This Date in Music – Nov 17, 1947 – Happy Birthday Tab Benoit!!

tab benoitOn this date in 1947 one of my favorite blues musicians Tab Benoit was born. For those who are being introduced Tab on his birthday this AM, from Wikipedia…..

Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967, Baton Rouge, Louisiana)[1] is an American blues guitarist, musician and singer.[2] He plays a style that is a combination of blues styles, primarily Delta blues. He plays a Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions. Benoit graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma, Louisiana in May, 1985. In 2003, he formed an organization promoting awareness of coastal wetlands preservation known as “Voice of the Wetlands.” Full Biography Read More

Lunchtime Music – Buskin & Batteau – The Boy with the Violin”

In the early 70s I picked up an album In California, by a duo Compton & Batteau. The album spent a fair time in the rotation but then fell by the wayside as I moved on to other albums. About fifteen plus years later, I bought a Tom Rush album  Late Night Radio a live concert broadcast of Club 47 from Symphony Hall in Boston, and Robin Batteau appeared again on my record player this time performing with David Buskin as Buskin & Batteau. (Now you probably know Robin Batteau even if you’ve never heard his music, bacuse you’ve heard his jingles form commercials. How about “I’m Lovin’ It” for McDonalds and “The Heartbeat of America” for Chevrolet.)   In the 70s I had also become a fan of  David Buskin’s from his self-titled album and the song “Come With” along with all the other great songs on that album! (Buskin also a jingle writer, wrote the jingle for NBC for which he won a Clio Award in 1983. He co-wrote All Aboard America for Amtrak, and did work for Burger King, JC Penny, and the US Postal Service)  But back to the music, on the album they performed “A Boy with a Violin” and through the years that song along with the following track on the album “Beam Me Up Scotty” have been favorites.  So when I was trolling for music this morning, I came across this performance of the song from the 2009 Philadelphia Folk Festival! So here’s some lunchtime music from the duo of Buskin and Batteau “The Boy with a Violin” Read More

Lunchtime Music – Dave Potts – Live at Sundilla

So this morning I had to go to the store and get some food, before my daughter started complaining again about lack of food in the house. So I put the iPod on the new Dave Potts’ album Live at Sundilla.  According to his website, Dave was born and raised out west in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains  and then one day he stumbled across Auburn, Alabama, well I’ll let him tell it: Read More

Life’s Soundtrack – a slow run with some seldom heard folk music!

So for the last two weeks the pain in the upper left leg seems to be getting better and then I try to run and well “discretion is the better part of valor” and I decide not to run. Well this afternoon throughout the afternoon my leg seemed really good, so after work I decided to run. Well the pain was there, but it wasn’t really the same and it was bearable so I decided to take it slow and run for 30 minutes or so and I made it, I ran at a 10:40 mile pace but at least I did it! Now while my leg is a little sore it’s really no worse than before the run, so tomorrow should tell a lot! Read More

Late Night Music with Mark Erelli…………

So when we went out tonight for a quick trip to Home Goods, I noticed that “Fingernail” moon and my thoughts immediately went to one of my favorite singer-songwriters Mark Erelli and his song “Compass and Companion” that goes like this: (that’s Kelly Willis helping with the vocals)
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 Out here on this road just after midnight
Silver sickle rising in the east
I’m steady on the wheel
But I know just how you feel
So just lean back and try to catch some sleep Read More

More Music from the letter “G” – Gene and Gayla Mills

For the ride home yesterday, I switched genres and went to Folk and Americana and listened first, to Gene and Gayla Mills’s album If Stones Could Talk and then to a little Gurf Morlix. If Stones Could Talkis the first album billed as a duo, but is Gene’s second album. The album has received rave reviews for around the Folk and Americana world and has appeared on the following charts! Read More