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New Videos

“The Player’s Spot” has posted two new videos online:

Dawn Haggard here.

Jon Ashley here.

The videos are also available through the www.louisvillemusicnews.net website. Search the Artists page.

Friday Wrap-Up

For those of you who were looking for “The Player’s Spot” featuring Teneia Sanders and Misha Feigin on WYCS 24 (Insight 138) last Tuesday and didn’t find it, it will be rerun on next Tuesday at 9 p.m. It will also be run several times over this weekend, but we do not have the times(!).

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Videos and More Videos

The Player’s Spot videographer has been one busy fellow; he’s posted several more clips from the show. Here’s the list:

Bryan Fox -1

Bryan Fox – 2

Teneia Sanders – 1

Teneia Sanders -2

Jenny Madison

Mark Stampley

danny flanigan

Leigh Ann Yost

Brigid Kaelin -1

Brigid Kaelin -2

Joel Timothy -1

Joel Timothy – 2

You can also find them under the artist’s listing.

Thursday on Friday

Sometimes days just get away from you. So here it is Friday and I haven’t posted Thursday’s links. Before I get to them, however, a couple of notes:

We hear that fiddler Alan Brock, formerly with the Juggernaut Jug Band is the hospital for heart bypass surgery. Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Alan.

Also, [...]

16 Bones, Brian White, Glenn Metzger Vids

The videographer for The Player’s Spot has posted some videos from the January 16 show on Youtube. Here are the links:

16 Bones

Brian P. White

Glenn Metzger

Thursday Links – January 11

Time flies and I nearly overlooked the fact that it’s Thursday and time for my choice of musical links.

Learn to play the basic blues with video http://www.bammerwiki.com/Acoustic_Blues_Guitar_video_lessons

Wood makes music sound so warm, so why not speakers with wooden cones? Really. JBL is offering them http://www.jvc.com/presentations/WoodConeSpeakers/index.html

Looking for an indie record label? Here’s a list: http://www.newpages.com/npguides/music.htm

Into Celtic, [...]

Big Hopp’s Closes

Just got a phone call saying that Big Hopp’s has closed. More info to follow.

Update: Not a lot more – the Darnell Levine shows on January 12 & 13 are canceled at Big Hopp’s. They may be rescheduled.

Eddy’s LMN Gathering

I made a trip to the Phoenix Hill Tavern on Friday, January 5 to help a videographer with the recording of the bands playing as part of Eddy Metal’s “LMN Gathering 2″ showcase. Hanging out until 2 a.m., listening to various metal bands screaming along at full volume isn’t something I’ve done a lot of [...]

Thursday Links – January 4 ‘07

Do you like freeform radio? Check out this Jersey City station:www.wfmu.org/

More home-made guitars than you have imagined or could image: www.ho-madeguitars.com/

Okay, you dropped your iPod into the toilet again. Avoid that little problem with this example of why America is in dire need of some new imagination: http://www.dutchguard.com/p-icarta-ipod-roll.html

Amazon strikes back against DRM: www.computers.net/2006/12/amazon_soon_ope.html

Get your free [...]

Holiday Survival

So once more, I have survived the holidays, a no small feat these days. Just before Christmas and just before New Year’s, the Louisville Courier-Journal obituary pages really grew in number; it was nearly astonishing to see it. So the holidays can be lethal.

During that same period, I also had a very peculiar, mind-stretching experience: [...]