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Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2012

Photo of the Day

Street Artist, Florence

Toonerville Thursday

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This will be the last of the Spain pictures for awhile, as I've reached the end of the trip.  These shots are a few more taken while wandering around Madrid on the last night before we headed for home.  I'll probably post some others eventually, once I've had a chance to go back and review what I shot again, but in the meantime I've got plenty more from other, more recent travels this past summer.

 

 

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Yesterday on the Idiosyncratic History of Rock and Roll we paid tribute to what Dave Von Ronk called "The Great Folk Scare." Von Ronk's memoir The Mayor of McDougal Street (also the inspiration for the upcoming Coen Brothers film Inside Llewen Davis) was used to compile the list of performers during the folk music boom in Greenwich Village, Cambridge, and elsewhere who make up this week's playlist (highlighted titles are links to YouTube versions of the songs): 

Black Mountain Blues, Dave Von Ronk 
Candy Man, Rev. Gary Davis
Rock Island Line, Leadbelly
Billy Lyons & Stackolee, Furry Lewis

Sportin' Life, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Pastures of Plenty, Cisco Houston
I Was Born 10,000 Years Ago, Oscar Brand 
Jamaica Farewell, Harry Belafonte

Don't Let Your Deal Go Down, New Lost City Ramblers 
St. James Hospital, Doc Watson
Black Brown & White, Big Bill Broonzy
Whiskey You're the Devil, Clancy Brothers

One Meat Ball, Josh White 
Ballad of Ira Hayes, Patrick Sky
Swing and Turn Jubilee, Carolyn Hester
Rambling Boy, Tom Paxton

San Francisco Bay Blues, Ramblin' Jack Elliott 
Jug Band Music, Jim Kweskin Jug Band
Betty and Dupree, Bob Gibson & Bob Camp

Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream, Simon & Garfunkel 

Take Your Fingers Off It, Even Dozen Jug Band
Drop Down Mama, John Hammond 
Joshua Gone Barbados, Eric Von Schmidt
The Dolphins, Fred Neil

Special Delivery Blues, Odetta 
These 23 Days in September, David Blue
Euphoria, Holy Modal Rounders
Sweet Substitute, Karen Dalton 

Don't Make Promises, Tim Hardin
Until It's Time for You to Go, Buffy Sainte-Marie
The Bells, Phil Ochs 
Urge for Going, Joni Mitchell

 Baby Let Me Follow YouDown, Bob Dylan

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I'm way behind on posting pictures I took on my visit to San Francisco last May.  So here are a few to get that ball rolling again.  These were all taken in and around the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood which, as you can see retains much of its hippie heyday flavor.

This Made Me Laugh

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The Roman Forum, 2008

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Here's another set of photos taken on the evening of my last day in Spain last February, namely in Madrid.  No other theme hear other than stuff I saw wandering the streets...

Photos of the Day

By request, some shots of some of my nieces and nephews, starting with Helen above, and followed in order by Nik, Ben & Natalie, Sara and Marenka. 

Toonerville Thursday

More Baseball Pictures

 

Back in mid June I attended a Buffalo Bisons-Gwinnett Braves Triple A game.  Most of the time I had my camera trained on second base and I was rewarded with a number of stolen base attempts, double plays and rundowns (though the first picture above is of Jose Constanza getting out of the way of a low inside pitch).  These are a few that turned out pretty good.

 

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Emma, Summer 2010

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I spent part of the last evening in Spain wandering around the Atocha Station with Sara, Ceil and Katie (two of whom are somewhat visible in the photo below).  These shots were taken in and around the station.

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Chestnut Ridge Park, Summer 2013

Pictures from the Fair

Here are a few pictures I took at the Niagara County Fair a couple of weeks ago...

 

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Last night on Dr. John's Idiosyncratic History of Rock and Roll I played nothing but car songs (with one notable exception).  Here's the full list:

Rocket 88, Jackie Brenston  

No Money Down, Chuck Berry  

Hey Little Cobra, Rip Chords

On the Road Again, Canned Heat

Hot Rod Lincoln, Johnny Bond

'41 Ford, The Grand Prix  

Race With the Devil, Gene Vincent  

I Gotta a New Car, Big Boy Groves & Band  

Dead Man's Curve, Jan & Dean  

Stolen Car, The Green Hornets

One Piece at a Time, Johnny Cash

Road Runner, Bo Diddley

Whittier Blvd, Thee Midniters

Beep Beep, The Playmates

Hot Rod Race, Jimmie Dolan  

Black & WhiteThunderbird, The Delicates

Low Rider, War  

Mustang Sally, Wilson Pickett  

Devil in My Car, B-52s

Hopped Up Mustang, Arlen Sanders

Pink Cadillac, Sonny Masters & His Rockin' Rhythm

409, The Quads

Ride onJosephine, George Thorogood

Automobiles, Spaniels

Hot Rod Queen, Deke Dickerson

V-8 Ford Blues, Mose Allison

Every Woman I Know, Billy the Kid Emerson

GTO, Ronny & the Daytonas

Action Packed, Ronnie Dee

Four in the Floor, The Shutdowns

Hot Rod Man, Tex Rubinowitz

Big Green Car, Jimmy Carroll

Mercury Blues, David Lindley

Spark Plug, Four Teens

Hot Rod, Collins Kids

Buick '59, Medallions

Roadrunner, Modern Lovers

Little Red Corvette, Prince

Cars, Gary Numan

Chapel of Love, Dixie Cups (Happy Anniversary Liz & Richard!)

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It's taken awhile, but we're finally into the last day of our visit to Spain back in February.  I'll have one or two more installments covering the very pleasant afternoon and evening spent in Madrid before heading for home.  Above is a view from my hotel room balcony, which was across the street from the Atocha Train Station just a couple blocks away from the Prado. Below is a picture of the front entrance to the Hotel Mediodia, and below that several shots taken on a visit to Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia which was also around the corner (and home to Picasso's masterpiece Guernica).