On this edition of the podcast, we’ll hear some great jam band classics from Tony Rice, Old School Freight Train, Northern Lights and Leftover Salmon. There’s also a couple of selections from the Goat Rodeo sessions recorded by Yo-Yo Ma, … Continue reading →
On this week’s program we’ll hear some great jam band classics from Tony Rice, Old School Freight Train, Northern Lights and Leftover Salmon. John Mayall and Sam Bush are here too, and all the musicians let loose and let the … Continue reading →
We lost a great musician on Christmas Day when Tony Rice passed at the age of 69. His friend Ricky Skaggs described Tony as “the single most influential acoustic guitar player in the last 50 years.” This week’s show, we’ll … Continue reading →
“It was the year of 1900…” – The Galveston Flood Disaster songs don’t inhabit the same space as murder ballads, but at MBM we find that they intersect in some profound ways with our genre of choice. Recently we spent a … Continue reading →
Note: This is Part 3 of a three part series on “Little Sadie” – See also Part 1 and Part 2 Introduction I went out one night for to make a little round I met Little Sadie and I shot … Continue reading →
As we found out in the introductory post this week, “Cold Rain and Snow”, which most folks know as a staple in the Grateful Dead’s repertoire, is an American ballad written by an unknown author after a man murdered his … Continue reading →
This is the first of four posts on Child Ballad 243. The next three installments can be found here, here, and here. Well Met, Well Met What lengths will a singer go to in changing the song’s “facts” to keep … Continue reading →
