Just lately have been getting some clues from Jango.com.  It’s an online “radio station” where listeners can put their own playlists together for free.  The cool thing is it’s set up so that listeners around the world can easily tune into artists they might not know about, become their fans, and comment on their songs.

My top five fav comments this week:

Joni Mitchell gone country - USA

You relax me – Peru

Love the tenderness in the voice – USA

Keep rocking, please – Dominican Republic

Space Country Music for a mind traveller – Belgium

He didn’t jump. What I hope is, when he looks back on being carried off the board by his dad, he remembers – not so much that he failed to jump - but the quiet anticipation from the throngs, his mom and dad each taking a turn to walk out to encourage him, the lifeguards who didn’t blow their whistles and tell him to hurry up, the long line of other people waiting to jump, waiting.

We all got it – you know what I’m saying?

piles of harps

players?  San Francisco DJ Norman Davis took it upon himself to see how many of us he could find around the world, and then he built a website around the idea, dedicated to Big Mama Thornton. Check it out!

http://hermonicas.com/hermonicas.htm

If you look on this page:

http://hermonicas.com/otherplayers.htm

you’ll find my free download of Elsa’s Tune. The original version was released on Jane Gillman (Green Linnet SF2101) with Johnny Cunningham on fiddle and Seamus Egan on pipes and whistles.  This one’s just me and my guitar and harps.

Break It Down

I Love Taxicabs at Night