Archive for the 'old time' Category
O Brother, Where Am I? Dill Pickles TONIGHT! Fergie’s Pub!
I got a nice little blurb in at Phawker today about old time music:
“Old time,” my fiddle-playing friend Nik says, “is like acoustic trance music.” At least the fiddle tunes are. While a bluegrass song is generally about 3 minutes long, old time songs can go on for a lot longer than that. In [...]
True Song
Poor Ellen Smith how she was found
Shot through the heart lying cold on the ground
Her clothers were all scattered and thrown on the ground
And blood marks the spot where poor Ellen was found
They picked up their rifles and hunted me down
And found me a-loafing in Mount Airy town
They picked up the body and carried it [...]
Dill Pickles: Old Time at Fergie’s, February 6
You will need Quicktime to hear us play “Johnson’s Old Grey Mule”. That’s me making all those horrible animal noises.
Read More..>>The Dill Pickles: Old Time Fiddle Tunes and Jug Band Stomps, 1/18/09 at the Tritone
First click here, for appropriate background music.
Hope to see you there!
Read More..>>Dill Pickles, Friday 12/05/08, Dawson Street Pub.
I have a new band, the Dill Pickles, which you can hear at my myspace page. we’ve only been a band for about a week, but we’re subbing for my other band,
Read More..>>Bluegrass Legend Ralph Stanley Cuts Ad for Obama
VIA TMP, a great ad. More than great: incredible.
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A lot of my readers aren’t bluegrass fans, or don’t know that much about the genre. Take it from me: Ralph Stanley is a living legend, not only in the bluegrass community but in the broader country music genre. He and his brother Carter started [...]
Uncle Earl
I am in love withUncle Earl. There is nothing as foxy as a girl that plays a fiddle or a banjo or any other instrument for that matter, and the only thing hotter than that is a girl that plays and signs old time. And these girls are just so cute. I’ve seen them [...]
Read More..>>Carolina Chocolate Drops
Black string band music revivalists. Awesome. Totally f-ing awesome.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Bogstompers
My friend Nikolai Fox is responsible for getting me into old time music.
Here’s one of the bands he plays with, the Bogstompers, doing a really fine version of Hoyt Ming’s “The Women Wear No Clothes At All”.
That’s some damn fine old time music, which I frankly prefer to bluegrass.
I’m not sure which song this is.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs was the real deal, and the brief biography I’m does not do the liner notes on the Revenant Records compilation justice.
Dock was from Virginia, and was a bootlegger. At one point the revenuer man broke down his door,and grabbed Dock’s wife as a human shield. Dock aimed his gun, fired, and [...]
