Let’s go to Buffalo NY’s historic Polonia district in the 1970s and 1980s, and check out the Broadway Grill. Back then, up here in Toronto, I had no interest in polka and had no idea that in Buffalo, just down the highway, some of the… Read More
We found some great fuel for the time machine this afternoon at Nice Old Stuff – a recording by Hank Barns and the Country Squires with Calls by Smilin’ Ed Hayes, called Swing your Partners. Cuts include: Arkansas Traveler; Birdie in the Cage; Bile that… Read More
Look what came in the mail today! It’s Canadian Folk and Country songs with Mac Beattie and his Ottawa Valley Melodiers! How awesome is that? Very awesome, trust me. Tunes include Take me back to the Madawaska Valley, The Washboard Polka, Ross Township’s my Home… Read More
We just got in from a long walk with the dogs. Tuffy P is reading the Saturday papers and I just turned on the time machine. We’re listening to some fiddle and piano music on a 1980 recording called Old Time House Parties 1912 AD,… Read More
27th Street 