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"It's either going to be UKULELE QUALITY or (pointing to Taylor Guitar) THIS"....on behalf of all Ukulele Players, living and dead, we have your number!! Ukuleles produce the sweetest sound I know. I love playing ukuleles--koa or mahogany. We are allowing you this one gaffe, Richard. Next time th...

Wonderful..."a song about moving". Like Moby Dick is a book about whaling. Like Beloved is a ghost story. I'm waiting for Guy to reach up, take that painted shirt off the hanger, and put it on.

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Bobby is surely channeling Woody on this night. Great job. Check Woody's photos with the Almanac Singers--same raised gaze and tilted head...not to mention vocal. Dylan was/is/will be the Greatest.

Ludwig was a huge ukulele fan--and a fair player. I remember jamming with him in a little club in Vienna one Winter night. We were both a bit loose from the house wine, and he was great on Over The Rainbow.

I've been a life-long fan. One time at Ft Bragg in 1970, NC I passed Bob Shane in a small passage--he was leaving and I was entering the men's room. Many years later, 1993, the Trio was playing out on Long Island and I passed Bob Shane again...he was leaving and I was entering the men's room. Mu...

Marvelous!!! From the Stewart-Era Striped Shirts to the Vega Pete Seeger Banjo, 6-string guitar (I'm guessing it's a D-28) and 4-string Tenor ala Nickie Reynolds. The guy in the center even strums like Bob Shane. This is fabulous stuff!! 3 Japanese gents devoting themselves to our beloved KT. The...

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As a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow-bend Bow=pointed front of a boat: pronounced "bough". a skate is a type of ray--it has wings and a tail--a sort of fishy-bird...although not at all a predator like a hawk. Nit-picky, but important in adding another wonder of creatio...

From my perspective, Pied Beauty--like nearly all Hopkins' works--is about God. The wonderful thing about this poet is his technique, word choice, amazing modernism melded to an ancient faith so perfectly. Industrial Revolution?? maybe, but I don't hear it.

Feel foolish responding to 21susan59, but sometimes you need to step up:

Susan, the lyric is "my God is better than your God". The 'jail' is alot of things besides a cell with bars.......and the 'jailer' is you and me

Dude!! Magnifique!! Uncle Rhubarb needs you!! Imagine the fame...the fortune. Ahh.

Bella, indeed. These cats could swing with the best of them!! And Bob Wills?? What a strange man............

Cut it down, daddy-0!! Take it away, Leon!! These cats can swing!! Mas, por favor!!!!

OMG!!!!!!!!! This is the Hollywood Version of what I went through just this morning!! Waterboarding is not dead!! It's alive and well at Stop and Shop Pharmacy, Putnam, Ct. And Bob, the Operative-On-Duty, is spectacular. He was way better than the young man in this scene. Great combo of humiliat...

I love the placement and style of the drummer in this song. You're right. These cats can keep up with Django...wow. What year is this??

What amazes me most is that all this wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime music was being made as the World around these artists was falling off a cliff. Spain was engulfed in a Civil War where all the new weapons systems and tactics were on display and 3 years later the JackBoots danced down the Champs...

Amazingly, in addition to Bob and the Playboys, Django and his boys, Oscar Aleman and his boys were all putting out this wonderful string/fiddle-based jazz at the same time in 3 very different places and cultures. Love it.

Take it way, Leon...oops, I mean Herb!!

Just look at that photo!! Martins and Vegas!! Chinos, striped shirts (button-down, natch). I wonder why Davey is covering the Vega Star...endorsement issues?? Time is certainly a Thief.....

Santy Anno--one of those magical sea chanties that has deep roots. As with most folk tunes, it started as a totally different song--one sung by British sailors praising the famous Mexican General of Alamo Fame...and then, somehow, it became a song about a ship sailing from England to California, ...

CompVid101: You knock me out. Once again, I thought I was one of a select few who knew that Sandberg and Hays built this song...can we have some more, please??

Certainly not an 'understated banjo part'. Stewart's sound/style transformed the Trio. Here his banjo playing adds that "bittersweet" quality that makes the song resonate in my heart all these years. You are my hero for posting all these tunes and adding great liner notes. Keep on posting, pls.

My first band was a Trio Cover Band--1960-63. I was 14. Always loved their music and attitude. Wonderful to learn something new--that bit about the Gibson Jumbo 12 and the Everly Bros. Makes great sense. Thanks.

The guitar player is playing a Fender!!!! Must be one of the first Fenders made. Great history in this clip. Thanks!

May 8, 2011: Woody, I'm sorry to report that the Fascists just don't seem to stay down. We knock em out, they get back up. We bomb their cities, but recruit their scientists and leaders. And now, Woody, right here in America, well meaning folks are putting on brown shirts and speaking filth. Well...

Moby Dick is my favorite novel--has been for the last 30 years. This song you've written is pitch perfect for that masterwork. A dread sense of fate hangs over every verse, mixed with Stubb's humorous/heroic acceptance. It's a cannibal universe, mate! I'm going to steal your song. Cheers. Wonderf...

I'd like to learn more about your instruments. Can you contact me w/pictures, specs, tunings, etc? I'm a life-long guitar/ukulele player and I love the sound of your axes.

Can I have your guitar, Mr White, when you no longer need it?? Look at that beauty. Some sort of OOO...maybe a 45...look at the fretboard. Damn. And he can tear it up. I'm surprised it doesn't burst into flame.

Now I've got it!! Bob is doing a terrific impersonation of Stan Laurel. Marvelous. The guy apparently has no static persona...always playing someone else. Must be damn tiring.