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Retired boomer, out to walk my dogs, ride my bike, and hike the forest paths around Monroe County Indiana. Recently found ADHD runs in my family, and apparently gallops in me…
Category: Music
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I’ve been working on playing some old guy songs on my tenor guitar, and I remembered this tune, I think I first heard it when Iris Dement came to Bloomington in the 90’s. I liked that the lyrics create an image of an afterlife that comports both with bibilical images as well as my athiest/spiritualist/hopeful…
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Take Me to the Land of Jazz – Columbia 15367 AKA, Take Me to the Intersection of Old Time and JazzOriginal Sheet Music I had been listening to Lowe Stokes for years, as a fiddler in the Skillet Lickers recordings, before I found this 1928 recording of Stokes and his band the North Georgians. In…
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I recorded this song just as the Inauguration (2021) began. As Amtrack Joe seems to be the first president with a sense of what good transportation looks and feels like, I was feeling paticularly hopeful for the future. I am hoping our e-bike initiative will help bring ever more folks to the biking lifestyle, and…