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Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We know that bluegrass music is blue. The most obvious examples are the seemingly limitless number of songs about lovers breaking up. But in bluegr...

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 05:15
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show begins with a couple of songs using “dirt road” in the title. Similar phrase, but the songs are very different. Remember the song “Long Bl...

Bought by WRGY, KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KUCB and more


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
If you think that folk music means singer with guitar, then bluegrass is not really folk. But before you slam the door on the idea of bluegrass bei...

Bought by KKRN


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 1
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"There’s an interesting thing that happens. You prepare a piece. You rehearse it. It sounds perfect...And you go out and play it on the first night...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, WNCU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 16:42
  • Purchases: 4
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"I had moved to New York and spent a couple of years here scuffling around. I was getting a little discouraged, playing a lot of weddings. It wasn'...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 20, 2012
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
A recent Gem of Bluegrass addressed the recontexting of bluegrass songs. Take a bluegrass song or bluegrass approach and combine it with ideas from...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 10:53
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...

Bought by Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KKRN, KUCB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
When you play bluegrass or any type of old time music, you rely on your ear. Sure, some of the music written down, but if you rely solely on writte...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:27
Caption: Vijay Iyer
"I kind of had a revelation once seeing him [Randy Weston] play live. It happened for me in a particular time in my life when I recently made the d...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 12, 2012
  • Length: 12:02
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
One of the great things about bluegrass is that it is always changing, always evolving. The 60’s was an era with a lot of change, and it may be hap...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 08:28
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We know that bluegrass evolves over time. But what causes the evolution? Usually we think it’s caused by the little changes made by players. But wh...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 09:33
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, ...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KUCB and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
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A Twist of Soul , Funk and Civil Rights is the story of Edition 6 of The Steve Edwards Soul Show. It is a musical tribute the the artists that laid...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2012
  • Length: 59:07
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...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, KUCB, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil with Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Tom Dooley. It’s an American Ballad that has shown staying power. Why? Part of it is what it’s about: sex and violence. Plus, everybody was talking...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KUCB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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The Inaugural Bold Move Awards! Ponzi schemes: explained! Phrases That Have Never Before Been Uttered! And more!

  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 31:51
Caption: Phil at a radio conference, Credit: Karen Van Norman
What’s in a song? You might ask. Well if there is a lyric that is ear catching, people will want to listen to find out what’s in a song.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 08:35
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...

Bought by KKRN, KUCB, KRZA, KTRL, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio and more


  • 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...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KUCB and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
When the history of bluegrass music is told, it usually begins with the Scots irish people settling in the south. At the time if immigration, Celti...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 07:28
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
On the American frontier, the fiddle was the most important instrument. For one thing, the Scots Irish settlers was an instrument used to accompany...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 07:46
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...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, KRZA, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KUCB and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
There’s a vein of humor that runs through country music and bluegrass. Over the years there have been different approaches. It’s probably because t...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 09:24
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...

Bought by KKRN, Sun Radio - KDRP Radio, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11