Knees Calhoon's Midnight Ramble

I spent the weekend at Clark County Park in Mississippi along with about 100 of my wife 's mother's family. It was peaceful outdo...

Today's song is typical: I recorded it in a couple of hours late one night then went to bed thinking, "Well, that one needs to be ...

Part of my reason for covering songs on this blog is to make sure that certain superior tunes don't get forgotten in the fog of time. I...

For a change I decided to do an old song that I know. Lately I've been working on some new songs that have videos to accompany them and...

Credit for inspiring this new song should go to Robin Harbron and his Canadian friends. Robin invited me to join his group, which records a...

Written by Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons of the Flying Burrito Brothers , this has always been one of my favorite harmony songs. So of cou...

One of my favorite Hollies tunes, this song was even played at the Las Cruces Inn a few times, but unfortunately was never recorded. I ofte...

It was back in 2012 that Knees joined a group of Canadians on Facebook and YouTube to make some music. It had been almost ten years since h...

This is a real departure for Knees. A song by U2! He considered it a "modern" song until he realized that it came out over 25 yea...

I had forgotten about recording this 1985 Knees Calhoon tune until I spotted the file. It must have been one of those late-night Ambien-ind...

I have a relatively cheap electronic piano that was out in a trailer in the back yard because there wasn't enough room in my office for...

This song has two distinct versions: the early one recorded in 1993 that's a C&W waltz and the R&R version in 4/4 time, done in ...

I recently watched The History of the Eagles on the tube and my first thought was, "Boy am I glad I was in the Calhoon Brothers . ...

Out of the 50 presets I have on the Boss BR-600 digital recorder that supplies my guitar effects, I would guess that about 42 of them are...

I knew two songs that had the same title but were completely different. One was by Johnny Horton and the other was by The Band. But were th...

Tonight's song is the result of a challenge given me by Dugym Qycfyl. He wanted a song in which the guitar solos were made by scraping ...

This is a mistake. I should have known better than to tackle a Beatle song that everybody knows, but it has the essential Bu ckaroo lick th...

Okay, so the Buckaroo lick only shows up a couple of times in this song. It's still a memorable tune , if only for the fact that after ...

I imagine you saw this one coming when I said I was going to be featuring songs that have the ubiquitous "Buckaroo" lick in them....

Unless I hit a snag I plan to devote the next four songs to what I call the "Buckaroo Lick". It's a simple guitar lick that t...

I couldn't remember who sang this song or who wrote it so I finally snapped and googled it. Shel Silverstein! I should have known. Out ...

One of my favorite songs from the 60s was Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon", but since it was written for a woman to sing I never ha...

As usual, I am of two minds about the way these songs are done. Should I dash out a perhaps divinely-inspired song in an hour or two and ca...

A couple of things occurred to me as I was playing with this song, one of my favorite Neil Young tunes. One, I need to experiment more with...

The Calhoon Brothers enjoyed playing self-aware barroom songs and this one by Asleep at the Wheel is one of the best, although it seems to...

This is another one of those inevitable songs . It has p erfect words and melody. And, in my opinion, as important as these in a song, plot...

It's Beatle time again here at Knees Calhoon's Midnight Ramble and it's so much fun to go back to 1965 and play those chords th...

Today I decided to see if I could do a better version of an old Knees Calhoon song in the hour I have slated for music . Well, it's bet...

How about another adorable pastiche from Legs Muldoon, aka Dugym Qycfyl, aka Jim Weiler? This time it's a country tune in the Merle Hag...