I’m sending this post out to Bayou Child. These guys are playing a vira. This is typical of the way this dance is played. Portuguese players typically use triple-row boxes with three voices tuned to a wide-open musette for that carnival tremelo effect you hear… Read More
The Happy Wanderer is an original composition, written after the second world war by Friedrich-Wilhelm Möller. It has an infectious melody that lends itself to interpretation. Here are some different versions of the tune, starting with the version that made it famous. Here’s a stylish… Read More
…that I wasn’t dependent on finding morels and ramps for dinner because I failed to find the goodies I was looking for. Rats! I had a good visit with Tuffy Sr. in the morning and then more or less headed north and west, in search… Read More
I also recommend the Sun Ra version, from his Disney tribute album, Second Star to the Right. Here’s Ra and the boys doing another Disney classic, High Ho High Ho: By the way, the bracket fungi featured in the photo are Ganoderma applanatum, the artist’s… Read More
On the piano accordion, I’m much better on the keyboard side than on the bass side. I play basic bass and chord stuff OK but I’m not very accomplished at playing single note bass runs. I want to change that, so I’ve started practicing scales… Read More
The following is from Wikipedia: The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms—the slow kujawiak, and the fast oberek. The mazurek is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair… Read More
I like this piece a lot. I also really like the lovely little chromatic button accordion this fellow is playing. It’s a beauty.
Join me over at SqueezeMyLemon for some bluesy Oscar Peterson selections.
This is a Merle Travis tune, but I started off with Weird Bob Dylan and Joan Baez from way back in 1975. Here’s Mr. Travis: And of course, Tennessee Ernie Ford: Ernie Ford built a career around another Merle Travis tune, 16 Tons…I guess we’d… Read More
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