Accordion, Instrument of the Gods

More blasts from the past

While reorganizing my files, I found these photos of me with the accordion in various situations and decided to post…

4 years ago

Accordion of the day: Fratelli Alessandrini’s “Celt”

Every once in a while, someone asks me how expensive accordions can get, and what you get for shelling out…

4 years ago

All my sins remembered: Playing accordion at SxSW 2008

I’ve had many great first weeks on the job, but this first week on the job had a particularly unfair…

4 years ago

Hurricane Irma report #6: When my Android phone (and its FM radio) proved clearly more useful than my iPhone

When Hurricane Irma closed in on the Tampa Bay area Sunday evening, the power went out at around 7:30, and…

7 years ago

This 1950s comic shows how playing the accordion will change your life

This 1950's comic book advertisement is pretty much my life after May 1, 1999, the day I first took the…

9 years ago

How I Became the Accordion Guy

Summer 1998: A Gift from My Friend Rob In the late summer of 1998, I was chatting with my friend…

13 years ago

Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked

One of the songs in my MP3 collection that’s on heavy rotation is Cage the Elephant’s Beck-ish, slide-guitar southern-rock-y ode…

14 years ago

Inside a Russian Accordion Factory

John Bristowe pointed me to an article in English Russia featuring photos from a visit to a Russian accordion factory…

14 years ago

Happy Birthday, Jimmy Stewart!

He would’ve been 102 today. I’m celebrating his birthday because he’s a fellow accordion player, and like me, he’s played…

15 years ago