For tonight’s Daily Dose, let’s go way back to the mid-70s and listen to Bob Dylan from the Rolling Thunder Review. Here are Bob Dylan and Joan Baez singing Never Let me Go If you remember Johnny Ace, that tune might be familiar to you..… Read More
The Daily Dose today features the late Beau Jocque performing One Kiss in Austrailia. In the late 1980s Andrus Espre became Beau Jocque and put together his fantastic Zydeco band, The Hi Rollers. Sadly he died young in 1999, but he left us some really… Read More
I’ve been suggesting to one of my button accordion students that he should try to feel the rhythm of the music through his whole body. I found a delightful video of a Fogo Island kitchen party that illustrates exactly what I mean, and I showed… Read More
The word dulcimer derives from the Latin dulcis, meaning sweet and the Greek melos meaning song. Yesterday I featured the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer, but that isn’t the only kind of dulcimer around. The hammered dulcimer has been around a number of different musical traditions… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features the mountain dulcimer, sometimes also called the Appalachian dulcimer. This is a fretted instrument that normally has either three or four strings. It belongs to the zither family of instruments. The Cuckoo – this is Jean Ritchie Here’s one of my… Read More
Rainy Sunday afternoon, listening to The Old Magic by Nick Lowe. Perfect. Here’s some nice Nick Lowe material from NPR…
Your Daily Dose tonight is some music from a Zydeco band called Fernest and the Thunders, led by a button accordion player named Fernest Arceneaux. Mr Arceneaux is gone now, but I remember seeing him and his band live here in Toronto back in the… Read More
How many musicians can you think of who created a sound so definitive that it shaped an entire genre of music? Damn few. Earl Scruggs was one of those few. Earl Scruggs changed everything for banjo and for bluegrass music. He died this morning at… Read More
Here’s a vintage performance by The Paul James Band. A couple things to note about these guys. One is that when Tuffy P and I got hitched back in 2001, Paul James and the boys rocked our wedding. The bass player in this video is… Read More
Soy de San Luis This is Texas Tornados.
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