Special Holiday Notice: If you’re looking to download Victor’s Christmas song, It’s Christmas Time Again, you can get it on 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 old-time music, I don’t pretend to understand much about it, but I’m learning. I am one of the lucky ones. 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 has influenced much of my writing. Here are a few tunes that are in some of my writing. They’re all performed by Victor, and True Blue Baby is his original work.

Everybody works but Father

Booth Shot Lincoln

True Blue Baby

Words and music © Victor Anthony, 2006 Commercialfree Mus

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.

There are some great video links of him performing on youtube. Just put “Victor Anthony” into the search. Use the links below to 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