Yep, we’re talking folk music. For your Friday Daily Dose, here are The Dust Busters with John Cohen. These boys have a really nice feel for their music. I think I could listen to them all day. This folk music, it just might take off.… Read More
You know what I mean. What was the last tune that jangled around in your head and just wouldn’t go away? Hopefully it was a good song. I’ve had evil earworms too – songs I just can’t stand. Then there’s a song you like….until you… Read More
I can do more from a saddle than I can from my old pick-up….an early morning Daily Dose from Don Walser – Texas Top Hand
People come up to me on the subway and say, hey Mister Anchovy, you post this Daily Dose business all the time but I never hear any Hip Hop. What gives? I’d just like to say that I like all kinds of folk music. Here’s… Read More
Today’s Daily Dose comes from Louisiana. Interesting intro by Johnny. I couldn’t even name 28 instruments (much less play them)….but here’s Doug Kershaw.. Since we’re in Louisiana, let’s listen to the most awesome Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys performing the Hick’s Wagon Wheel Special… Read More
I know you’ve been waiting for it….a uke version of The Girl from Ipanema….yes, it’s that bossa nova uke head-cold groove. Regular programming will resume when I once again feel like a human being. OK OK, a bonus cut…..here’s Anarchy in the UK for uke….
Is it a dying art form? Here’s cowboy singer Don Edwards… Maybe you have to be named Don to be a really good yodel-man? Here’s Don Walser. Let me say here that if it weren’t for my buddy East Texas Red I might not know… Read More
Here’s Nanci Griffith performing the Michael Burton tune Night Rider’s Lament, with help from Don Edwards. He sure can yodel nice, can’t he? And now a taste of Ian Tyson. I like this tune a lot. And finally, Tom Russell performing tonight we ride, with… Read More
I feel like a broke down engine ain’t got no drivin’ wheel. Tonight’s Daily Dose takes us back to Blind Willie McTell and his 12-string guitar. Here he is from 19 and 33. I was a teen-aged blues freak, and it didn’t stop into early… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose takes us to the world of the melodica. Of course the melodica goes goes great with a uke…Tequila! Fantastico indeed… Not sure what to say about this next number… And one more for all the melodica freaks out there, here’s Augustus Pablo
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