Wade Hemsworth
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All posts tagged “Songs”
Fi-Di Diddle Um-a Daisy
Time for a taste of the late great Jimmie Driftwood. If you don’t know Jimmie Driftwood’s music, here are a few of my faves. He wrote over 1,000 songs and played them on his home-made guitar. Here’s one for all my friends at the post… Read More
Tecumseh Valley
We’re always making value judgements, and we do it at lightning speed. I like this, I don’t care for that, that’s ok, oh no, not that. We do it about art and music and literature and everything else. I’m OK with that. For instance with… Read More
Hard Times
This song was written by Stephen Foster in 1854. It was first recorded in 1905. It never gets old. I love songs that can endure style, fad and fashion, that remain as powerful today as the day someone made them up, or pulled them from… Read More
Train Song of the Day
Starlight on the Rails Here is Rosalie Sorrels covering Starlight on the Rails, which was written by her pal, the late Utah Phillips. Wow, I love this one. I’ve known this song for many years, but this interpretation of it is simply stunning. “Dreams are… Read More
A strangely compelling song…
Here’s an old song that came to mind today. It’s Lenny Bruce by Bob Dylan, here perfomed by Mr. Dylan and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. This tune has the oddest lyric in it: he never robbed any churches or cut off any babies heads???… Read More
Dark as a Dungeon
This is a Merle Travis tune, but I started off with Weird Bob Dylan and Joan Baez from way back in 1975. Here’s Mr. Travis: And of course, Tennessee Ernie Ford: Ernie Ford built a career around another Merle Travis tune, 16 Tons…I guess we’d… Read More
Gallo del Cielo
Here’s an unusual campfire version of that fabulous Tom Russell tune about Gallo del Cielo, the rooster born in heaven, performed by Billy and Walter Lloyd. I stumbled across this on YouTube. I first heard this song performed by Ian Tyson way back in the… Read More
Navajo Rug
When we were out at the opera the other night, somebody said something about that old song, you know the one that has ay yi yi in it…not whoopitiyi-o, ay yi yi, and the song was Navajo Rug. C. had heard it somewhere but couldn’t… Read More
My Blue Heaven
I mentioned the song My Blue Heaven in my review of the Leon Redbone show, and it occurred to me that there might be a reader or two out there who do not know this chestnut. It was popularized by Gene Austin and later Fats… Read More
27th Street 