Cold Sunday morning – let’s warm up with some music from Texas. Here’s Butch Hancock
And here’s Texas Tornadoes performing Mr. Hancock’s best known tune, She Never Spoke Spanish to Me.
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Meet me with your black drawers on….
Jackie Richardson sang Meet me with your Black Drawers On tonight at the Salah Bachir show, fronting the Toronto All-Star Big Band – a show-stopper, and just one of many highlights at this gala to support the Bachir Yerex Family Dialysis Centre at St. Joseph’s Health Centre here in Toronto.
Gavin Crawford did some stand-up, Louise Pitre sang, Billy Newton Davis sang, Theo Tams sang, Lorraine Segato sang. Then there was Man Murray…
Tuffy P with Deb Pearce AKA Man Murray
To explain what Deb Pearce AKA Man Murray does on stage does not do it justice. Man appears in full polyester regalia and lip-syncs to Ann Murray songs. It is disarmingly funny and wonderful.
Of course the important thing is that Salah Bachir and Jacob Yerex are making the new dialysis centre at St. Joseph’s happen, with a little help from their friends and the broader community. Great job guys!
27th Street Tales
Mr. Grizzly has been sleeping in the Imagination Station. He decided to stretch and walk around the yard before the snow gets too deep.
O’er yonder, Cowboy Bob crosses the planes on his trusty horse, but the trail is getting snowed in and Bob is thinking about setting up camp, starting a warm fire and cooking up a cup o’ mud.
Maybe there’s room to camp in that old imagination station. Better watch out for Mr. Grizzly though. He gets cranky after a long sleep.
Mother Goose surveys the situation and wonders, “why didn’t I fly south this year? I could have been in the Everglades right now.
Snowing all day
It’s been snowing all day around 27th Street. The roads are pretty bad. I had a close call driving on the Queensway, even though I have snow tires on my Forester. I touched my breaks and I guess there was a patch of ice under the snow. Fortunately there was no traffic, as I did 3/4 of a spin, came to a stop, repositioned, and continued on my way.
The partners of course love the snow. Here’s a very brief video of Memphis and Georgie goofing around…
Button accordion for a Saturday morning
Since I immersed myself in clawhammer banjo music I haven’t listened to nearly so much button accordion music as I used to, and haven’t played my squeezeboxes so much either. That doesn’t mean I love those musical traditions any less. Let’s listen to a taste of Quebec button accordion. This is Éric Gagné. There are a couple videos on Youtube featuring him performing. M. Gagné is about as good a player as I’ve heard. Check out how his whole body is involved with the music.
Big Night Tonight
The Big One – benefit for The Bachir Yerex Family Dialysis Centre at St. Joseph’s Health Centre Toronto is tonight. Going to be amazing!
Off to play Go…
I’m off to play some Go this evening so I’ll leave you with a little something to listen to. Here’s Kilby Snow playing autoharp and singing Troubles….
A dog’s life
Georgie having a snooze
Good Morning Long Branch – Fresh dog biscuits going in the oven 7:30 am
The only thing blocking me from popping these oatmeal, bacon, peanut butter and parmesean dog biscuits into the oven is 145lbs of George! Good Morning from 27th Street!
Whiskey Before Breakfast
I’ve completed a set of 15 new paintings which will be exhibited at Yumart here in Toronto in April. Here’s a sneak peak at one of the new works. I titled some of the paintings in this group, including this one, after fiddle tunes. This one is called Whiskey Before Breakfast. It’s a 16X12 inch oil painting on panel, completed in late 2014.
If anyone is curious about the tune, here’s a lovely performance I found on YouTube by the late Dave Hum…
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