Whole Lot of Nothin'

[DarrenG / The Devil's Toupee]

HAHA! great song, love the tongue in cheek lyrics. The music is really good, great vocals and production.

[Ted]

Very funny, and well-played.

One of the most talented songwriters I know is a frequent farmers market player. I will be sure to share this with him.

This brought vividly to mind a very specific farmers market in a city where I used to live: Takoma Park, Maryland. I picture it clearly in my mind: A ridiculously short clock tower. A bronze memorial to a famous feral rooster named Roscoe. A three-piece band set up awkwardly on the corner.

Lugged all our guitars sang every song we knew
Mostly our originals and a cover or two

And apparently you have the same chronic sickness that I do: the insistence that strangers should hear our originals, when we know that they really only want background music, preferably canned.

Blackout Bump - week of 18 August, 2021

[StephenM]

good bump Ted and I enjoyed hearing about Roscoe and seeing a picture of him.  I have been to Tacoma Park area, but I don't remember that.
this band is not only very good, they are fun and funny... listening at low volume I hear a bit of Grateful Dead influence...
I kind of like playing on the streets.  There are some folks who really like it.  I never ask for money, I have nothing against it, but I have had people give me money and lots of other cool things too... but really I enjoy the ones who will stop and chat etc...some will cross the street and pass..

Bone on Bone doesn't post too often but their songs are always really tight

[Ted]

I have been to Tacoma Park area, but I don't remember that.

If you ever get up there again, there's a great music store there called House of Musical Traditions. They sell all kinds of stuff – folk instruments, world instruments, but the don't cater to rock musicians. You'll (probably) never see a straight-up electric guitar or bass there. Acoustic guitars with pickups: yes. A solid-body mandolin guitar: yes. An unholy hybrid of a Telecaster and a banjo: yes. Electric guitar strings: yes (but don't tell anyone where you got them). It's where I bought my Michael Kelly acoustic bass and a few other things I still have.

I really miss that city. If a genie offered to transport my family from Madagascar to anywhere in the USA to live (along with the financial means to live there) and didn't give me much time to think about it, I'd probably say Takoma Park.