http://youtu.be/p9mn0d071_Y http://youtu.be/nyiOiT5RI78 http://youtu.be/fKmgUzPuj18 I don’t know very much at all about this music, but I’ve been listening to quite a few videos on the YouTube machine featuring the garmon, and I’m fascinated by the sounds.
Here’s Melissa the Loud also giving a demonstration She has a website too. I really appreciate her love of the less loved instruments and I think you’ll enjoy visiting her site. If you’re a folk music freak like me, be sure to check out her… Read More
There are are variety of different concertinas, some diatonic, some fully chromatic. Today’s Daily Dose is a little sampler. http://youtu.be/W8gVmY_kndQ Put button accordion and concertina together and it’s almost two much for words. And concertina and pipes…well, what can I say.
Yep, we’re talking folk music. For your Friday Daily Dose, here are The Dust Busters with John Cohen. These boys have a really nice feel for their music. I think I could listen to them all day. This folk music, it just might take off.… Read More
Today’s Daily Dose takes us to Uruguay….La Sinfónica de Tambores http://youtu.be/eFDr79oaBkE And now, here’s Los Gauchos de Roldán http://youtu.be/ZijE-UarquA and one more…
Just watch this video. You’ll say, “Oh, that’s why…” Stumbling across this video made my day.
This is for all the folk music freaks out there who secretly wish they were rocker dudes.
While not as big a sub-genre in Americana as train songs, murder ballads are big just the same. Since I took an interest in folk music in my teens, I’ve been listening to songs about Stack-O-Lee and Franky and Johnny, Pretty Polly and Tom Dooley. … Read More
I was messing around with the La Bamba riff on my button accordion the other day, trying to get it right, and I thought this song would be excellent to feature on my Daily Dose series. La Bamba is a Mexican folk song, although most… Read More
I love this tune. You will too. Enjoy your Daily Dose… Peter Knupfer along with Joel Mabus on Mandolin And now Hillar Bergman and James Carr That’s what I’m talkin’ about. Finally, here’s a version that has accordion and didgeridoo…and by God there’s a slide… Read More
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