Sierra Hull, sitting in with a Disco band. Wait... what?!

This really brings a smile to my heart. The younger generation working hard and achieving!

Great Crimson cover!

Very nice cover indeed!

Danno, I can't thank you enough. 

I'm in the School of Rock rabbit hole right now.  It's beautiful - exceeds expectations.  Huge props to the teachers!

RIP Astrud.

Happy 43rd birthday, Derek! 

Peter

One must always respect a woman who is not shy about making full use of the marketing advantage inherent in nice legs, hot pants and bondage waders!
And if she is a ferociously good player, all the better........   

Peter

Leaving aside that tackling any Bela Fleck & the Flecktones tune in a band context that doesn't involve at least a couple Flecktones and Bela... this is an amazing performance by a buncha' young'uns just having too much fun.

Wanting some actual country music today - so, Dale Watson! 






Peter

Nice Fleck cover!

More Actual Country Music (you can tell, fiddles and steel guitar):



I came up playing tunes like this in Texas.  You best not show up without 'The Chair', 'All My Exes', and a half-dozen other George Strait tunes.  I remember the big dance halls with the wooden dance floors the size of a parking spot for two 18-wheelers, full of cowboys and work-hard-for-a-living guys and their girls, all 'dancing backward in a circle', two steppin' or slow dancing to tunes just like this.  Work in 'Orange blossom Special', 'Steel Guitar Rag, maybe 'Long Black Veil' if you need to slow them down.  A little Bob Wills went a long way, call out 'Roly Poly' or 'San Antonio Rose' or 'Deep Water', it's on.  Lone Stars and brisket sandwiches or fajitas.  Good Times, and I loved playing this textbook traditional country like this one.  Everybody can't be a Texan, but you'll get over it.

But then, ya got to eat afterwards.  See Cowboy Kent Rollins, a real chuckwagon cook.  THIS is the REAL thing.



See Kent's YouTube channel for all things cast-iron, grilling, and Cowboy cooking, I get a big bang out of him.

https://www.youtube.com/@CowboyKentRollins

Philip Glass, Yo-Yo Ma - Naqoyqatsi

I don't know anything about the movie.  For a long time now I have from time to time been drawn in by the music of Philip Glass, and this one is just as alluring.  And Yo-Yo Ma is, well, Yo-Yo Ma.

My son introduced me to Phillip via Metamorphosis.  I find his pieces relaxing.  And Yo-Yo is a beautiful human as well as a talented musician.  That piece was slightly haunting... in a good way.

The Onlies, with fiddler Sami Braman, playing a couple original tunes she learned from one of my relatives in Western North Carolina, Queen Belle Honeycutt Randolph.





The rhythm is unmistakable on the instrumental "Preacher's Unknown Tune". This is what oldtyme music sounds like in that part of the world. It is distinctly different from here in Southwest Virginia or Southern West Virginia.