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Nickel Creek

Old Cold Coffee on the Dashboard

From: BLUEGRASS JOURNEY: A DOCUMENTARY

FILM PORTRAIT OF THE CONTEMPORARY

BLUEGRASS MUSIC SCENE

Nickel Creek

Chris Thile - mandolin

Sara Watkins - fiddle

Sean Watkins - guitar

Byron House - bass

1993 Bluegrass Youth All-Stars

Performing Wheel Hoss

Chris Thile (age 12) - mandolin

Michael Cleveland - fiddle

Josh Williams - banjo

Cody Kilby - guitar

Brady Stogdill - bass

Commentary

Tim O'Brien

Pete Wernick

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Every Time You Say Goodbye

Alison Krauss and Union Station

Alison Krauss - fiddle, lead vocal

Dan Tyminski - guitar

Ron Block - Banjo

Barry Bales - Bass

Jerry Douglas - Dobro

AKUS performs at 2005 CMA

My Poor Old Heart

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"Scrubs" and Colin Hay

Day after day it reappears

Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear

Ghosts appear and fade away

Come back another day

Colin Hay singing Overkill on the TV sitcom "Scrubs"

Episode 25, My Overkill (Season 2, Episode 1)

Colin Hay - Beautiful World

And still this emptiness persists

Perhaps this is as good as it gets

When you’ve given up the drink and those nasty cigarettes

Now I leave the party early at least with no regrets

I watch the sun as it comes up I watch it as it sets

Yeah this is as good as it gets.

Colin Hay, Scottish-Australian musician

formerly of the Australian group Men at Work.

25th of December

Let us not forget that today marks the birth of:

Jimmy Buffett - 1946

Rod Serling - 1924

Cab Calloway - 1907

Humphrey Bogart - 1899

Sir Isaac Newton - 1642 (Julian Calendar)

Most scholars agree that the precise birthdate of Jesus is unknown.
Historical research suggests earlier dates in the year.

Merry Christmas, just the same.

Winter Solstice

Today is the shortest day of the year and the longest night,
The first day of winter.
Tomorrow the days begin to get longer again.
Yes, summer will return!

Admiral Byng

English Admiral John Byng was court-martialled, condemned to death and shot on March 14, 1757 at Portsmouth, aboard HMS Monarch.
In 1759 the execution was satirized by Voltaire in Candide:

"Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres."

"In this country, it is wise to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."

Oh, Banquet Not

By Thomas Moore



Oh! banquet not in those shining bowers,
Where youth resorts, but come to me;
For mine's a garden of faded flowers,
More fit for sorrow, for age, and thee.
And there we shall have our feast of tears,
And many a cup in silence pour --
Our guests, the shades of former years --
Our toasts, to lips that bloom no more.

There, while the myrtle's withering boughs
Their lifeless leaves around us shed,
We'll brim the bowl to broken vows,
To friends long lost, the changed, the dead.
Or, as some blighted laurel waves
Its branches o'er the dreary spot,
We'll drink to those neglected graves
Where valour sleeps, unnamed, forgot!