Your Daily Dose today features the late Wade Hemsworth, a great Canadian songwriter. Never mind that he also wrote The Blackfly Song, The Logdriver’s Waltz and The Shining Birch Tree. Here’s Adam Miller performing The Shining Birch Tree. Let me say that if I had… Read More
We know that temperature doesn’t matter any more. It’s all about the humidex in the summer and the wind chill in the winter. Today it may be 30 degrees but the radio promises it will feel like the fires of Hell with the humidex. Convection… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose takes you down to Louisiana to listen to the great Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys performing The Bosco Stomp. Yeah!
I had an opportunity to see Yves Lambert et le Bébert Orchestra play in San Antonio at the accordion festival a few years ago where they were among the highlights of the weekend. Your Daily Dose today features Quebec button accordionist Yves Lambert. Here he… Read More
In a couple weeks, we’re putting a path across the yard. Strangely, our house does not have a path from the driveway to the front walk. Neither does the house to the south of us. When we arrive home in a vehicle, we have two… Read More
Sometimes, when I witness the world and it’s most bizarre, I shake my head and say, “There are worlds they have not told you of.” I never really thought about where that phrase came from or where I first heard it. And then one day… Read More
What will they think of next?
It’s Friday night and I could use a polka about now. How about you? Here’s a video I’ve posted before but it’s so good I just can’t resist posting it again. It features Li’l Wally live on the Lawrence Welk show, playing concertina and singing… Read More
Tomorrow night, Nik Wallenda of the famous Wallenda daredevil family, will attempt to walk a tightrope across Niagara Falls. What do you all think about that? It seems this daredevil business is something from a distant carny past. Who knew people still did this? I… Read More
Come with me. Let’s hop aboard the Wabash Cannonball and pay a little visit to the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Here’s Yodeling Slim Clark… It was first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928. If you were part of the traveling nation, the mountain was paradise.… Read More
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