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Pinhole Bis 25 Aug 2013 | 01:24 pm
This is an unpdate to last June’s Pinholed Nex5n post, so you may want to read that first. At the beginning of July I found the Pinhole Shop on Ebay which not only sells pinhole cameras but also just...
Bluegrass La Roche 2013 9 Aug 2013 | 01:05 pm
A few pictures from last week’s La Roche Bluegrass Festival. Although I’m not that big a consumer of recorded bluegrass music I truly do enjoy a warm summer evening, or two or three of it. This festi...
Pinholed Nex5n 22 Jun 2013 | 02:08 pm
Last year I rejoined the world of photography when I bought a used Sony Nex5n at a local camera shop. It came with a 18-55mm zoom (SEL1855) and since I had been using a Olympus C-8080 that I had bough...
CeDell @ Le Lux 10 Jun 2013 | 12:05 pm
I’m still under the magic of having seen CeDell Davis last night at the Lux, an old movie theater transformed into concert venue over in Le Locle. Although I had heard he might be touring Europe earl...
At The Blues Café Video 20 Mar 2013 | 09:32 pm
A video of Swamp Train from the Blues Café radio show. This took place last month at the Millenium in the village of Isle d’Abeau, which is east of Lyon in France. Yours truly on drums, washboard and...
Cigar Box Guitar Lizard 17 Mar 2013 | 02:32 pm
Cigar Box Guitar Lizard by rattlebrained Find other cigar box guitar T-Shirts at zazzle.com I built three cigar box guitars over the winter (more on that soon). They’re a lot of fun to play even if,...
CeDell Davis - Blues Back Home 15 Mar 2013 | 12:01 pm
An inspiring documentary from 1984 on the great Mississippi bluesman CeDell Davis. CeDell’s music is so special and emotional that it kind of leaves me speechless when it come to writing about it..
And The Winner Is... 13 Mar 2013 | 08:59 pm
Congratulations to Veronica & The Red Wine Serenaders, winner of the European Blues Challenge 2013 this last weekend in Toulouse! Thanks to TrasimenoBlues, who posted the video above, those who unfor...
Watch Your Head 9 Mar 2013 | 03:00 pm
Up here in the mountains, Spring usually means two months of rain and mud. It is not yet clear if we are there or not but feeling a bit of warmth in the air these last few days has been nice. Still, i...
Dance The Harlem Shake 7 Mar 2013 | 12:16 pm
I’m usually the last person that is aware of whatever meme is going around; mostly, if ever, I learn about them in whatever last year’s magazine found in the dentist’s waiting room. But last week this...