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Gems of Bluegrass #1346. Mainstreaming Bluegrass Vocals. For regular users, piece for Nov 9-15, 2013. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Noaman
Historian Charles Wolfe tells us that 1920s country music grew organically. It took a while for recording companies to learn that rural southerners...

Bought by KRZA and WVRU


  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1346. Program for Nov 9-15, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The show opens with current bluegrass, including a couple of newly recorded songs written by Merle Haggard. On the Gem of Bluegrass, we reflect on ...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Bluegrass Review 1345. Program for Nov 2 - 8, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil with 2012 eitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with cutting edge bluegrass created by experienced musicians. These songs prove that when it comes to testing the boundaries, it isn...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review # 1344. Program for Oct 26 - Nov 1, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show begins with new bluegrass by Junior Sisk and Joe Mullins, and by Johnny Staats. The we get spooky! Following the Hallowe’en stuff, the Gem...

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  • Added: Oct 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
The Top Ten Peace Songs of All Time (Peace Talks Radio) [1 hour/ Newscast Compatible Length 54:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Caption: Did Bono and U2 Make the List?
The hosts of Peace Talks Radio present a special program counting down the Top 10 Peace Songs since the late 1960's. Also featured are honorable me...

Bought by KUOW and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1343 "Realistic Depictions of Work"
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The old bluegrass songs about work suggest that work defines a person. And maybe that was true with work that was 24/7. But today it seems to be mo...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1343. Program for Oct 19-25, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
“Goodbye” is a major theme in bluegrass songs. Our show opens with two types of this songtype. One, by Lorraine Jordon and Carolina Road is a tradi...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1341. Program for Oct 5 - 11, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
After a recent Peter Rowan song opens the show. We play a couple of love songs. The first is an extremely positive, beginning-og-a-relationship son...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Gems of Bluegrass #1340 "Un-Bluesy Bluegrass"
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Certain people, including me say that Bill Monroe’s greatest innovation was weaving the blues into all of his playing. The way and his followers do...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 06:47
Bluegrass Review #1340. Program for Sept 28-Oct 4, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with a couple of strong pieces about having bluegrass dreams deferred by family and career. Later on the Gem of Bluegrass feature, w...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Gems of Bluegrass #1339 "Where Did Bill Monroe Get his Blues Influence?”
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
You can view the rise of bluegrass in the 1940s as an evolution, or as the result of musical innovations by Bill Monroe. One of Bill’s great innova...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 08:14
Bluegrass Review #1339. Program for Sept 21-27, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: karen Van Norman
The program opens with recent bluegrass, including a new mining song. But unlike most in bluegrass, the song is set in the silver mining industry. ...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1338. Program for Sept 14-20, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the broadcast we play another recent song about coal, “Coal miner’s Gold.” “Gold” is of course coal, but in fact, it belongs to the mine o...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Gems #1338 Another Look at Jimmie Brown the Newsboy. Regular users run Sept 14-20, 2013. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
Jimmie Brown the Newsboy. The song has been done many times. On the surface, it’s a charming story of a young boy who helps out his mother by selli...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
Bluegrass Review #1337. Program for Sept 7-13, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Rocky Road. There is more than one Rocky Road song in bluegrass. We play the new on by Jason Davis and the 1940s classic by Bill Mon roe and the Bl...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Centerstage Minnesota: The Bad Companions - Al Subola and Scott "Frenchy" Fremont join Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: The Bad Companions
The Bad Companions are a Minneapolis band formed relatively recently in 2011. The players in The Bad Companions are a who's who of players that hav...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1336. Program for Aug 31 - Sept 6, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with a couple of songs with Cadillac car motifs. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, it is “Here’s to the Working Man!” Then we play rece...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 9
Gems of Bluegrass #1333 Songs of Complaint. For regular users, piece for Aug 10-16, 2013. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Bluegrass has a lot of songs of complaint. Today, we take a look at the evolution of this type of song with Phil Nusbaum, Adam Granger and Lyle Lof...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 07:23
Gems of Bluegrass #1335 Effects of Technology on Performance
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
Before the arrival of electricity and invention of sound reinforcement, a dance or performance required several musicians capable of playing loud a...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 06:57
Bluegrass Review #1335. Program for Aug 24-30, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens with a couple of songs that explore the differences between planning for life, or taking things as they come along. Then, Lyle Lofgr...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Gems #1334 "Changes to What is Considered Bluegrass." For regular users, show for Aug 17-23, 2013; others use anytime
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The notion of what is considered bluegrass is slowly migrating. Today, Lyle Lofgren, Adam Granger and Phil Nusbaum comment on the situation.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2013
  • Length: 07:23
Bluegrass Review #1334. Program for August 17 - 23, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens up with a couple of songs depicting relationships where one of the woman discovers that the riches showered upon her aren’t doing...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 13
Centerstage Minnesota: Trampled By Turtles bassist Tim Saxhaug Talks To Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Tim Saxhaug of Trampled By Turtles
Trampled By Turtles' recent 10th Anniversary tour of Minnesota included a stop in Grand Rapids on May 8th at The Reif Center. For Trampled By Turtl...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1333. August 10-16, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Each week, the show presents current and historical bluegrass music, as well as interviews, produced segments and commentary. The result is in-dept...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Bluegrass Review #1332. Program for Aug 3-9, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Piece image
Psychological bluegrass? Yes, it exists. The program begins with some songs depicting haw troubles early in life manifest themselves later on. Then...

Bought by WOUB, KSJD, KKRN, KUCB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12

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