Category Archives: Posts with Audio

These posts contain links you can click on to play a recording that is (somehow) connected to the topic of the post.

This Historic Day In Music: Tommy Gallant (Take 2)

Posted on July 14, 2019 by sixstrstories

I’ve been getting together with some old friends and colleagues lately; catching up, reminiscing. Got me thinking about… “Bonjour,” he’d say, with a little chuckle and a smile. Tommy Gallant always brought a smile. “Bonjour,” as I remember it, was the punch … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Audio, This Historic Day In Music | Tagged Danny Boy, Gaylord Russell, Jazz at the Pilot House, Jim Howe, Les Harris Jr., The Pilot House Blues, The Press Room, The Tommy Gallant All-Stars, The Tommy Gallant Trio, Tommy Gallant, Tommy Gallant Jazz Festival | 6 Comments

No. 9

Posted on April 18, 2019 by sixstrstories

Another birthday, another telling of the tale… sixstr stories was born on Sunday, April 18, 2010 in Somerville, Massachusetts. I was visiting my daughter and casually mentioned to her that I was thinking of starting a blog. (At the time, … Continue reading →

Posted in EFS Music, Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Music, Friedrich Schiller, Ludwig van Beethoven, Ninth Birthday, Ode To Joy, Symphony No. 9 in D minor | 4 Comments

Something New

Posted on February 24, 2019 by sixstrstories

Jim Adams hosts a weekly song lyric challenge on his blog, A Unique Title For Me. It’s called “Song Lyric Sunday” and the prompt for today is: Harmony/Melody/Music. I’ve never responded to Jim’s challenge before but that prompt… well, it … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged Harmony, Melody, Music, Sing To The World, Song, Song Lyric Sunday | 6 Comments

Walkin’ Blues

Posted on January 20, 2019 by sixstrstories

It was a Saturday morning in the middle of January. I was out for a long walk with my favorite accompaniment: my iPod classic, set to “Shuffle Songs,” playing through my Sony headphones. I’d been serenaded by Billie Holiday, The … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged Acoustic Guitar, Alan Lomax, Blues Guitar, Four O'Clock Flower Blues, Library of Congress, Mississippi Blues, The Land Where The Blues Began, William Brown, Willie 61 Blackwell, Willie Blackwell | 5 Comments

Old Long Since – Take 2

Posted on December 31, 2018 by sixstrstories

ICYWW (In Case You Were Wondering): This past November, I added a co-motto to my blog. “Good music doesn’t get old” by Ferdinand Joseph “Jelly Roll Morton” LaMothe, my original motto, was joined by a quote from Bruce Springsteen: “All valuable … Continue reading →

Posted in EFS Music, Posts with Audio, Posts with Video, Random Topics | Tagged Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar, Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals, Auld Lang Syne, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, James J. Fuld, New Year's Eve, Robert Burns | 2 Comments

Over The River Once More

Posted on November 22, 2018 by sixstrstories

“Oh, hear the bells ringing, ‘Ting-a-ling-ling!,’ for it’s Thanksgiving Day.” If your holiday gathering could use a festive sing-along, here’s a good one for you. “Over The River And Through The Woods” – guitar, vocal and arrangement by me. Ready? … Continue reading →

Posted in EFS Music, Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged Lydia Maria Child, Over The River And Through The Woods, Thanksgiving Sing-Along, Thanksgiving Song | 7 Comments

“November 7”

Posted on November 7, 2018 by sixstrstories

Here’s one for my son and all of the fingerstyle-acoustic-guitar-loving, guitar-picking, tablature-reading viewers/readers/followers of this blog out there. November 7 is my son’s birthday. In 2010, I celebrated his birthday here on sixstr stories with a “This Historic Day…” post. … Continue reading →

Posted in EFS Music, Guitar Music, Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar Music, Guitar TAB, November 7 | Leave a comment

“There Are (Songs To Be Sung)”

Posted on June 18, 2018 by sixstrstories

5/9/93 That’s the date in the top right hand corner of page 273 of the first volume of my songwriting notebooks. Page 273 also contains the finished lyrics – four verses and a chorus – of the song I eventually … Continue reading →

Posted in EFS Music, Posts with Audio | Tagged Fishtraks Studios, Frank Clarkson, Jeff Landrock, Jim Tierney, Kathryn Klem, The Amity Singers, There Are (Songs To Be Sung) | 1 Comment

The Ones That Got Away

Posted on October 16, 2017 by sixstrstories

I was looking through an old photo album the other day and came upon some pictures of a few old friends. Here’s one. That is a Fender “Duo-Sonic.” It was my first electric guitar. I purchased that guitar sometime in … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Audio, Random Topics | Tagged Anytime, Daddy's Junky Music Stores, Duo-Sonic, ES-125T, Exeter Music, Fender Guitars, Gibson Guitars, Guitar Player Magazine, Jim Howe, Joe Pass, Jon Sievert, Merseyside, Polytone 102, Polytone Amplifiers, The Guitar Warehouse | Leave a comment

This Historic Day In Music: Georgia Turner & The Rising Sun Blues (Yes, again.)

Posted on September 15, 2017 by sixstrstories

I love this story. In September of 1937, Alan Lomax and his wife, Elizabeth, took a song-collecting trip through the mountains of Kentucky. Alan had recently been appointed as the Assistant in Charge of the Archive of Folk Song of … Continue reading →

Posted in Posts with Audio, This Historic Day In Music | Tagged Alan Lomax, Chasing The Rising Sun, Georgia Turner, House of the Rising Sun, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Archive of Folk Song, Rising Sun Blues, Ted Anthony, Todd Harvey | Leave a comment