So….here are Craig Ventresco and Meredeth Axelrod performing Cold Morning Shout…
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Banjo tricks and gun culture in old time music
I was surfing around the YouTube and came across this great footage of Uncle Dave Macon performing Take me Back to my Old Carolina Home… This jaunty tune, which comes complete with banjo tricks, has a violent heart – banga banga banga went my Gatlin… Read More
El Paso Revisited….where the heck did Shovels and Rope come from?
….and why haven’t I heard them before? Check out this killer version this great old tune by Shovels and Rope. I love the way these two deliver a song! It’s respectful to Marty Robbins but at the same time it re-awakens the song and opens… Read More
Whiskey from Rockingham
I just got home from an overnight business trip. Did I ever get an enthusiastic welcome from Memphis and Georgie – and Tuffy P thoughtfully had a chicken salad and a fresh bagel here for me for dinner. The trip was good but I’m tired… Read More
Anybody know anything about making a podcast?
Sometimes when I get going posting all this old music I love, I think maybe I should be doing it as a radio show, but then I think this is after all the Twenty-first Century in the land of the interwebs, and so maybe it… Read More
One evenin’ as the sun went down….
I feel a long and rambling post coming on. I hope you don’t mind. I was thinking today about the late U Utah Phillips, the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest, talking about the traveling nation: hobos, tramps and bums. Utah made it clear that… Read More
Guy Klucevsek on the Accordion
This is for all the accordion freaks in the crowd. You know who you are….
Daily Dose: Juke Boy Bonner
I first heard Juke Boy Bonner singing I’m a Bluesman on a compilation record (remember records) I had way back in the early 80s. I was a serious blues freak back in those days. There was something about Bonner’s performance of I’m a Bluesman that… Read More
Waiting for the Belle
Here’s a great tune about a steamboat performed by Cathy Barton and Dave Para. If you don’t know their work, check out their other videos on the YouTube machine. Cathy Barton is one of my favourite clawhammer banjo players….but she also plays autoharp and hammered… Read More
Kitchen Girl
Kitchen Girl is an old time standard. On clawhammer it’s usually, but not always, played in Mountain Modal AKA Sawmill tuning. I like this tune a lot and I’ve been working on learning it. If I ever get it down, you’ll hear my version, but… Read More
27th Street 