Tag Archive for the term: bluegrass

I recently interviewed Dan Livingstone, a musician and ‘amateur ethnomusicologist’ as he says, who tours Europe regularly but just got back from a first ever tour of China where he crossed the country north to south several times over. In many cases his playing these songs, American traditionals, country, bluegrass pre-1940, was the first time [...]

Lake of Stew are a local Montreal 8 piece kitchen jam, unplugged bluegrass band who practice around endless pots, performed their earth shaking soulful harmonies at our Indyish City Mess, January 2008, and are finally launching their debut CD May 16 2008 at Sala Rosa.
Here’s a taste of Lake of Stew:
The Sioux by Lake of [...]

A small video glimpse of the setting for one of our all girls blue grass jams. This is before most of the ladies have arrived, but there’s already a jumble of instruments and Rosin is figuring out Oh Susana on the dulcimer.

And here’s a real nice version of the otherwise-often-annoying song, by Just Plain Myrtle:

Here are the lyrics to 2 of the original songs we sing with the LadiesAux…
Bones
by Risa Dickens
[You can check out a recording of this one done in a different style altogether here.]
Said the diver to his bride
“I’ll be back tomorrow on the 3:45”
those are the pearls,
those were his eyes
All we are are our goodbyes
and [...]

One of the songs we sing in the LadiesAux is Woody Guthrie’s Union Maid.

There once was a union maid, she never was afraid
Of goons and ginks and company finks and the deputy sheriffs who made the raid.
She went to the union hall when a meeting it was called,
And when the Legion boys come ’round
She [...]