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About Me

I created this page to highlight some of my favorite music and musicians mostly in the arenas of celtic, bluegrass, folk, blues and cajun music. It started for me years ago when I went to a highland games festival and saw a band named The Wicked Tinkers. They are a phenomenal celtic band and really opened up the door to this world of music for me. From there I found that I really enjoyed certain instruments like the bagpipe and later the fiddle. I then got into celtic fiddle music through another fantastic band called The McKassons which eventually led me to other styles of fiddle music like bluegrass, which led then to other styles of folk and blues music. I tend to like contemporary arrangements of traditional celtic music (The Wicked Tinkers, The McKassons, Lunasa, Old Blind Dogs) and I like my bluegrass very old-timey (The Tallboys, Mad Cow String Band, Uncle Earl, Huckleberry Flint). The same with my tastes for blues (Sassparilla Jug Band, Inkwell Rhythym Makers, Kitchen Syncopators). I love the old 20's and 30's style ragtime acoustic blues. My taste for folk and cajun music is hard to pinpoint.So go check em out folks. Thanks.

My Blog

Bands named "Crooked" - Is it something in the name?

Maybe it's something in their names, but the 2 best new albums I've purchased this year are from bands with "Crooked" in their names. The first is "Still Crooked" from the band "Crooked Still". This i...
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:31:00 GMT

Bo’s Top 5 Cd’s - Old Time String Bands

1. The Tallboys - Yeah Buddy 2. Foghorn Stringband - Rattlesnake Tidal Wave 3. The Tallboys - Rubber Dolly 4. Foghorn Stringband - Reap What You Sow 5. The Mad Cow Stringband - Live at the Delta Of Ve...
Posted by on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:31:00 GMT

Bos Top 5 CDs - Celtic Fiddle

Here are my top 5 Celtic Fiddle music cd’s: 1. The McKassons - Tall Tales 2. Hanneke Cassel - Some Melodious Sonnet 3. Laura Cortese - Hush 4. The McKassons - Tripping Maggie 5. Chris Stout - Fi...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:26:00 GMT

Come out to see the Wiyos

The Wiyos are making a west coast trip and are currently heading through No CA. They are a New York based band specializing in great old time vaudeville and ragtime blues and western swing. Lot's of w...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:54:00 GMT

Uncle Earl

I went and saw Uncle Earl the other day at Berkeley's Freight and Salvage. Uncle earl is a great all girl string band featuring fiddle (Rayna Gelert), banjo (Abigail Washburn), bass (Laura Cortese), g...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:49:00 GMT

The Old Blind Dogs & Fraser Fifield

I went and saw the Old Blind Dogs the other day and as usual they were great. The pleasant surprise though came from Fraser Fifield when he busted out his saxophone during the show. Fraser used to pla...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:37:00 GMT

The Tallboys & Gallus Brothers

The Tallboys and the Gallus brothers are playing tonight (9/14/07) at Sophias in downtown Davis, CA. The Tallboys are one of my absolute favorite bands so if you have the chance to check these guys ou...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:49:00 GMT

A Great New Band!

Just saw a fantastic new band last night at Marilyns here in Sacramento. They're called The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band. A group of 3 consisting with various blues and slide guitar, washboard and ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 09:29:00 GMT