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The Dead South Revives a Love of Bluegrass

The Dead South Revives a Love of Bluegrass and Hopefully Blogging!! So it’s been a long time since I spent an afternoon on the hunt for new music. Maybe even longer since I searched the Roots Music Bluegrass chart, but I did just that yesterday. I discovered several bands that I hadn’t heard of previously. I will try to write about several of these bands later in the week, but The Dead South is an initial favorite, The Dead South is a Canadian folk-bluegrass band hailing from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. The band formed in 2012. However, the band’s fortunes took off…

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A Hopeful Running Reboot – Music by Tinsley Ellis

Ice Cream in Hell - Tinsley Ellis

The Run Ok so hopefully today may be the start of my running year. My daughter-in-law went into work at noon today and that gave me plenty of time to get a run in this morning. And since the temperature was in the mid-40s it was perfect. Now if my daughter in law can give me one day a week where she starts work at !1:00 or 12 maybe I could keep it up! The last  time I ran it was in the afternoon around dinner time and I ran a course that avoided crossing any major streets. The normal…

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Saturday Playlist Part 1 – B. Scaggs, Lou Donaldson and Wes!

Lou Donaldson contribution to my Saturday Playlist

Ok so yesterday I did some reading and a lot of little things around the house. The soundtrack and ultimately a playlist for the day came from a variety of music, from a variety of musical media. Since there are six artists and twelve songs, I am dividing my Saturday playlist into two posts. Each post will feature three artists and sox songs on the playlist So let’s go!! Boz Scaggs – Moments  Moments – Amazon First came some music from an album that has been in my music library since the early 70s, Moments from Boz Scaggs. After he…

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Brooks And Day – Mystic Messages

Mystic Messages - Brooks and Day

Brooks And Day – Mystic Messages – Keeps The Music Flowing Two  of my favorite musical instruments are the flute and the guitar. So when I heard the debut release of Brooks and Day Mystic Messages…..the message came through to me loud and clear. This is one fine album that I am going really like! Now even though Mystic Messageshu is the debut album, that doesn’t mean they haven’t made music together earlier in their lives. In fact they have been playing on and off together for the last 30 years! Ben Brooks (flute and keyboards) and Peter Day (guitar…

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John Mayall Makes A Good Run Better! Try It

Nobody Told Me - John Mayall

John Mayall Makes A Good Run Better! Try It The Run Yesterday’s was one of those days that was about as close to perfect as you can get. First we were going to be babysitting our grandson Logan all day while his parents and older sister went to Six Flags. The good thing was we didn’t need to be there until 9:30. That meant that I could run around 8:00 and and be done and showered by 9:30. So I got up at 7:00 did some warm up exercising and was out the door by 8:00. I ran a 3.1…

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The Kerry Kearney Band Make a Struggling Run Better!

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Yesterday  was a A+ day of exercising. I started the day off with a cardio-dance routine. I added some resistance band,kettle Bell, light weights and some calisthenics.The workout was. 22 minutes long and I burned.209 calories. About a half hour later I ran.. The soundtrack was <strong><em>Black</em></strong> from the Kerry Kearney Band   Oh I believe my pre-run cool down included a 22 minute meditation!  Later in the day I did another shorter meditation. Finally, last night I did any full 28-minute nightly yoga routine.</p> The Run Back to the run. I decided on a short 3.1 mile…

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The Longshot Brandon Santini’s Strong Blues & Rock Mix

&nbsp; The Longshot from blues harpist Brandon Santini has been in my music rotation for a few weeks now. And I am enjoying more each time I listen to it! I first listened to Brandon’s music back in 2015. It was around the time he released his album Live &Extended. I’ve been a fan ever since! You can read my post about Live & Extended here In my opinion Brandon ranks right up there with the best of today’s  blues harpists. Santini’s album This Time Another Year was nominated as “Contemporary Blues Album” of the year at the 2014 Blues Music Awards. Brandon was  also…

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A Good 5K Made Better By Killin’It Live by Tommy Castro

Killin It Live - Tommy Castro

<p style=”text-align: left;”>Yesterday was Day 3 of the Drive for 5 challenge and  it was a good day. The day started with a short morning dance-cardio with Kettle Bell and Resistance bands added. That was followed by a 3.16 mile run.</p> Wednesdays are usually a non-running day but I couldn’t decide whether I would run in the early morning or early afternoon and finally didn’t run either time. Yesterday I decided I had to go early and the important part was I did! The Run I  added a few exercises to my morning routine on Tuesday which left my legs…

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Walter Trout’s Survivor Blues Powers Tuesday’s Run

Survivor Blues - Walter Trout

The Run 3.14 Miles So today was supposed to be colder with a chance of some snow, so yesterday was the better day to run. Since my knee still felt slightly funky I decided that once again , I would run my standard 3.1 mile course. By the time I reached the first mile mark my leg felt pretty good. I was running at a 10:01 min/mile pace and running easily,. As I continued my run, I tried to keep my pace a little slower than my last couple of runs. To do that I kept a close eye on…

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