Archive for the 'old time' Category
Uncle Earl
I am in love withUncle Earl. There is nothing as foxy as a girl that plays a fiddle or a banjo or any other instrument for that matter, and the only thing hotter than that is a girl that plays and signs old time. And these girls are just so cute. I’ve seen them [...]
Read More..>>Carolina Chocolate Drops
Black string band music revivalists. Awesome. Totally f-ing awesome.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Bogstompers
My friend Nikolai Fox is responsible for getting me into old time music.
Here’s one of the bands he plays with, the Bogstompers, doing a really fine version of Hoyt Ming’s “The Women Wear No Clothes At All”.
That’s some damn fine old time music, which I frankly prefer to bluegrass.
I’m not sure which song this is.
Read More..>>Friday Videos: Dock Boggs
Dock Boggs was the real deal, and the brief biography I’m does not do the liner notes on the Revenant Records compilation justice.
Dock was from Virginia, and was a bootlegger. At one point the revenuer man broke down his door,and grabbed Dock’s wife as a human shield. Dock aimed his gun, fired, and [...]
