Here at 27th Street we’re big fans of Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. Sharon Jones died a year ago this week, but on November 17 one final album by Sharon and the Dap Kings – called Soul of a Woman – will be released.… Read More
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Fi-Di Diddle Um-a Daisy
Time for a taste of the late great Jimmie Driftwood. If you don’t know Jimmie Driftwood’s music, here are a few of my faves. He wrote over 1,000 songs and played them on his home-made guitar. Here’s one for all my friends at the post… Read More
Who was Rachel, anyway?
There’s a fiddle tune called Rachel. In some places and by some players it’s also known as The Texas Quickstep, but everyone I know who plays it just calls it Rachel. I don’t know who Rachel was though. It’s just one of life’s mysteries. I… Read More
The Thoroughly Modern Hits of the Day
That’s where it’s at. The photo on this album cover has been reversed, likely so that they could put the band name over the head of the banjo on the left rather than the right side. It’s difficult to see in the photo but on… Read More
Come Take a Trip in my Airship
And now for a musical interlude. Here’s Meredith Axelrod……
The Wreck of the C&O
It happened this day, 1890. Here’s Ernest Stoneman…
Fiddle Friday
Here’s Calvin Vollrath on fiddle with Clinton Pelletier on guitar and Rhea Labrie step-dancing.
Goin’ Down to Cairo – Goodbye Liza Jane
There are two Cairos. One of course is in Egypt. The other (the one referred to in the song) is at the southern end of Illinois in the United States, the place where the Ohio River spills into the Mississippi. This is an old tune.… Read More
Two of my faves…..
Clinch Mountain Backstep
I’ve been playing some of those dark “modal” tunes lately. Here’s one, called The Clinch Mountain Backstep. I believe this one comes to us from the late great Ralph Stanley, who played it with bluegrass picks rather than clawhammer (although he was a mighty clawhammer… Read More
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