Testa Rosa (the band, not the auto)
https://youtube.com/watch?list=PLxqW0YZHzqw7LXUcQAkFvXo7DljshXhza&v=n-9JR8W16CE
 
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My elder grandson (3) yakking & his little brother (5mos) cooing  
And, of course, their father & uncle talking bovine waste.......
 
Peter

I miss my friend Buster. It's hard to believe it's been a decade ...
 

Buster sounds WONDERFUL !  
 
  Thanks , I really like that .  
 
 Wolf

He really was something with a guitar. Truly one of the most gifted musicians I ever knew.  
 
I was just thinking this morning about the tragic loss this past year of my buddy Tony Collins, another brilliant guitarist.  
 
This guy was one of his favorites:  
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoWgGubB4tI&list=PLsgzqiprLpbHAy7dbRgInf4V69mRclwP0
 
...and it's also one of the best holiday instrumental albums I own.

Carol Of The Bells!  Awesome .

Appalachian Fiddle Master Tommy Jarrell, playing Breakin' Up Christmas from 1983.
 

 
The title seems a little strange if you're not from here, so here's the explanation:  
 
http://www.galaxgazette.com/content/breakin-christmas-appalachian-tradition

MILES DAVIS.COM !!!!!
 
https://www.milesdavis.com/
 
Wolf

Gotta have Cajun music.  I made a pot of Community House Blend and beignets !  Maybe gumbo or etouffe' for lunch . . . . . here's the mighty Jo-El Sonnier:
 

 
 
Joey

Hot apple cider with cinnamon on a chilly morning.
 
...oh wait...what was the question?
 
cheers

Bigredbass -
 
You made me click your profile to see where you live.
 
Michael
New Orleans

Actually Michael, I was born and raised in Beaumont, just across the Louisiana line on Interstate 10.  Spent a lot of time in that Houston to Lafayette strip, the heart of Acadiana.
 
So, part of me is Rockin' Dopsie, the Meters and the Wild Tchipitoulas, Wayne Toups, the Nevilles, and I have been to Floyd's Record Shop in Ville Platte.  I actually make Mufalettas here in Nashville when I can find a bread that's close. Three of my favorite cookbooks are the three volumes of TALK ABOUT GOOD!, published by the Junior League of Lafayette, full of Cajun family recipes from regular folks.
 
My mother's family emigrated through New Orleans from Sicily around the turn of the (19th) century: One of my great-grandfather's best friends was Mr. Monteleone, who owned the hotel in the quarter for years.  There's lots Italians and Sicilians in along the Gulf Coast, including the Mandola family who started the CARABBA's restaurant chain, whose food tastes a lot like my family's, since we all came from the same end of Italy.
 
'Nawhlins was always a little much for me, I was never quite that wild, but what a music town.  I was more into the Cajuns, and it will be a regret that I never got to live in Lafayette or Church Point or New Iberia.  I love the food, the people, and it's one of the few places where if you're a musician, the average person honors that, as they love a good party.  I'm really at home there, and I miss going back from time to time.  There's a part of me in those moss-draped oaks and those little bayous.
 
Growing up playing in East Texas and South Louisiana, you had to be able to play a little of everything, so I had to have very sympathetic ears.  It was nothing on a gig to play Texas Swing, Texas Blues, some Domino and Dr. John, some Cajun waltzes and those fast things in 2/4, then some current R&B or white rock and roll, with a dose of George Jones and Elvis.  Never dull, and you had to have a large catalog in the back of your head. And then too, in those late 60's and early 70's there were still the big white R+B bands like the legendary Boogie Kings, GG Shin and the Rollercoaster, and Edgar's White Trash band.
 
Sonnier's 90mph-fastball take on Richard Thompson's 'TSL' is my go-to when I need a jump start, and instantly puts me back in those days and hearing lots of music like that, and what a hoot it was.
 
So I got to admit, as much as I like living in Nashville, alongside of the above . . . . . it can be quite stilted and boring !
 
Joey

I want to know how to get an invitation to Joey's for dinner.
Italian/ Cajun mash up!

Well, as long as we're at this:  Buckwheat Zydeco at work (another Clifton Chenier descendant):
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2eRRh4Bls&list=RDv08TBErkp3s&index=35
 
I want one of those Tabasco Sauce basses, probably shouldn't bring that up while Susan's recovering . . . .  
 
We now return you to your regular programming.
 
Joey

This chapter on the sounds of the steamy bayou got me thinking about these folks...
 

 
...and another of them singing one of my favorite tunes ever.