And God love Contrarian readers. When Steve Hart sent me this video of a pretty good guitar trio using a slow-idling tractor for percussion on Sweet Georgia Brown and Bye Bye Blues, I wondered it it was a known Internet chestnut that had somehow escaped me. But the earliest copy of "the Saskatchewan Philharmonic" was posted last April and had only 8,000 hits. Turns out the video is neither philharmonic nor Saskatchewanian. It's Sweden's Olle Hemmingson Trio, featuring the eponymous Olle playing a Gibson Les Paul Signature guitar, with an antique Volvo tractor for percussion. Thanks to Brian Bonnar for setting...

20 February, 2011

It's got a backbeat, you can't lose it: Between the musicians and the marine make-n-breaks in this province, surely we could produce a Maritime rejoinder. Update: It ain't from Saskatchewan. Amplification and correction here. H/T: Steve Hart....

19 February, 2011