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Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
Out show opens with new and recent bluegrass. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass we consider the evolution of the song “Footprints in the Snow.” It was ...

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with songs where finance matters. Then our Gem of bluegrass surveys the forms bluegrass anthems take. Later a conversation with Lynn...

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  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass depicts tragedy from the point of view of those affected, very well. A couple of flood songs open the show. Then a lengthy Gem of Bluegra...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Exciting new bluegrass opens this week’s broadcast. After that we investigate a major way bluegrass evolves: by recontexting music; you might say, ...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a contemporary bluegrass IIIrd Tyme Out selection, we turn to recent bluegrass treatments of country songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuse...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil with Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with new selections. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass focuses on Tom Dooley, an American ballad that was given new life by a pop recordi...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Brian Truglio
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Brian Truglio about his new film entitled Racing the Rez.

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 14:36
Caption: Phil at a radio conference, Credit: Karen Van Norman
How does a songwriter catch a listener’s ear? Frequently it’s a good song hook, a telling phrase that references more than the action of a given so...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Today’s show is concerned mostly with the Celtic-Bluegrass connection. The original Scots-Irish immigrants to the Appalachians formed the overall s...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a little “goodbye, so long farewell.” But then the Gem of Bluegrass switches to a consideration of Twin fiddling. Following...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a little “goodbye, so long farewell.” But then the Gem of Bluegrass switches to a consideration of Twin fiddling. Following...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
There are several great new Civil War songs released lately and we play the cream of the crop. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass addresses bluegrass “puri...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9

  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 39:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Early in the show, we play a couple of “second choice” bluegrass songs. One is ironic, the other a good old-fashioned broken hearted melody. Our Ge...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
You hear that songwriters and musicians write and play music reflecting their experiences Fair enough but it doesn’t stop there. In old time music ...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 06:06
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show opens with current wave bluegrass. Then our Gem of Bluegrass considers modernistic bluegrass takes on booze. These viewpoints are not as m...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
A disproportionate number of bluegrass songs about money have a $40 price tag. We open with two. On our Gem of Bluegrass, it is "Romance, Fantasy a...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our program opens with bluegrass takes on poverty. Three of the four or actually positive spins. Then, the fourth is an angry one….it’s a song comp...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Many Appalachian people have headed north for work. But they give up something in the process. The show starts with Detroit and Bluegrass. On the G...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a few redone classics, leading to the Gem of Bluegrass which displays different orientations to the blues. Later on the sho...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Our program begins with some songs reflecting odd notions of the concept “justice.” The its time for the Gem of Bluegrass, which reflects on bluegr...

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  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
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We lead off with a couple of recent “coal” songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuses on a subtle change in bluegrass band approaches over the last ...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 8
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...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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...

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  • Added: Sep 01, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8