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Category: goatee-stroking musing, or something

  • blues minus the blues

    All the “… Blues” tracks I have, minus the blues:

    • 12th street
    • 1st precinct
    • 30-20
    • 99 year
    • airplane
    • alcoholic
    • all
    • all in down and out
    • all night long
    • answering machine
    • apron string
    • arcade
    • arkansas hard luck
    • autogeddon
    • back door
    • bad shoes
    • bamalong
    • banker’s wife
    • bankhead
    • barber’s
    • barnyard
    • bath house
    • bay rum
    • beach boy
    • bedside
    • bert’s
    • big house
    • big mouth
    • big spit
    • billy goat
    • black and blue
    • black bottom
    • black cat
    • black crow
    • black dog
    • black-eyed
    • black hand
    • black sheep
    • blowing
    • bluebottle
    • blue coat
    • blue day
    • blue jeans
    • bob dylan
    • bob lee junior
    • bone dry
    • boogie woogie
    • bottle of
    • bourgeois
    • bread line
    • brownie’s
    • brown’s ferry
    • brown skin
    • bull frog
    • cairo
    • candy man
    • cannonball
    • carroll county
    • carter’s
    • catfish
    • c.c. & o
    • cell phone
    • checkout
    • chester
    • chicago
    • chile
    • chilly wind
    • choking
    • city
    • coal mine
    • coal tipple
    • cocaine
    • cold penitentiary
    • columbus stockade
    • coming into hard times
    • country
    • courting
    • crazy
    • crooked creek
    • cross road
    • cross tie
    • crow jane
    • cumberland
    • custard pie
    • custom-made woman
    • cut 1/2
    • dachau
    • dago
    • dark holler
    • davidson county
    • dead shrimp
    • death bell
    • deep elem
    • deep river
    • depot
    • diamond ring
    • dickson county
    • dirty guitar
    • dixie flyer
    • dom
    • don’t let your deal go down
    • do right daddy
    • down south
    • dreaming
    • dry town
    • dust bowl
    • dust pan
    • dust pneumonia
    • dying crapshooter’s
    • early mornin’
    • east virginia
    • ec
    • electro-shock
    • elk river
    • empty bottle
    • empty pocket
    • evening prayer
    • evil twin
    • expressman
    • farewell
    • farm girl
    • fine artiste
    • fisherman’s
    • fishin’
    • fishing
    • fixin’ to die
    • florida
    • folsom prison
    • football
    • framer’s
    • franklin
    • franklin county
    • freddy’s
    • freight train
    • fresno
    • frisco whistle
    • gambler’s
    • gambling
    • georgia brown
    • georgia wobble
    • ghost woman
    • ginseng
    • go easy
    • goin’ away
    • goin’ to leave you
    • got the drunken
    • got the farm land
    • grace kelly
    • gravel camp
    • guitar
    • hard time killing floor
    • haunted road
    • helena
    • henhouse
    • hesitation
    • highway
    • highway 51
    • hobo
    • hometown
    • honey babe
    • honky tonk
    • hot jelly roll
    • housefly
    • huckleberry
    • ice water
    • indian squaw
    • intersoular
    • jailhouse
    • jake bottle
    • jake leg
    • jake walk
    • james allen
    • james alley
    • jellyfish
    • jersey bull
    • john henry
    • johnson city
    • just like tom thumb’s
    • kansas city
    • kentucky
    • killin’
    • kindhearted woman
    • kozmic
    • kristin’s
    • kyle’s worried
    • labor
    • land locked
    • leake county
    • lee highway
    • left all alone again
    • lightnin’s
    • little
    • living here
    • logan county
    • lonely
    • lonesome
    • lonesome road
    • lonesome weary
    • long chain charlie
    • lost boy
    • lost train
    • louisburg
    • lovesick
    • low d
    • mad man
    • maggie walker
    • man trouble
    • married life
    • married man’s
    • married woman
    • match box
    • mean conductor
    • mean old ball and chain
    • mean talking
    • mehitabel’s
    • mexican
    • middlin’
    • milk cow
    • milwaukee
    • minglewood
    • mississippi boweavil
    • miss meal cramp
    • mistreated
    • mistreated mama
    • mitchell
    • mixed
    • moatsville
    • mobile county
    • morning
    • mourning
    • mr. e’s beautiful
    • muleskinner
    • multiple relationship
    • muscle shoals
    • my human gets me
    • narrow gauge
    • natural bridge
    • new ground
    • new minglewood
    • newport
    • new river
    • new talking
    • new white house
    • new york j-d
    • night woman
    • north country
    • no sleep
    • n.r.a.
    • number
    • old lonesome
    • old rock island
    • old weary
    • old woman
    • ontario
    • oozlin’ daddy
    • original stack o’lee
    • outlaw
    • paddlin’ madeline
    • pan american
    • parchman farm
    • patrick county
    • phonograph
    • poca river
    • police dog
    • police sergeant
    • pony
    • poor boy
    • poor girl’s
    • poor jane
    • port arthur
    • pot licker
    • pouring down
    • prison cell
    • puckett
    • quill
    • rabbit foot
    • radar
    • railroad
    • railroad hammer
    • ramblin’
    • red night gown
    • reno
    • restraining order
    • rheumatism
    • richmond
    • rip van winkle
    • rising river
    • rising sun
    • river
    • rock style
    • rollin’ dough
    • rolling log
    • roll my
    • rooster
    • rotten world
    • rowdy
    • rub alcohol
    • salt lake city
    • salty dog
    • san francisco bay
    • seattle rainy day
    • shaking wee
    • showers of rain
    • sisco harmonica
    • situation comedy
    • skool dinner
    • sobbin’ woman
    • sonny’s
    • spanish
    • spike driver
    • starvation farm
    • statesboro
    • station
    • steel rail
    • stockade
    • stove pipe
    • strawberry
    • string band
    • subterranean homesick
    • sugar
    • suits crybaby
    • sundown
    • sven
    • sweet woman
    • talking dust bowl
    • talking fishing
    • talking world war iii
    • talkin’ hard luck
    • talkin’ woody, bob, bruce & dan
    • tallahatchie river
    • teasin’ brown
    • tennessee river bottom
    • tequila hop
    • terraplane
    • testosterone
    • the france
    • three ball
    • tinker’s
    • tipple
    • toby woman
    • tokyo business
    • tombstone
    • tough luck
    • train
    • trane’s slo
    • travelin’
    • travelin’ railroad man
    • triangle
    • t&t
    • turtle
    • tuxedo
    • two-timing
    • unexplained
    • unknown
    • up country
    • upside down church
    • v.b.
    • violin
    • walking
    • wang wang harmonica
    • washington
    • washington talkin’
    • way down yonder
    • wayward girl
    • weeping willow
    • west carey street
    • whiskey & gin
    • white flag
    • white house
    • white-shoe
    • wilkes county
    • window pane
    • winnsboro cotton mill
    • working girl
    • workingman
    • worried
    • worried man
    • xmas prison
    • yodeling
    • yodeling fiddling
    • young girl

    And yes, I excluded I Guess That’s Why They Call It The …

  • chris coole at the local

    Chris Coole – The Local, Toronto – 7 December 02008:
    Chris Coole at The Local

    First Set

    1. Sail Away Ladies – medley
    2. John Henry Blues
    3. Hey Porter
    4. John Hartford intro
    5. Let Him Go On Mama, Don’t Put Him Down For It Now
    6. Chilly Wind Blues
    7. beautician’s school – cold guitar tuning
    8. Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
    9. I Know What I Know
    10. The Bandit Cole Younger
    11. Walking Boss intro – gourd tuning
    12. Walking Boss
    13. Little Sadie Intro – more tuning
    14. Little Sadie
    15. There’ll Be Hell To Pay intro
    16. There’ll Be Hell To Pay
    17. one more tune – tip jar – Slurf Song intro
    18. Slurf Song

    Second Set

    1. Bonaparte’s Retreat
    2. re-intro
    3. Big Steel Rail
    4. John Hartford – batman cape anecdote
    5. Wish We Had Our Time Again
    6. recyclable banjo tuning
    7. Six Days On The Road
    8. Civil War Medley
    9. Introduction to Townes van Zandt
    10. Pancho & Lefty
    11. Railroad Blues
    12. Shelter from the Storm
    13. Old Dog
    14. Medley intro
    15. Turkey in the Straw, Soldier’s Joy
    16. tip jar – Uncloudy Day intro
    17. The Uncloudy Day
    18. tuning
    19. Lonesome Whistle
    20. thanks – and buy banjo CDs
    21. Cannonball Blues

  • i remember that ben elton back when he was funny

    Mr Butcher: [sits down on a bollard, then jumps up in disgust] Eurgh, I’ve just sat on something horrible and smelly!
    Mr Baker: What was it?
    Mr Butcher: My bottom.

    – and that, kids, was the essence of alternative comedy.

  • ttc kalimba again

    I love this busker’s sound.
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  • oliver postgate’s world

    Sad to hear that Oliver Postgate passed away. Bagpuss was my series; it started just as I started school, and I caught the first episodes. I spent the whole evening learning the theme on the mandolin, and watched a couple of episodes, half-teary. Was it really nearly 35 years ago?

    The music and sounds are what stuck with me. I didn’t know it at the time – but did as soon as I picked one up – that the Bagpuss waking up magic sound is a slow upwards glissando on an autoharp. Similarly, the falling asleep sound is an autoharp strummed slowly downwards. Gabriel’s instrument confused me for years – I now see it has a 5 string banjo neck, but no fifth string (like someone else I could name). To add further confusion, it’s really a mandolin that’s Gabriel’s sound.

  • a fun word to say


    How often do you get to say goober in a serious context?

  • november crickets

    I’m at our windfarm – and the crickets are singing!

  • evil mutant alien piglet baby

    a blob of uhu-tack ended up this way.

  • white poppies ’08

    White poppies are now at Toronto Meeting House, and will also be at Yonge St Meeting (Newmarket) from next week.

  • the invisible hand of the market was flipping you off all along

    “I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms …”
    — Alan Greenspan, quoted in The New York Times.

  • Hugin comes fully of age

    I made the Generic Vancouver Seawall Panorama today using all of Hugin‘s defaults, and in the words of Eric Morecambe, “You can’t see the join!”. You used to have to play with lots of settings – now it just gets it right. Bravo!

  • more Atkinson/potrace tile oddness

    wobbly

  • advice: just buy a can of kidney beans

    Okay, so now the house smells of damp, the stove top is covered with evil red liquid, and the pan is coated with something that looks like it came from the insides of a duck. This is why canned red kidney beans are a good idea, and why almost no-one cooks their own.

  • Stewart’s helpful advice to the financial industry

  • car scraping time

    First frost last night in Tillsonburg.

  • giving up roasting for now

    I’m giving up roasting coffee – too much smoke, too many smoke detectors. That, and the fuss, the mess, the occasionally imperfect roasts. It’s been fun, but it’s time to move on.

  • I spy …

    Why is there so much writing about a US $700 billion plan, and almost nothing about a $634 billion one?

  • I did say these words – just not in that order

    Windfarms can spend as little as 5% of their …

    • … ads from the axis of evil …
    • … songs (Thunderbird) performed backwards. On Earth My Nina, which is named after the protest has been knocking about the mystique around Jesse James, who comes across more like the Fontana designed by Giovanni Mardersteig for William Collins’ private use in 1936. A sample of it goes back to the local roads department thanking them for it. Shortly afterward, it stopped cooperating, and the main brake was inactive. At least you can still keep up.
    • … rounded font by making the standard corporate print colour a pale imitation of the bus …

    – ah, I love MarkovFilter.

  • what are Mandolin Brothers smoking?

    This from their website, and many more similarly strange blurbs lurk there too:

    VINTAGE NEWS – OPEN BACK FIVE-STRING BANJOS
    THE FEAGLE – OLD TIMEY ICON – FISHIE FROM THE PAST
    A visitor to our Website (www.mandoweb.com) writes: “What is that critter engraved on the headstock of some A. C. Fairbanks and Vega banjos — the guy with an eagle’s head and the body of a snailfish? I thought it was a griffon (or gryphon) but the dictionary says that’s an eagle-lion crossbreed. – Bob Stepno, University of North Carolina. Bob wondered if this should be called a “Seagle” instead, for sea creature & eagle, but felt it sounded too much like “seagull”. We replied: It’s a “feagle” for fishie-eagle. We know this because we have obtained a bit of Albert Conant Fairbanks’ DNA (from when he had scraped himself on a bracket nut) and cloned him and have already set him up (a crude system but he remains upright and it works) in an old frame factory building in Boston, staffed with people who come to work every day in Victorian clothing. We tell him “The fire never happened. You still own the company.” Clones’ll believe anything. In his day feagles were prevalent. There were millions of ’em. They could swim and/or fly. They could eat plankton or small woodland animals. Unfortunately, in those days feagles were themselves eaten by banjo players and driven extinct. They tasted like soft-shell crab (this was in the days before soft-shell crab was eaten, because tartar sauce hadn’t been invented yet). Anybody with more information on feagles is welcome to send in (or email) what they know. For instance, we know that feagles wore tiny plaid sports jackets yet A. C. Fairbanks chose to depict them naked. What was he thinking?

  • maybe a bit too nerdy


    MidpSSH on my Blackberry talking to a screen session on my home server running a bittorrent client (and no, this doesn’t mean that I was torrenting over a mobile network).