thanks to Salvelinas Fontinalis for turning me on to Ken Perlman’s banjo playing….
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Some fantastic accordion playing from Quebec
Check out the videos posted on YouTube by antonincarla. I really enjoy this fellow’s playing. His name is Lauréat Caron. Here are some samples on three different boxes. If these tunes interest you, I think you’ll enjoy all the music he has on his feed.
Tango Time
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any Tango here at 27th Street. I think it’s time… JUAN D’ARIENZO – ALBERTO ECHAGUE – “Mi Japon “ and one more…. Juan D’Arienzo canta Mercedes Serrano Nada mas
Duncan & Brady
Back to our series on murder ballads. Duncan & Brady is also known as Been on the Job Too Long or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It’s all about the shooting of a policeman named Brady by a bartender named Duncan. This tune has been quite… Read More
Kansas City Hornpipe
Tonight’s Daily Dose features Fred Morrison on pipes. Why do I love folk music so much? Just give this one a listen.
East Texas Red
I think I may make the series of thematic music posts I’ve been making on the subject of murder ballads a weekly post rather than continue it daily. While only one reader has mentioned that I seem to be playing a lot of violent music,… Read More
El Paso
Let’s continue with another Daily Dose of Murder Ballads this evening by heading down to border country. Here’s Marty Robbins singing his career-defining tune El Paso. Robbins wrote this tune and first recorded it for his Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs album of 1959. By… Read More
Frankie and Johnny AKA Frankie and Albert
I know you know this one. Frankie is a woman – she caught her Johnny, or is it her Albert, with another woman and she shot him down. Like many murder ballads, this one may have origins in an actual murder. The song has been… Read More
Stackolee
Lee Shelton lived from March 16, 1865 – March 11, 1912 in St. Louis Missouri. Who was Lee Shelton and why should we care? Well, Mr. Shelton shot William Lyons on Christmas night 1895. Shelton, was sent to the big house where he eventually died… Read More
Charles Guiteau
I’m sure my American friends are familiar with Charles Guiteau as the preacher/lawyer/writer who assassinated President Garfield, a crime for which he was hanged. He did the deed on July 2, 1881, but Garfield didn’t perish untiil 11 weeks later on September 19. Anything else… Read More
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