`Old time music’ may suggest sounds rooted in pre-mass media Americana, but it is no less a marketing label than is `urban’ (contemporary black music) or `young country’ (post-Garth Nashville pop). It’s just an older sales hook.
Check out this excellent article by Mark Humphrey at the Old Time Music Home Page
The Ark We’d scramble up the other side of the bridge and put pennies on the tracks so the engines could flatten them. Me and Carl loved watching the big freights rumble past like monster ghosts from some other time. We walked over to find… Read More
The Queen’s City Leatherworks, that was Grandpa’s business. They made gloves down the basement for the railwaymen. That was when The Junction was a railroad town more or less. Up front they had a store and they sold gloves retail there as well as work… Read More
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
Francis Bacon, painter.
Doc and Merle Watson were fantastic performers.
Is it true it snowed in Regina today? Oh my….
After mulling it over for some time, I’ve made some changes to this blog. I may make more adjustments to it in the coming days. For instance I want to get my brain around what to do about a blogroll. I could create a page… Read More
27th Street 