Turnips

I would like to take this opportunity to share, not music, but a recipe. Behold, some turnips.
2 turnips. (Serves 2)
Peel, cut into smallish pieces. Use as dull a knife as possible. Try to break the handle off. They taste better that way, trust me. After first knife is broken, use a table knife.
Boil, 20-25 minutes. Stir occasionally. Towards end of boiling, mash 'em up a bit. Use a spatula.
Drain.
Mash a bit more.
Put in, I dunno, 1/4 cup of butter. Let it melt, mix it around.
Put in a bit of half and half and just enough brown sugar. You'll know.
Mix it around. Drain most of the liquids out.
Serve as soon as possible, otherwise, cover and put in a warm oven.
Directly before eating, or perhaps after a couple bites, put on some garlic pepper salt.

It must be sideways.

Eat it with a spoon. Tastes best around 2:06 AM.


Enjoy.

Oh BABY!

Thanks to Travis Patton for this here dank@$$ rendition of summatime.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9frgJdwYNC8

Not music, but...

Thought this was funny. I've been on a bit of a train kick today, so I was making the rounds of wikipedia, and somebody's been having a good old time with the monorail entry.

Bears

Lyle Lovett. Sam Bush. Yes. Also, through some researching, I discovered that the bassist played on a couple of my favorite Jerry Douglas records, The Best Kept Secret and Restless on the Farm. The latter is particularly good music for driving. So...good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4SaNuxZO8

Dave Matthews Band + Flecktones = Effin Madness.

Found this amazing set of videos this morning. Dave Matthews band with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones playing an epic rendition of #41. This is half of my dream concert. (The other half involves Nickel Creek and John Mayer. Not necessarily together.) Maybe Lyle Lovett should be the opener. He seems to have a new record out entitled Natural Forces, and the 30-second snippets sound pretty good. Anyway, this is in 4 parts, so bear with it. Dig.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uX8fP8Yh4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8eWsPMFvWE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuE6Oau7--s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWmILEgI49g

Niyaz

Stumbled on this the other day. The first song that plays when you open the page is real groovy in my opinion. This is the website of a group called Niyaz, which is pretty much world music mixed with chilled out dance music--"A 21st century global trance tradition." Based in Middle Eastern folk music, it has a modernized feel to it while retaining some of the funky qualities of Persian, Turkish, and Iranian music. I dig it. Enjoy.
http://niyazmusic.com/

Moose

Anybody know of a restaurant in Chicago (or anywhere) that serves it? Just curious. So my roommate was in a band back in California called Roswick. They're killin', check out the second song especially. (David wrote it.) Also, I posted this on facebook yesterday, but people probably missed it. It's pretty much my favorite donkey.

Summat nice greasy blues muzack

This video was up a couple years ago, and then I think they took it down. But I found another version of it, and it made me really happy. So here it is...James Taylor's Steamroller Blues.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfzMLRzH2yw

As an end of the weekend bonus, I'll share this one as well. Observe ol' Bo Diddley's athleticism around 2:45. Very impressive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-rf4EgAm8

Today, I was trying to look up sus chords on wikipedia.

This is what I found.

Nickel Creek Day

Of course. I've seen them a couple times, and it was ridiculous. They'd been playing forever, here's a really early video I found of them. (I can't embed it, sorry.) And here's a more recent one. I love this...

God, I miss them.

A New Direction

Taking the blog in a new direction. Or perhaps just a direction, period. Hadn't really been going anywhere, had it? I think what I'm going to do every couple days is post a really great, or kindof alright, song/video or whatever as well as a bit of background on how I found it, what I think of it, etc. We'll start this of with a band called Poutníci. They are a Czech bluegrass band. I think it's really interesting that bluegrass found it's way to the Czech republic at all, and even more so that it has become fairly popular and the people have taken it and kept some parts similar to it's roots, and then added Czech components to it, as well. I was just reading the Wikipedia article on Czech music in general, and one thing led to another. I found this video of them playing Wayfaring Stranger, which I think is a really beautiful song. One of my favorite versions of it is in this video by Mike Marshall, who plays it on mandocello. Anyway, here it is, let me know what you think. More soon.