Music Mondays Just weeks after Earl Scruggs passed away, the bluegrass community lost another banjo great. Doug Dillard of The Dillards passed away last week at the age of 75. The Dillards recorded many fine songs and for a time Doug Dillard was accused of recording tricks since his banjo playing was so fast. The [...]
Music Mondays Old Crow Medicine Show is a success story for Americana music. Starting off mainly playing raucous versions of classic old-time string band songs, they’ve evolved to writing quality original acoustic music. If you’re a new listener, I especially recommend the O.C.M.S. and Big Iron World CDs, but there is plenty of lively, fun, [...]
Music Mondays A few years ago, the Low-Tech Times gave a favorable review to both the book and movie entitled Into The Wild. The Eddie Vedder soundtrack Into the Wild (Music for the Motion Picture) [Deluxe Version] – Eddie Vedder contains some good stripped-down songs: Rise – Into the Wild (Music for the Motion Picture) [...]
Music Mondays Crazy Heart Movie Review I recently watched and enjoyed Crazy Heart, a movie about a country music singer with an alcohol problem. With plenty of good true-story music legend movies already out there like Walk the Line and Ray, I wasn’t sure whether this might be an overdone theme. However, I ended up [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] There was a good article in a recent Trains magazine about the legend of John Henry. The story is a perfect man vs machine battle (low-tech vs hi-tech). The legend goes that a powerful worker named John Henry died after successfully outperforming a steam drill during the [...]