All Pieces for Philip Nusbaum

 

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 39:48

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 36:42

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 39:33
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Today’s show features a broad stylistic swath. We open with a couple of old-style songs about male fools about love. Then come a couple of modernis...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show open has plenty of new bluegrass. The Gem of Bluegrass poses the question of whether Bill Monroe’s early bluegrass represented innovation ...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Sometimes it is hard to tell whether a change in music is an evolution or the result of someone’s great idea. For example, Bill Monroe’s bluegrass ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 07:19
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bill Monroe’s blue grass music was more than one thing. He did many types of songs, and he showed an evolution in his playing and writing. Take his...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There always seems to be a trickle of songs about working, and we play 3 good ones at the beginning of the show. Our Gem of Bluegrass concerns blue...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Laurie Lewis’ new Cd pays tribute to Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerard. One of the Hazel and Alice themes was singing traditional songs. We play one b...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on the show today, we acknowledge that bluegrass specializes in all kinds of “unhappy” including breakups. We play a couple of stylistically ...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The Blues tonality and the blues form come from African American people. The blues long been thought to have begun as field hollers and moans, and ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The murder ballad, where a demented male lover for no known reason, kills his sweetheart has cast a long shadow in bluegrass music, and in our cult...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music has been a long time in the making. The sentimental songs the Carter Family sang and the rough and tumble lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2016
  • Length: 06:40
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show leads off with recent bluegrass by Danny Paisley. The Carter Family’s influence is so great that over time there have been a number of tri...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk  , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Jimmy Rodgers. He was the first singing star of old time music. Jimmie was a contemporary of the Carter Family. Like the Carter Family, in part of ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 06:10
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early on today, we play a couple of songs about the breakup dance. In one, the singer has a feeling that the relationship is about to end. In the o...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bill Monroe is the Father of Bluegrass. But the most popular band in the history of bluegrass? Well, it could be Flatt and Scruggs. Lester Flatt an...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 07:30
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Early in the show we play some new recordings that reference the work of bluegrass founder Bill Monroe. On our Gem of Bluegrass, people sometimes c...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
There is a lot to like about jazz and a lot to like about bluegrass. Each has appealing legacy, each owes to the blues, and each is a musician’s mu...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:01
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass and old time musicians have musical values that they talk about sometimes. One major reference point is melody. Now in each case, the mel...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 05:20