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🦋 Tuesday Random 10

(Hoping the posting of random playlists does not wear on my readers' patience...) Tonight's shuffle went very nicely indeed:

1. "Cryin' Holy Unto the Lord", The Charles River Valley Boys
2. "Dead Cats on the Line", Vassar Clements (This is originally by Tampa Red.)
3. Dialog of patter between Robyn and Grant Lee, about "the rubber thing". At the end of this interlude, Robyn counts in "1, 2, 3, 4--" to the next song they are going to play, and the playlist moves to
4. "The Dozen" by Big Bill Broonzy, in exactly the rhythm and tempo that Robyn had counted out. This is one of the most pleasant things that has happened to my ears all day.
5. "Señor Blues", Taj Mahal
6. "A Globe of Frogs" -- live performance, off of Give it to the Thoth Boys
7. "Beaver Slide Rag", Peg Leg Howell and his Gang
8. "The Truth", Kimberley Rew -- shades of "The Man With the Lightbulb Head"!
9. "Grooving on an Inner Plane"
10. "I'm Thinking Tonight of my Blue Eyes", the Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band with Mother Maybelle.

posted evening of Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
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Seeing the mention of "Mother Maybelle", I'm curious whether you've listened to much Carter Family music?

I've always been aware of them as a name, but I didn't have much of a sense of their music until getting this CD of (mostly) Carter Family tunes a little over a year ago. It made me think that I should learn more of their music.

I still haven't listened to many of their recordings but, as you know, I was quite happy to end my last mix with a Maybelle Carter track.

posted morning of June 16th, 2010 by NickS

I have the JSP Records Carter Family box set, and for a period of time a few years ago (2005 or 6 I think) I was listening to just about nothing else. They seem to me like a key point of reference for the folk music that I learned to sing and to recognize when I was a kid. The track I listed above (although the link is to a Carter Family recording) is from the Nitty-Gritty Dirt Band's record "Will the Circle Be Unbroken", a great, great record that links up the folk revival with some older musicians.

posted afternoon of June 16th, 2010 by Jeremy

(Oh and by the way NickS, you win fabulous prizes by being commenter #1000 here at readin! Congratulations! Picture bells ringing, confetti falling, grinning buxom hostesses coming forward with keys to your shiny new car and tickets for your tropical vacation.)

posted afternoon of June 16th, 2010 by Jeremy

Woo Hoo!

I was just given a copy of Will The Circle Be Unbroken as a present. This reminds me that I should listen to it (and I would definitely recommend that CD by Cliff and Laural to you).

posted afternoon of June 16th, 2010 by NickS

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