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Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens with a bit of new bluegrass, then gives spins to songs about letters. On our Gem of Bluegrass, we express final thoughts regardin...

Bought by WOUB, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE, KRPS, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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As always, a big hour ahead in this edition of The Roadhouse. It’ll probably get your heart rate going a bit as it’s pretty much all upbeat, uptemp...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSRQ, and WJAB


  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
As we get going we continue to feature new bluegrass music, including a release by rock/bluegrass synthesizer Sam Bush. Then the Gem of Bluegrass f...

Bought by WOUB, WVRU, WXXI Rochester, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open by continuing to showcase what’s new in bluegrass. On the Gem of Bluegrass, we comment on the imprint of summer on Bluegrass music. It’s th...

Bought by WEZU, WVRU, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass is the season everybody waits for, so there must be a lot of songs about it, right? Well, no. But it’s still the bluegrass season .

  • Added: Jun 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk , Credit:  Karen Van Norman
The piece shows that despite that bluegrass is considered a singular styles, it actually stems from a variety of cultural traditions.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 08:34
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This time it’s Knockout songwriters, musicians and artists whose music leaves you picking yourself up off the floor because the tracks and stories ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Musician Trevor Sewell, the band March to May, and New York Times bestseller Bre...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2016
  • Length: 57:55
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Interesting new bluegrass on today’s show, including the show’s opening track by Sister Sadie. But later, we go old-school with something by bluegr...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KBRP Community Radio, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: May 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After we open the show with high lonesome singer Bradford lee Folk, we note a couple of lines of influence. First, the influence Dock Boggs had on ...

Bought by KKRN, WOUB, KRZA, WXXI Rochester, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
April Verch put one of the unconventional songs of the late John Harford on her current CD. That was all the inspiration we needed to put on a song...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
What would anyone give to replay something in the past with the benefit of what’s been learned along the way? A couple of songs on that theme open ...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KRZA, WDSE, KBRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: May 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our first order of business today is to play a new bluegrass song from an experienced source, Jeff White. In the current state of evolving bluegras...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: May 03, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: 2012 All Species Day Parade, Credit: http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/2012-all-species-day-25179253.jpg
Celebrating life on Earth every day of the year!

Bought by Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2016
  • Length: 01:56:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bill Monroe casts a long shadow in bluegrass music. You can tell by the way his influence is felt in bluegrass music. It’s not only that others pla...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 05:58
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens with some recent bluegrass blues. Then, we continue to present a couple of “lonesome as it gets” songs. One is from the perspecti...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 29, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early in the show, we welcome Spring which is taking place in almost every location the show is broadcast. Then we present songs that are as loneso...

Bought by KKRN, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The music world lost a great songwriter, Merle Haggard lately. Merle was known a a writer and singer of country songs, but his influence was felt w...

Bought by KKRN, WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
“Hey. Bartender,” calls the distraught. Our show features a couple of hey, bartender songs in the early going. Our Gem of Bluegrass considers playi...

Bought by WOUB, KBRP Community Radio, KKRN, KRZA, WDSE and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We are accustomed to using names of music styles. You know, bluegrass, old time music, pop, jazz and on and on. And these styles get mixed together...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 07:55
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The history of humanity is told with a relationship to travel. The oxcart was an improvement over walking. Horses got you there faster, and then, t...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 05:43
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
North Americans love their automobiles. On the Gem of Bluegrass, we explore the connections between bluegrass and old-time music and the automobile...

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We play the numbers on today’s show. In other words, we play songs whose titles contain numbers. On the Gem of Bluegrass feature, we focus on the c...

Bought by WOUB, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE, KSJD and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 16
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Have you heard the new Iggy Pop album, Post Pop Depression? Not only is it one of the best records of the year, it’s also one of his greatest albu...

Bought by WKMS, KUCB, KSRQ, WLPR , KSUT and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2016
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Songs about guns. We play three at the start of the show. The first is told from the point of view of a bullet. Then we play a hard-hitting song fr...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, KRZA, KBRP Community Radio, WDSE and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 15