Saturday Sonata XX: Lobsters

My twentieth Saturday Sonata is now up over at The Peace Tree.

This week: a lobster theme. A crabby sample:

Saturday Sonata XIX: Lucie Idlout

My 19th Saturday Sonata is up over at The Peace Tree. This week, Inuit rocker Lucie idlout, and the crushing song, "E5-770: My Mother's Name."

Saturday Sonata XVIII: Mongolia

My 18th Saturday Sonata is up at The Peace Tree. I found some really nice videos of music from Mongolia. And one very strange video promoting tourism in Mongolia.

Saturday Sonata XVII: Redbone

My 17th Saturday Sonata is up at The Peace Tree, this week a reposting and expansion of a post I did here a year ago or so, featuring the 1970s band, Redbone.

Saturday Sonata: 8 Bells

My fifteenth Saturday Sonata is up at The Peace Tree.

This week: 8 bells.

Saturday Sonata XIV: John Gorka

My fourteenth Saturday Sonata is up at the Peace Tree. This week: the music of John Gorka.

Saturday Sonata with Robin Williamson

My thirteenth Saturday Sonata is up at The Peace Tree [link fixed], this week with the great Scottish instrumentalist and songwriter, Robin Williamson.

Saturday Sonata: Ooga

My 12th Saturday Sonata is up at the Peace Tree.

Ooga.

Saturday Sonata XI: Cliff Eberhardt

My eleventh Saturday Sonata is up at the Peace Tree. This week's feature: the great American songwriter Cliff Eberhardt, in a duet with Richie Havens.

Saturday Sonata: John Prine and "Souvenirs"

My tenth Saturday Sonata is up at The Peace Tree. This week's subject: Mr. Jopn Prine and really sweet version of one of my favorite songs by him, "Souvenirs."

Saturday Sonata IX: Rush on the Colbert Report

My ninth Saturday Sonata is up at The Peace Tree.

Featured this week: the first appearance on American TV in 33 years of the Canadian Prog-rock group Rush. Enjoy.

Saturday Sonata VI: A Father's Day Song

My sixth Saturday Sonata has just gone up over at the Peace Tree. I'm doubling the post up here.

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A very simple one today. I wrote this song in around 1995 on a picnic table on the deck of a bar in Austin, Texas. It had been growing in my head as I drove and drove and drove through the heat of I10 from LA, and it poured all out pretty straight away in probably an hour or so. Later that day I realized it was Father's Day.

On a sad and very related note: My wife just called from Sydney, Australia. She just arrived. Her father died Thursday morning. Peace to her and her family, and to her father, Noel.

This is "Donald," from the CD Bottomfeeders. The song features the enormous talents of Bob Evoniuk on dobro, Jeff Addicott on bass, and Emy Phelps on the vocals.

Saturday Sonata V

My fifth Saturday Sonata post is up at The Peace Tree.

Today: Tom Waits and Peter Rowan.