Time for a Daily Dose of Mac Beattie and the Ottawa Valley Melodiers….yo hip, hip ho….. And how about a Canadian train wreck tune, Train Wreck at Almonte Here’s Mac Beattie’s tribute to fiddle great Ward Allen And another tribute number, to Canada’s great fiddlers.… Read More
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The job of the artist….
The Job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery – Francis Bacon I’ve been painting for many years and still the whole business is a big mystery to me. Sometimes I look around in my studio at paintings I’ve done and I wonder,… Read More
Snow Dogs
Don’t start me talkin’….
Here’s Weird Bob covering one of my fave Sonny Boy Williamson tunes – Letterman. And of course here’s Sonny Boy. I’m going to spare you the New York Dolls and Doobie Brothers versions and go right to James Cotton
Off Button
Our Newf pup George doesn’t have one. Just sayin’.
Just because nobody writes songs about trains anymore….
…doesn’t mean we should forget all about the great train songs we have…. Tonight I’d like to feature some songs about train wrecks.Let’s start with Vernon Dalhart performing Wreck of the Old 97 from 1924… I was just 3 when the great Hank Snow recorded… Read More
Another cold front coming….bring it on
Polka Time
If you got the dinero I got my camero…The Texas Tornadoes
Goofing Around
….at Jack Darling Park on a beautiful winter Saturday afternoon.



