If you believe the blub under this video on YouTube, this version of Wreck of the Old ’97 by Vernon Dalhart, was the first million selling record in the United States. The Old 97, officially known as the Fast Mail, derailed at Stillhouse Trestle near… Read More
You never change your socks, friends. Wake me when we get there… Here’s the Katfish Four Here’s the Harry MacClintock version How about Vernon Dalhart? Now a sort-of rockabilly version by Dorsey Burnette
I love this old John Hartford song. It’s been recorded something like 300 times. Some of those versions are very good. Unfortunately, quite a few performers really did a butcher job on it My favourite? Here’s Johnny Cash doing a very melencholy version with Glen… Read More
I read tonight of the passing of Pinetop Perkins at 97. RIP Mr. Perkins can be heard playing piano on many of the best blues recordings.
Here’s Paulino Bernal Paulino Bernal was born in 1939. Along with his brother Eloy and their group El Conjunto Bernal, he was a conjunto innovator and a diatonic accordion master, integrating an array of musical influences. In the early 70’s he gave up the “devil’s… Read More
Here’s Toronto’s own bluegrass band, the Foggy Hogtown Boys. Some local readers will know that Chris Quinn on banjo used to also play regularly with Jughead, a favourite of my circle of friends back in the day.
Having recently seen the now 70 year old Levon Helm in concert at Massey Hall, we decided to take another look at The Last Waltz, the Scorsese directed documentary of The Band’s 1976 concert extravaganza at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. I was 18… Read More
These guys make me grin…. From Wikipedia: Fogo Island is also home to the island’s one and only ‘Fogo Island Accordion Group’, which started up in the 1990s with 5 girls from the fogo island central academy with one of the islands teacher’s ‘Gerald Freake’.… Read More
Can you imagine standing up in those little boats trying to fell that big tree? Dangerous business.
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