Here’s a fun tune from John Prine and Iris DeMent…
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Fiddle Time
Here’s a selection of Cape Breton fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy performing at Hugh’s Room here in Toronto Winston Scotty Fitzgerald Jerry Holland and Jerry Holland Jr
El Parche
I came across a nice little NPR piece on the YouTube machine about “El Parche”, the late Esteban ‘Steve’ Jordan. Mr. Jordan was an individualist, very hard to pigeonhole into a category. Conjunto? Latin jazz? Cumbia? He had a very distinctive accordion sound. Mr. Jordan… Read More
Gas Can Banjos?
My brother the trout, Salvelinas Fontinalis, plays clawhammer banjo. That is, he says he plays it. I don’t know if any witnesses have made it out alive. He has been trying to convince me that this clawhammer banjo thing is something I ought to get… Read More
No stopping the Cretins from hopping…
Just sayin… Here’s some Punkulele from Gus and Fin. Just what the Dr. ordered. oh yeah, and here are those other guys, the Ramones… Here at 27th Street, we love all kinds of folk music.
Valse “Primevère” – Diato à quatre mains
I know, I know, I haven’t been posting nearly enough diatonic button accordion music around here lately. Here’s a lovely piece I stumbled on on the YouTube machine, uploaded there by duodiouflo
Tennessee Stud
The first recording I heard of this song was by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. For some reason I think I was 17 at the time but I could be wrong. I heard it once and it stuck to my brain and didn’t go away. I heard… Read More
Fortune my Foe
The Sun’s Gonna Shine
Tonight’s Daily Dose features a bit more blues, but blues with a much different flavour than last night’s hit of Wolf. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee played together for about a million years before they finally got sick of one another. They played a brand… Read More
Teaching or not
I’ve been teaching a young fellow how to play the triple row button accordion for about a year and a half. He’s doing quite well. That is to say he has all the tools he needs to be a good player. Just add practice. He’s… Read More
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