The Daily Dose is continuing with another song by U. Utah Phillips, the Golden Voice of the Great Southwest. This tune is called The Goodnight Loving Trail. I first heard it on an Ian Tyson record. It’s sort of a cowboy song. The title refers… Read More
There are are variety of different concertinas, some diatonic, some fully chromatic. Today’s Daily Dose is a little sampler. Put button accordion and concertina together and it’s almost two much for words. And concertina and pipes…well, what can I say.
Иво Папазов Първи записи Your Daily Dose this evening…
I’ve been enjoying listening to Chemnitzer concertina music lately and that led me to Wanda and Stephanie, who were a mother-daughter team known as America’s Polka Sweethearts. They were polka performers but in the polka world that is broken down into styles. The style Wanda… Read More
That was Redwing. I like this melody a lot. I’ve been playing it on button accordion all weekend. I poked around on the inner-nets to see what I could find out about this tune. Depending on who you want to believe, it’s an Irish tune,… Read More
Tonight’s Daily Dose features a venerable old tune and one I never tire of, The St. Anne’s Reel or the Reel de Sainte-Anne. This one features Aly Bain on fiddle and Jerry Douglas on Dobro… Geez, that’s beautiful. Ask me why I love traditional music… Read More
Occasionally a musician comes along who must come from some other place, somewhere else, another planet perhaps. As Sun Ra wrote, there are worlds they have not told you of… One of those musicians was Rahsaan Roland Kirk. He came from a very special planet,… Read More
I don’t know that the Daily Dose has ventured into Rev. Gary Davis territory before. If not, it’s about time. Way back when I was a teen-aged blues freak, I found a Rev. Gary Davis record in some little record shop, just sitting there waiting… Read More
I can do more from a saddle than I can from my old pick-up….an early morning Daily Dose from Don Walser – Texas Top Hand
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