Tuesday, November 19, 2024

Almost 1,374 hours in the kitchen making "Smiles" and other great music

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Some wonderful songs here, including "Teddy Bears' Picnic," "I Told Them All About You," "Smiles" and more...
Thursday, October 31, 2024

20 years on Virginia's Crooked Road, plus a contra dance

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 In a rare blogging crossover, it seemed appropriate to write  in my other blog  today about the Cardinal News article  tracing the history ...
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Wildwood Flowering in 2024

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 I just saw a comment on the 1928 recording of Wildwood Flower by the Carter Family that set me off researching so much that I have to shar...
Tuesday, July 09, 2024

Old-time debates about old-time music. What's that?

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I mentioned to one of my journalism classes 15 or so years ago that on the weekends I played "old-time" music. A student responded...
Tuesday, July 02, 2024

John Prine & Steve Goodman

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Another Bob S, from the 3rd Street Coffee House in Roanoke, just proposed the idea of naming a section of street there for John Prine .  I d...
Saturday, February 17, 2024

The Amazing 90 Minute Sextet

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Just had to share this after writing it for a Facebook post ...  Wow! Last Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024 -- Meredith Axelrod and Craig Ventresco ...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

A Zithering Web search for a musician's research legacy

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I posted part of this essay in a Facebook discussion among "old time" musicians who play the 20th or 21st century compositions of ...