I took 3 days this week away from the work-a-day world, a kind of mini-vacation if you will, the kind of mini-vacation you take when you have no plans at all, a kind of lazin’ around, gone fishin’, hiking through the woods, bummin’ around, messing… Read More
Here’s Music Makin’ Mama from Memphis, a rockin’ tune by the late great Hank Snow.
Bill Monroe. No need to say anything at all about this. Just listen….
In Old Time music, most standards are by convention usually played in particular tunings. It doesn’t mean they have to be played in certain keys, just that they usually are. This simplifies things for players jamming, for instance. If the tune is going to be… Read More
April Verch is a great Canadian fiddler from the Ottawa Valley. She is also a fabulous step-dancer, as you can see in this clip featuring the April Verch Band performing Sandy River Belle. Now here’s nice version played on the cookie tin banjo, by morbanjo… Read More
Do you know Cathy Barton Para and Dave Para’s music? Old time music from Missouri… I could pretty much listen to them all day. Here’s one more, Saddle Old Kate
The first 500… Bobby Bare The 2nd 500…..The Proclaimers
My dad liked a lot of old jazz when I was a kid. He was one of those guys who could hear a horn player on a jazz record and tell you who the player was. And if you gave him the name of a… Read More
Anyone remember the Dixie Cups version?
Trouble in Mind is a song that has been around the block a time or two. It was written by a jazz piano player named Richard M. Jones and recorded first in 1924 by Themla La Vizzo (vocals) and Jones on piano. Here’s an old-time… Read More
27th Street 