While most of the western world watched a football game, my friend A and I trundled down to Hugh’s Room for a boys night out – The Banjo Special show, featuring Arnie Naiman, Chris Quinn, Chris Coole and Brian Taheny. The show featured a variety… Read More
There are apparently a number of Miss Liza Jane songs. I came across a tab for this one among the tabs in Tony Spadaro’s Tabonanza and I’ve been working on it on the oil can along with some other songs tabbed out in that group… Read More
We’re planning a new mosaic. We want to try some new things so this time we’re talking about a plant/floral motif, again on a shaped ground. We haven’t done any drawing for it yet – still in the discussion stage. We improvise a lot as… Read More
I’ve found a couple more oil cans I like on ebay, so I guess I’m going to have to make a couple more banjos. It’s going to cost me more to ship these things to me than to pay for the cans themselves, but c’est… Read More
I thought everyone would be going to Hugh’s Room for the 13th Annual Banjo Special.
The Foxfire series of books was compiled from what was originally a magazine called Foxfire . A fellow named Eliot Wigginton started it with his 9th and 10th grade English classes in 1966 in the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia at the consolidated Rabun County… Read More
I’ve been continuing to immerse myself in old time music, listening to about as many clawhammer banjo and fiddle tunes as I can. Here’s a Daily Dose of Little Liza Jane… Let’s start with The Black & Tan String Band and then move on to… Read More
I’ve had some requests to post a video here of me playing the oil can banjo. This is a bit of a problem for me. The first problem is that I’m a duffer. I’ve only been hammering away at this machine for a month. The… Read More
This afternoon, I drove up to Cookstown Ontario, about a 45 minute drive north of 27th Street to meet Dena Lee and visit her shop, the Story Gourd Workshop. I’ve wanted to do this for some time since I found out she was making gourd… Read More
Tuffy and I have started a blog to feature our mosaics. It’s called Long Branch Mosaics. As we work up new projects, we’re going to document them over there. I’ll point to it from time to time, if you don’t mind.
27th Street 