Shameless Self Promotion: My band Awed Ducks will play a featured 30-minute set at around 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29, at Panama Red Coffeehouse at the Vallejo Ferry Terminal, 289 Mare Island Way, Vallejo, CA (poster above with full bill).
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Let's close the first month of the New Year with a quick survey of the world of ukulele. UkeToob has a selection of recent vids.
No ukulele mention would be complete without including Jake Shimabukuro, who's probably done more than anyone recently to lift the jumping flea to new heights of musical respectability. He's best known for his version of George Harrison's While My Guitar Gently Weeps, but here he does his own tune, Let's Dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZxrlDU1RyE
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Ledward Kaapana is primarily known as a slack-key guitarist, but also sparkles on uke:
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I especially like James Hill and Gerald Ross:
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Here's Ross's version of Poinciana, in case you missed it:
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And Hill's Ode to A Frozen Boot:
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And let's also take The A Train with a U-Bass:
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Aaron Keim, False Hearted Lover, from his two-chord songbook, vol 2:
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Outstanding music by the David Wax Museum:
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And always remember: Happiness Is A Warm Gun:
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Marcy Marxer and Cathy Fink's new Ukulele playlist:
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Gianni and Sarah, I'll Drink to That:
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Don't know who Roxypuzzlepatch is, but I like her cover of the Grateful Dead's Tennessee Jed:
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Postscripts on Etta James and Johnny Otis:
A rerun of a 1990s Terry Gross interview with Etta was featured on Friday's Fresh Air:
And Joel Selvin wrote a nice piece in the San Francisco Chronicle on Johnny:
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Gone But Not Forgot:
Dick Kniss, bassist for Peter, Paul & Mary and John Denver co-writer, 74:
Larry Butler, Kenny Rogers's producer, 69:
John Levy, bassist and talent manager, 99:
Gerre Hancock, church organist, 77:
Winston Riley, Jamaican music producer, 68:
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Keep on Musicking!
Bob Loomis
In Loving Memory of Shannon Christine Loomis, 1967-2010
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