I’m posting the following video for my button accordion student Elliot. This clip starts out with Mr. Hibbs performing Mussels in the Corner and then The Leaving of Liverpool, two tunes Elliot plays pretty well. Looking back in the fullness of time, Mr. Hibbs looked… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose continues on the “around the world” theme but this time there are no accordions. My good friend East Texas Red sent along a link to this video, which is available on the YouTube machine.
Here’s an assortment of nice button accordion performances from all over the place I dug up on the YouTube machine. Let’s start with a Norwegian player named Øystein Nicolaisen. And now over to Ireland with a performance by Conor Keane. And to Newfoundland…Danny Benoit and… Read More
I feel like hearing some boogie-woogie piano. Here at 27th Street, we like all kinds of folk music. Here’s an old clip featuring Jane Vasey with Peter Appleyard and Downchild at Albert’s Hall in Toronto Champion Jack Dupree Meade Lux Lewis
I was thinking about my first exposure to button accordion and I realized it must have been as a kid of 10 or 12 watching the late Harry Hibbs and his TV show At the Caribou. I checked out the YouTube machine to see if… Read More
My button accordion student Elliot is learning the Finnish Waltz. He was doing a pretty good job on it but I thought he needed to put a little more swing into it so we went to the YouTube to check out how others played this… Read More
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
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
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.
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