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Old Time Music in Homerville
Saturday, 28 April 2007 11:16 P GMT-05
Last night my father-in-law and I went to the Homerville Community Center for some old-time jamming.
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One More Roy
Friday, 9 February 2007 7:31 A GMT-05
I haven't had time to write lately but that will be changing soon. Until then here is another Roy Book Binder video that I found on YouTube. This is classic Roy, the way I remember him from the eighties. Enjoy.
Clawhammer Banjo Circle
Monday, 1 January 2007 1:37 P GMT-05
New Ukelele
Tuesday, 31 October 2006 12:00 A GMT-05
One of my customers is a luthier and makes fine guitars and tamburitzas I haven't had a chance to see him or his wife play the tamburitza but I hear they are really good. Over the years I've had the pleasure of seeing many of the in
Lucy
Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:52 P GMT-05
My buddy Tom called today and invited me to see Lucy Kaplansky at The Beachland Ballroom this Friday. This is just what I've been needing, a few pints of Guinness and some good live music.I've been listening to Lucy on WKSU on the weekends when
Katy Moffat
Saturday, 7 January 2006 10:59 P GMT-05
A few days ago I got a phone call from my buddy Tom. As usual he had won tickets to a local concert. This time it was for Katy Moffat at The Beachland Ballroom.I've seen Katy twice before but never in a real concert setting. Both ti
A Night of Extremes Part II
Monday, 21 November 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
After the Donovan concert I was beat complete. I had an hour and a half drive home and needed coffee. My buddy Tom told me there was a free concert for volunteers over at Kent Stage with The Dust Poets. I hadn't heard of them and after leaving
A Night of Extremes Part I
Sunday, 20 November 2005 10:59 P GMT-05
Saturday night the Donovan concert and my night to volunteer. I got there right on time and headed to the volunteer area. There were thirteen of us and most were in their mid-forties or older. We chatted and I got the impression that many were
In Search of Roy Book Binder: part 2
Thursday, 13 October 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
My friend Tom called and invited me to the Philadelphia Folk Festival. Being raised by an agoraphobic gives me an altered sense of distance and going to Philadelphia seemed equivalent to going to Afganistan. He explained that since it was the for
In Search of Roy Book Binder: Part 1
Monday, 10 October 2005 6:31 A GMT-05
When I was in high school radio different than today. Disk Jockeys would play a whole range of music. You could hear James Taylor, then Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan (acoustic) and then Black Sabbath. The mix was fantastic and was fun to listen to.
Roy Book Binder: The Concert
Sunday, 2 October 2005 12:59 A GMT-05
Went to the Roy Book Binder concert tonight at Kent Stage in downtown Kent, Ohio. As usual I was running late along with the added anxiety of going all the way to Kent. Being the son of an agoraphobic I had printed out maps from both MapQuest and
Roy Book Binder is coming
Saturday, 1 October 2005 10:17 A GMT-05
My favorite artist, Roy Book Binder is playing tonight at Kent Stage
at 8 pm. I studied with Roy at Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Ranch a few
years ago and he is my favorite acoustic blues artist. He is far more
than that though. He is a gifted story
Aging
Saturday, 24 September 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age,
when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age
not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and
evening so large, almost entirely di
Less Sleep
Sunday, 18 September 2005 6:29 P GMT-05
It looks like I'm going to be getting a lot less sleep. Things are going well with the banjo. I spend part of my practice time working on Scruggs (three finger style) and then switch to Clawhammer (frailing style). My father-in-law has been a g
One Nice Mandolin and one Crappy Mandolin
Thursday, 21 July 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
My father-in-law is a great guy. He's helped me explore music and taken me in directions that I never expected. One of those ways is the mandolin. He plays one, a pre-war Martin mandolin that he won in a card game back in World War II. He als
For the record
Sunday, 6 March 2005 10:12 P GMT-05
One of my favorite musicians is Sam Chatmon. For Christmas I got a DVD that showed him playing a few of his songs. When this was recorded he was well into old age. His playing is stunning and I wish I had seen him before he died in 1983 at 86 year
Choral Spectrum Concert (Now You Can Hear For Yourselves)
Saturday, 11 December 2004 9:03 P GMT-05
Last month Choral Spectrum performed a night of Gospel music as I documented in this blog entry. Many of my family and friends couldn't attend the concert so I've decided to post some of the songs that I recorded with my minidisc recorder. To play ju
