Tuesday, December 28, 2021

2021 discoveries

 Let's face it...the content on this site comes from either gracious ebay sellers (gave me the idea to start this thing in the first place!) or my vast personal collection. As I hunt the 'bay for the gems to include here, I find many that I haven't heard before & meet my criteria to keep/share.

When I'm not collecting music for this site and doing things around the house...I usually am listening to one of several radio stations via the internet. Every once in a while a song will come on that will have me stop what I'm doing & go search out info on the artist. Here's a review of who perked my ears up throughout the year & got multiple plays by me via Ytube....  Hopefully, one might do the same for you.


I hope 2022 is a great year for all of us. 




Billy Strings: A friend at work…fellow guitar enthusiast told me about Billy a while back but it took me a while to check out some of his work. THEN I WAS BLOWN AWAY!! An amazing picker for sure. This video from 2012 shows him before he got famous playing his first hit. The soul coming from within tells it all as he plays. The green shirt guy (as he has become to be known) laughs as Billy plays. Probably didn’t realize what he was witnessing. There’s plenty of Billy’s work on Y*utube…check him out at Carter’s Vintage Guitars playing some vintage Martins (drool…) I like his earlier stuff. Hurrah For The Riff Raff: The first tune I heard from this band was on internet radio (88.5 out of L.A.) and was Rhododendren which to me had a slight Velvet Underground groove. So I checked them out & found their earlier stuff to be really good albeit different then the current releases. Again from 2012… Colby Helms: Stumbled across Colby on a Y*utube search…another young player/song writer. Hoping for more as time goes on. Another Irish band I dig…. Fontaines D.C.: Another internet radio hook-up. Gotta get some. Wet Leg: Yet another … Public Service Broadcasting: Heard this tune & had to check it out. Haven’t explored much more from them…yet.

Friday, December 24, 2021

Cigar Box Nation Christmas collection



For those wanting something different to listen to this holiday season...it's the annual Cigar Box Nation Christmas compilation. All tunes are played on cigar box guitars. As stated previously...I've been building/playing them for over 10 years.

Original tunes....different styles.... make for an eclectic mix!





 

Sunday, December 19, 2021

Country Christmas

 





This year's Christmas post comes my friend's cd compilation taken from a handful of vinyl country LPs. We would do crate digging throughout the year then record our favorites to CDs to listen to in our cars (no can do anymore with new cars...). 

Some of the tunes here get played too much but were kept in the post to preserve the original cd he gave me.

Whatever your holiday may be......have a great one!








Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Let's Have Some Soul

 




For those who want to groove this time of the year....Lets have some soul.





Tuesday, December 7, 2021

ebay jukebox Vol. 75

 




Here's another collection from the famed auction site. Loaded into the jukebox ready for play....