The Frito Bandito Song

Dolly MacMahon: "Love Is Teasing"

Dolly MacMahon
Kilrush Fleadh Cheoil,
County Clare, Ireland
1966

for love is pleasing and love is teasing
and love is a treasure when first it's new
but as love grows older then love grows colder
and it fades away like the morning dew

Hitler Reacts To His Parodies Being Removed

007 and Thumper
fucking hate Hitler

Happy Earth Day And Beyond

For All Mankind
in four parts

We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
--George Leigh Mallory

Polly Loves The Clash

Laura Sena: Polly Loves The Clash

Patty Griffin: "Long Ride Home"

Patty Griffin
Franklin, Tennessee
9/18/05

i've had some time to think about it
and watch the sun set like a stone
i've had some time to think about you
on the long ride home

Dark Star 10/18/74

Grateful Dead
Winterland, San Francisco, Ca.
10/18/74

Farewell Angelina

Nickel Creek
Ryman Theater, Nashville, Tn.
11/29/07
with Tim O'Brien, Benmont Tench, Gillian Welch, David Rawlings
and Bela Fleck

farewell Angelina
the bells of the crown
are being stolen by bandits
i must follow the sound
the triangle tingles
and the trumpets play slow
farewell Angelina
the sky is on fire
and I must go
--bob dylan (from "farewell angelina ")

Swell Season: "Into The Mystic"

The Swell Season
Bonnaroo Festival
Manchester, Kentucky
6/13/08

So Long Marianne

Leonard Cohen
1979

come over to the window, my little darling
i'd like to try to read your palm
i used to think i was some kind of gypsy boy
before i let you take me home

Hobo Blues

John Lee Hooker
American Folk Blues Festival
1965

Dream Of A Miner's Child

Johnson Mountain Boys
Lucketts, Va.
2/20/88

Van Morrison: "Beside You"

1968

The Easter Rebellion

Happy 94th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion , comrades.

Wolfe Tones: The Foggy Dew
Dublin, 1916
Frances Black: The Bold Fenian Men

but the bravest fell and the requiem bell
rang mournfully and clear
for those who died that Eastertide
in the springing of the year
and the world did gaze in deep amaze
at those fearless men but few
who bore the fight that freedom's light
might shine through the foggy dew

Just A Few Old Memories

Luke Abbott with Molly Tuttle, Angelica Grim and Aissa Lee
Brown Barn Bluegrass Festival
San Martin, Ca.
2009

Nick Cave: "The Ship Song"

Nick Cave
Songwriter's Showcase
7/9/99

come sail your ships around me
and burn your bridges down
we make a little history, baby
every time you call around
let loose your dogs upon me
and let your hair hang down
you are a little mystery to me
every time you call around