Being an expat Texan, once or twice a year, Texas calls me.  It's just in my blood.
 
Pegged 13MWZ Wranglers, my Tony Lamas, head out to a place with a big dance floor with folks two-stepping to music like this, have a brisket sandwich and a Shiner.  I played a lot of this stuff in a lot of places like this clip suggests, and it will always, always be a part of me. Fiddles (three!!), 'stand-up' (non-pedal)steel, Texas swing like Ray and the Wheel have championed all these years, just the best.
 
Texas.  It's a whole 'nother country.  Music and bands like that are why.  Thanks, Ed, it really got to me.
 
Cowboy Up !
 
Joey

Spent last night in the company of C,S,& N at Glasgow's royal concert hall. I have to say, for a bunch of guys in their 70's they still have phenomenal voices. More or less a 'Greatest Hits' show with 3 new numbers(one from each of them) they blasted out hit after hit with no apparent vocal issues although Stephen looked relieved to have got through 'Suite' cleanly at the end of the show.  
One highlight - Croz brought out his 12 string alembicised starfire for wooden ships. It still looks to be in immaculate condition and sounded fantastic.  
Another highlight, - they had Russ Kunkel on drums - one of my favourites.
And we bumped into croz (literally) outside the venue as we were chatting with friends we haven't seen for ages. ( he was being rushed to his transport by a couple of heavies as they'd not parked at the stage door).
 
They're getting on in years and I don't know how long they can keep the harmonies going but based on last night's performance I doubt they'll be quiting anytime soon.  
 
Graeme

Me, Coz, and Ed_Zep have been reminiscing on another thread about a couple of these folks...
 
Here's Tony Rice, Peter Rowan, Brynn Bright, and Sharon Gilchrist covering Cold Rain & Snow.  
 

That was sweet.
 
I've got this on the turntable-Kinks...Low Budget

Last weekend...Saturday night it was David Grisman  and the Bluegrass Experience.  Sunday Victor Wooten. The Grisman show was not only a musical experience but an educational one as well. Purchased seats the night before for $40 and sat front row.  The next night at the Dakota Jazz club with Wooten was just as good. A true virtuoso. What a weekend of music! and for a TOTAL of $75.  Main reason I won't be purchasing tickets at $50 (rafters), $75 (can actually see the person on the stage), $100 close enough to be able to tell Weir from  Hart) for the Dean & company shows in Minneapolis,

The Kinks' Low Budget tour in 1979 was the first gig I took the future Mrs J to when we started courting. Amazing night.  ray Davies changed his jacket after just about every song. Bottom end on that tour was held down by Jim Rodford (ex Argent) who had the first Trace Elliot amp I ever heard. I still have the ticket and metal badge (pin) from that gig.
 
Graeme

I just discovered this last night. Old & In The Way LIVE in '73
 

 
Great sound, especially Vassar Clement's fiddle and Jerry Garcia's banjo. (You forget what a great banjoist he was, y'know what I mean?)  
 
I'd been listening to C,S,N&Y's Deja Vu album for years and always admired the amazing pedal steel on Teach Your Children. I was on tour with Mason Williams and the song came on the radio. He said that the pedal steel part was played by Jerry Garcia! (It's in the album credits, but I never noticed it.)  
 
I remember that Mason also said that it was a legendary session because supposedly Jerry showed up, listened to the song once and played. That's the take we've heard all these years! Apparently Jerry was so embarrassed by the take that he left immediately, and didn't like to discuss it afterward.  
 
Yet there's a whole generation (or three) that if you asked them to name one steel guitar part ...
 
Anyway, there are a lot of songs on this recording that aren't on the album. Enjoy!

 Old & In The Way was awesome!  I know a Dobro player that jammed with Vassar Clements on occasion.

Just watched the Haas sisters video (I'm a bit behind); very nice!  Loved the instrumentation, and the arrangement.

Just ran across this, and surprised I haven't seen it before; this is a treasure trove,
.  Good quality video from the early 60's.
 
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I Advance Masked
 

 
John

I still have the LP, cool music and cover art!

Always loved this album,
Randy Jackson is monster on this.

 
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Anner Bylsma's version of the cello suites on a period cello that is larger than a typical instrument in a very nicely reverberant room. Probably my fifth version of the suites and my favorite so far.

Liked it Pete! Somewhere in my shop is an album with Ponty, Al DiMeola and Stanly Clarke. It's called The Rite of Strings. Here's a live cut of the title from it.  
 
 
 
Edwin, I love the cello. I don't have many regrets in life, but the one I do have is that I didn't take up cello until the age of 30, by which point it's difficult if not impossible to find a teacher. Consequently, I only ever play it at home to amuse myself.
 
Here's one of my favorite modern pieces rendered by Yo Yo Ma. A good friend sent it to me on a very bad day a little while back.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=23&v=T0a4GpNHzMc