Category Archives: Music

Shit . . . this is GOOD Stuph!

Posted on April 12, 2003 by Marchbanks

Steve James, Cindy Cashdollar, and Del Rey are all on Prairie Home Companion at once, and all playing resonator guitars (i.e., Dobros/Nationals)! Continue reading →

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From the Famous Fable Label

Posted on March 29, 2003 by Marchbanks

I had some fun this afternoon burning a couple of CDs from long-in-the-past jazz vinyl—Starcrost and 47 Times Its Own Weight, two Austin groups who were active in the middle ’70s. Continue reading →

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Goodbye to Clandestine

Posted on January 26, 2003 by Marchbanks

After ten years together, six of them as a serious touring band, they’re quitting and going their several ways. Continue reading →

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Trains in progress

Posted on November 30, 2002 by Marchbanks

I’ve recorded ten of the tracks I’d originally picked out for the Train Song CD.
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WTH is going on here?

Posted on October 11, 2002 by Marchbanks

Why is a backlist album insisting on shouldering its way to the front of my consciousness? Continue reading →

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The train song CD

Posted on October 7, 2002 by Marchbanks

That led me to thinking about making a custom CD of train songs from my audio library.
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I can barely see what I’m typing

Posted on September 11, 2002 by Marchbanks

I made the mistake of deciding to record my John Hartford LPs, and of reading the message board at his website while I did it . . . Continue reading →

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I got a case of Cooders

Posted on September 1, 2002 by Marchbanks

The discussion (and the email I wrote that preceded it) took long enough that I got five albums recorded to my hard disk. Continue reading →

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Sadness . . . .

Posted on August 18, 2002 by Marchbanks

They’ve been one of my great live-musical pleasures, a kick-ass, takin’-names céilídh band. Continue reading →

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John Mayall has some strange ideas about blues instrumentation

Posted on August 18, 2002 by Marchbanks

Several tracks are definitely in 3/4, 6/8, and 12/8, not the usual 2/4 or 4/4. Continue reading →

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