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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
Gems of Bluegrass 1126
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Old time fiddling in North America is different wherever you go. In some places in the southwest, old fiddlers play the waltzes and polkas that cam...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 06:49
  • Purchases: 1
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
Riddles from the Border Regions, 6/25/11
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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A LANGUAGE SPOKEN...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2011
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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
Gems of Bluegrass #1123 Reflections
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan yun
You do something in the present and it has a consequence. Obviously. You cannot tell any kind of story without one event leading to another. Like i...

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  • Added: May 21, 2011
  • Length: 05:58
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1123
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
After a selection from the new Russell Johnson CD, we play a couple of songs about war. One displays cruelty, the other kindness. The Gem of Bluegr...

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  • Added: May 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass #1122 Flawed Existence
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
For regular users, show for May 27 - June 2, 1022. Others use anytime. Bluegrass is the home of the happy sounding sad song, where singers depict ...

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  • Added: May 14, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1121
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
As has become our norm, we open up with new bluegrass, including a couple of songs with truck driving motifs. Our Gem of Bluegrass treats the conve...

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  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass 1120 - Leavin'
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
We know that in bluegrass, there are a lot of broken hearted melodies. One response is to just end it. And that might be a common bluegrass respons...

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  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 06:27
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1120
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Program for May 14 – May 20, 2011 Because we’ve got a lot of new bluegrass to play, we start out the show that way, and we include a couple of addi...

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  • Added: May 07, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7

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