Check out this footage of Baby Gramps performing Cape Code Girls on David Letterman in 2006. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11-psw-CjV8&mode=related&search=

I saw this when it was originally broadcast and was happy to stumble upon it again today.  This song bears some resemblence to the song “South Australia”, which Tangleweed recently recorded for an upcoming edition of the Old Town School of Folk Music’s SONGBOOK cd series (Bloodshot Records).

I used to live in Eugene, Oregon and had the pleasure of seeing Baby Gramps perform several times.  He’s an amazing talent, combining insane slide guitar freakouts with throat singing and a massive penchant for palindromes (or as he’d call them, semordinilap), and other essential musical elements not touched upon by most mere mortals. 

One of his best palindromes is “train or a camera spool = loops are macaroni art.”. 

I best remember him singing a song about how the guys on the street during Prohibition would extract and drink the alcohol contained within STERNO (”and they called it HEAT!”).

If you get a chance to see Baby Gramps perform, I highly recommend jumping at the chance.

Here are two Youtube links to some very nice footage of legendary guitarist Clarence White performing a few bluegrass classics with two different groups:

I am a Pilgrim / Soldiers Joy (with brother Roland White on Bob Baxter’s “Guitar Workshop” in 1973): 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMQuuZNvwLU

New Camptown Races / Dark Hollow (with Bill Keith, David Grisman, and Peter Rowan, aka MULESKINNER):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RkxpFvo__k

A fellow named Jeff Frank taped our January show with Greensky Bluegrass, and has posted it to Archive.org for folks to download.

Here’s the set list for the show:

1. Angeline the Baker/ Soldier’s Joy
2. South Australia
3. Hard Times
4. Where You Been
5. Sir Lucas/ the Musical Priest/ Whiskey Before Breakfast
6. High on a Mountain
7. Little Sadie
8. Ginseng Blues
9. With a Bottle in my Hand
10. I Found a New Baby
11. ‘Til the End of the World
12. Draggin’ the Bow
13. California
14. Short Life of Trouble
15. Train #45
16. Orange Blossom Special

http://www.archive.org/details/tangleweed2007-01-18.akg483