Delia was a gamblin’ girl. She only had eyes for rounders, card players who knew all the angles. Cutty or Cooney, depending on the version, loved poor Delia but she didn’t love him back. Bad news. Here’s Martin Grosswendt… Now Cutty’s going to be in… Read More
Those visitors who have been hanging out at 27th Street for a while know that from time to time the Daily Dose gets all thematic. I posted a long series of songs about drink and a longer series of songs about trains a while back.… Read More
Here’s a fun tune from John Prine and Iris DeMent…
Here’s a selection of Cape Breton fiddlers Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy performing at Hugh’s Room here in Toronto Winston Scotty Fitzgerald Jerry Holland and Jerry Holland Jr
I came across a nice little NPR piece on the YouTube machine about “El Parche”, the late Esteban ‘Steve’ Jordan. Mr. Jordan was an individualist, very hard to pigeonhole into a category. Conjunto? Latin jazz? Cumbia? He had a very distinctive accordion sound. Mr. Jordan… Read More
Just sayin… Here’s some Punkulele from Gus and Fin. Just what the Dr. ordered. oh yeah, and here are those other guys, the Ramones… Here at 27th Street, we love all kinds of folk music.
I know, I know, I haven’t been posting nearly enough diatonic button accordion music around here lately. Here’s a lovely piece I stumbled on on the YouTube machine, uploaded there by duodiouflo
The first recording I heard of this song was by Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. For some reason I think I was 17 at the time but I could be wrong. I heard it once and it stuck to my brain and didn’t go away. I heard… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features a bit more blues, but blues with a much different flavour than last night’s hit of Wolf. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee played together for about a million years before they finally got sick of one another. They played a brand… Read More
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