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Gems #1151 Romance, Fantasy and Realism, Pop and Bluegrass For regular users, program for Dec 10-16, 2011. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
It must be that over half the songs in any music style are concerned with love. That includes bluegrass, though theres’s a lot of everyday life in ...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 10:27
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1151 Show for Dec17-23, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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...

Bought by KUCB, KRZA, WXXI Rochester, KKRN, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Gems of Bluegrass #1050 Bill Monroe's Contributions. For regular users, piece for Dec 10-16, 2011. Others use anytime
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Most of us know that Bill Monroe is considered the father of bluegrass music. The reason is a series of innovations, taken together, that created a...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2011
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1150 program for Dec 10-16, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Gems of Bluegrass # 1148 Brother Duets
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
For regular users, piece for Nov 26-Dec 3, 2011. Others use anytime. Since the dawn of the commercial era, there have been performance models in ol...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2011
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1149 The Evolution of the Guitar in Bluegrass Music
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Rhythm guitar. When you are talking about the old bluegrass and old time music, you scarcely need to use the word rhythm. That’s because guitars w...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 3
Bluegrass Review #1149. Program for Dec 3 - 9, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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...

Bought by WEZU, KRZA, KUCB, KKRN, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Bluegrass Review #1148 "Bluegrass to be Thankful for" Program for Nov 26-Dec 2, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass to Be Thankful For. It is a show of listener requests of especially meaningful bluegrass, and listeners tell us why the songs are meaning...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
Gems of Bluegrass #1147 Monroe Bros 1938 Breakup
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
In 1938, one of the times greatest duet acts broke up. Bill and Charlie Monroe. It’s not known for certain the reason for the breakup. But although...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Nov 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1147. Program for Nov 19=-25, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Early in the show, it’s songs of the Midwest. Few songs are written about the Midwest, but it’s definitely part of bluegrass country! The Gem of Bl...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1146 Program for Nov 12-18, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Sometimes, things don’t quite work aut as intended. That’s the case for the homeless men depicted in our first two songs today. Then, the Gem of Bl...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 8
Gems #1145 Bluegrass Musicians, Blues Musicians and Approaches to the Blues. For regular users, piece for Nov 5-11, 2011. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The blues is a pervasive influence in American music, and it some of its musical ideas affect everybody who plays the blues. But there are some dif...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 06:58
  • Purchases: 2
Bluegrass Review #1145 Program for Nov 5-11, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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
Gems #1144 Orange Blossom Special for regular users, show for Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The fiddle is the bluegrass instrument that is most like the human voice, and you can make it sound like birds or automobiles and trains. And over ...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 09:48
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1144. Program for Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Bluegrass is nothing if not realistic, and our first few selections are a case in point. Each is a modern love song, where the romance is wrapped a...

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  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Gems #1043 Nowhere
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
In bluegrass we know that the size of a place matters: big cities are often bad, and little towns good. but what about places not built up at all? ...

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1143. Show for Oct 22 - 28, 2011.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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...

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


  • Added: Oct 11, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Bluegrass Review #1142 program for Oct 15-21, 2011
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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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
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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 7
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
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

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