From the category archives:

Blues

Till I Find Me Someplace To Go [videos]

September 23, 2009

Weeel, dear hearts, it’s time for me to saunter away for a short while, but I’ll be back on October 1. In the meantime, here are three videos that you can watch several times every day until I return and never even notice that I was gone. Let’s all stop to be thankful that the [...]

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Today’s Vegetable:
The Gypsies Told Me Somethin’ I Didn’t Want No One To Know

August 24, 2009

I don’t know about you, smooches, but I’m feelin like it’s been a little too rock-y around here lately. The urge to take a deep breath and get back to basics has returned. The last time this happened, I found solace in Hank. Today I feel like dropping further back, in a time machine sponsored [...]

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Woofs o’ The Week!

August 21, 2009

If you’ve never availed yourself of the massive amount of free streaming concerts (2,709 as of today) at Wolfgang’s Concert Vault, please take the time to poke around there. There’s everything from Mother Maybelle Carter to Cream to the Nuns to Holy Fuck, recorded live at some classic venues. You’ll also find shows from the [...]

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This Just In: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Is Totally Going To Blow Your Underwear Off

July 17, 2009

Full lineup at http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com, but can I just say: Amadou & Mariam Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys Mavis Staples Okkervil River The Chieftains Gillian Welch Nick Lowe Doc Watson & David Holt Emmylou Harris Marianne Faithfull Robyn Hitchcock Hazel Dickens Earl Scruggs The Knitters Elvis Perkins in Dearland The Del McCoury Band Neko [...]

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Can You Get Me Some More Champagne?

July 13, 2009

Bone Cootes:  legend, musician, clown fighter, friend to living wrecks, bartender. Two from his 1997 debut Son Of Dave. One awesome and amusing, the other one of the great love songs of the modern era. Bone Cootes – Did You See Me Bone Cootes – So Crazy http://www.last.fm/music/Bone+Cootes http://www.myspace.com/bonecootesmusic

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Chasin’ A Rainbow Dream

July 9, 2009

Today’s a video-only day. I could try to dredge an mp3 up, but really all I feel like doing is telling you how happy I was when I discovered that Pete Seeger had a TV show in the 1960s called “Rainbow Quest” that featured a ton of wonderful performers who otherwise didn’t have many opportunities [...]

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We’re History Baby — Read It In A Book

June 8, 2009

Blues rarely came in the Chicago style during my childhood, so my first exposure to Koko Taylor was in Wild At Heart, David Lynch’s film of what the inside of my head looked like when I was 20. Her scene and this song (written by Lynch with Angelo Badalamenti) were the first things I thought [...]

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My Body Rattles Like A Train On That Old S.P.

June 5, 2009

Jimmie mother-flippin Rodgers, people. The Man Who Started It All. The Singing Brakeman!!! His influence on popular music can’t be overstated. He invented the guitar and the drums and also the Moog. OK, maybe it can be overstated. But still, nobody made music like Jimmie until Jimmie came along. He made his own kind of [...]

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Jesus Speaks To Me

April 30, 2009

Four hundred and eighty-one Vegetables, and not one Joseph Spence (unless you count a 2007 Christmas bonus). Problem solved! Next up, swine flu. [Update: solved.] Joseph Spence – Out On The Rolling Sea

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It’s Good For A Man That Weighs 103

January 27, 2009

I had a fella come over to the house yesterday to do a little work, and I figured I may as well make a good impression and play some good music. I had never met this guy before, but I can pretty much guarantee that if you’ve got someone coming over and you put some [...]

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