Tonight’s Daily Dose takes us to Chicago and Howlin Wolf. My fave moment in this performance is when Wolf takes off his glasses so he can get down to business. If I was exiled to a desert island and could only bring the music of… Read More
I know it was only the other day I posted some fiddle music, but I’ve been revisiting some old time Canadian fiddle music on the YouTube machine, and if you don’t mind I’m going to share a little bit more with you tonight. I think… Read More
The Maple Leaf Two-Step, from 1953, was Ottawa Valley fiddle great Ward Allen’s first recording, a 78 rpm record on Alvina. I started learning this one on triple row button accordion in between trick-or-treaters tonight, based on a score I stumbled upon on a fiddle… Read More
I recently posted some mining songs. Let’s continuing the theme of work with some tunes about log driving. Most of you will know that log driving is the process of running logs down a river to transport them from the woods to the mill. It… Read More
As you know I like all kinds of folk music. There are rich and complex traditions of songs about work. Working on the Railway. Farming. Working as Sea. I was thinking there are no happy mining songs, but I was wrong. First let’s here some… Read More
I think I first heard Robert Pete Williams’ music in 1980 in the Listening Room at the York University library. They had a great collection of blues music there and a bunch of turntables. You could sign out records (some of you may remember those)… Read More
I was thinking about the music of David Bromberg, so I figured it was time to dig up some cuts from the YouTube machine and share them here tonight. Let’s start with a bittersweet song called Watch Baby Fall. In this next video Mr. Bromberg… Read More
Here’s Hasil Adkins with his composition, She Said… And here are The Cramps covering it… (here at 27th St we like all kinds of folk music)
Do you remember Lefty Frizzell? He was both an excellent singer and songwriter too. I thought about him after posting a couple videos of Handsome Ned the other day. I don’t know just why my mind made that jump. I haven’t thought about Frizzell’s music… Read More
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