For the guitar pickers out there….here’s Pat Donohue
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The Wild Goose
Here’s the late great Wade Hemsworth…
I could listen to this all day….
Are there any tunes or songs you don’t want to end? Tunes that settle down into just the right groove, tunes you want to listen to all day? For me this doesn’t happen in pop music so much as in old time music and in… Read More
Hot Cold Cold Corn
Vivian Howard, the chef and star of A Chef’s Life on PBS wrote in her cookbook, Deep Run Roots: “Ground corn distinguishes the food of the Americas from that of the rest of the world”. It turns out down in America they make hooch from… Read More
So nice to be right here….
With all of 45’s shenanigans south of the border, I was thinking how happy I am to be living right here in Canada. Here’s Mendelson Joe performing The Canada Song. Back in the 80s when I was living in a storefront studio on Ossington Ave… Read More
The Smokin’ Bow Reel
Let’s start the week off with some fiddle and accordion. Here’s Calvin Volrath and Roger Lanteigne….
Hop Scop Blues
It’s true there have been a few food posts around these parts lately, but fear not, this joint ain’t becoming the food network or anything like that. I was just surfing around the YouTube before bed, and stumbled upon this delightful video by Meredith Axelrod… Read More
No Particular Place to Go – a few thoughts on Chuck Berry, Rock ‘n’ Roll and growing up.
Ridin’ along in my automobile My baby beside me at the wheel. The lyrics are all rock ‘n’roll, but you didn’t have to wait for the lyrics. By the start of the second bar you know it’s Chuck Berry. It’s like that with all his… Read More
James Cotton RIP
Here at home we have a photo by the great Memphis photographer Ernest Withers of the Howlin Wolf Band pretending to pick cotton in Arkansas. There’s a young James Cotton in that photo sporting a big grin. RIP
Rod Bernard and that Swamp-Pop Sound
Here’s a nice little 2 part film: Rod Bernard and Cajun Rock ‘n’ Roll…. Here’s Rod Bernard’s breakthrough swamp-pop tune, This Should Go on Forever. And Part II of the documentary… Allons Danser Colinda featured Johnny and Edgar Winter! Shake Rattle & Roll. The… Read More
27th Street 