The lovely & charming Mrs. Cowboy is, alas, enamored of the drivel coming out of Nashville of late - so I have to go Youtube after sh'es in bed to get some real, honest-to-drunken-tears country music.


Peter (who mourns the death of Nudie Cohn)

True Story; Porter Wagoner's dressing room at The Opry House had a sign on it... "This is Porter Country - Take Off Your Hat". No idea what the story was behind that one, but my room-mate who had an Opry gig pointed it out to me once. 

Nice selection from a "Childsplay" concert, featuring Aoife' O'Donovan on vocals.

All those fiddles were made by a violin-maker Robert Childs. Every so often the people who play his instruments make recordings and put on concerts.

More here: http://www.childsplay.org/index.html

Cheap Trick with a Series II..





John

Haden Triplets  self titled album - Charlie's girls.

Sara Watkins self titled album.

I'm re-reading Lewis Porter's biography of John Coltrane; so here's one of my favorite Coltrane tunes, , which goes nicely with this cloudy, rainy, afternoon.

Nice, Paul.  Only siblings can do harmony quite like that.

Peter

Cheap Trick was nice John. I had forgotten that tune... had a flashback to Jr. High.

Pat Metheny on acoustic guitar covering the Beatles' .

I've been listening to that same recording in the shop Dave... at least I think it must be the same one. There are several Beatles tunes and at least one U2 tune as well.   

Here is an absolutely gorgeous tune, a live take of the Pat Metheny band playing his .

Beep-Beep, back up! That Series II on the Cheap Trick video was a 12 string!!

The .  This is very cool.  The instrumentation, the composition, that these musicians have been brought together, and the delight with which they appear to be playing; all make for a wonderful performance.

Can't believe I never heard of Bill Frisell until a few weeks ago.

Thanks Brian; listening to the "Plays John Lennon" now.  Quite wonderful.

Check him out here, Brian; I've seen the full set as one vid, but it seems to have been cut up into in 4 pieces - only 2 of which, alas, I can find:










Peter