Archive for September, 2012
This Must Be The Place: Shady Groove Podcast #73
These are the tracks that were played on this weeks podcast:
The Black Keys – Dearest ++ Alabama Shakes – Be Mine ++ David Wax Museum – Will You Be Sleeping ++ The Wood Brothers – Ain’t No More Cane ++ Ween – Your Party ++ Modest Mouse – Missed The Boat ++ Dr. John – You Lie ++ Gregg Allman – Just Another Rider ++ Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) ++ Pavement – AT&T ++ Bob Dylan – Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues ++ Doug Sahm – Blues Stay Away From Me ++ Aretha Franklin – The Weight ++ The Gourds – Bottle And A Dime.
Homegrown Eatin’ With The Shady Groove: Podcast 72
These are the delicious tunes that were played on this weeks podcast:
Tim O’Brien – Megna’s ++ The Gourds – My Name Is Jorge ++ Guy Clark – Homegrown Tomatoes (live) ++ Carolina Chocolate Drops – Cornbread and Butterbeans ++ Harry Nilsson – Coconut ++ Ween – Pork Roll Egg and Cheese (live) ++ Those Darlins – Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy ++ Ryan Montbleau Band – Eggs ++ Jack Johnson – Banana Pancakes ++ Jimmy Buffett – Cheeseburger In Paradise ++ Gurf Morlix – Big Cheesburger and Good French Fries ++ The Gourds – Pickles ++ Guy Clark – Texas Cookin’ ++ The Beatles – Savoy Truffle ++ The Wood Brothers – Shoofly Pie ++ The Gourds – Ants On The Melon.
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Give Me The Banjo
“Give Me the Banjo”.
“The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themsleves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils. But give me the banjo….
When you want genuine music — music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth’s pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, — when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!”
Mark Twain in “Enthusiastic Eloquence,” San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle, 23 June 1865
Check out this documentary about the history of american folk music. It describes the banjo and the first ‘truly american’ instrument and winds us through the links between the banjo and the creation of a ‘new’ ‘american’ sound. This documentary is truly fascinating. Plus Steve Martin narrates. Need I say more?
Watch PBS Arts from the Blue Ridge Mountains: Give Me the Banjo on PBS. See more from The Arts.
Looking for Trouble with the Shady Groove: Podcast 71
The Shady Groove would like to thank you for listening to todays podcast. We here at the Groove had a mighty fine time spinning some tunes for y’all so please, enjoy. And listen loud.
These are the audio tracks that made the cut for this weeks podcast:
Patrick Sweany – Them Shoes ++ Alabama Shakes – Heartbreaker ++ The Wood Brothers – Get Out My Life Woman (live) ++ John Hammond – Shake For Me ++ Jack White – Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy ++ The Black Keys – Little Black Submarines ++ The Hollies – Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) ++ Bruce Springsteen – Factory ++ The Ziggens – My Paycheck Bounced ++ Sublime – Doin’ Time (Uptown Dub) ++ Grateful Dead – Friend of The Devil ++ Billy Bragg & Wilco – Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key ++ Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel ++ Carolina Chocolate Drops – Trouble In Mind ++ The Gourds – I’m Troubled (live).