WHAT YOU MAY FIND HERE

RANTS, RAVINGS and RUMINATIONS along with
RAUCOUS RIBALDRY and RAMBLING REFLECTIONS

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Geography Div (WW II subsection)

Here's what WW II in Europe looked like day-by-day. With all the going ons lately, do we really want to do something like this again ??
Put it on full screen and spend seven minutes remembering (or learning anew as the case might be ).


Saturday, April 26, 2014

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

A 2013 performance of Steve Goodman's City of New Orleans by the Seldom Scene.
It's still hard to picture this group without John Duffy on the mandolin and Mike Aldridge on Dobro.



Dudley Connell - Guitar, Ben Eldridge - Banjo, Lou Reid - Mandolin, Ronnie Simpkins - Bass and Fred Travers - Dobro.

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Geography Div (Global Warming subsectiion)

A while back we looked at some of the effects of this old world gettin' hotter and hotter.
Here's one of the coldest places on earth ….. after.


Saturday, April 19, 2014

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

Iron Horse Bluegrass doing their compilation Crazy Train.



Tony Robertson - Mandolin, Vance Henry - Guitar, Andy Richardson - Banjo and
Ricky Rogers - Bass.

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Saturday, April 12, 2014

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

The Tony Rice Unit doing Tony's original composition, Tipper, named for his dog.



Tony and Wyatt Rice - Guitars (but you knew that); Jimmy Gaudreau - Mandolin; Ricky Simpkins - Fiddle and  Ronnie Simpkins - Bass. …… and the introduction by the late John Hartford.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

An All-Star performance of Sawin' on the Strings: 



Just in case no one recognized the performers: Alison Krauss - fiddle and lead vocal, Ron Block - Banjo, Jerry Douglas - Dobro, Sam Bush & Dan Tyminski  - Mandolin and harmony vocals, Stuart Duncan - Fiddle, Barry Bales - Bass …… and last, but certainly not least, Tony Rice on guitar