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Tuesday, August 17, 2021

HAND POLLINATION OF EARLY GIRL TOMATO PLANT.

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  We’re taking a break from our standard musicology fare, in order to bring you breaking developments from the world of enclosed balcony gar...
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Thursday, June 3, 2021

THE KESSINGER BROTHERS SWING THAT POOR GAL, LIZA JANE.

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If you’re courting Liza Jane, and you want to have any chance at winning her hand, you’ve got to swing her madly. Clark Kessinger and his ne...
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THE FOX IN MY LIFE + CRITTER EXTRAVAGANZA: PHOTO ESSAY.

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Key to the images:  1. I’ve been seeing this hawk up in the greenery, no not that greenery, I mean the greenery! For months. Here, she flutt...
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021

ANOTHER LITTLE DRINK WOULDN’T DO ME NO HARM: PEG LEG HOWELL AND EDDIE ANTHONY SWING “TURKEY BUZZARD BLUES” TIL THERE AIN’T NO MORE CHESTNUTS LEFT IN THE CHINQUAPIN TREE.

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  Scroll down for complete lyrics When the self-taught guitarist Joshua Barnes Howell played the blues, it came from a place of multiple har...
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SHOOT YOU DOWN WITH MY OLD SHOTGUN: AUNT SAMANTHA BUMGARNER AND EVA DAVIS SWING “BIG-EYED RABBIT” FASTER THAN HUMANLY POSSIBLE & CERTAINLY FASTER THAN THAT VARMINT CAN RUN.

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  Scroll down for complete lyrics. In April 1924, Aunt Samantha Bumgarner and her collaborator Eva Davis became the first women to record co...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2021

CALL IT BEAUTY: THE OLD TIME FIDDLE TUNE “CANDY GIRL” BY UNCLE BUNT STEPHENS.

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  In 1926, a man named John L. “Uncle Bunt” Stephens recorded an unforgettable tune—“Candy Girl”—as part of one-day recording stint at Colum...
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Thursday, February 4, 2021

“OUT OF THIS WORLD” BY GINO WASHINGTON: A NEARLY FORGOTTEN SHAKER FROM 1963 THAT SHOULD BE THE FIRST SONG PLAYED AFTER THE PANDEMIC ENDS & WHEN WE START HOOKING UP AGAIN. (BUT PLAY IT NOW ANYWAY.)

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  A song so unrestrainable that the singer can only prevent its escape for an agonizing eight seconds. “La-de-da apartments”—the kind descri...
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