This 2008 performance by The Steeldrivers features passionate vocals by then-member Chris Stapleton, and some wicked fiddling by Tammy Rogers. Also recommended: Long Way Down.
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Evenings with Guitar George: April 10, 2021
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Evenings with Guitar George: April 3, 2021
I chose this week’s featured video specifically and deliberately to contrast with last week’s performance. With Seasick Steve you kinda know what you got within the first few seconds. In this live studio recording of “Heaven”, Emma Ruth Rundle starts…
Evenings with Guitar George: March 26, 2021
In tonight’s featured video Steven Gene Wold aka Seasick Steve plays a guitar made out of hubcaps and a broomstick. I don’t thick any additional information is needed for prerequisite, although his backstory is very interesting and can be read here.…
Evenings with Guitar George: March 20, 2021
Since returning to Braves General Store, we have covered country/blues, country, folk, and bluegrass. Time for some straight up rock ‘n roll. After Tom Petty’s untimely death in 2017, his guitarist and lifelong friend Mike Campbell kept himself busy for…
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Evenings with Guitar George: March 12, 2021
Bluegrass prodigy Billy Strings was born William Apostol in central Michigan in 1992. Impressed by William’s guitar playing skills at an early age, his aunt nicknamed him Billy Strings, and the name stuck. Here’s the thing about Billy: he plays…
Evenings with Guitar George: March 4, 2021
This past Monday @srbrown70 celebrated his 30th birthday. There was a time when many of us feared that Stephen would spend his 30th birthday huddled around a trash fire in a dark, sketchy alley on the south side of Detroit.…
Evenings with Guitar George: February 26, 2021
Ok, last week NASA’s Perseverance probe landed safely on Mars, which means we now have THREE robot dune buggies driving themselves around on the surface of another planet, picking up rocks and stuff, snapping cool photos, taking videos, emailing spreadsheets…
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Evenings with Guitar George: February 19, 2021
Welcome back, my friends! Since the last time we were together a pandemic and some other stuff happened. But let’s focus on the positive. Our new president has two doges living in the White House, and from all reports they…
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Fifty Tom Waits Songs
The other night I was lying in bed after a Quarantine Four-pack had become a Social Distancing Seven and I grabbed my phone off the nightstand before falling asleep to write this note, “Tom Waits doesn’t just give you the…
Friday Night with Guitar George: Happy Birthday (again!) Keith Richards
His coat is torn and frayed, it’s seen much better days But as long as the guitar plays, it’ll steal your heart away -Rolling Stones “Torn and Frayed” On December 18 Keith Richards will be seventy-four years old, a feat…
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