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Musical video clips selected for your enjoyment by a real disk jockey. Do you like jazz, country, blues, folk? You will discover untold riches in this blog.
Recent Posts
Santa Cruz River Band: La Yaquesita
Teodoro “Ted” Ramirez and Michael Ronstadt play music that they learned growing up in Arizona; music from the Mexican, Native Americans and European cultures of the people who live together in a unique mixture in the southwest. Ted and Michael ha...
Goebel Reeves: I Am A Lonesome Cowboy
Goebel Reeves, b 1899, d 1969, the son of a Texas legislator, served in the Army and was wounded during WWI. On his return to the States he adopted the lifestyle of a hobo, wandering across the country, writing and singing songs. He worked as a merch...
Martin Bogan & Armstrong
A late survivor of the black string band tradition of the early 20th century was the trio of Carl Martin, Ted Bogan and Howard Armstrong. These three musicians from Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee worked together, with the addition of one or m...
Jaco Pastorius: America the Beautiful
Jaco Pastorius is one of those names you hear brought up by musicians that might not be so well known to the wider world. He played bass with the band Weather Report and you have probably heard him in that context. He is one of the people that brough...
Tom Dooley: The Kingston Trio
This familiar song, which sold over six million copies for the Kingston Trio and is credited with starting the folk scare was derived from a song written in the nineteenth century by Thomas Land of, a resident of North Carolina. It is based on a hist...
José Antonio Abreu “El Sistema”
I am a great fan of the TED website, (http://www.ted.com/). TED is an annual gathering of smart people, like Al Gore and Bill Gates who give talks to each other about all the very cool things they are doing, each of which will change the world for th...
