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Gems 1440 - The Appeal of the Traditional Fiddle Tune
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Many view the violin or fiddle as the king of the instruments played within the bluegrass tradition. If you hold that view. Why? It has to do with ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2014
  • Length: 07:47
Bluegrass Review #1439. Program for Sept 20-26 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
These days there are no rules regarding what a song should be written about. Why not motorcycles? We’ve got two, and they display contrasting visio...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 19
Gems of Bluegrass #1439 What is a Fiddle Tune? For regular users, piece for Sept 20-26, 2014. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
These days there are no rules regarding what a song should be written about. Why not motorcycles? We’ve got two, and they display contrasting visio...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 07:48
Bluegrass Review 1438. Program for Sept 13-19, 2014.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We have an overflow situation from a recent show when we played songs relating to home. So we air a recent compelling one and a classic about home ...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Gems of Bluegrass #1438 Recent Changes and the Voice
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass Music came into being in the 1940s, a combination of the evolving string band, Bill Monroe’s genius, and with a big assist from Earl Scru...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2014
  • Length: 05:16
Bluegrass Review #1437. Program for Sept 6-12, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Phil w/2013 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Home is a primary preoccupation among bluegrass songwriters. Today’s show begins with recent “home” songs. One concerns itself with trying to get h...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Gems of Bluegrass #1436. Another look at Bluegrass Songs About Work
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Nothing drove Europeans to the United States like the promise of personal independence. In England, there was a lot of cooperative farming. In the ...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:16
  • Purchases: 1
Bluegrass Review #1435. Program for Aug 23-29,2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Moonshine is a theme that has run through bluegrass music and the old-time styles that preceded it. We open the show with some recent moonshine son...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1434. Program for Aug 16-22, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
What does “moon” mean in bluegrass? The show opens with songs with very different views on that subject. Then, Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger with h...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1433. Program for August 9-15, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The broadcast opens with some relationship songs focusing on the man’s disappointment. The relationships were just too burdensome. Then, Lyle Lofgr...

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  • Added: Jul 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1432. Program for Aug 2-8, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show opens with compelling new bluegrass, and then an intriguing recent song by Laurie Lewis. Laurie asks, what happened to the Pharaoh’s daugh...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1431. Program for July 26-Aug 1, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Our show today begins with recent and great bluegrass harmony singing. Then Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger take their places at the microphones. Blu...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1430. Program for July 19-26, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk, Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show opens up with recent bluegrass. Then guests Lyle Lofgren and Adam Granger and host Phil Nusbaum discuss bluegrass nostalgia. Frequently, i...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 11
Bluegrass Review #1429. Program for July 12-18, 2014
From: KBEM
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Towards the start of the show, we present some bluegrass love songs. These are not those depicting exit points of relationships, but ones that refl...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
Gems of Bluegrass #1427 "Bluegrass Nostalgia and Happiness: A Study in Compromise" For regular users, piece for June 28-July 4, 2014. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Nostalgia and happiness. They are not all they are cracked up to be. Well, at least not in Bluegrass Songs. It’s because in bluegrass songs, nostal...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 04:55
Bluegrass Review #1427. Program for June 28-July 4, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We open the show with a couple of songs about lives: The first depicts some kids waling on a dirt road, and wonders about what kinds of people they...

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  • Added: Jun 17, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 16
Bluegrass Review #1426. Program for June 21-27, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Honky Tonk, USA. That’s where bluegrass lives some of the time. After a recent Darrell Webb song, our show settles into a set of interesting Hony-T...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Bluegrass Review #1424. Program for June 7-13, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Jesse James was a bad outlaw, one of the first to rob trains. The traditional song about him portrays him as a Robin Hood figure, but nothing of th...

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  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 15
Bluegrass Review #1423. Program for May 31-June 6, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Towards the beginning, we play a couple of songs representing the second bluegrass revolution, the one occurring in the 1960s and 1970s, by playing...

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  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
Gems of Bluegrass #1423 The Third Bluegrass Revolution
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Play bluegrass music from the 1940 and compare it to what’s being played today. You’ll hear some changes, but overall, you can tell that the two so...

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
Bluegrass Review # 1422. Program for May 24-30, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
The show begins with recent bluegrass. Then, the Gem of Bluegrass discusses the second bluegrass revolution, taking place in the 1960s-1970s. One o...

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  • Added: May 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Gems #1421 The First Bluegrass Revolution. Regular users broadcast May 17-23, 2014. Others use anytime
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Philip Nusbaum, Credit: Karen Van Norman
When Bill Monroe started the bluegrass boys, he was looking for a new sound. But his ideas about what that sound would be were not well formed. Ove...

  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:02
Bluegrass Review #1421. Piece for May 17-23, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
Bluegrass music’s history is one of evolutions and revolutions. It began with a stylistic revolution when Bill Monroe, after a period of trial-and-...

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  • Added: May 05, 2014
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 17
Gems #1420 Bright Sunny South and Sweet Sunny South. For regular users, program for May 10-16, 2014. Others use anytime.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
When it comes to well-known songs, there are always multiple versions. You might even say that songs become vehicles for the individual styles of p...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:33
Bluegrass Review #1420. Program for May 10-16, 2014
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: The Bluegrass Review
Caption: Philip Nusbaum w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
We break out with recent bluegrass. Then on the Gem of Bluegrass, we cover two branches of the same song tree and a new version which owes to each ...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18