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January 2014

January 31, 2014

The Weavers: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

Not everything Pete Seeger sang was political. Here's one of my favorite tracks from The...

January 28, 2014

Pete Seeger and St. Thomas Aquinas, Together Again

It's a busy kind of day. Not for me, you understand, but just in general....

January 24, 2014

Sting & The Chieftains: Mo Ghile Mear

One of the tunes I'm glad to be learning on the penny whistle is "Mo...

January 17, 2014

Jerry Reed: Tupelo Mississippi Flash

The late Jerry Reed had a knack for novelty songs like "When You're Hot, You're...

January 10, 2014

One Piece at a Time

Because I need a lift, and because Johnny Cash is always good, here's an unusual...

January 03, 2014

I Will Go, by Scythian

"When the King's son came along, He called us all together, Saying, 'Brave hieland men,...

December 2013

December 27, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Sisters, Andrews, Boswell, and Puppini

Here's a little something upbeat for New Year's: the Andrews Sisters with "Boogie Woogie Bugle...

December 21, 2013

Sea Chanties

So yesterday I posted Ewan MacColl singing about Nancy Whiskey; which led a Facebook friend...

December 20, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Fairytale of New York

"The boys of the NYPD choir are singing Galway Bay; and the bells are ringing...

December 13, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

"And nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, and they turned their faces away." In...

December 06, 2013

The Rocky Road to Dublin

I've been listening to a lot of Irish Traditional music recently, and one of my...

November 2013

November 29, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Waxie’s Dargle

So my daughter was playing Super Smash Bros Brawl on the Wii, and I heard...

November 29, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: What a Wonderful World

Today, for the day after Thanksgiving, here's simply the most peaceful, joyful song of thanksgiving...

November 22, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: The White Collar Holler

And it's oh boys, can't you code it? Huh! Program it right! Nothing every happens...

November 15, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Thomas Aquinas

Dominican philosopher Scholasticism was his game Summa Theologica Aquinas was his name. Well, OK, I...

November 08, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Bedlam Boys

In old times in England, "Tom O'Bedlam" was a name given to mad beggars (or...

November 06, 2013

Sixtus A Capella

In response to this post, the geographically named Joe Washingtoncatholic pointed me at a genuinely...

November 01, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Gopher Tuna

For all Carmina Burana fans, I present the misheard lyrics to O Fortuna. Yeah, if...

October 2013

October 25, 2013

The Woof Guide to Popular Music: Snoopy vs. The Red Baron

For some reason the subject of Snoopy and the Red Baron came up in conversation...

October 18, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Johnny Tarr

Here's an uplifting (?) ballad of a man with a powerful thirst. I've been listening...

October 11, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Levon Helm

The best rock concert I ever went to was something of an accident. Early in...

October 04, 2013

Woof Guide to Popular Music: Amos Moses

A little story about a man, a plan, and a swamp full of alligators, in...