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“The things we fear the most have already happened to us.” - Deepak Chopra

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"There can be no beauty if it is paid for by human injustice, nor truth that passes over injustice in silence, nor moral virtue that condones it." - Tadeusz Borowski

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Wilco - Ashes of American Flags

I wonder why we listen to poets When nobody gives a fuck

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Everybody knows these are rock hard times I gotta make it through These are rock hard times

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Here are the 2025 albums I enjoyed the most this year. As in years past, I mark this decision by which albums I kept returning to.

1. Cass McCombs - Interior Live Oak

2. Rhiannon Giddens & Justin Robinson - What Did the Blackbird Say to the Crow

3. S.G. Goodman - Planting by the Signs

4. Joseph Decosimo - Fiery Gizzard

5. Kassi Valazza - From Newman Street

6. Sam Fender - People Watching

7. Natalie Bergman - My Home Is Not In This World

8. Mavis Staples - Sad and Beautiful World

9. Bonnie Prince Billy - The Purple Bird

10. Luke Bell - The King is Back

Also great and really enjoyable:

Jeff Tweedy - Twilight Override

Turnstile - Never Enough

Craig Finn - Always Been

Cate Le Bon - Michelangelo Dying

Bon Iver - sABLE, fABLE

Jason Isbell - Foxes in the Snow

Lord Huron - The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

Foxwarren - 2

Nation of Language - Dance Called Memory

Liam Kazar - Pilot Light

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Happy Thanksgiving

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Greetings! I know I’m no longer here most of the time anymore but I wanted to drop in and let you all know that my band has released our first full length album, Mississippi Bass Fiddle today! It’s on all streaming and we will have physical copies up for order soon. I hope you’ll check it out. Here’s a note about it from our cellist:

Here I am, packing before I head to Clifftop, WV for the week. I am so looking forward to 7 days of music, and meeting new people. We have decided to release our new recordings to coincide with this trip.

As some of you might have noticed…For the last two years I have been switching things up. I have moved from upright bass, to the church bass (American Bass viol), and now to the cello. While it is in fact a cello I have been playing, I think of it as a fiddle. I have it tuned a fifth higher than a normal cello, making it essentially an octave violin. When I’m reading music, it is strictly fiddle music in treble clef. When searching out online lessons, or other educational material it is always fiddle oriented.

This year I was lucky enough to lineup a string of gigs with Charles Sullivan and Rob Anders backing me up on guitar and banjo respectively. At the end of that string of gigs we had a few hours of free time at the Bay Bed and Breakfast in Hattiesburg, Ms. We seized upon the moment and recorded the album being released today. All of these tunes were recorded live, around one microphone (our ear trumpet Delphina) in 1-3 takes. While this recording technique leaves us lacking compared to some other modern recordings. I feel it is an honest capturing of where we were as musicians at that moment. Mississippi Bass Fiddle is very much an album of traditional fiddle tunes with traditional accompaniment. The one exception being that all the melodies are played one octave lower.

If you take the time to read all of this, and subsequently listen to the album. Listen to it with these thoughts in mind.

Thanks so much to Charles Sullivan and Rob Anders for performing with me. Thanks to Dante Portella, for making the recordings come to life. Thanks to my dad, Euphus Ruth, for doing the photography. Last but definitely not least, thanks to Harry Bolick for designing the cover. #fiddlemusic #cello #clawhammerbanjo #oldtimeguitar #wetplatecollodion #eartrumpetlabs

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"The real power in America is held by a fast-emerging new Oligarchy of pimps and preachers who see no need for Democracy or fairness or even trees, except maybe the ones in their own yards, and they don’t mind admitting it. They worship money and power and death. Their ideal solution to all the nation’s problems would be another 100 Year War. Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear." - Hunter S. Thompson

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It’s that time of the year

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“I believe life is a continuum, and that no one really dies, they just drop their physical body and we'll all meet again, like the song says. It's sad but it's not devastating if you think like that. Otherwise I don't see how anybody could ever, once they see someone die, that they'd just disappear forever and that's what we're all bound to do. I'm sorry but it just doesn't make any sense, it's a continuum, and we're all going to be fine at the end of the story.” - David Lynch

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Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’s - January 1st, 1943

1. Work more and better

2. Work by a schedule

3. Wash teeth if any

4. Shave

5. Take bath

6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk

7. Drink very scant if any

8. Write a song a day

9. Wear clean clothes — look good

10. Shine shoes

11. Change socks

12. Change bed cloths often

13. Read lots good books

14. Listen to radio a lot

15. Learn people better

16. Keep rancho clean

17. Dont get lonesome

18. Stay glad

19. Keep hoping machine running

20. Dream good

21. Bank all extra money

22. Save dough

23. Have company but don’t waste time

24. Send Mary and kids money

25. Play and sing good

26. Dance better

27. Help win war — beat fascism

28. Love mama

29. Love papa

30. Love Pete

31. Love everybody

32. Make up your mind

33. Wake up and fight

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Well here they are…the 2024 albums I listened to the most this year, plus others I enjoyed immensely.

1. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Woodland

2. Jake Xerxes Fussell - When I’m Called

3. Father John Misty - Mahashmashana

4. John Moreland - Visitor

5. Sierra Ferrell - Trail of Flowers

6. Adrianne Lenker - Bright Future

7. Johnny Blue Skies - Passage Du Desir

8. Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee

9. Jerron Paxton - Things Done Changed

10. Iron & Wine - Light Verse

Other albums I heavily dug:

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood

Willie Watson - S/T

LA LOM - The Los Angeles League of Musicians

MJ Lenderman - Manning Fireworks

The Down Hill Strugglers - Old Juniper

Marcus King - Mood Swings

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms - Gold In Your Pocket

Baby Rose & BADBADNOTGOOD - Slow Burn

Tucker Zimmerman - Dance of Love

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“All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you.” - Ray Bradbury