Music
*Special Holiday Notice* If you’re looking to download Victor’s Christmas song, It’s Christmas Time Again, you can get it Christmas at the Almanac Hall. If you’re looking to buy the actual CD, try this. While you can download only Victor’s song, the whole album is really quite fantastic and I recommend it.
As a relative newcomer to both the South and old-time music, I don’t pretend to understand much about either. However, I am one of the lucky ones. Both have worked their way into my heart. Over the years, my husband, Victor Anthony, has patiently played old-time music for me both live, and on the CD player, until I’ve learned a little about it. Some of it is an acquired taste, like the legendary Roscoe Holcombe. But the Carter Family, Tommy Jarrell, and more recent old-time string bands like The New Lost City Ramblers were easy to embrace.
While I don’t play music myself, I am a big fan of old-time music and it inspired a young adult novel that I’m revising right now called, True Blue Baby. I thought you might like to hear a few of the songs/tunes that I used in the book. They’re all performed by Victor, and True Blue Baby is his original work.
Words and music © Victor Anthony, 2006 Commercialfree Music, SESAC
For more information on Old-time music: Websites and Publications
The website for all things old-time. www.oldtimemusic.com
The Old-Time Herald – A bi-monthly magazine dedicated to old-time music. www.oldtimeherald.org
Elderly Instruments – Music, books, instruments, and gear. www.elderly.com
Wolfe, Charles K. A Good-Natured Riot, The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: The Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999
More about Victor Anthony
Victor also has three CDs of his own out under his original name Victor Mecyssne (he took my last name when we got married. Ain’t he cool?). The CDs are called Personal Mercury, Hush Money, and Skinnybones.
You can find them here: www.cdbaby.com or by contacting me through the contact link on this page.
See my fabulous husband perform with his band, The Ragtops, at the world famous Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN.
Mr. Cinnamon
The Very Last Leaf This is a partial and its mis-labled “Salad Days”, but is worth watching anyway.
Call Me Up
April’s Got Me Thinking About the Blues