future games

Mr Arthur, from 1964

Plant Tunes

terry time

blame this man for "frampton comes alive"

paul yandell

The great guitarist and Chet Atkins protege Paul Yandell passed away last week. Not as many folks know his name as Chet obviously, but he was the guitarist on many of the Louvin Brothers' biggest records, which is how I became familiar with his immaculate playing. I tried to find a video of him and Chet dueling it out but most of them won't allow embedding. So I am posting this medley someone made a few years back for Paul's birthday.

talk turkey

Worth remembering....

baris manco

game of the century

My brethren in Tuscaloosa are getting all hot and bothered about some sort of somethin' going down tonight. One thing I know is...a lot of people with Louisiana driver's licenses are getting arrested today and Dreamland will run out of ribs. Here's another "game of the century" we may have forgotten...

ouch my brain hurts

happy birthday Possum

someone made this um...tribute to the george jones classic. fitting birthday wishes for the man who once attempted to drive to the liquor store on a lawn mower.

flowers of the forest

This is a really haunting version of the traditional Scottish ballad by Dick Gaughan. I have been obsessed the last day or so with the Fairport's version on "Full House". This was the song played at Sandy Denny's funeral.

JA Brown

This would have been my grandad Army Brown's 98th birthday. He spent most of his twenties and thirties gigging around the South in a swing band back during the Depression. One of his bandmates and best friends was Sidney Chilton, Alex's dad. I wrote "Ponotoc" on my last album for my grandad; he was one of the first people to take me out and buy records and explained all the different instruments in the symphony orchestra. And whenever we had family reunions the evenings would end with Army sipping scotch and playing endless medlies of Tin Pan classics. Along with my father, he is one of the central reasons why I ended up devoting most of my life to music.

big bottom

Noted bass gospel singer and Elvis backup vocalist JD Sumner....Good way to start your Sunday

desert groovin

spike drivers

with ted lucas on guitar....sweet sounds and thanks to steve gunn for hipping me to this clip!

they still got it...

saw these guys last night at the Basement, wasn't quite sure what to expect but damn they rocked with the swagger and frenzy of a bunch of twenty year olds. Pretty damn impressive...

the marriage counselor

powers boothe vs levar burton

whoah

i have been pretty lazy about this blog lately. but that will be changing. as long as i find videos like this....

get your beam on

been away for too long

more soon....

phil ochs

weird student film looking stuff?

georgia on my mind

more sublime harmonies...

harmonies of the spheres

i need to practice more

Maybe things like free speech, television, the internet, and eating are overrated when it comes to guitar skills.

The Man

Good Lord I have been slacking here. I promise to be more active!

The Man

Good Lord I have been slacking here. I promise to be more active!

albert brooks retires

i think all of us can sympathize...

Tidewater English

This is the aural equivalent of a color shift, a glimpse of the rainbow spectrum of the transition of English to American accents. Tidewater English, the peculiar dialect spoken along the Chesapeake Bay in pockets in Maryland and Virginia, sounds to me like the true median meeting point between West Country English and the "Old South" variety of the Southern Accent.

The Story of English

An excerpt from one of the tv series that had a huge formative influence on me...