What’s the worst “on hold” music you’ve ever heard? Today I was on the phone with a help desk when I was put on hold to the piano stylings of a computer attempting Wichita Lineman. It doesn’t get much worse than that. I’ve got a… Read More
When I grow up, I want to get me one of these babies and learn to play it. and one more…
Here’s a Daily Dose of Ooh Poo Pah Doo Jessie Hill Tina Turner on Shindig – man, she really had it happening back in the day, didn’t she? Ronnie Dio and the Prophets! Finally from the Treme soundrack, here’s James “12” Andrews and Trombone Shorty.… Read More
Say the name Smiley and most people I know will associate it with the character from John Le Carre’s novels and and their film adaptations. But that’s not where I’m going tonight. Tonight your Daily Dose goes down to New Orleans to celebrate Smiley Lewis.… Read More
Your Daily Dose today features the late Wade Hemsworth, a great Canadian songwriter. Never mind that he also wrote The Blackfly Song, The Logdriver’s Waltz and The Shining Birch Tree. Here’s Adam Miller performing The Shining Birch Tree. Let me say that if I had… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose takes you down to Louisiana to listen to the great Aldus Roger and the Lafayette Playboys performing The Bosco Stomp. Yeah!
I had an opportunity to see Yves Lambert et le Bébert Orchestra play in San Antonio at the accordion festival a few years ago where they were among the highlights of the weekend. Your Daily Dose today features Quebec button accordionist Yves Lambert. Here he… Read More
Sometimes, when I witness the world and it’s most bizarre, I shake my head and say, “There are worlds they have not told you of.” I never really thought about where that phrase came from or where I first heard it. And then one day… Read More
It’s Friday night and I could use a polka about now. How about you? Here’s a video I’ve posted before but it’s so good I just can’t resist posting it again. It features Li’l Wally live on the Lawrence Welk show, playing concertina and singing… Read More
Come with me. Let’s hop aboard the Wabash Cannonball and pay a little visit to the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Here’s Yodeling Slim Clark… It was first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928. If you were part of the traveling nation, the mountain was paradise.… Read More
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