Saturday, May 17, 2025

Renewing an old acquaintance: Doc Watson

These sound like the original lyrics with other versions
sounding as though they've been cleaned up. But who knows?

Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Doc, Ricky, Alison. Down in the Valley...

Story of a song
Doc Watson heard this song from his grandmother. Alison Kraus found it in Watson's recordings, and so must have changed "valley" to "river" -- an inspired choice. It's now a Bluegrass standard, with a very fine version done by the Petersen sisters, and another by a very young group of Burnett sisters.

Friday, February 21, 2025

Early Osborne Brothers album
is a trove of rarely heard tunes


Could yield some good ideas. I was mostly thinking of Walking the Floor. Some of the others would work nicely with updated arrangements. As is, they won't do, though.

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

'Honey' said to scalp creators

A discussion on how Honey reportedly scalps content creators:

https://www.youtube.com/live/4X0z-b47_W4?si=j5B4Mkv_EHMKfP5-

I can't post the linked YouTube video on Blogspot. Paste the link into your browser bar, and it should work.

For my personal reference

Renewing an old acquaintance: Doc Watson

These sound like the original lyrics with other versions sounding as though they've been cleaned up. But who knows?