That was Redwing. I like this melody a lot. I’ve been playing it on button accordion all weekend. I poked around on the inner-nets to see what I could find out about this tune. Depending on who you want to believe, it’s an Irish tune,… Read More
Regular readers will recall that sometime last year, a lean-to appeared out back. Ok fine, there’s plenty of room back there. I can live with the lean-to. Then the goose moved in. Now a second lean-to has appeared, at the north side of the property.… Read More
We took the dogs out for a walk this afternoon over to the dog-swimming beach. Now this isn’t a beach designated by the City for dogs to swim or anything like that. It’s just an excellent beach for dogs to swim, and lots of the… Read More
He wrote this one with Burt Bacharach… Mr. David was 91.
Tonight’s Daily Dose features a venerable old tune and one I never tire of, The St. Anne’s Reel or the Reel de Sainte-Anne. This one features Aly Bain on fiddle and Jerry Douglas on Dobro… Geez, that’s beautiful. Ask me why I love traditional music… Read More
27th Street 