<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Music @ www.leastbest.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 www.leastbest.com</rights><subtitle>(Music) </subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-11-05T01:00:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.leastbest.com/read/music.rss"/><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2007-04-29:links.411988827</id><title>Old Time Music in Homerville</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/old_time_music_in_homerville.htm"><![CDATA[Last night my father-in-law and I went to the Homerville Community Center for some old-time jamming.&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></content><dc:subject>banjo</dc:subject><dc:subject>music</dc:subject><dc:subject>photography</dc:subject><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/old_time_music_in_homerville.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-04-29T04:16:00Z</updated><published>2007-04-29T04:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2007-02-09:links.411940227</id><title>One More Roy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/one_more_roy.htm"><![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;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/one_more_roy.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-02-09T12:31:00Z</updated><published>2007-02-09T12:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2007-01-01:links.411905767</id><title>Clawhammer Banjo Circle</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/clawhammer_banjo_circle.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2007-01-01T18:37:00Z</updated><published>2007-01-01T18:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2006-10-31:links.411847137</id><title>New Ukelele</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/new_ukelele.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/new_ukelele.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2006-10-31T05:00:00Z</updated><published>2006-10-31T05:00:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2006-02-09:links.1627703</id><title>Lucy</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/lucy.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/lucy.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2006-02-09T04:52:00Z</updated><published>2006-02-09T04:52:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2006-01-08:links.1611115</id><title>Katy Moffat</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/katy_moffat.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/katy_moffat.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2006-01-08T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2006-01-08T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-11-22:links.1554313</id><title>A Night of Extremes Part II</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes_part_ii.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes_part_ii.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-11-22T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-22T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-11-21:links.1553344</id><title>A Night of Extremes Part I</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/a_night_of_extremes.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-11-21T03:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-11-21T03:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-10-14:links.1512853</id><title>In Search of Roy Book Binder: part 2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy_book_binder_part_2.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy_book_binder_part_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-10-14T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-14T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-10-10:links.1497145</id><title>In Search of Roy Book Binder: Part 1</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy.htm"><![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.]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/in_search_of_roy.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-10-10T11:31:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-10T11:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-10-02:links.1496865</id><title>Roy Book Binder: The Concert</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_the_concert.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_the_concert.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-10-02T05:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-02T05:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-10-01:links.1496252</id><title>Roy Book Binder is coming</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_is_coming.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/roy_book_binder_is_coming.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-10-01T15:17:00Z</updated><published>2005-10-01T15:17:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-09-25:links.1489211</id><title>Aging</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/aging.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/aging.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-09-25T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-25T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-09-18:links.1481211</id><title>Less Sleep</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/less_sleep.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/less_sleep.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-09-18T23:29:00Z</updated><published>2005-09-18T23:29:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-07-22:links.1400484</id><title>One Nice Mandolin and one Crappy Mandolin</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/crappy_mandolin.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/crappy_mandolin.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-07-22T04:59:00Z</updated><published>2005-07-22T04:59:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2005-03-07:links.1115873</id><title>For the record</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/for_the_record.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/for_the_record.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2005-03-07T03:12:00Z</updated><published>2005-03-07T03:12:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:www.leastbest.com,2004-12-12:links.953502</id><title>Choral Spectrum Concert (Now You Can Hear For Yourselves)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.leastbest.com/choral_spectrum_concert_now_you_can_hear_for_yourselves.htm"><![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]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.leastbest.com/choral_spectrum_concert_now_you_can_hear_for_yourselves.htm"/><dc:creator>Randall Bott</dc:creator><author><name>Randall Bott</name></author><updated>2004-12-12T02:03:00Z</updated><published>2004-12-12T02:03:00Z</published></entry></feed>