boblog -- by bob stepno

Happy birthday to Josh White! (February 11, 1914 – September 5, 1969) I saw him on the old ABC Hootenanny TV show, and soon scraped tog...

A few years after starting to play the tiple, an unusual 10-string ukulele-tuned instrument , I am still curious to learn who played tipl...

My friend Richard loves to sing this song, and I noticed a while ago that I could pick it out on my Firefly banjo uke in his key... so at...

Songwriters have added their voices to the campaign against natural-gas pipeline construction in the mountains of West Virginia, Virginia an...

How many biscuits can you eat this morning? Terrific breakfast music...  making me wonder whether the steel resonator I recentl...

A friend has been singing the song "When Did You Leave Heaven?" at a local jam session off and on for a year or so, and while he ...

Recordings from the days of 78 rpm phonographs continue to find their way to YouTube, where my latest discovery touches three issues that i...