Today let’s listen to a couple versions of Hot Corn Cold Corn. I stumbled into this first performance on the YouTube. Chris Sharp does a guitar and vocal recording then adds in a banjo track with additional vocals. What a great job! Dave Rawlings and… Read More
Some songs seem to transcend style, fad and fashion and have endured in our collective imagination for a long time. Shortnin’ Bread has been a kind of cure-all for the soul, an Afro-American song dating back to the 1890s. Three little children, lying in bedTwo… Read More
Here’s David Bromberg…. (another tune for our times)
Celebrating my return home after my knee misadventure, I thought I ought to post some appropriate music. I couldn’t think of any songs about torn tendons, though. The closest I can come up with is Arthritis Blues performed by Ramblin’ Jack.
More music for our times. We need some Bright Moments. Rahsaan Roland Kirk…
A tune for our times.This is autoharp master Kilby Snow, from YouTube.Mr. Snow has been gone for 40 years, but his music lives on. Oh Lordy me and oh Lordy my see when you haven’t got a dime when your trouble is so deep that… Read More
Inexplicably this song has entered my head. Now it will enter yours.
I miss my regular music sessions with my friend Ted Meyerscough. Before social distancing kicked in, we were going to start working on a tune known by various names, which I know as Wild Hog in Yonders Woods. It’s also called Old Lionel or sometimes… Read More
Here’s Charley Crockett and the Blue Drifters….
About the last thing I expected today was to hear a new 17 minute long song by old weird Bob Dylan. It’s more like a recitation than a song, with a lovely musical backdrop, a drifting narrative based around the assassination of JFK, filled with… Read More
27th Street 