I posted a version of this tune a few days ago by 17 hippies. Check out this version by Bordunrausch. It has a much different feel, and I have to say I’m starting to really enjoy the pipes. I don’t know anything about these guys… Read More
There’s a mix of music and interview on this video, featuring Cedric Watson and Bijou Creole, and it’s well worth listening to the whole thing. This was recorded live on KEXP a community public radio station operated by the University of Washington. Accordion freaks will… Read More
Thanks to my pal East Texas Red for sending along a link to a great set of photos of the Norfolk and Western Railway. Click on the images to see them large scale. Let’s have a little train song. Here’s Hank Snow singing the Wreck… Read More
That was PauloPattes. Very nice performance of a tune by Y.F. Perroches. There are several performances of this tune available on the YouTube machine for your listening pleasure. Here’s one more, with a slightly different feel about it. This one was performed by Chaîne de… Read More
I ask fellow residents of the Greater Toronto Area, can you remember a time when Highway 427 was not under constant construction? Not me.
This has been all over the news today. Politics. This is how we do it here.
Tonight’s Daily Dose features a very unique performer named Junior Brown. He plays a double necked instrument that combines guitar and lap steel and he plays the hell out of it. At first he comes across as your basic honky-tonk player, but wait until he… Read More
Today I received two requests to identify mushrooms. One was based on a photo and the other on the real thing. The photo looked to me like a large batch of mature honey mushrooms growing on wood, but based on a photo I’d never say… Read More
A Bourrée for a Sunday night. Here’s 17 Hippies with a fabulous performance. 17 Hippies is a band from Berlin. I don’t know too much about them, but I understand they bring together an assortment of folk music traditions.
I was looking around the YouTube machine for something else entirely, and there in that right hand side column, this video was looking out at me, saying hey you, it’s me, Jonathan. Play me, ok? And so I did. It’s Jonathan Richman on a Conan… Read More
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