Time for some Roma wedding music. Here’s Ivo Papasov and his Wedding Band… Not only is this music super-exciting and complex and fun but there is singing too (not to mention the bass player’s spectacular trousers).
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A Honky Tonk Sunday
While everybody else watches football today, let’s you and I go back in time together to 1966 and listen to Buck Owens and Don Rich and the rest of the Buckaroos performing My Heart Skips a Beat. Turn up the twang, friends and listen to… Read More
Hey Farmer!
For your daily dose of old time music today, here’s Thornton, Emily and Kilby Spencer doing up Arkansas Traveler…
Why traditional music #617 (Rake & Rambling Boy)
This performance by Emily and Thornton Spencer sends chills down my back. Here are the same pair, as part of the Whitetop Mountain Band from 1990… Emily Spencer with Martha Spencer doing the Carter family tune, Distant Land to Roam…
Not exactly a carol, but….
I know of just one tune in Old Time music that mentions Christmas, and that’s an old fiddle tune called Breaking up Christmas. This song is usually associated with the Round Peak style (this refers to the particular way old time music is played in… Read More
Where do you get your whiskey?
I get mine in Rockingham…. Here’s Bruce Molsky performing I get my Whiskey in Rockingham
Forked Deer
It’s pronounced Fork-id Deer or sometimes Forky Deer, and it’s one of my fave fiddle tunes. It’s one of the tunes I attempt to play on clawhammer banjo. Here are a couple nice performances of the tune. First up is the Berline, Crary and Hickman…… Read More
Rolling Stone from Texas
I had a chance to spend some time chatting with my friend Russ this weekend. When that happens, the topic usually zeros in on music, and often country music. Here’s a performance by Don Walser that’s up on Youtube which I’ve shared before. I’d like… Read More
Fortune
Here are Craver, Hicks, Watson and Newberry performing Fortune at the Cook Shack (from YouTube)
Swamp Pop for a Friday night
Ever have a song sneak into your head which you actually haven’t heard in a really long time? That happened to me today. I’ve known the song for many many years but I can’t remember the last time I heard it. It’s by Rufus Jaganeaux… Read More
27th Street 