Speaking of mouth percussion, look out Joe Craven there’s a new beat boxin fool in town, she’s cute and can rule a looper and an autotuner like no other..

Set your rediculosity knob on eleven and strap yourself into your chair for this excursion. It ain’t even close to bluegrass, but I couldn’t resist posting it because it’s an insane integration of technology and just plain mind blowing stuff. Check it out.

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New Album by DGQ multi-instrumentalist and mouth percussion extraordinaire Joe Craven Trio free tracks

The Mandolin Cafe is streaming some tracks from the new Joe Craven Trio album. It’s worth a listen. If I’m not careful, I may get cited by the Bluegrass Police for this one, it’s a little outside the genre. OK so maybe a little is an understatement, but Joe Craven can play some Mandolin, in addition [...]

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Matt Flinner Trio Winter Harvest, what good music sounds like.

Aside from the way cool cover art, and the catchy title Matt Flinner Trio’s new album Winter Harvest for Compass records is really what good music sounds like. It’s simple. Too the point. It’s stripped down. Dry. Contains no fluffy stuff but plenty of good licks, both hot and cool. Tasteful. Well Engineered. Easy on [...]

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Video of New Orleans Busking Band during IFTD

Going through files on my phone I found this video of a band busking in New Orleans during IFTD. I think this was Thursday afternoon, so nothing special, just an average day in New Orleans.

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Goat Rodeo Sessions, A [redacted] review

Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile, what could possibly go wrong? A Goat Rodeo, thats what, or maybe a new album? One of the more polite definitions from urbandictionary.com says this about a goat rodeo: A chaotic situation, often one that involves several people, each with a different agenda/vision/perception of what’s going [...]

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Fish Scales at Floyd Fest

It’s been a slow week here at the Fiddle and Creel. Rivers are blown out and we’ve busy doing a bunch of none Bluegrass or fly fishing related things. Extra work, t-ball games that sort of thing. So to fill the void in our lives, here’s a good video of Tony and Dawg playing one [...]

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Freaky Fiddle Friday – Christian Howes

This week’s edition of Freaky Fiddle Friday features a Columbus native, Christian Howes playing with a truly great guitarist Robin Ford. Howes called us 5 or 6 years ago about him sitting in with the Wagoneers but we never could get the scheduling figured out, at the time he was living in NY but was [...]

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Freaky Fiddle Friday

So this isn’t Bluegrass, but Mark O’Connor sure can play Bluegrass when he wants too.

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Freakin Freaky Fiddle Friday

This is not Bluegrass. Nope, no Bluegrass here. Ain’t no part of nuthin. Strength in What? Huh? Its Freaking Freaky Fiddle Friday.

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Yogi Berra explains Jazz

A very kind person shared a great piece of Yogi Berra-ism with me. Priceless! See Below. Interviewer: What do you expect is in store for the future of jazz? Yogi: I’m thinkin’ there’ll be a group of guys who’ve never met talkin’ about it all the time… Interviewer: Can you explain jazz? Yogi: I can’t, [...]

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