I stumbled onto this great footage of the late Danny Poullard playing Creole button accordion at the Augusta Heritage Centre. It’s a great little clip – enjoy.
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Ornette Coleman RIP
I was saddened to hear today of the passing of Ornette Coleman. He was 85, and he had a great run. He created a fantastic body of music, governed by a tremendously strong personal vision, pushing the boundaries of his genre. I didn’t grow up… Read More
Lay down boys, take a little nap….
…wake up sober in the Cumberland Gap. Here’s Bruce Molsky. I’ve got Bruce Molsky on my mind because he’s coming to town in August. He’ll be playing Hugh’s Room on August 26, and on the weekend before that, he’ll be at Summerfolk up in Owen… Read More
Missed Camp
This is the weekend of the Midwest Banjo Camp for 2015, an event down in Michigan I had planned to attend again this year. After messing up my ankle, though, my surgeon advised me that it would be too early for me to make the… Read More
Songs for Hobos
I love this video featuring John Hartford performing his own Gentle on my Mind… Old Sledge performing Danville Girl… I’ve posted this one before – Baby Gramps doing Big Rock Candy Mountain – but it’s so much fun it deserves another go… And finally, enjoy… Read More
3 songs about towns
Iris DeMent performing Our Town… The Pogues covering Ewan MacColl’s Dirty Old Town Small Town – Lou Reed and John Cale
Songs about mammels and birds….
Old Time music features plenty of tunes about animals small and large. Why not? You just don’t get enough animal tunes in pop music. Old Molly Hare Whatcha doin’ there? Sittin on a haystack Shootin at a bear Shot at one Shot at two Shot… Read More
Let’s take a trip up Sourwood Mountain – Hi Ho Fiddle I Day
Here are Joe Birchfield and Harold Hausenfluck, from back in 1991 I love this one – Terry SoRelle singing it and playing clawhammer Let’s go out with the Carolina Chocolate Drops doing a rousing singalong version
Images
Worth repeating and repeating… Here’s Lou Reed and John Cale performing Images from Songs for Drella. Still Awesome.
Sorting out Napoleon
Earlier I posted a version of the Old Time tune, Bonaparte’s March, but just before that I had been having a little facebook message exchange with a guitar-picker friend of mine and he mentioned Bonaparte’s Retreat but he was really thinking of Bonaparte’s March, which… Read More
27th Street 