I’ve continued to practice the oil can banjo like a mad thing and at the same time I’ve been listening to all the old time music I can. Tonight’s Daily Dose is Mississippi Sawyer. Here’s Richard Hood, playing it two-finger style on a fretless banjo…… Read More
Somebody landed on this blog after searching, “where do lobster mushrooms grow in Ontario?” The answer is, in the Enchanted Mushroom Forest, that’s where. Curiously, I find more lobster mushrooms in the forests I forage than any other single species, and yet I some people… Read More
Since I’ve started to learn to play my oil can banjo, I’ve been immersing myself in old time American folk music. Shady Grove is another old tune that has been recorded a squillion times and that has about as many verses. I’ve known this song… Read More
Old Joe Clark is a tune that just about every banjo picker plays at some time or another. It was known to have been sung by soldiers from Kentucky in WWI. There are written versions of the tune going back to 1918. The Joe Clark… Read More
This is a really hypnotic performance… featuring Johannes Bonefaas and Hendrik Holst Anderson. I stumbled upon this one on the YouTube machine and it stopped me in my tracks.
I just read at the Friends of Sam Smith Park blog that the Etobicoke Waterfront Stormwater Management study has been completed. I don’t know all the issues here yet, but the blog post is very critical of the study for ignoring community feedback.
I baked bread today. Actually I started my dough yesterday. Using James Lahey’s slow fermentation approach, I made a simple dough yesterday and let it do its thing overnight. This afternoon, I gave it a second rise for a couple hours and again using Lahey’s… Read More
Pigtown Fling is also Wild Horse, Stoney Point or Wild Horse at Stoney Point. Featured on this version is the sound of crickets in Chuck Levy’s garden. Here’s a nice string band version featuring Chance McCoy and The Saddle Horn Stringband (Matt Metz-Guitar, Ben Townsend-Banjo)… Read More
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