Here’s Melissa the Loud also giving a demonstration She has a website too. I really appreciate her love of the less loved instruments and I think you’ll enjoy visiting her site. If you’re a folk music freak like me, be sure to check out her… Read More
The Daily Dose is continuing with another song by U. Utah Phillips, the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest. This tune is called The Goodnight Loving Trail. I first heard it on an Ian Tyson record. It’s sort of a cowboy song. The title refers… Read More
There are are variety of different concertinas, some diatonic, some fully chromatic. Today’s Daily Dose is a little sampler. Put button accordion and concertina together and it’s almost two much for words. And concertina and pipes…well, what can I say.
Иво Папазов Първи записи Your Daily Dose this evening…
What is a Hamburgler, you ask? I have been asked by a member of the Hamburglers to encourage you, gentle readers, to Vote Hamburgler. It seems the boys are in the final round of a contest to play at Riot Fest in Chicago in a… Read More
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Chemnitzer Concertina but were afraid to ask can be found at ConcertinaMusic.com. One of the places I like to visit is the for sale section of the site, which features ads for a number of these beautiful… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features a venerable old tune and one I never tire of, The St. Anne’s Reel or the Reel de Sainte-Anne. This one features Aly Bain on fiddle and Jerry Douglas on Dobro… Geez, that’s beautiful. Ask me why I love traditional music… Read More
Occasionally a musician comes along who must come from some other place, somewhere else, another planet perhaps. As Sun Ra wrote, there are worlds they have not told you of… One of those musicians was Rahsaan Roland Kirk. He came from a very special planet,… Read More
I don’t know that the Daily Dose has ventured into Rev. Gary Davis territory before. If not, it’s about time. Way back when I was a teen-aged blues freak, I found a Rev. Gary Davis record in some little record shop, just sitting there waiting… Read More
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