This month at Mike Alberts One Mike Stand residency at the Grafton Pub got the opportunity to record Jason McInnes and Maria McCullough. Maria and Jason are both teachers at the Old Town School of Folk Music and here they play a great set of songs on fiddle and banjo. It was a great show. Something to listen to on the drive home to those thanksgiving dinners.
Check out Jason’s website too!
I noticed Google today had a link to it’s new searchable photo archive of Life magazine photos. There’s a lot of good stuff in here including some Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger photos I’ve never seen before. Check it out here:
So Studs Terkel passed away. I hadn’t gotten a chance to write something about him, but I wanted to get some links up. Studs was an enormously influential member in Chicago music. His book ‘And They All Sang’ has one of the best interviews with Big Bill Broonzy I’ve ever read, I highly suggest you check it out. He covers a wide range of musicians from folk to popular to jazz. On seeing the great gospel singer Mahalia Jackson performing at her Chicago church he says,
“Here are parishioners, bone-weary after a week of unsung work, for a wage not worth singing about; here they are, listening to song, such as I, whose work is so much easier and whose wage is so much better, have never heard. It is at such time and circumstance that I become aware of my own arrogance.”
Studs was a great watcher, he had big ears that were open to amazing amount of art and live that moved around him. His most famous book is ‘Working’, interviews with all kinds of regular people, but I really like this musican one. Read on for more memories and links.
Tags: Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Dylan, Chicago, Deaths, I Come For To Sing, Mahalia Jackson, Pete Seeger, Studs Place, Studs Terkel, Win Stracke, Working
Well here’s hoping at least…
Chicago is going nuts. Good Job to Obama. Lets hope he quotes more Sam Cooke in future speeches.
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Tags: Obama
Hi everyone, sorry if you’ve tried to get on the site in the last few days, I had some server issues and updated my hosting and it’s been a headache. Anyway, we should be back in business. We had an excellent goodtimetonight open stage last night at the Grafton so all was not cloudy skies. Anyway, welcome back.
And with enough time to remind everyone to go vote too!
