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Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Nostalgia is big in bluegrass. The show opens with two nostalgia songs. In the first by the Bankesters, the singer expresses that she longs to be n...

Bought by WHDD


  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
This show has a couple of songs where poverty is woven into the lyrics to start out. Then, on the Gem of Bluegrass, we discuss the recorded Bill Mo...

Bought by WHDD and WAMU


  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitgeist, Credit: Karen Van norman
Bill Monroe’s band was called the Bluegrass Boys after his home state of Kentucky. It was considered part of country music, and bands that adopted ...

  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:03
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with songs where finance matters. Then our Gem of bluegrass surveys the forms bluegrass anthems take. Later a conversation with Lynn...

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  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: RPM - Revolutions Per Minute
In our fourth episode, RPM looks at New Traditional, beginning with the question: What is it? And how can something be new and traditional at the s...

  • Added: May 13, 2012
  • Length: 00:21:25
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We know that bluegrass music is blue. The most obvious examples are the seemingly limitless number of songs about lovers breaking up. But in bluegr...

  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:05:15
Caption: Phil with 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show begins with a couple of songs using “dirt road” in the title. Similar phrase, but the songs are very different. Remember the song “Long Bl...

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


  • Added: May 08, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open with a couple of evocative songs whose impact comes from mentioning a series of related images. Then, on our Gem of Bluegrass, the focus is...

Bought by KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, KUCB, WNTI-FM, WXXI and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Because we’ve got a lot of new bluegrass to play, we start out the show that way, and we include a couple of additional songs about coal. Our Gem o...

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  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
A recent Gem of Bluegrass addressed the recontexting of bluegrass songs. Take a bluegrass song or bluegrass approach and combine it with ideas from...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:10:53
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass depicts tragedy from the point of view of those affected, very well. A couple of flood songs open the show. Then a lengthy Gem of Bluegra...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil Nusbaum w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
When you play bluegrass or any type of old time music, you rely on your ear. Sure, some of the music written down, but if you rely solely on writte...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:27
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
One of the great things about bluegrass is that it is always changing, always evolving. The 60’s was an era with a lot of change, and it may be hap...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:28
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We know that bluegrass evolves over time. But what causes the evolution? Usually we think it’s caused by the little changes made by players. But wh...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 00:09:33
Caption: Phil w/2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Exciting new bluegrass opens this week’s broadcast. After that we investigate a major way bluegrass evolves: by recontexting music; you might say, ...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:02
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van norman
The House of the Rising Sun. It’s an old time song that’s been kept alive by a lot of singers. Why do singers like it? It might be that it sings of...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:34
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
After a contemporary bluegrass IIIrd Tyme Out selection, we turn to recent bluegrass treatments of country songs. Then, our Gem of Bluegrass focuse...

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  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil with Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Tom Dooley. It’s an American Ballad that has shown staying power. Why? Part of it is what it’s about: sex and violence. Plus, everybody was talking...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 00:07:16
Caption: Phil with Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with new selections. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass focuses on Tom Dooley, an American ballad that was given new life by a pop recordi...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at a radio conference, Credit: Karen Van Norman
What’s in a song? You might ask. Well if there is a lyric that is ear catching, people will want to listen to find out what’s in a song.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 00:08:35
Caption: Phil at a radio conference, Credit: Karen Van Norman
How does a songwriter catch a listener’s ear? Frequently it’s a good song hook, a telling phrase that references more than the action of a given so...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Today’s show is concerned mostly with the Celtic-Bluegrass connection. The original Scots-Irish immigrants to the Appalachians formed the overall s...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a little “goodbye, so long farewell.” But then the Gem of Bluegrass switches to a consideration of Twin fiddling. Following...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
There’s a vein of humor that runs through country music and bluegrass. Over the years there have been different approaches. It’s probably because t...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2012
  • Length: 00:09:24
Caption: Phil at work, Credit: Sejan Yun
Today’s show opens with a little “goodbye, so long farewell.” But then the Gem of Bluegrass switches to a consideration of Twin fiddling. Following...

Bought by KKRN, KDRP Community Radio, WHDD, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 25, 2012
  • Length: 00:59:00
  • Purchases: 11