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Classic Blues : Leadbelly 2 There’s some stuff in this newsreel, that you might find disturbing, but it reveals much of what America was like back then Previous Blog

Yup, it’s Saturday night again and whether you’re with the one you love, longing to be with the one you love or are still looking for someone to love, there is just something about this one night a week that makes you just want to load up the jukebox, stereo, turntable, CD player or MP3 […]

gig tonight…haven’t quite recovered from last night yet, but I have NO plans for Sunday that I know of…tonight’s gig will likely be fun in any case, then I can start thinking about the MIKE’S GARAGE gig–a private party in ( I think) Waldorf, which ain’t close; hope I don’t have to drive by myself…car […]

Classic Blues : Leadbelly 1 Previous Blog

the gig with the Reverbs went well enuff–we don’t rehearse, but I occasionally wish we did, at least a bit…there were a couple of friends in the audience, more than I’ll see tomorrow night I suspect…the new amp worked rather well–I still think the “pots” need to be looked at…I couldn’t quite hear myself kinda […]

went to Bel Air yesterday to give my student his guitar lesson…found out he has a guitar amp that’s “not doing anything” except taking up space in the closet…IF I keep the amp, the next four or five lessons will be free; and the amp will belong to me…the trip from Bel Air to Derwood […]

Hollywood Musicals : Deanna Durbin 5 Previous Blog

going North to give a friend’s Dad guitar lessons…the ONLY stressful element of this undertaking is the student’s timing…I’m not at all sure why, but THAT gets on my nerves a bunch…like jamming with amateurs and rookies–it’s bad for my BP…I’m certainly not trying to paint a picture of myself as a Musical Genius…and I […]

Classic Jazz : Cab Calloway 5 Previous Blog

Hollywood Musicals : Deanna Durbin 4 Here she does some Jazz Proving, I guess, that Deanna Durbin could do no wrong. hehehe Previous Blog