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The Storms are on the Ocean
There’s also a pretty good winter storm over Toronto right now and the snow is coming down like it means business. Fortunately me and my pal Bonnie had an excellent walk out to our local dog park just before it started. She wrestled, chased, got… Read More
Tuba Skinny
Tuba Skinny – New Orleans jazzmasters win 5th annual Arhoolie Award
We’re not the Jet Set
Iris Dement & John Prine
Nobody’s Business
I came across sheet music for a tune called Nobody’s Business in a book of Canadian fiddle tunes. I played through it on fiddle and realized, I knew that melody. Nobody’s business is a very flexible tune that crosses genres easily. Here’s Patti Kusturok on… Read More
Everyone Loves Someone
Here’s the polka king, the late great Li’l Wally, performing Everyone Loves Someone, from way back in 1966, singing in Polish and English. Bonus: come for the music, stay for the fab dancing!
Everything is Broken
This is Knee Deep playing Bob Dylan’s Everything is Broken. Fab vocals on this. Enjoy.
Gum Tree Canoe
Every now and then I need a dose of John Hartford. Here’s Gum Tree Canoe. I think this one is also known as Tombigbee Waltz, or at least there is a Tombigbee Waltz which is pretty similar.
Hoppla Hej
It’s polka time. Here are Tim and Margie Rued. I’ve been enjoying their YouTube channel very much lately.
The Shining Birch Tree
I came across this video from 1992 on the YouTube – with Wade Hemsworth and the McGarrigles, and Adrienne Clarkson, who went on to become Canada’s Governor General. I had seen Mr. Hemsworth perform either that year or maybe it was the year before, when… Read More
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