Archive for the 'bluegrass' Category

Gauntlet

Posted by Brendan on July 2nd, 2008 filed in blogs, bluegrass, bluegrass festival, direct action, family, friends

Tomorrow I leave to go pick up Sam, again an extended trip across the border, and then back about to Benton, PA for the Out Among the Stars Bluegrass Festival. The trip across the border adds an extra three hours round trip to the already-brutal eight hours I travel to Syracuse and back, but […]

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Festival Time!

Posted by Brendan on June 12th, 2008 filed in bluegrass, bluegrass festival, meta

No blogging this weekend. It’s bluegrass festival time, and we’re starting it out right at Wind Gap.
See you on Sunday night, or perhaps Monday morning…

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Bill Monroe: Body and Soul

Posted by Brendan on May 24th, 2008 filed in bluegrass, youtube

Body and Soul
One of Bill’s most powerful performances.

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Jimmy Martin

Posted by Brendan on May 24th, 2008 filed in bluegrass, youtube

I’m disgusted with the Clintons but on vacation in Texas, so fuck ‘em and their douchebag supporters.
Instead, here’s some Jimmy Martin, documentaries and videos.

Drink Up and Go Home

Tennessee

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Bluegrass In My Cup (Or, How I Made $30,000 in 12 Hours)

Posted by Brendan on May 6th, 2008 filed in bluegrass, comedy gold!, random, ridiculous

Note: The following post was originally written as an email in 2002, long before I started blogging. I was inspired to dig it up after playing bluegrass in Long Island this weekend with Dan Torday, who appears in the story, and further inspired after Dan sent me a link to our commercial, which you […]

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Oddness

Posted by Brendan on May 2nd, 2008 filed in bluegrass, personal well-being, sheer unadulterated joy

Yesterday my friend over at Booman Tribune posted an open thread asking “What’s odd in your life?” I didn’t have anything to add at the time, but I do now.
The past couple of years have kind of put me through the wringer, and it’s seemed that nothing I was doing really helped, including my […]

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Fincastle 1965

Posted by Brendan on December 24th, 2007 filed in bluegrass, youtube

I believe this is the first bluegrass festival ever. You’re watching Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys, starting with a truncated “In the Pines”, into “Orange Blossom Special”. I can’t identify the banjo player but that’s Benny Martin on fiddle. Bill’s son James is on bass, and the legendary Mac Wiseman, the voice […]

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The Shitz

Posted by Brendan on October 8th, 2007 filed in bluegrass, life, meta, movies

I had an incredibly busy weekend, and I am very happy that I have Columbus Day off to recuperate.
Where to start? On Thursday, as part of Domestic Violence Month, I had to work a fundraiser in Chestnut Hill from 5:00-8:00 PM, after which I headed up to Doylestown where Pete Wroblewski throws a bluegrass […]

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Awarnock Hits It Outta the Park

Posted by Brendan on September 22nd, 2007 filed in Democratic Idiocy, bluegrass, calling bullshit, politics

Elevated from comments to front page
For those of us who voted to end the war last November, our strategy is clear. First, in the Democratic primaries, we must vote out all incumbents. They’re cowards and don’t deserve our support. Then in the main elections, we vote for the Democratic nominees who, based on the primary […]

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It’s Bill Monroe’s Birthday

Posted by Brendan on September 13th, 2007 filed in bluegrass, youtube

Happy Birthday to the Father of Bluegrass Music
Here’s Bill in 1993, a few years before he died, performing “Muleskinner Blues” at the Mall in DC.

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