…doesn’t mean we should forget all about the great train songs we have…. Tonight I’d like to feature some songs about train wrecks.Let’s start with Vernon Dalhart performing Wreck of the Old 97 from 1924… I was just 3 when the great Hank Snow recorded… Read More
If you got the dinero I got my camero…The Texas Tornadoes
I haven’t been posting nearly enough button accordion music around this joint lately, so here’s a fave video from the YouTube machine I posted once before on this blog….the performance is so good it deserves another feature….. «Reel St-Renard» interprété par Éric Gagné I love… Read More
Let’s enjoy a Daily Dose of the Salty Dog blues tonight, starting with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs… Johnny Cash… Doc Watson (with dancing)
A Daily Dose of Australian folk music….this is Jim Causley and as a bonus, it features some accordion.
Today’s Daily Dose features The Stanley Brothers performing Rank Stranger…
I started listening to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee in high school, when I was a teenaged blues freak. When I listen to them now it takes me right back. Ok, one more….Rock Island Line
I first heard Sleepy John Estes & Hammie Nixon back in about 1980 in the listening room at the York University Library. I discovered they had a marvelous collection of blues greats on vinyl and I decided I wanted to listen to them all. The… Read More
There is Angeline the Baker and there is Angelina Baker and there is plain old Angeline and there are countless variations and approaches to the tune, from Old Time to Bluegrass styles. Here is the Turkey Creek String Band… Or how about Dwight Diller… Northern… Read More
Check out this excellent little film about mountain dulcimer player Ami Fabbri. I stumbled on this video on YouTube. It’s one of a series of films about Appalachian traditions. The Mountain Traditions Project is a collaboration between Appalachian Independent Newspaper, Mountain City Traditional Arts and… Read More
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