Lantern in the Ditch
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Haiku Fest & the DeKalb Bandshell
May 3, 2025
This past weekend included poetry and music and a good deal of travel. Friday night my partner and I enjoyed a rare night out together sans kiddos, dining...
What did the Blackbird say to the Crow
April 23, 2025
Rhiannon Giddens I’ve been listening to a new record this past weekend, What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow, by Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson. It’s...
Too Many Tunes
April 16, 2025
Last weekend I acquired a copy of Ryan’s Mammoth Collection: 1050 Reels and Jigs, Hornpipes, Clogs, Walk-arounds, Essences, Strathspeys, Highland Flings, and...
Decatur Realness
April 8, 2025
President Taft giving a speech in downtown Decatur, Illinois, February 11, 1911 I’ve been going to a monthly old-time jam in Decatur since December. It takes...
Durang's Hornpipe
April 2, 2025
3 versions of Durang’s Hornpipe Copying tunes into my notebook is becoming one of my favorite things to do. As a general rule, old time fiddlers learn tunes...
A few tunes
March 27, 2025
Last night I played some tunes with my buddy Aaron, and we recorded three of them on my phone, and I posted them to Soundcloud just now. It seemed like, if...
Grace
March 26, 2025
I think a lot about how my life might have been different. I know you’re not supposed to do that, but I do. How things might have turned out had I made...