Sunday, April 27, 2003 ... 7:48 AM

About


This is a blog about music, new and old and very old, mainly of the Americana variety. It's also a blog about history, and movies, and ghost stories, and literature and love and wild edible plants. But mostly about music.

My name is Brendan, but sometimes I publish short stories and things using my middle name, Sterling. I was born in 1977. I live in Charlotte, North Carolina. I play clawhammer banjo, guitar, ukulele, piano, and a bunch of other instruments, but I am a better dancer than I am an architect.

Boney Earnest is the name of my great-great-(maybe another great? I can't remember)-Uncle, who was an Army scout in the Old West. He and his wife, my grandmother's Aunt Maddie, lived on the Wyoming frontier and used to hang around with Calamity Jane. When I started this weblog I took the name Boney Earnest for myself, but now I'm trying to live that down. Please just call me Brendan.

It's been a long, long while, but sometimes I also write for HickoryWind.org.


Brendan






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Making Notes: Music of the Carolinas
(Novello Festival Press, April 2008)
includes my essay, "Link Wray"



SITES WHICH THE TENT REVUE RECOMMENDS

MUSIC
Flop Eared Mule
The Celestial Monochord
HickoryWind.org
Modern Acoustic Magazine / Blog
Faking It
Honey, Where You Been So Long?
whiskey-girl
Porchlight

Charlotte-related
Emily A. Benton
Laurie Koster's Charlotte & Area Events
Evening Muse
Neighborhood Theatre

OTHER THAN MUSIC
Rusty Barnes
Mixed Animal
Cans and Jars
Night Train
Cat and Girl
Tom Drury
Ian Frazier
Film Freak Central




LIVE MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS


November 9, 2007
Eilen Jewell
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***

June 16, 2007:
Carrie Rodriguez w/ Tim Easton
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***

June 2, 2007:
Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention
***review!***

July 10, 2005:
Chris Scruggs
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***

July 8, 2005:
Tim Easton
The Evening Muse, Charlotte, NC
***review!***

February 19, 2005:
Neko Case and The Sadies w/ Visqueen
Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
***review!***

September 17, 2004:
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings w/ Old Crow Medicine Show
Theater At Lime Kiln, Lexington, VA
***review!***

August 17, 2004:
Sweet Harmony Traveling Revue
Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA
***review!***

August 7 & 8, 2004:
Newport Folk Festival
Newport, R.I.
***review!***

July 11, 2004:
Cowboy Junkies
Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA
***review!***




MUSICAL RECORDINGS


Various Artists:
Friends of Old Time Music: the folks arrival 1961-1965 (at HickoryWind.org)

Neko Case:
Live From Austin TX DVD (at HickoryWing.org)

Old Crow Medicine Show:
Big Iron World

Sampson Pittman:
"Highway 61 Blues"

Baby Boy Warren:
"Stop Breakin Down"

Nina Nastasia:
The Blackened Air

Ryan Adams:
Jacksonville City Nights

Robert Wilkins:
"Rolling Stone"

Neko Case:
Furnace Room Lullaby

Etta Baker:
One Dime Blues

Steve Earle:
The Revolution Starts Now

Grey DeLisle:
The Graceful Ghost





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