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Gems 1141 The Broad Effects of Bluegrass Banjo
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass music is an idiom that has evolved over time, but has had several great ideas that changed aspects of the music markedly. Regarding blueg...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1141. show for Oct 8 - 14, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our show begins with songs about kids. In bluegrass there are a lot of tragic songs about kids, but this time we mix in a lot of cute and uplifting...

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


  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Bluegrass Review #1140. Piece for Oct 1-7, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
This week, after a new Blue Highway song, we play a new bluegrass follow up song…it follows up Dolly Parton’s Jolene,” massive country hit from yea...

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


  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Gems of Bluegrass # 1140 Narratives and Implied narratives
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Stories. There are a lot of them out there. A story, whether its told, written or sung, has a premise acted on by a plot that leads to a conclusion...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:37
  • Purchases: 2
FuseBox Radio Broadcast for Week of Sept. 14, 2011
From: FuseBox Radio Broadcast
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Another 3 hour mixshow episode of Intelligent Hip-Hop Radio & 21st Century Black Radio of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & J...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:01:02
  • Purchases: 1
Explaining big changes in the California prison system
From: KALW
Caption: SF county inmate Michael Steele, Credit: SF Public Defender’s Office
California has what one might call a pressing problem when it comes to its prison system. In May, the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed a lower court’s ...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 07:02
Bluegrass Review # 1139; show for Sept 24 - 30, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show opens up with a couple of new Bill Monroe tributes, including a Frank Wakefield interpretation of Monroe’s Bluegrass Stomp. Wakefield is a...

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


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Gems 1039 Drive
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Sejan Yun
If you hang around with bluegrass people, you’ve heard the concept, “drive.” It is a musical element strong in bluegrass, maybe even unique to blue...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:08
br fall 2011 fund raising edition II
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
2nd of 2 fund Bluegrass Review fund raising editions

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 40:28
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review Fall 2011 fund drive I
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil Nusbaum, Credit: Sejan Yun
1st of 2 fund raising editions for Fall 2011

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 38:46
  • Purchases: 1
RISE: Part I Sounding the Waters
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
RISE: Part II Facing the Rising Tide
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
RISE: Part III Chuey’s Story
From: Claire Schoen
Series: RISE: Climate Change and Coastal Communities
Caption: Chuey Cazares and his family live in the tiny coastal town of Alviso at the southern tip of the San Francisco Bay, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Adapting to climate change will be a messy and painful business. And in the short term there will be winners and losers. Chuey Cazarez’s family is ...

Bought by WFHB, CI Dolphin Radio, WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Gems of Bluegrass #1138 Banjo Sea Change
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
: Folk traditions such as bluegrass evolve over time. But evolution is sometimes hastened by a great idea. When Earl Scruggs unveiled his syncopate...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1138:
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Program for Sept 17-23, 2011. The program starts with new bluegrass by Blue Highway. Then, two views of romance. One is full of excitement, the oth...

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


  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Bluegrass Review #1137
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Sept 13 is 100th anniversary of the birth of the father of bluegrass music, Bill Monroe’s. Today’s show tells of the great contributions of Monroe,...

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


  • Added: Aug 29, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 8
Gems of Bluegrass #1137 Bluegrass Music's 2nd Golden Era
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Many bluegrass fans, even ones who do not remember the first generation bluegrass artists get nostalgic about the old days. Well, fair enough. It r...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1136
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The world seems to reset in Fall. Those lake homes get locked up, school starts. And every professional organization in the world seems to have its...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 06:52
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1136
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The program opens with recent bluegrass, including a brand new recording by April Verch, the Canadian fiddling virtuoso. With fall approaching, the...

Bought by WEZU, KFOK-LPFM, WSLR, WAMU, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Is Foster Care a Good Thing? One Teenager's Opinion
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
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After going through foster care, this Minneapolis High School kids wonders about the good accomplished by foster care.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Labor Day: Creating More Jobs by Helping Small Businesses Succeed
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
Caption: The Emotion Roadmap to Inspired Performance
Graduate students at UCONN are helping small businesses learn about enterprise risk management and they are producing stellar results.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:57
Benefits of Being Mixed Race
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Darshon Moore, Credit: Philip Nusbaum
Darshon Moore speaks from experience of having parents representing differing cultural backgrounds

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Best Couple by Vikky Cruz of Radio Rookies
From: YouthCast
Caption: Deoine and Vikky
YouthCast features a love story in honor of civil unions between same sex couples being recognized in the state of Illinois and the marriages of co...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WGXC


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 07:23
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1135 Fiddling Traditions
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Of all the bluegrass instruments, it is the fiddle that has the greatest history. The fiddle is a traditional instrument in many cultures, and it a...

Bought by WDVX and WAMU


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1135. Show for Aug 27-Sept 2, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The program opens with some western songs we wish we’d had time to play earlier this summer. After that, our Gem of Bluegrass focuses on fiddling t...

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


  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9

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