Six more inches of snow today. Yesterday we really nailed down the Minnesota winter sound, not Bob Dylan, not Prince Nelson, not even Whoopee John Wilfart; I posted The Pines - to drag us through the solstice with their heavy morose tunes. Here's the flip side - Hawaiian shirts! Now I give you Dan Newton and his Cafe Accordion Orchestra - another of the Twin Cities bands that is locked into Paris's Gypsy Jazz past. It's faster, maybe more upbeat on the surface, but still with a core of melancholy.
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My Favorite Day!!!!
As the solstice draws near.
The shortest day, December 21st is here.
So all gather 'round for some Christmas Cheer.
And HEY Gunnar can I have another beer.
Silk.
PS: Make next a better YEAR!
Been a tough year for the country, maybe for the world. Have a beer and a drink to a better year in 2011.
Le Hot Jazz how nice. If you don't pat your foot to that then check in to the mortuary 'cause you're dead.
Like most people I don't know why I like the accordion, or the ukulele either for that matter, but I do. It makes me smile, inside and outside which is probably why those two instruments are use in the majority of commercials.
And by the title, I was thinking "Dark Eyes" by Dylan from Empire Burlesque. I'll forgive you though, you did post the Pines!
Stay warm...
Bob Dylan is a find songwriter, and probably a fine man. I have a bunch of his early LPs. Hell, I even went to college with his brother for about 5 minutes - maybe a little longer. If I ever posted one of his songs it was probably an error.
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