All posts tagged “Daily Dose”
For old dogs everywhere….
Here’s Ian and Sylvia performing Old Blue
Out of the blue
Back in the 50s a young country singer named Cast King, with his band The Country Drifters, recorded a number of sides on Sun Records, but never made a huge splash. In fact I would not have heard his music at all if not for… Read More
Indian Cowboy
Let’s head down to Texas. Here’s Joe Ely performing Indian Cowboy.
Button Accordion Time
I stumbled onto this great footage of the late Danny Poullard playing Creole button accordion at the Augusta Heritage Centre. It’s a great little clip – enjoy.
Lay down boys, take a little nap….
…wake up sober in the Cumberland Gap. Here’s Bruce Molsky. I’ve got Bruce Molsky on my mind because he’s coming to town in August. He’ll be playing Hugh’s Room on August 26, and on the weekend before that, he’ll be at Summerfolk up in Owen… Read More
Missed Camp
This is the weekend of the Midwest Banjo Camp for 2015, an event down in Michigan I had planned to attend again this year. After messing up my ankle, though, my surgeon advised me that it would be too early for me to make the… Read More
Songs for Hobos
I love this video featuring John Hartford performing his own Gentle on my Mind… https://youtu.be/_pdzFaGg-4M Old Sledge performing Danville Girl… I’ve posted this one before – Baby Gramps doing Big Rock Candy Mountain – but it’s so much fun it deserves another go… And finally,… Read More
3 songs about towns
Iris DeMent performing Our Town… https://youtu.be/o9-pDSYPrio The Pogues covering Ewan MacColl’s Dirty Old Town Small Town – Lou Reed and John Cale
Songs about mammels and birds….
Old Time music features plenty of tunes about animals small and large. Why not? You just don’t get enough animal tunes in pop music. Old Molly Hare Whatcha doin’ there? Sittin on a haystack Shootin at a bear Shot at one Shot at two Shot… Read More