Category: music

  • Big Mo Pod Show: “Spiritual IV”

    Big Mo Pod Show: “Spiritual IV”

    I’m trying to figure out what the meaning of the title is of this week’s Big Mo Pod Show. It’s “Spiritual IV” and I looked at all of his past pod shows looking for Spiritual I-III. I can’t find them. The other thing I noticed about the pod show is that the theme of many…

  • Big Mo Pod Show: The Yellow Butane Curse and Other Fun Things

    Big Mo Pod Show: The Yellow Butane Curse and Other Fun Things

    I got off my schedule last week on listening to the Big Mo blues show, but as it turns out, he was gone last Friday. I heard last night’s blues show and heard Stevie Ray Vaughn’s Riviera Paradise. So, of course that was not on the list of songs for the pod show today, but…

  • The Big Mo Pod Show: “In the Pocket”

    The Big Mo Pod Show: “In the Pocket”

    Here’s something fun, try to explain what the phrase “in the pocket” means. The song selections in the pod show led up to a short discussion of what it means—which I didn’t get at all. I don’t think it matters for the ordinary listeners, although former music teachers like Big Mo obviously know what the…

  • Starting Without the Big Mo Blues Show Today!

    Starting Without the Big Mo Blues Show Today!

    Well, I’ve been waiting all morning for the Big Mo Pod Show and it usually shows up long before now on Saturday morning. In spite of this, Big Mo did say on the blues show last night that the first two songs on the show would be on the pod show and I know what…

  • Cribbage Lingo in The Crib Song by Brett Kissel

    Cribbage Lingo in The Crib Song by Brett Kissel

    I modified the YouTube cribbage video “One for his nob short” to be about the same length as Canadian country singer Brett Kissel’s song about cribbage “The Crib Song.” I didn’t change any of the subtitles on the video because they fit the game play in the video. There is no audio in the short…

  • Big Mo Pod Show: “Wiggle Your Way Into People’s Hearts”- and Down The Rabbit Hole!

    Big Mo Pod Show: “Wiggle Your Way Into People’s Hearts”- and Down The Rabbit Hole!

    Hey, I’ve got some confusion about one of the tunes in the Big Mo Pod Show today. I heard most of the Big Mo Blues Show last night although I think I might have dozed off for a few minutes about the time one song came on about 7:40 pm. I guess I don’t feel…

  • Big Mo Pod Show: “Smoke Stack Howlin”

    Big Mo Pod Show: “Smoke Stack Howlin”

    I got a big kick out of the Big Mo Blues Show last night. And the Big Mo Pod Show this morning was another great teaching session by John Heim aka Big Mo. It’s also another peek into the lives of blues and rock musicians which would appeal to the headshrinkers in the listening audience,…

  • Will Not Be Defeated!

    Will Not Be Defeated!

    Sena has again been winning virtually every cribbage game. We always play 3 games, best of two wins and skunk wins don’t count. I think I play pretty well. She just plays better. It reminds me of the song “Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better).” It’s a song from the musical “Annie Get…

  • Big Mo Pod Show: “Grab a Twelve Pack and be Somebody”

    Big Mo Pod Show: “Grab a Twelve Pack and be Somebody”

    I caught the Big Mo Blues Show last night and the podcast this morning, titled “Grab a Twelve Pack and be Somebody.” I had a hard time picking out any of the five songs having anything close to a lyric that would be close to “Grab a Twelve Pack and be Somebody” but it’s easy…

  • Big Mo Pod Show: Music of the People

    Big Mo Pod Show: Music of the People

    I caught the Big Mo Pod Show today, “Music of the People” and of course, I listened to his Friday Blues show last night. Big Mo is a bottomless pit of blues music knowledge (as well as other genres) and that takes me back to my wasted youth when I had a short conversation with…