Top 5 Busker Days posts!

Not long after On The Flip-Side got started with its Songs Of The Week, I was prowling the streets and stations of San Francisco and Berkeley, looking for street musicians to record.  The first Busker Day post went up on December 3, 2008, and since then some 25+ busker posts have graced these pages.  In celebration of this blog's five years, today we look at the Top 5 clicked on Busker Days posts:

5. Nick Stillman -- Cumberland Gap [original post here] = 408 hits

4. Jesse Morris (RIP) -- True Red Blood [original post here] = 410 hits.

3. Craig Ventresco - Hoosier Sweetheart / There Ain't No Land Like Dixieland To Me [original post here] = 513 hits.

2. The Jonah Kit - Pancho and Lefty [original post here] = 540 hits.

And the number one Busker Days post, the late great Jesse Morris:

1. Jesse Morris - Six Pack [original post here] = 554 hits.

Enjoy and see you On The Flip-Side!

Busker Days: Nick Stillman "Cumberland Gap"

How you all doin' ? Here's some fine fiddle work by one Nick Stillman. I came across Nick a couple times last month at Montgomery Bart. I had to stop and listen each time. Turns out he plays fiddle with AxeL EepH, a trio playing in the SF Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival, coming just around the corner in February. But for now, let's give a listen to Nick playing Cumberland Gap.

Some Nick related sites:

http://www.myspace.com/nstillman

http://sites.google.com/site/axeleeph/

Some of you might recall a previous post featuring Emily Bonn on the banjo. Well, she'll be playing with her Vivants at the same festival venue and night as AxeL EepH, on February 14: http://www.sfbluegrass.org/11fest/show.17.html

See you there!