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, drummer and graphics artist Steve Eilers is back in the hospital. Steve recently had a kidney transplant after some time on dialysis; we hope his current stay turns out well.
I had a brief chat with Mike Williams of the Janis Pruitt Trio (and other groups) on Thursday; although it seems like only yesterday that his and wife Mary’s house burned some three weeks into opening the Black Cat at Pope and Frankfort, it’s been four years. He said they are finally getting a ‘few things going,’ but noted that the fire, which totally destroyed their house, many instruments and pets, was a serious setback, from which recovery was neither quick nor easy. Glad things are looking up.
Now to a few links:
This one is a curiosity: a really, really cool-looking digital recorder with all kinds of mouth-watering features, but I couldn’t find anywhere to order or buy it. Maybe you can. Look here
An old friend from my days in New Albany, mandolinist and composer John Goodin recently sent me email that he had written a tune called “Ekin Avenue” and mentioned yours truly plus our mutual friend Ray Major at his SoManyTunes site. Ekin Avenue was the street Ray and I lived on back in the day.
Goodin also composes and performs contra dance music. Check his website for that here. (Some time back, Goodin wrote a symphony for mandolin orchestra, “The Louisville Suite,” which was premiered by the Louisville Mandolin Orchestra.. Maybe there’ll be a recording someday.)