We’ve just finished up the blue jay mosaic. It has to set for a while before we’ll be able to move it and get a good clean photo, but you can get the idea of what we’ve been up to here. This mosaic is a… Read More
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Monthly archives of “January 2013”
The Cuckoo
Mike Seeger and Doc Watson
16 Top Hits
At first glance I thought these fine lookin’ clean cut kids were eating raw hot dogs and that the blonde girl was dishing out from the supply on the little table. But no. On closer examination, I can see that the brunette girl and the… Read More
Kenojuak Ashevak RIP
Kenojuak Ashevak died Tuesday in Cape Dorset Nunavut at age 85. Perhaps you don’t know her name, but when you visualize what we think of today as Inuit art, the images you’re thinking of may well have been created by her. Kenojuak had all the… Read More
Needle Case
I thought I knew a lot of old time fiddle tunes. After all, I’ve been listening to folk music for a very long time. Lately though, I’ve been listening to the music in a different way, since I’m trying to learn to bash out a… Read More
Mississippi Sawyer
I’ve continued to practice the oil can banjo like a mad thing and at the same time I’ve been listening to all the old time music I can. Tonight’s Daily Dose is Mississippi Sawyer. Here’s Richard Hood, playing it two-finger style on a fretless banjo…… Read More
Where do?
Somebody landed on this blog after searching, “where do lobster mushrooms grow in Ontario?” The answer is, in the Enchanted Mushroom Forest, that’s where. Curiously, I find more lobster mushrooms in the forests I forage than any other single species, and yet I some people… Read More
For those who don’t bother flying south…
OK, who ate the cat food?
Shady Grove
Since I’ve started to learn to play my oil can banjo, I’ve been immersing myself in old time American folk music. Shady Grove is another old tune that has been recorded a squillion times and that has about as many verses. I’ve known this song… Read More
27th Street 