Senator Byrd

A couple videos to mark the passing of the fiddle playing senator.

"Cripple Creek"



"More Pretty Girls Than One"

Songs About Drinking

No Depression posted the first video below on Facebook, and it inspired me to do a post of songs about drinking. I have previously posted three of the best songs about drinking, or not drinking as the case may be—Great Big Sea's "The Old Black Rum", Corb Lund's "Time to Switch to Whiskey" and Elizabeth Cook's "Yes to Booty". So here are a couple more.

Townes Van Zandt - "Talking Thunderbird"



George Jones - "White Lightning"



I previously posted all of the known film of Bessie Smith. To include her again we have to go with just audio. So here it is, Bessie Smith with "Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer".




The Steeldrivers - Drinkin Dark Whiskey

Eva Cassidy

I have previously posted one Eva Cassidy song—"Autumn Leaves"—in my Fall post last year. Today I am going to post three more of her videos. All of these videos are from one or two concerts at Blues Alley. As far as I know these are the only live video recording made before she died in 1996.
"What a Wonderful World"

"Cheek to Cheek"
"Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - Coincidently this song is also on Jeff Beck's new album that I did a post on earlier this week. I did not include this song in that post, or I could have had this song posted twice in one week.