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Featured BUG Jam 01/25 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 15, 2025 Happy New Year! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 5 June 2015 This Land Is Your Land "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody. A Canadian version was written and popularized by Canadian folk music group The Travellers in 1955.
Songs 31 May 2015 Don't Look Now (Momma’s Got Her Boobs Out) Rodney Carrington is a multi-talented comedian, actor, singer and writer who recorded eight major record label comedy albums, which have sold millions of copies.
Songs 28 May 2015 Lovers In A Dangerous Time "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn and originally released on his 1984 album Stealing Fire.
Songs 3 May 2015 If I Were A Carpenter "If I Were a Carpenter" is a song written by Tim Hardin. Hardin's recording appeared on his 1967 album Tim Hardin 2. In 1970 a duet cover by Johnny Cash and June Carter went to number 2 on the country chart.
Songs 1 May 2015 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was a major hit for The Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune. It can be considered an early jump blues recording.The song is ranked No. 6 on Songs of the Century.
Songs 29 March 2015 Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" is a song written by songwriter Fred Rose and first commercially released in 1947.
Songs 10 January 2015 Hound Dog "Hound Dog" is a twelve-bar blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
Songs 9 January 2015 Love Potion #9 "Love Potion No. 9" is a song written in 1959 by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It was originally performed by the Clovers, who took it to number 23 on the US as well as R&B charts that year.
Songs 9 January 2015 Atlantic City "Atlantic City" is a song recorded by Bruce Springsteen, (written by Bruce Springsteen), which first appeared on Springsteen's 1982 solo album Nebraska. Springsteen has often played the song in a full band arrangement in concert.
Songs 8 January 2015 Little Girl and The Dreadful Snake, The There isn’t much history for a deep dive on this one. It’s a 20th century original. Bluegrass founding father Bill Monroe wrote “The Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake” using the name Albert Price, one of his many pseudonyms.
Songs 8 January 2015 Jambalaya Released in July 1952, crediting Hank Williams as the sole author, it was performed by Williams as a country song. It reached number one on the U.S. country charts for fourteen non-consecutive weeks. "Jambalaya" remains one of Hank Williams' most popular songs today.
Songs 26 November 2014 Christmas Time's A-Comin' "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" is a popular bluegrass Christmas standard song written by Bell Labs engineer Benjamin "Tex" Logan.
Songs 20 November 2014 All About That Bass "All About That Bass" is the debut single of American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor, released on June 30, 2014, through Epic Records.
Songs 11 November 2014 Old Dan Tucker "Old Dan Tucker", also known as "Ole Dan Tucker", "Dan Tucker", and other variants, is an American popular song.
Songs 31 October 2014 Takin' Care of Business "Takin' Care of Business" is a song written by Randy Bachman and first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO) for their 1973 album Bachman–Turner Overdrive II.
Songs 27 October 2014 Little Boxes "Little Boxes" was written by Malvina Reynolds, a social activist and writer of protest songs.
Songs 20 October 2014 If I Should Fall Behind "If I Should Fall Behind" is a song written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen for his 1992 album Lucky Town.
Songs 11 September 2014 Row Row Row Your Boat DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETRow Row Row Your Boat (WORD) Row Row Row Your Boat (PDF)
Songs 11 August 2014 Don't Pass Me By "Don't Pass Me By" is a song by the Beatles from the double album The Beatles (also known as the "White Album"). It was the first solo composition by Ringo Starr.
Songs 6 July 2014 Risseldy Rosseldy Risseldy, Rosseldy, also known as Nickety Nackety or I Married My Wife in the Month of June, is a great American nonsense song with a real tongue-twister for the chorus.
Songs 3 July 2014 Green Grass Grew All Around, The "And the Green Grass Grew All Around", also known as "The Green Grass Grew All Around" or "And the Green Grass Grows All Around", is an Appalachian folk song that was first noted in 1877 in (Miss M. H. Mason's book 'Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs' but is likely to be much older.
Songs 25 June 2014 Dona Nobis Pacem "Dona nobis pacem" (Ecclesiastical Latin: [ˈdona ˈnobis ˈpatʃem], "Give us peace") is a round for three parts to a short Latin text from the Agnus Dei. The melody has been passed orally.
Songs 8 June 2014 Barrett’s Privateers "Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario.
Songs 2 June 2014 Morning Train This song is from Francey's 2004 Juno nominated album, The Waking Hour. He says, "I started this song at the train station in Tønder, Denmark. I thought that the messages from all the gods would be the same."
