there are a few more “sunny side” side songs to play, we do this that towards the beginning of the show. On our Gem of Bluegrass, we...

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1745. Program for Nov 4-Nov 10, 2017.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s Gem of Bluegrass focuses on the evolution of bluegrass banjo playing. Later on the show, we talk to Josh Krohn, singer, player and songwrit...

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  • Added: Oct 15, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
209: Is The Universe A Number? / 210: Philip K. Dick, 10/7/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Is The Universe A Number?" - A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a crocheting mathematician and a man obsessed with the Kabbalah are search...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Bluegrass Review #1743. Program for Oct 21-Oct 27, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Towards the beginning of the show, we present a couple of broken hearted melodies; one recent and the other from 1-20 years ago. On the Gem of Blue...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
207: What Is School For? / 208: How To Think Like A Scientist, 9/30/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "What Is School For?" - Some of the hardest working people in America are teachers. So why do they get so much disrespect? This hour, we'...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Bluegrass Review #1742. Program for Oct 14-Oct 20, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
You might know that there is a lot of misery in personal relationships depicted in bluegrass songs. But that is not so in the Rebekah long and Donn...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
203: Rethinking Reviewing / 204: Original Sin, 9/16/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking Reviewing" - Social media allows readers to bypass gatekeepers and publish their own opinions. So if everyone's a critic, doe...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Bluegrass Review #1740. Program for Sept 30-Oct 6, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Some say that every person alive has demons. The Grascals has a new song which tackles the subject head on. We follow that up with two songs where ...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1738. Program for Sept 16-Sept 22, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The Broadcast begins with recent bluegrass. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass focuses on how playing the melody serves to ground performance. Later we tal...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
199: Cyberspaces / 200: Automate It, 9/2/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Cyberspaces" - When does a robot become real? This hour, some cautionary tales about how digital technology is changing our society. H...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:00
Bluegrass Review #1737. Program for Sept 9-Sept 15, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a new piece of bluegrass, we play a couple of nostalgia songs; both bittersweet because while the places in memory are still around, the peop...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
195: Our Invisible Universe / 196: Short Stories, 8/19/2017
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Our Invisible Universe" - Millions of people will travel this weekend to see the Great American Eclipse. How far would you go? HOUR TW...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Bluegrass Review #1735. Program for Aug 26-Sept 1, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The broadcast opens up with a couple of pieces that depict or embody the musical values of old-time fiddle players. Then comes an instrumental by t...

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


  • Added: Aug 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
A California Post G20 Climate Change Message
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Conversations & Special Programming
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There has been a lot of confusing talk in America since our new president took office this year. One of the confusing opinions is centered on how w...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 32:02
Hang Together or Hang Separately
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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At the signing of the declaration of independence, Benjamin Franklin was quoted as saying, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all ha...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:55
Bluegrass Review #1733. Program for Aug 12-Aug 18, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a new and dreamy song by Dale Ann Bradley, we get a good, bluegrass-style dose of reality, with a couple of recent songs about the bad influe...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 4
Bluegrass Review #1731. Program for July 29-Aug 4, 2017
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
A couple of songs about small towns and small town people opens our broadcast. Eddie Adcock served for well over a decade as the banjoist for the C...

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


  • Added: Jul 24, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5

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