This is a 1980 performance of their 1971 hit! One day, we’ll marvel that folks used to write songs about driving around in fast cars. What the heck, let’s have another one….James Cotton Band tearing up Rocket 88. OK OK, let’s go for the hat… Read More
This is the Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms Country Band and they are mighty fine, mighty fine. Klauder and Willms are also half of fabulous Foghorn Stringband.
It was sometime in the late 70s or early 80s I first stumbled across a Clifton Chenier record. I had always had a soft spot for the accordion and I loved blues music. I thought, geez, this is something special. At some point in the… Read More
I came across this brief history of Farewell to Nova Scotia today…
A beautiful waltz from one of the best stringbands working today, The Foghorn Stringband.
….but she never spoke Spanish to me. Here’s Texas Tornados performing the Butch Hancock Tune. I love the way Doug Sahm sings this hurtin’ number. And of course, there’s Flaco….
Here’s Scrubby Sewerniak and the Dynatones performing The She Likes Kielbasa Polka. This band was from Buffalo New York and at one point in the 80s they had one of the greatest polka bands in the land. Scrubby played the Chemnitzer Concertina. There was always… Read More
Some super-fine squeezebox action here.
This music feels just right this morning….
I hope you enjoy this gem as much as I am…. Rushad Eggleston and Cormac Begley. I know you’ve been waiting for a cello/concertina duet around this joint.
27th Street 