Music Mondays On Sunday morning, I caught some of an Americana Music Special on PBS. It featured some pretty good music. One of the highlights for me was a performance of Cup of Sorrow by Amos Lee. There’s also a live version of Cup of Sorrow (Live) – iTunes Live from SoHo available from iTunes. [...]
Music Mondays and Train Tuesdays [combined this week] Norfolk Southern’s older locomotives are setup to run in both directions, so you occasionally might see a locomotive with the long hood end facing forward, despite lower visibility for the crew. This photo of an NS freight train dates back to 1988-89. The freight train picture brings [...]
Music Mondays I don’t always like bluegrass covers of rock and roll songs, but I do like this one for some reason. It’s Town Mountain playing I’m On Fire (the Bruce Springsteen song). Click the links to listen to previews or download. Here’s a video of a live version. Tweet (function(d, s, id) { var [...]
Music Mondays (a day late this week) Last Friday, I watched a special entitled Give Me the Banjo on PBS. Give Me the Banjo is the name of The Banjo Project film narrated by Steve Martin. The film was light on full length songs, but it had a lot of history. I certainly learned a [...]
Music Mondays Bringing Mary Home For Halloween, I’m recommending a great ghost song off the Live In Japan album by The Country Gentlemen called Bringing Mary Home. For that matter, Bringing Mary Home is also a campfire performance favorite. I’ve Come to Take You Home Speaking of Bringing Mary Home, The Seldom Scene recorded a [...]