Dollar Country (he/him)

It is written:

Available these two places
blog.dollarcountry.org/2026/03/11/w...

open.substack.com/pub/dollarco...

Today I'm writing a short piece about why I mostly stopped posting things to youtube.

It's a topic I've thought about a lot, and the short answer is that we (you and me) don't need to volunteer work to a company worth billions.

I love the look of a well weathered record label.

This record simply has no artist information. It's not a compilation. It's simple, to the point.

Sometimes I wonder if it's me or not because I also felt like after the covid lock down it seemed like everyone lost interpersonal skills. Maybe everyone else feels weird now too!

But honestly I think I've just been becoming weird and, often, in public I feel strange, out of place.

I've been thinking about this a lot since we had a kid. I'm envious of those who go to Church because of it's community structures.
I've been calling friends on the phone more. There's also a local community garden that holds events. We go to stuff like that and try to be friendly and meet people.

Episode 260: Waltzes & 2-Steps (Cajun Special No. 3)

Up now on dollarcountry.org, mixcloud.com/dollarcountry, and apple podcasts!

After WCSB was unceremoniously taken away from the students who had graced the airwaves for 50 years in October I had sorely missed the ethnic programs on the weekends I’m so happy to be listening to the Hungarian Hour again this weekend.

xcsb.org

Do they send these to you when you first move to Philly?

If you wanna browse all the Cajun records I played in the show you can take a gander here

dollarcountry.org/items/browse...

yes I got this idea when I incorrectly typed bandcamp in my browser

An app that's like couch surfing called Bandscamp that locates cheap places to sleep when you're on tour like camping grounds etc.

In my finding Cajun 45s have the most artists per disc. Out of the 23 Cajun singles I processed for DC260 there are a total of 41 different artists credited.

The most is Dallas Roy / Rodney LeJune with Andrew Cormier & His Rambling Aces. 4 artists on 1 disc. That's good bang for your buck.

Being A dummy is actually an asset as a dj

Yeah there's a lot of really neat things from outside of the USA

The best obscure music isn't trying to be popular or a copy of something already out there, those are the really fun ones.

A lot of obscure stuff is people writing pop songs because they thought they could do it better or add a unique angle to it that would allow them to have a hit. The world has a lot of pop songs and a lot of professionals making them, so often they're just kind of OK.

And I think that's perfectly fine. But it's also the reason that today I'm digitizing a bunch of fairly uninteresting (to most) homemade pop songs and discs of people practicing piano parts. To me these voices of the past are amazing and important, and, yes, sometimes boring.

Something I've learned about obscure music is that most people don't actually like it. Even people who say they do, but really they want obscure things that COULD have been hits if better known. Most often it's obscure because no one liked it.

Radio is really important to me and I can say without a doubt that it's my favorite station to hear something I've never heard before. The show on this morning was drone metal with 1930s radio dramas playing over it and it was so awesome.

My favorite radio station XCSB (formerly WCSB) is back. The terrestrial station was killed in a closed door deal where a university president got a seat on the local media conglomerate board, but thankfully they're back to streaming! Give em a listen. It's always something interesting.

xcsb.org

It's kind of expensive for a dumb phone, but from what I've learned is that other phones are sold under cost because they can count on collecting and selling your data, so you're essentially getting a discount to be data mined.

I’m switching to a light phone 2 in a couple months. No browser, no email, you can still download podcasts, put music on it like and iPod, and group text. There are lots of video reviews out there for them. I miss when i only got notifications when I sat down at my computer.

To hear shows early and support this archive of American voices you can go to dollarcountry.org/donate to learn how.

Next episode of Dollar Country is the third all Cajun special. It's up for patrons now and will be up for everyone else on Monday.

This photo is the corner of a fais-do-do in Louisiana for kids to be checked on and to sleep while the parents dance.

he looks like he probably made some really great country tunes

They should do this at every exhibition match. Just choose some cocky dude and let him get aced.

And Jesse Jarnow is (kind of) a Grateful Dead scholar. This is scholar on scholar. It's never too late, you can still be a band scholar.

Akron Cleveland Hallelujah Singers - Soon We'll Be Leaving Here YouTube video by Dollar Country

Took a break from my youtube moratorium to put up this local gospel record from NE Ohio. There's a branch of this religious group down the street from me. The Institute Of Divine Metaphysical Research. I looked into it and it's not as fun as the name sounds.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnaN...