Friday, July 24, 2026

TUBA SKINNY - playing live in the streets of Prague

Tuba Skinny have been touring Europe . . . . . . . . .

Birthdays: Alison Krauss

Happy Birthday To Alison Krauss (b. 1971)

Alison Krauss has spent more than four decades redefining the possibilities of bluegrass music while becoming one of the most respected vocalists in American roots music. A child prodigy from Champaign, Illinois, she began playing the fiddle at age five and was performing competitively by her early teens. After signing with Rounder Records, she released her debut solo album, Too Late to Cry, in 1987. That same year, she joined the group Union Station, launching a partnership that evolved into the acclaimed Alison Krauss & Union Station, whose blend of bluegrass, country, folk, and contemporary acoustic music attracted audiences far beyond the traditional bluegrass world.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Krauss emerged as one of the most influential artists in acoustic music. Her crystalline soprano voice, elegant fiddle playing, and understated musicianship helped introduce bluegrass to mainstream audiences through albums such as I've Got That Old Feeling, So Long So Wrong, New Favorite, and the multi-platinum soundtrack O Brother, Where Art Thou?. In 1996, Rolling Stone named her its Critics' Choice for Best Country Artist, recognizing her growing influence on country and Americana. By consistently balancing tradition with accessibility, Krauss became one of the genre's most important ambassadors while earning dozens of Grammy Awards and widespread critical acclaim.
In 2007, Krauss embarked on one of the most celebrated collaborations of her career, joining forces with former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant for Raising Sand. Produced by T Bone Burnett, the album seamlessly blended Americana, folk, blues, country, and rock into a haunting, atmospheric collection that captivated critics and audiences alike. The project became one of the year's biggest musical successes, winning Album of the Year and five Grammy Awards at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. Today, Alison Krauss remains one of the most decorated artists in Grammy history, admired not only for her extraordinary voice and musicianship but also for her ability to bridge musical traditions while remaining deeply rooted in the timeless spirit of bluegrass.

Guitarists on Guitar . . .no 321 : Wilco Johnson

"WHY WAIT" A New Kind Of Mambo - Vol. 15 (already 15!) | TWILIGHTZONE

"WHY WAIT" A New Kind Of Mambo - Vol. 15

Mambo influenced greatness!

Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuba which was developed in the 1940s when the music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America. The original ballroom dance which emerged in Cuba and Mexico was related to the danzón, albeit faster and less rigid. In the United States, it replaced rhumba as the most fashionable Latin dance. Later on, with the advent of salsa and its more sophisticated dance, a new type of mambo dance including breaking steps was popularized in New York. This form received the name of "salsa on 2", "mambo on 2" or "modern mambo". - wiki

track listing:

1. Rock'N'Roll Cannibals - Red Coffee & B. Jones 2. Catwalk - Jack Constanzo 3. How Long - LaVern Baker 4. My Mama Said - Little Eddie 5. Witchcraft - The Spiders 6. T-Town Mambo - Ernie Fields Combo 7. Guitar Mambo - Mickey Baker 8. Can't Get You on the Phone - Mickey Baker w/Sylvia Robinson 9. Big City Walk - Doug Powell 10. She's Fine - Kid Thomas 11. Maggie Campbell - Robert Nighthawk 12. Hey Now - Billy Love 13. Hey Now Baby - Professor Longhair 14. Messy Bessie - Dave Bartholomew 15. Crawfish - Jess Stone 16. He's My Baby - Jean Shepard 17. La Bamba - Ray Allen & The Upbeats 18. La Bamba - Mongo Santamaria 19. Zooba - Don Ralcke 20. Night Beat - The Phantoms 21. Street Fight - Phil Campos 22. Watts - Brother Woodman and The Chanters 23. You Keep Doggin Me - Sonny and Jaycee 24. John Law - The Playbacks 25. Countdown - The Crescendos 26. Why Wait - Pérez Prado 27. Lips Red As Wine - The Colts 28. Guiro - The Lettermen 29. Rock And Roll Radio - Joe Boot 30. Malinda - Bob Kelly 31. Hound Dog - Link Wray & The Raymen

Still got Fess on it so y’ere ’tis!
Compiled by Johnny Q from his music collection - originally served by Gyro1966

Flagging Down The Double Es : Last Night Riverfront Richmond VA USA | RAY PADGETT

Last Night in Richmond (by Anne Margaret Daniel)

2026-07-23, Allianz Amphitheater at Riverfront, Richmond, VA

RAY PADGETT

JUL 24

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Last night, Bob Dylan brought the Long Hot Summer Tour to Richmond, Virginia. Scholar and writer Anne Margaret Daniel was on hand to tell us about the show, and about the city’s importance in Dylan’s—and the country’s—history. Here’s Anne Margaret Daniel reporting in from Richmond:

Among its other names, they call my hometown of Richmond, Virginia the River City—or to be more accurate, Rivah City, since that’s how we say it. Richmond was named for Richmond upon Thames, since the aspect of it from the bluffs on the north side of town overlooking the James River is similar. It has other nicknames, many based on its time as the capital of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. In 2021, Richmond was in the news as protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis resulted in the removal at last of a row of Confederate generals along Monument Avenue, installed there from the 1890s and long towering over the broad street with its parklike mall down the center. The statues and their plinths are gone now, with the space where they stood either paved, or occupied by grass and flowers. But the names on the land remain, all over Richmond’s history and all over town: Davis, Stuart, Jackson, Lee, Maury… Faulkner knew it all too well, and had a character say it in Requiem for a Nun (1919): “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Bob Dylan, not a mere Civil War buff but, as we know from Chronicles and from many interviews and songs, a scholar of America’s darkest war, has made the city a regular stop on his tours since 1966.

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BUMP: WARREN HAYNES & PFC “SOULSHINE” for regular Alan!

WARREN HAYNES & PFC

“SOULSHINE"

Warren Haynes & the Playing For Change crew - Soulshine

have we had this before? . . . .yup!

Playing For Change

This one for all my visitors here, but especially Alan, he loves a shout out, while we look for the Warren Haynes Band set from the Filmore Auditorium from last year! Anyone?

Anyway as I said at the time, shine on you beauties!

Psychic Lemon: Psychic Lemon 2016 + Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay 🍋

Psychic Lemon: Psychic Lemon 2016 + Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay 2018🍋

no me neither but Kostas has been in overdrive with his incredible knowledge of prog rock and psychedelia since having some set backs so head on over and check him out . . . .

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Robyn Hitchcock - The Vanishing Kind [The Confuser] | HERBERG DE KELDER

Oooh I like this one . . . . prime Robyn!

The Vanishing Kind

Listen/purchase: The Vanishing Kind by Robyn Hitchcock

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Ride - Like A Daydream (1990) | Guess I’m Dumb

Peel Session 1990

Ride - Like A Daydream (1990)

"I’m not a big fan of Ride, but they have a couple of songs that I really love (Twisterella as well). Perhaps it sounds a bit like Teenage Fanclub, but I also like to think it’s a bit like the Byrds with a Shoegaze update.” Guess I’m Dumb

I may be a bigger Ride fan and they have oodles of local connections and the bass player [Steve] worked with pals in local record shops here in Oxford Town and everybody liked him although painfully shy seemingly I just thought he hated me (sic!) . . . shoe gazing? OKAY!? And? . . . . . . . . .I love this track [Maybe I’m not so Dumb!?]

I wish that life could be just like a photograph
One moment captured as you laugh your perfect laugh

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