Today's Digshttp://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/en-US2010-03-11T20:05:18ZSquarespace Site Server v5.9.2 (http://www.squarespace.com/)HAPPY NEW YEAR!! (Phew, we made it!)http://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/12/31/happy-new-year-phew-we-made-it.htmlBill Burnett2009-12-31T08:26:27ZAuld Lang Syne New Year's Eve What are You Doing New Year's?First, some opening remarks...

 "NEW YEAR'S EVE"
© Bill Burnett and Peggy Sarlin

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New Year's Eve has got to be the weirdest of holidays. Unlike most others, which commemorate  someone's birth, or celebrate of the end of a war, or the beginning of a season, or some kind of big religious or philosophical event or concept, New Year's Eve is all about the passage of time. Which is a pretty dreary subject, when you get right down to it.  That's why I think there are no real New Year's songs.  "What Are You Doing New Year's" and "Auld Lang Syne" are about it, right?  So Peggy Sarlin and I took a stab at capturing the ambiguous nature of the holiday in this song and I thought it was appropriate to trot it out for this combination new year and new decade.  Please, let me know what you think of it...

 

]]>Happy Hollandaise and High Hopes for a Great New Decade From The SongMine!http://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/12/22/happy-hollandaise-and-high-hopes-for-a-great-new-decade-from.htmlBill Burnett2009-12-22T20:44:19ZHello and happy happy EVERYTHING SongMiners.  I am grateful the long dreary decade some are calling "The Aughts" (meaning the Zeros) is coming to a close and 2010 is just around the corner, ripe with promise.

My New Years Resolution is to get the SongMine back up and running after a long hiatus.  Maybe I'll make it a bi-weekly event for the new year.

To end the aughts on a happy note, please enjoy this holiday greeting from ChalkZone. (Directed by the amazing Bob Nesler.)

And then be sure to scroll down and see my perennial holiday hit "Christmas! Christmas! Christmas!"  See ya next year.  Meanwhile, for heaven's sake, go have some fun at the SongMine!

Pleae click here or LYRICS

]]>Christmas X 3 at the Coffee Galleryhttp://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/12/22/christmas-x-3-at-the-coffee-gallery.htmlBill Burnett2009-12-22T20:13:44ZWe had a swell time last Friday at Coffee Gallery Backstage and I sang MY perennial holiday favorite "Christmas Christmas Christmas"--captured by Donna Barnes-Roberts for her wonderful new blog What You Missed at the Coffee Gallery Last Night which you should definitely check out on a regular basis:

© Bill Burnett

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And here's Duane Thorin's holiday offering with me chiming in on the Jing Jing A Lings

© Duane Thorin

]]>Backboners! New CD!http://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/10/11/backboners-new-cd.htmlBill Burnett2009-10-11T23:14:20ZWatch for The Backboners at the esteemed music venue The Bodie House Wednesday Feb 27, 2010

And I want to spread the news that The Backboners  has made a cool new CD called "We Dreamed It All"--that's the cover to the right. Contact me if you'd like to get one. They'd made great New Years Gifts!

 

]]>Beasts of the Spirit LIVEhttp://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/6/11/beasts-of-the-spirit-live.htmlBill Burnett2009-06-11T08:30:35ZI'm sure to be back doing another version of this with Backboners soon, but this one was fun, with the Coffee Gallery Backstage audience providing the bestial background voices...

© Bill Burnett

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]]>New Orleans Ain't Never Seen So Much Rainhttp://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/6/11/new-orleans-aint-never-seen-so-much-rain.htmlBill Burnett2009-06-11T08:28:15ZTeresa Tudury and David Zasloff teamed up for this wonderful new Teresa song.  You can see some of their other performances over in The Great Unknown at the right side of the page.

© Teresa Tudury

]]>To Look a Giraffe In The Eyehttp://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/6/11/to-look-a-giraffe-in-the-eye.htmlBill Burnett2009-06-11T08:26:59ZHere's another one from the PetSet...

]]>Pretty Little Baby Boy LIVEhttp://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/5/29/pretty-little-baby-boy-live.htmlBill Burnett2009-05-29T06:22:54ZI know I know, I already posted this song back in the winter...but I love it so, and I love the pretty baby boy who is now six.  And I love the way the audience sings along!

© Bill Burnett

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]]>Gotta Get REHEARSAL Live with Teresa T.http://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/5/20/gotta-get-rehearsal-live-with-teresa-t.htmlBill Burnett2009-05-20T04:17:37ZHere we are getting ready to sing a few songs together at Coffee Gallery Backstage on Thursday May 21.

© Bill Burnett

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This song has a great Backboners arrangement and if I can ever get the Backboners together for some videotaping we'll do our version here too.  But this'll do for now.

]]>For Petes' Sake Press!http://www.billburnettsongmine.com/todaysdigs/2009/5/13/for-petes-sake-press.htmlBill Burnett2009-05-13T21:07:12ZDuane Thorin Pete SeegerOur May 3rd "For Pete's Sake Sing!" event at the Coffee Gallery Backstage was a big success, and we got our picture in the paper!  In case you're wondering, the folk legend was Pete Seeger, who turned 90 on that day.  It wasn't me or Duane Thorin.  But we sure had fun...


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