“Far out Johnny well I heard him say, stretched out back on the waterbed...Bluegrass music is a thing of the past and the same for rockn’roll. So I loaned him two or three dollars and he gave me the latest news... and left me here with a Rolling Stone and the Steam Boat Whistle Blues”
—”SteamBoat Whistle Blues- John Hartford (Aereoplain)
So, FreeperFolks here’s two examples of contemporary solid
music:
Lonesome River Band (Sammy Shelor Banjo Winner w/ Steve Martin): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6yPxxnmCac
Song written by the great Larry Cordle (Murder on Music Row)
AND, “Privateering” new from Mark Knopfler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM2IELQilSQ
“Lay with pretty women and drink the demon wine,
to hear the roar of thunder off a shore that isn’t
mine... Privateering.
It’s out there— gotta look. Deo Vindice. (and Go Mitt)
Not a world class musician, but after listening to some of his stuff on Oscar Brand's Folk Song Festival I came away pretty impressed.