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Gems of Bluegrass # 1323. Everybody Wants to Be the Banjo. for regular users, piece for June 1-7, 2013. Others use anytime
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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A light-hearted look at people and other entities imitations fo the banjo.

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
Bluegrass Review #1323. Program for June 1-7, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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The program begins with new bluegrass, then presents a contrast of songs: Jim Reams’ song about not being able to settle down and Flat and Scruggs’...

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
Bluegrass Review #1322. Program for May 25-May 31, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/20112 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
Our show opens with new bluegrass. We muse that few songs are focused on individuals set in one place. But we found a few. And what is the place? “...

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


  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Bluegrass Review #1321. Program for May 18-24, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Ralph Stanley is a bluegrass icon. To honor him, Don Rigsby put out a tribute CD. We play a selection from the CD, and then play selections from pr...

Bought by KKRN, KUCB, KRZA, KDRP Community Radio, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Gems of Bluegrass #1320 Fiddle and Banjo. For regular users, program for May 11-17, 2013. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today, recorded musical textures are getting denser and denser. Why? Because we can make them that way, I guess. But turn back the clock and textur...

Bought by KDRP Community Radio and WXXI


  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 05:46
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass 1319 "The First Generation of Bluegrass Artists". For regular users, program for May 4-10, 2013. Others use any time.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music represents a string band evolution plus 1940s innovations by Bill Monroe, who led a group called the Bluegrass Boys. Bill pitched...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:52
Bluegrass Review #1319. Program for May 4– May 10, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open with new and recent bluegrass, including a modernistic piece featuring Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. Our Gem of Bluegrass feature tells a...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KUCB and more


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1317. Program for April 20-26, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with a current ‘grass selection, and then proceed to play three bluegrass songs that use the name John Deere Tractors symbolically...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Bluegrass Review #1316. Program for April 13-19, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens with recent blues-tinged bluegrass. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers the somewhat romantic image of the hobo in older bluegras...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, WTIP, KKRN, KUCB and more


  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Gems #1315. Changing Visions of Youth
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
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The bluegrass tradition’s depiction of young people is changing. A hundred years ago, songs about children often presented horrible things happenin...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
Bluegrass Review #1315. Program for April 6-12, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The program opens up with recent bluegrass. Then the Gem of Bluegrass considers the ways children have been depicted over the years in bluegrass so...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KUCB and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Gems of Bluegrass #1314 Peace in Bluegrass nation. For regular users, piece for Mar 30-Apr 5, 2013. Others use any time.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Old Time Music and bluegrass enjoyed a burst of interest in the 1950s into 1960s. At that time, the media got interested, and the folk music establ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:45
Gems of Bluegrass # 1314. Program for March 30 - April 5, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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Our program opens with new bluegrass. Many say that bluegrass is in a period of change, with a new generation taking over. There are conflicting ve...

Bought by WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Gems of Bluegrass #1313. For regular users, program for March 23-29. Others use anytime
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass is considered old fashioned, and old time string bands even more so. After all, it is the old time string band that gave birth to the blu...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:27
Bluegrass Review #1313. Program for March 23-29, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We break out of the gates with new bluegrass by Dale Ann Bradley, Tina Adair and the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys. Then, on our Gem of Bluegrass, we note ...

Bought by WRGY, WTIP, WOUB, KKRN, KUCB and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1312. program for March 16-22, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Right at the show’s beginning, we play new bluegrass. Then we consider the Celtic / bluegrass connection. Accordionist Paddy O’Brien and singer Eri...

Bought by WRGY, KPVL, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Feb 24, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Gems of Bluegrass #1311. Bluegrass respects its heritage. For regular users, program for Mar 9-15, 2013. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass fans say that one of the great things about the music is that it values its heritage. The fans like it when it sounds old, and they enjoy...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review # 1311. Program for March 9-15, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/1012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Nnorman
This show’s Gem of Bluegrass addresses how bluegrass music honors its own heritage. We play a couple of songs relating to old lovers. Later, we tal...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KUCB and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
The Live Feed Presents: Dead Man Winter
From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed
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On this episode of "The Live Feed" we continue our coverage of Boats and Bluegrass 2012 with Dead Man Winter. Dead Man Winter is a side project fro...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 14, 2013
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1
Gems of Bluegrass #1310 Evolving Body and Soul. For regular users, piece for March 2-8, 2013; others use anytime
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Singing and playing a bluegrass song involves being true to the song and being true to your own musical identity. A case in point is the song Body ...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:04
Bluegrass Review #1310. Program for March 2-8, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass Lonesome has many dimensions. Among them are songs where lovers are separated forever by fate or acts of God. We open the show with a few...

Bought by WRGY, WTIP, KKRN, WOUB, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
Jacqui Sutton and the Frontier Jazz Orchestra - 'Notes from the Frontier'
From: Mark Hayes
Series: Passing Notes
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Singer Jacqui Sutton talks about the long road to a new sound -- Frontier Jazz -- as well as her band and some of the songs on her new album.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 05:15
Bluegrass Review # 1309. Program for Feb 23 - March 1, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
In bluegrass, songs about relationship tend to focus on the exit point of the relationship. So, to buck the trend, we present positive relationship...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
Gems #1309
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music is a combination of the Scots-Irish heritage of many of the first generation of bluegrass player, with the blues woven through the ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:33
Bluegrass Review #1308. Program for Feb 16-22, 2013
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
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Whatever goes around comes around you might say. One of the great things about bluegrass is how groups reference the history of bluegrass in their ...

Bought by WRGY, WOUB, KKRN, WTIP, KDRP Community Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11