We just got in from a long walk with the dogs. Tuffy P is reading the Saturday papers and I just turned on the time machine. We’re listening to some fiddle and piano music on a 1980 recording called Old Time House Parties 1912 AD,… Read More
This evening we sallied forth across the invisible border between Long Branch (or The LB as our neighbour Kate calls it) and New Toronto to a new joint called Ember. We used to go there when it was Long Grain Pan Asian food, but that’s… Read More
Somebody landed on this blog today after searching the question, how to add more tremelo to diatonic accordion reeds. Good question. I happen to have the answer. The amount of tremelo has everything to do with the tuning. Accordions have 2 or 3 or even… Read More
Georgie was born 7 months and 21 days ago. That’s not the milestone. I just weighed my little buddy and he’s not so little any more. He’s 101 pounds. Memphis reached 108 pounds at a year and George still has over 4 months to go.… Read More
Tuffy P brought me dinner today from The Pie Commission, located near Queensway and Islington here in Toronto. Check out their menu! Tuffy brought me two of these small pies home for dinner, a chicken cheddar bacon mash pie and their special today, a pulled… Read More
There are new “old-time” tunes written from time to time, but many players prefer to find their own way to play songs that have been with us for a long time. Why write new songs where there are plenty of good ones around to play… Read More
I’ve been snapping quite a few Instagrams lately and most of these don’t make it onto blog posts. This evening I added an Instagram widget to the sidebar of my blog. You’ll see 10 thumbnails on the sidebar to the left. If you want to… Read More
When I was a kid, my father liked to sing bits and pieces of songs around the house. He never remembered whole songs – mostly just choruses with an occasional verse. One of the tunes he like to sing was My Blue Heaven. After I… Read More
We watched the 2013 documentary Muscle Shoals last night on DVD. The film features FAME Studios and Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals Alabama and has appearances from (among others) Gregg Allman, Bono, Clarence Carter, Jimmy Cliff, Aretha Franklin, Rick Hall, Mick Jagger, Alicia… Read More
Georgie went for his grooming session with the fabulous Lorraine yesterday and this morning it was Memphis’ turn. Georgie came along for company and got to play with his new pals Pele and Rollo. After grooming, Lorraine had treats for the whole gang. Pele is… Read More
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