Song of the Week: Week 6
This week’s song of the week comes from Blind Boy Fuller - piedmont blues legend from Durham, NC. Bling Boy Fuller was one of the most popular East Coast bluesmen in the 1930 and recorded over 100 songs before his…
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Song of the Week: Week 5
For our song of the week this week, we’ve got The Stanley Brothers, Ralph and Carter featuring Ralph on lead vocals and banjo doing their version of the cornerstone song of O Brother Where Art Thou - The Man of…
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Song of the Week: Week 4
This week’s song of the week comes from The Staple Singers. Wade in the Water is an old black spiritual favorite that’s been covered by many blues, gospel, country and rock & roll bands over the years. The Staple Singers…
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Song of the Week: Week 3
In honor of Reverend John Wilkins recently playing two shows in the area, our song of the week for this week is the Rolling Stones covering a song written by his father, Robert Wilkins. The song was originally a secular…
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Song of the Week: Week 2
For the second installment of our song of the week, we bring you the great and criminally underrated Bukka White singing Aberdeen Mississippi Blues. This song was originally recorded in 1940 and we have posted here the original version and…
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Song of the week!
Something new for you from The Fattenin’ Frogs! We’ll be posting a song of the week each week to give you an insider look into the music that guides us in our own writing and performing. The very first entry…
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What’s in store for 2011?
A lot! In addition to playing our regular Fat Tuesdays once a month at Lee’s Liquor Lounge, we will focus on playing one or two weekend gigs a month in the Twin Cities metro area as well as beginning to branch…
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FIVE SONGS: Acoustic Slide Guitar Essentials
I’m going to start doing a semi-regular themed series highlighting five songs that inspire our music. In the first entry in this series, I’m going to highlight five songs from pre-1940 (what’s known as the Pre-War era in blues music) that…
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Acoustic Frogs, Album Mixing and Recommended Listening, Bukka White
You may notice that our last post was a month ago. Life’s been busy in Frogland and unfortunately, the blog was put on the back burner. Last night at Lee’s Liquor Lounge, we played an acoustic set - no Lily Pads,…
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Saturday recap & upcoming schedule
We had an awesome time on Saturday at The 400 Bar for Union Shakedown’s CD release party despite the weather causing many of our friends and family to not be able to join us. Thanks to Union Shakedown for having…
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