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  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
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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
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 WXXI, KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, Prairie Public, WAMU, and WRGY


  • Added: May 12, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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...

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  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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
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
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...

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  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
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...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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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
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...

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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
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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...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
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
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 ...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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
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...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 12
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
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...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
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...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
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
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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 ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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The Blues has had a big influence on most forms of American music, including bluegrass. In recent years, we’ve seen a spate of bluegrass covers of ...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:06
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
When one thinks of the hallowed traditions of bluegrass and old time music, people always mention fiddling. Duet singing, gospel. But what about th...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:59