Series: The Bluegrass Review

Produced by Philip Nusbaum

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Bluegrass music's authoritative radio home.

The Bluegrass Review is a weekly 1-hour show which presents bluegrass music in a lively and informative format. Produced in two segments approximately 30 minutes apiece, each complete show is programmed in thematic bursts. For example the sample show #321 includes songs about hard work, guitarists who emphasize the bass end of the guitar's range in their soloing, and an interview with nationally-recognized autoharp player, Karen Mueller. The program includes frequent interviews and produced segments on topics that parallel concerns and interests of Bluegrass musicians and fans.


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62 Pieces

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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...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
four segments totaling about forty minutes

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:39:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
4 segments totaling about forty minutes.

Bought by WAMU


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 00:39:54
  • Purchases: 1
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...

Bought by WNTI-FM, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public, WAMU, WHDD and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
We open the show with a favorite type of song: the telephone bluegrass song. Funny how the telephone symbolizes a close connection, even closer tha...

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  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:02
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
The show starts out with some recent songs about farmers. On the Gem of Bluegrass, we survey bluegrass songs where instruments imitate a usually no...

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  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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We play some recent country-influenced bluegrass at the beginning. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass takes a look at “crazy” people in bluegrass songs. La...

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  • Added: Dec 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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promotes "Out in the Country" series on the Bluegrass Review shows of January 2012

Bought by WNTI-FM and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:00:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
On our Gem of Bluegrass, we investigate the difference between bluegrass lonesome and bluegrass lonely. That discussion is the springboard to playi...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
On today's show, we focus on important trends n bluegrass, and play the cream of the crop.

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 12

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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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: 00:59:01
  • 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: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 8
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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: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 9
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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: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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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: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 10
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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: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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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: 00:59:02
  • Purchases: 8
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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: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 8
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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: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 6