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benzai_ten "tagged" me to do a "six current favorite songs" meme.

I don't know about "favorites", that changes very regularly, but here are some that have been on my mind in the last few days:

1)"Carolina in the Morning" It's one of the old standards that even those who generally have no contact with pre-rock music sort-of know ("Nothing could be finer/ ( Read more... )

Banjos and Trouble Makers

Last Thursday night through Saturday night was the New Orleans Banjo Rendez-vous out in the suburb of Metairie ( Read more... )

An old friend asked me to play trombone with his band for a wedding this weekend. Thing is, I've pretty much only played trad jazz and brass band on trombone. The band has been described to me variously as folk/punk/klezmery. I started to beg off, saying thanks, but I don't know your music, and was ready to reccomend a couple of sax players, but he ( Read more... )