All posts tagged “Daily Dose”

January 4, 2015
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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

November 7, 2014
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A Dose of Hank Snow

Sometimes I just need a double-shot of Hank Snow. Here he is performing Art Scammell’s masterpiece, Squid Jiggin’ Grounds. This one’s for my Newfie friends, you know who you are. And I did say double-shot. Here’s Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis

November 4, 2014
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Cumberland Gap

Wet evening around here. My walk with the Newfs this evening was shorter than usual. Neither the dogs nor I were interested in walking around outside for long. This seemed like a good evening to  sit back and learn a new tune on the banjo.… Read More

November 3, 2014
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Ottawa Valley Hoedown

It’s about time I featured a tune by Ottawa Valley fiddle great Reg Hill. Mr. Hill was known both as a great fiddler on his own and as the fiddle player for the Mac Beattie’s group, the Ottawa Valley Melodiers. Here he is playing the… Read More

November 1, 2014
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Train Wreck at Almonte

This tune by Mac Beattie and his Ottawa Valley Melodiers is all about the 1942 train wreck at Almonte Ontarie, when a train transporting Canadian troops drove into an Ottawa-bound passenger train that was waiting at the station.