<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Music @ www.leastbest.com</title><link>http://www.leastbest.com/</link><description>(Music) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 www.leastbest.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Music @ www.leastbest.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://www.leastbest.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Old Time Music in Homerville</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/old_time_music_in_homerville.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/old_time_music_in_homerville.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=old%5Ftime%5Fmusic%5Fin%5Fhomerville</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Last night my father-in-law and I went to the Homerville Community Center for some old-time jamming.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description><category>banjo</category><category>music</category><category>photography</category></item><item><title>One More Roy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/one_more_roy.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/one_more_roy.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=one%5Fmore%5Froy</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I haven&#39;t had time to write lately but that will be changing soon.&nbsp; Until then here is another Roy Book Binder video that I found on YouTube.&nbsp; This is classic Roy, the way I remember him from the eighties.&nbsp; Enjoy.&nbsp; &nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>Clawhammer Banjo Circle</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/clawhammer_banjo_circle.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/clawhammer_banjo_circle.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=clawhammer%5Fbanjo%5Fcircle</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator></item><item><title>New Ukelele</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/new_ukelele.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/new_ukelele.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Fukelele</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Lucy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/lucy.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/lucy.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2006 04:52:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lucy</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Katy Moffat</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/katy_moffat.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/katy_moffat.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=katy%5Fmoffat</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>A Night of Extremes Part II</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes_part_ii.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes_part_ii.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fnight%5Fof%5Fextremes%5Fpart%5Fii</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>A Night of Extremes Part I</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2005 03:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fnight%5Fof%5Fextremes</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>In Search of Roy Book Binder: part 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy_book_binder_part_2.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy_book_binder_part_2.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=in%5Fsearch%5Fof%5Froy%5Fbook%5Fbinder%5Fpart%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>In Search of Roy Book Binder: Part 1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:31:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=in%5Fsearch%5Fof%5Froy</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title>Roy Book Binder: The Concert</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_the_concert.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_the_concert.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2005 05:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=roy%5Fbook%5Fbinder%5Fthe%5Fconcert</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Roy Book Binder is coming</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_is_coming.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_is_coming.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:17:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=roy%5Fbook%5Fbinder%5Fis%5Fcoming</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Aging</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/aging.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/aging.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=aging</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Less Sleep</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/less_sleep.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/less_sleep.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=less%5Fsleep</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>One Nice Mandolin and one Crappy Mandolin</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/crappy_mandolin.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/crappy_mandolin.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=crappy%5Fmandolin</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>For the record</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/for_the_record.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/for_the_record.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:12:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=for%5Fthe%5Frecord</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item><item><title>Choral Spectrum Concert (Now You Can Hear For Yourselves)</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.leastbest.com/choral_spectrum_concert_now_you_can_hear_for_yourselves.htm</guid><link>http://www.leastbest.com/choral_spectrum_concert_now_you_can_hear_for_yourselves.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2004 02:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://www.leastbest.com/console/comments/popup/?f=choral%5Fspectrum%5Fconcert%5Fnow%5Fyou%5Fcan%5Fhear%5Ffor%5Fyourselves</comments><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[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]]></description></item></channel></rss>