WHAT YOU MAY FIND HERE

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

Monday, January 29, 2018

Geography Div (regional judgement subsection)

Just up the road .... and where I spent a few years with the (cannot confirm or deny) nukes.


Saturday, January 27, 2018

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

Who sez that ya haf ta be from the sticks to play Bluegrass ??
Red Wine is an Italian Bluegrass band that's been around for forty years !!
They'll be doing a short tour on the East coast in February.
Here's a video from 2016, Fiddle and Bow



Red Wine: Lucas Bellotti (bass), Martino Coppo (mandolin), Marco Ferretti (guitar), Silvio Ferretti (banjo)

Thursday, January 25, 2018

That "Midas Touch" Div (if the foo shits subdivision)

There's not much I can say aside from "BRAVO ZULU" to the curator of the Guggenheim. Perhaps the Sec Treas can get a sheet or two of those bills for our "reverse Midas" to use when he's done. Dog known he's taking a dump on the whole country every day.


Monday, January 22, 2018

Geography Div (Forced unemployment subsection)

Well, if our Federal government is still shut down THANKS OBAMA oops, TRUMP. Where's the biggest impact ...... might surprise you.


Saturday, January 20, 2018

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

Chris Jones is one of the busiest people in the bluegrass community. Band leader, writer, disc jockey (Sirius XM) and frequent commentator on Bluegrass Today. The band recently replaced Ned Luberecki with Gina Clowes on banjo. Here's a new one from the Night Drivers, Tonight I'm Gonna Ride.



Chris Jones - Guitar & Vocals Mark Stoffel - Mandolin & Vocals Jon Weisberger - Bass & Vocals Gina Clowes - Banjo

Saturday, January 13, 2018

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div (Academic subsection)

If they had offered a program like this years ago (many) I'd have attended ETSU !



Recorded at the final show of 2009 "Bluegrass On Broad" evening concert series in Kingsport, Tennessee on 28 August 2009. The East Tennessee State University Bluegrass Pride Band performance is traditionally the last concert of the Bluegrass On Broad season and is also a annual part of ETSU Pride Week which corresponds with the start of the Fall Semester. The ETSU Bluegrass Pride Band is composed of leading students and faculty of the school's Bluegrass, Old Time, and Country Music Program in the Department of Appalachian Studies. Performing are Raymond McLain (fiddle), Dan Boner (guitar), Tara Sansom (fiddle), Leah Needham (dobro), Haley Stiltner (banjo), Danny Stewart (bass), and Colby Laney (mandolin).

Saturday, January 6, 2018

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

Clay Hess was the guitarist for Ricky Skaggs' Kentucky Thunder. He's now gone out on his own with a band of his own (tho he's been performing with them for a few years.
Here's a performance of Keith Allison and Mark Lindsay's Freeborn Man.



The Clay Hess Band: Clay Hess - Guitar, Dustin Frame - mando;in, Brady Wallen - Banjo,
Irl Hees - Bass and Brennan Hess - Guitar.



 Dustin Frame on mandolin, Brennan Hess on guitar, Brady Wallen on banjo, and Irl Hees on bass.

Monday, January 1, 2018

Geography Div (Happy New Year subsection)

Tho this is 2015, bet they haven't much changed for this new one.

Here's one that we can all make:
                     I will vote in every election and I will not vote against MY interests.




                        HAPPY NEW YEAR !