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Cloudy Days and Concertinas – Part III

The rain drops blessed me again today.  As much as I want to get out into the garden, I have gotten comfortable spending productive days inside the house while the Oregon rain makes gentle noise outside. You might think someone who loves musical instruments as much as I do would have music running full blast [...]

Cloudy Days, Musical Seduction, and Concertina Adventures – Part II

The clouds have subsided, and the sun decided to grace my day, but here I am finding joy in writing the second part of this story.  (This is part two, you can find the first part of this story at this link: Cloudy Days, Musical Seduction, and Concertina Adventures – Part I) There are men [...]

Cloudy Days, Musical Seduction, and Concertina Adventures – Part I

It was a number of cloudy days, kind of like today, that brought me to this instrument in front of me, almost rebuilt and ready to be played. The promise of sun on my face and cool dewy air tickles me as summertime quickly approaches. I’m in Oregon, and I am told that this year [...]

Improvised Instrument Love – Summer Festival Style

It you have read this blog long enough you will have figured out that I have a musical instrument fetish.  These days I spend more time trying to make noise that sounds like music then I actually spend listening to music.  This may or may not be a good thing, but it has been so [...]

“Exclusive Listen” Still Here – CSN and a little Y – Demos

I have loved Crosby, Stills, and Nash since I was a kid.  CSN was one of those bands that as I got older I realized that all those songs belonged to that same “group.”  This was of course when I was young enough, and  perhaps just old enough, to start figuring out what a “musical [...]

More Guitar Playing Coolness! – Just Another Guitar Hero

A couple months ago a video I found on the Internet inspired me to ask the question: Does this guitar playing make you hot?  Now, after seeing this new video I find myself asking the same sorts of questions. more about "Andy McKee – Guitar – Drifting – www….", posted with vodpod Was that cool [...]

A song to describe a moment: Mona Lisa and Mad Hatters

  Now I know, "Spanish harlem" are not just pretty words to say. I thought I knew, but now I know that rose trees never grow, in New York city. It has been a while since I have turned on my radio.   Any radio.   A few days ago I did something that I hadn’t done [...]

While We are on the Topic of The Beatles on the Internet: Beatles-A-Rama Radio

As I have mentioned in some previous posts that I am a little bit of a Beatles Fan.  Recently I have had the pleasure of meeting even more of a fan than I am, which is quite the pleasure.  Meeting this new friend had inspired me to look for some streaming Beatles music that I [...]

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