Me again, practicing Angeline the Baker.
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All posts tagged “Daily Dose”
Soldier’s Joy
Back in late September I posted a few versions of Soldier’s Joy on this blog. I was watching a bunch of performances of it because I was starting to learn this one on clawhammer banjo. Tonight I recorded a bit of a practice session, so… Read More
Drivin’ Nails in my Coffin
Here’s a great old drinkin’ song…or is it a drunkin old love song? Let’s start with Rhonda Vincent and the Rage I thought about this tune when I posted an Earnest Tubb number the other day. I think his version is the first I ever… Read More
Cumberland Gap
If it ain’t there when I get back, I’ll raise hell in the Cumberland Gap. There are about as many versions of this tune as there are banjo pickers. In fact, it’s played in most of the various clawhammer tunings, including one known as Cumberland… Read More
Soldier’s Joy
Soldier’s Joy is well known as an Old Time fiddle tune, but I read that it goes way back, possibly to the 1700s in Scotland and Ireland. It has a fantastically catchy melody. I can tell you it’s a fun one to play on clawhammer… Read More
Just when I thought I was making a bit of progress….
….on banjo, I came across this video featuring the amazing Jens Kruger, which makes me seriously consider chopping up my banjo to use as kindling for a blazing accordion fire. I am so looking forward to seeing the Kruger Brothers at Hugh’s Room here in… Read More
Waterbound and I can’t get home
Here’s a great Old Time song called Waterbound. It’s also known as Down in North Carolina. Here’s the Last Chance Stringband….
Grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato vine
A tune for late summer… Here is Vi Wickam, from one of his fiddle tune a day posts… I could listen to this one again. I think I will.
Whoopie-ti-yi-yo
Whoopie-ti-yi-yo, a cattle call from an old cowboy song. Git along little dogies. Ever wonder just what a dogie is, or was? In cowboy slang, a dogie is a motherless calf. That much is sure. One story I read has it that after a particularly… Read More
Never hit seventeen when you play against the dealer…
The song of the day today is Ian Tyson’s masterpiece, Summer Wages. I always think of this one as a very Canadian tune, yet it has become a bluegrass standard, performed by JD Crowe and the New South and the Tony Rice Unit and so… Read More
27th Street 