boblog -- by bob stepno

Here, mostly about music; oldtime-radio research at JHeroes; more general blog, other journalism; and on Mastodon as newsie.social/@BobStep

Saturday, April 28, 2018

A Leon Redbone story and picture

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A musician friend -- singer, guitarist, radio host, and scholar of pre-WorldWar II music -- posted on Facebook that he would like very mu...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Remembering Josh White

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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...
Monday, December 18, 2017

Heavyweight Tiple

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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...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Fishing Blues

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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...
Monday, October 02, 2017

Pipeline's greatest hits

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Songwriters have added their voices to the campaign against natural-gas pipeline construction in the mountains of West Virginia, Virginia an...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Alcyone, Dr. Bate' s ukulele-playing daughter

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How many biscuits can you eat this morning? Terrific breakfast music...  making me wonder whether the steel resonator I recentl...
Friday, May 19, 2017

How many times did you leave heaven?

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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 ...
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While this was a more general blog at first, since 2009, Boblog has been for occasional writing about music, part of trying to differentiate my web writing spaces. My other blogs are JHeroes (old-time radio's portrayal of journalists) & Other Journalism, a general-purpose writerly blog, successor to stepno.com/oldblog. When I was teaching, they all sometimes served other purposes. I have worked for two newspapers (one full time for 11 years), several magazines, four software companies, and six colleges and universities, counting part-time, freelance and student jobs. See stepno.com.
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