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
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
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
Our Newf pup George doesn’t have one. Just sayin’.
…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
If you got the dinero I got my camero…The Texas Tornadoes
….at Jack Darling Park on a beautiful winter Saturday afternoon.
27th Street 