The imagination stations out in the backyard continue to evolve. The first one is solidifying some as I’ve been adding soil and sod and other garden material. This one also has a pair of chairs on top and is home to Mr. Froggy. Froggie went… Read More
Here’s a great Old Time song called Waterbound. It’s also known as Down in North Carolina. Here’s the Last Chance Stringband….
A tune for late summer… Here is Vi Wickam, from one of his fiddle tune a day posts… I could listen to this one again. I think I will.
The musical focus of this blog has shifted somewhat this year. Although it has long reflected my general interest in what I jokingly call folky-dolky music, I had been focusing on the button accordion, because that is the instrument I was playing. Somehow or another… Read More
Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, a cattle call from an old cowboy song. Git along little dogies. Ever wonder just what a dogie is, or was? In cowboy slang, a dogie is a motherless calf. That much is sure. One story I read has it that after a particularly… Read More
I know you’ve all been waiting for this. Here’s a video I found on YouTube featuring David Holt.
The song of the day today is Ian Tyson’s masterpiece, Summer Wages. I always think of this one as a very Canadian tune, yet it has become a bluegrass standard, performed by JD Crowe and the New South and the Tony Rice Unit and so… Read More
We’re continuing to make progress on the bird and we hope to have it completed by the weekend. Here’s an old time tune called Little Birdie, performed by the South Carolina Broadcasters. If you ever have a chance to see this group perform live, don’t… Read More
This is an old tune, going back at least to the 1880s in America. What does cotton-eyed mean? One story is that bad moonshine cause a drinker’s eyes to turn milky white. Another story says someone is cotton-eyed if his eyes turned milky from any… Read More
Tuffy P works close by the CNE grounds. The other night she and one of her workmates visited the fair for the 5th Dimension show. Tuffy got a little carried away at the end of this video causing a system error. The camera simply couldn’t… Read More
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