Archive for May, 2006
Folk Streams is a marvelous storehouse of streaming videos of documentaries of blues singers, fife and drum players, cowboy poets, fiddlers, gandy dancers, bluegrass pickers and much, much more.-MJS
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May 31st, 2006
Overkill Designs makes very cool stools that look like Fender amps. You should also check out their Tele amd Strat coffee tables.-MJS
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May 31st, 2006
Dr. Carl Winter is a food toxicologist who rewrites pop songs with food safety messages. Go to his Food Safety Music site to hear “You Better Wash Your Hands” (”I Wanna Hold Your Hand”), “Rat Number 49″ (”Love Potion Number 9″) his ode to Mad Cow Disease, “Beware La Vaca Loca” (”Living La Vida Loca”).-MJS
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May 30th, 2006
Matt Sircely wrote a great story about Andy Statman for our second issue. If you want to learn more about Statman’s playing, you should check out his new website at www.andystatman.org, which includes both audio and video clips. Along with being an excellent writer and photographer, Matt is also a great mandolinist who plays in a number of bands. You can find out more about Matt’s music at www.mattsircely.com.-MJS
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May 30th, 2006
John Baxter over at Mandotunes has posted a very nice Flash book devoted to Lloyd Loar and his instruments.-MJS
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May 30th, 2006
Iner Souster is a Canadian luthier who crafts amazing instuments from common, and not so common, household items. The photo on the left is called, as of this writing, The Instrument With No Name. Head on over to his site to check out some of his other creations.-MJS
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May 30th, 2006
Potato Radio, for all your potato song needs. Speaking of potato songs, you might want to check out this clip of the Ross Sisters singing “Solid Potato Salad” on YouTube. There’s no fretted instrument content, but watch it to the end anyways. Oh, and here’s a potato that looks like Pete Townsend.-MJS
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May 30th, 2006
Or is it a piece of art from Phillipe Guillerm? Who are we to say?-MJS
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May 27th, 2006
Please note that in response to a change in local appetites, Salem’s Bluegrass and Chowder Festival has been renamed the Southern Illinois Bluegrass and BBQ Festival.-MJS
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May 27th, 2006
You should head over to Frank Ford’s Frets.com to check out these photos of a heavily modifed 1838 Martin guitar. “But that’s a photo of a Tilton guitar you have there on the left,” some of you are probably saying. Well, head on over and see what kind of custom work people got up to back in the olden days. I’ve seen a lot of antique guitars in my day, including a few Martins from the 1830s, but I’ve never seen anything quite like this. -MJS
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May 27th, 2006
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