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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 13 October 2012 With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm" is a darkly humorous song, written in 1934 by R. P. Weston and Bert Lee, originally performed by Stanley Holloway.
Songs 21 May 2012 Georgy Girl "Georgy Girl" is a song recorded by the Australian folk music group the Seekers. It was used as the title song for the 1966 film of the same name.
Songs 6 May 2012 Freight Train (Cotten) "Freight Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten (1895–1987) in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s.
Songs 6 May 2012 Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song by The Band, recorded in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album.
Songs 1 May 2012 Wagon Wheel "Wagon Wheel" is a song co-written by Bob Dylan (1973) and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show (2004).
Songs 20 April 2012 City Of New Orleans "City of New Orleans" is a folk song written by Steve Goodman (and first recorded for Goodman's self-titled 1971 album), describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans on the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans in bittersweet and nostalgic terms.
Songs 11 April 2012 Frankie And Johnny "Frankie and Johnny" (sometimes spelled "Frankie and Johnnie"; also known as "Frankie and Albert" or just "Frankie") is a traditional American popular song.
Songs 9 April 2012 Old Joe Clark "Old Joe Clark" is a US folk song, a mountain ballad that was popular among soldiers from eastern Kentucky during World War I and afterwards. Its lyrics refer to a real person named Joseph Clark, a Kentucky mountaineer who was born in 1839 and murdered in 1885.
Songs 9 April 2012 Cripple Creek "Cripple Creek" is an Old Time Appalachian folk song for the fiddle, though it is often played on the banjo as well.
Songs 6 April 2012 In The Jailhouse Now "In the Jailhouse Now" is an American novelty blues song originally found in vaudeville performances from the early 20th century, usually credited to Jimmie Rodgers.
Songs 3 April 2012 Ballad Of A Teenage Queen "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" is a song written by Jack Clement and recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1958 album Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous. The song hit number one on the US Country charts and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 2 April 2012 King Of The Road "King of the Road" is a 1964 song written and originally recorded by country singer Roger Miller.The popular crossover record hit No. 1 on the US Country chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Easy Listening surveys. It was also No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and in Norway.
Songs 24 February 2012 Galway Girl, The "Galway Girl" or "The Galway Girl" is a song written by Steve Earle and recorded with Irish musician Sharon Shannon, which was featured on Earle's 2000 album Transcendental Blues.
Songs 22 February 2012 Brennan On The Moor The most popular Irish highwayman since the second half of the 19th century was William Brennan who is immortalized in the ballad "Brennan On The Moor". Not much is known about him except a lot of legends, but this song has survived.
Songs 19 February 2012 Maids When You’re Young "Maids When You're Young" is a bawdy song which is full of innuendo and risqué allusions. It would have been shocking in its day. It's also known as The Old Man Came Courting Me.
Songs 5 February 2012 Worried Man Blues "Worried Man Blues" is a folk song in the roots music repertoire. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 4753.
Songs 27 January 2012 Deep River Blues "Deep River Blues" is based on a song recorded in 1933 called “I’ve Got Them Big River Blues”, which was probably inspired by the cataclysmic flood of 1927 along the lower Mississippi River.
Songs 15 November 2011 Auld Lang Syne "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294).
Songs 15 November 2011 Christmas in Prison "Christmas In Prison" is from the album "Sweet Revenge" the third album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1973.
Songs 31 October 2011 Song For A Winter's Night "Song for a Winter's Night" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot, and first recorded for his 1967 album, The Way I Feel. Lightfoot actually recorded two versions of the song; the second appears on the 1975 album Gord's Gold, a greatest hits compilation on which other re-recordings also appeared.
Songs 1 October 2011 Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn!", sometimes known as "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.
Songs 23 September 2011 Try To Remember "Try to Remember" was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams, Barry McGuire, The Kingston Trio, The Sandpipers, and The Brothers Four.
Songs 23 August 2011 Sundown "Sundown" is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, released as a single in March 1974.
