Songs of the Month:

Poor Man and Trials and Troubles by the Old Crow Medicine Show.

White boys sounding like Robert Johnson. Dig it. -the woman

Song of the Day: Making Pies by Patty Griffin on the album 1,000 Kisses.

Man, what a good call Molly. However, when she sings that line "Did I show you this picture of my sweetheart?" it's kind of hard to not tear up. "At my sister's house last Sunday , this is Monday and I'm making pies....." Enjoy.

.... is now selling Forever Ruth!!!

The House of Musical Traditions, located at 7040 Carroll Ave. in Takoma Park , MD, is the most eclectic and charming little music shop around. Banjos, mandolins, fiddles, drums from corners of the world you didn't even know existed! And now our CD.
check them out online at www.musicaltraditions.com

The House of Musical Traditions reminds me of Ben Harpers Mother's Folk Music Shop in Claremont, California where I bought my banjo in 2003.

Song of the Day: Ob-la-di,ob-la-da by the Beatles. Gonna go run in rock creek park to this one. cheers. the lady.

Last week Sadie Dingfelder featured The Rosemont Family Reunion for the ONE TRACK MIND column focused on local DC music. Besides misunderstanding that 'Evans' is part of Kyle's double name (smiles), She wrote:

One Track Mind
From the September 8, 2006 issue, page 47.
Forever Ruth
The Rosemont Family Reunion
By Sadie Dingfelder
Standout Track: No. 6, "Julia," a sorrowful waltz featuring Kyle Evans, 25, singing like an old man reminiscing about a young love. Only a quiet acoustic guitar and a melodica adorn the wistful lyrics: "My canter, your stride, as the fire slowly dies/We'll dance, we'll dance, Julia."

Musical Motivation: Evans' creative reserves hit empty midway through recording Forever Ruth. "I was working odd hours in the basement, there were extension cords everywhere—it was just a total disaster," he says. To get away from the chaos, Evans headed to Morocco with two roommates from his Columbia Heights group house. On a layover in Paris, at 4 a.m., the friends happened upon an old man playing a melodica in front of the Notre Dame Cathedral. "The sound of it just really resonated with me," says Evans.

The singer continued on to Morocco, but that reedy tune had lodged in his mind. One day, as he sat watching a fire burn in Marrakech's city square, inspiration struck. In an hour, he'd penned a song about a woman waltzing against the backdrop of a burning movie set.

DEUS EX MELODICA: Though Evans worried that the soothing song would put audiences to sleep, "Julia" turned out to be a crowd favorite during his band's recent East Coast tour. He gives all the credit to the melodica, an ungainly instrument that looks like a cross between a keyboard and a kazoo. "We like to call it the dork-o-phone," he says. "When we bust that out, everyone yells and screams and hoots and hollers." —Sadie Dingfelder


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Cheers!

the lady rosemont

Check out some of the coolest folks in Atlanta... Atlanta's finest collector of Vinyl , "Wax'n'Fax" , down on Moreland Ave and Georgia State University's hippest Musical Director Erich Hilkert.. both recently giving Rosemont some Love.

Read about Wax'n'Facts in Creative Loafings article this past Spring 2006 or look at our top friends to go to their my space account:

http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A81293

And tune your radio to 88.5FM this tuesday evening. WRAS- ATLANTA has been spinning some of the Rosemont Family Reunion on their program "Cowtipper's Delight". Check them out online at http://www2.gsu.edu/~www885/ or call and request your favorite Rosemont tune at 404.651.4488 tuesday evenings from 10pm to midnight.


the lady rosemont

Rainy days and falling leaves are making this woman happy. Walking Ivy is less like swimming in a swamp and more of a joy.

And, the fact that JR scored me a ticket to Wilco at the 9:30 Club in October is pretty lovely as well.

... Big Hillbilly Bluegrass at Madam's Organ with Mike on the Banjo last night... the Whigs in town on Monday night at the Blackcat... Rogue Wave tonight at the Blackcat....Nya Jade at Grog and Tankard in Georgetown last night.... The Potato Famine at Adam's Morgan Day on Sunday... and Orquestre Ashe at Duke's City last friday night....

its a good time to be in the district!

We also had a blast meeting and playing with The Bridges and The Modern Skirts this past Saturday down in Atlanta. What talented youngins! Check them out (www.myspace.com/thebridgesmusic) and (www.myspace.com/modernskirts.... I'd start with the tune "Pasadena"). It was eeeeeeery driving back home to DC on 395N across the 14th Street bridge at 3am (technically the early early morning of September 11th) and seeing at least 15 spotlights exuding up into the sky from the center of the Pentagon...in remembrance. With all the windows in the Jeep down and nobody on the highway, or in the pentagon parking lot, but all the lights on inside the building and this massive illumination coming from the center over a town fast asleep. Wild.

Song of the Day: India Arie (Constitution Hall Oct 4th by the way) "Better People" YEAH! (You'll know what I mean when you go download it! It's great... little funky freedom song) And in this vein, I helped my banjo teacher create a MySpace account for himself (BanjoManFC) and he taught me how to pick the old traditional piece I've had such trouble with "Whiskey Before Breakfast". Cheesy? yes. But I was inspired:)

India Arie lyrics from "Better People"
"We went from radio to TV
Now we're going from LP to CD
Don't be afraid

To try something new
I can help you with the brand new technology
Help me with the age old philosophy
Together there's so much we can do with:

Young People, who talk to
Old People, it would make us
Better People, all around...

And if Old People would talk to
Young People, it would make us
Better People, all around....

They say that every
Generation gets worse
Whether if your generous or no purse

These problems tend to strive off the sky (yeah)
Listen to Mahatma Ghandi's words
Be the change you want to see in the world
Start with yourself and healing will multiply
AAAAAAH, that's what happens When..

If black people
Would talk to white people
It would make us
Better People
All Around....

If Republican people would
Talk to Democratic people
It would make us diplomatic people
[laugh] All Around....."

Some friend's of friend's of friend's up in Brooklyn...... organization, group, art collective, company is called the Yellow Arrow Project.

They have put together a documentary on punk music in DC. And none other than our gents from Fugazi, with a few highlights of spots around town you music folks will recognize.

Check it out, and then perhaps email them for some Yellow Arrows... I think they are free: http://yellowarrow.net/capitolofpunk/

It's late here on the East Coast and Molly just got on the BART train in San Francisco. We just got off the phone, rambling about gentle-boys and politics, what have you... while she had 14 minutes til the BART train arrived in Oakland.

Why am I not in San Francisco I ask you? Because I love my famiy in Georgia and the Crack Shack and the variety of trees in the Southeast and the District and the promixity to Highlands, NC as well as NYC. The dog is asleep and I've just returned from my most favorite live show in DC thus far..hands down!... "The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band" at Jammin Java in Northern Virginia. We just got a gig there, and I've been following these cats for awhile. Watching the" Reverand Peyton's Big Damn Band" feels like you just walked into "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" in all the right ways. You just can't believe that young, attractive, talented, folks like this even exist anymore! It's beautiful and made my month!! We MUST have these folks play with us! Check them out www.bigdamnband.com/

They remind me of Dad and Fiddler's Grove...the rebel side of Fiddler's Grove, and by rebel I do NOT mean the Flag, but instead the musicians you want to hang out with by the camp fire all night, who are not mennonites with many children by the age of 16, but ramblers who's nomadic life you could scarcley imagine. They do not have a place of residency....just a van...and gigs. I am not so sure I could do that. yet............

Song of the week...month.................................... it's been awhile:
Marlin Brackett: The Key Song on his CD out of Atlanta, GA... you can buy it at http://cdbaby.com/cd/marlinbrackett . Man this makes me miss home. Look for him at Eddie's Attic in Decatur, on Google, or at Fiddler's Grove. Reminds me of dad and home.

Ben Harper Like a King on the "Welcome the the Cruel World" CD, amoung many others of course...so talented. This entire CD... genius. The Wiesenboard he plays and now manufactures and sells out of Claremont, California. An activist version of what my dad did growing up. Perfect.