…so I only know it through song. Here’s Dom Flemons performing San Francisco Baby Or how about San Francisco Bay Blues by one-man band Jesse “Lone Cat” Fuller…
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Exquisite Corpse
Some infectious jazz for a Sunday afternoon…
Star of Logy Bay
Back when I was playing a lot of button accordion, and hadn’t yet fallen hard for clawhammer banjo, I did a little busking in places like Kensington and St. Lawrence Markets. I played a hodgepodge of material, squeezebox music from various countries. I think the… Read More
Tempy wants a $9 shawl….
….and I wish I was a mole in the ground. Let’s have a listen to Bob Neuwirth and Eliza Carthy… This performance also features Kate and Anna McGarrigle on banjo and button accordion. I stumbled across this performance on the YouTuber and it stopped me… Read More
Rock ‘n’ Roll Sunday
Geez you don’t hear much rock ‘n’ roll anymore, do you? https://youtu.be/LVIttmFAzek
Words to live by?
Here’s Leroy Troy (warning this video contains banjo tricks….don’t try this at home)
In Spite of Ourselves
It’s earworm time on 27th Street. Here are John Prine and Iris DeMent performing In Spite of Ourselves. https://youtu.be/F5axlwCBXC8 I could listen to this one a dozen times in a row, no problem.
Accordion Boogie
Here’s Dick Contino rocking out on the accordion. I love the fantastic interplay between Dick Contino on piano accordion and Corky Bennett on Hammond B3. These guys just cook.
Where did it go?
Sure, summer extends well into September, but in my consciousness, Labour Day, the Airshow and the end of the CNE mark the end of summer. I suppose it’s because all the kids go back to school. Since I spent the spring recovering from a broken… Read More
Johnny Booker
It’s very early Wednesday morning and I have the tune Johnny Booker going through my head – or at least Cathy Barton and Dave Para’s version of the tune. One way to deal with an earworm is to share it. So here it is… Happy… Read More
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