Here’s a great old drinkin’ song…or is it a drunkin old love song? Let’s start with Rhonda Vincent and the Rage I thought about this tune when I posted an Earnest Tubb number the other day. I think his version is the first I ever… Read More
In an email to us today, a friend of ours mentioned her parents listening to the Mills Brothers singing Yellow Bird… This brought back a rush of memories. My father loved The Mills Brothers and listened to them a lot when I was growing up.… Read More
With Movember just weeks away, I decided this year I would participate. Yes, that’s right, I’m going to grow a moustache for the month of November to support men’s health initiatives. I haven’t done much in the way of fundraising before – I’m more often… Read More
I was contacted recently on this blog by a fellow looking for someone to lead a mushroom walk up in cottage country. It’s getting right toward the end of our season here, but I agreed to do the walk on Saturday, and hopefully we’ll find… Read More
Regular visitors here at the land of milk and honey know that our older Newfoundland, Ellie Mae, has had problems with her back right leg – to the point where she couldn’t put any weight on it at all. We had X-rays done, and she… Read More
If it ain’t there when I get back, I’ll raise hell in the Cumberland Gap. There are about as many versions of this tune as there are banjo pickers. In fact, it’s played in most of the various clawhammer tunings, including one known as Cumberland… Read More
The following is from the stats for this blog, showing search terms that landed folks here at the land of milk and honey. You would think looking at this that there are people out there who don’t know there are no edible wild mushrooms in… Read More
…at a local restaurant enjoying dinner (and celebrating our anniversary). It was at a fairly new Spanish place that opened up in Mimico in the spring, called LaVinia. At the next table over, a guy takes out his wallet and says to anyone who will… Read More
Soldier’s Joy is well known as an Old Time fiddle tune, but I read that it goes way back, possibly to the 1700s in Scotland and Ireland. It has a fantastically catchy melody. I can tell you it’s a fun one to play on clawhammer… Read More
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