This one is personal. I grew up in northern Columbia County, NY, just within range of the mystical transmissions emanating from Troy known as WRPI. WRPI taught me about music and radio and life itself, good lessons to learn.

I first heard Jamie Brockett’ SS Titanic one dark winter night and Bob Dylan and the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra and Zappa (who thrilled my young teen self twice at the acoustically unspeakable RPI Fieldhouse) and OMFUG.

I also heard The Star Spangled Washboard Band.

As then as now, i loved home made music, parlour music, jug band music. The SSWB was very tight, accomplished musicians (think Kweskin and Van Ronk’s version of Jug Band Music) but also wicked fun.

Their song, Goody’s Garage, stuck with me for year, dimly remembered. I couldn’t find it and then couldn’t find it online, where there arose an online in which to search. I finally posted to an Albany subredddit and asked for it. Sarge Blotto replied and sent me the MP3. https://www.reddit.com/r/Albany/comments/11f9m61/long_shot_song_request_goodys_garage_by_the_star/

The Stompers learned it and now we sing it and i hope you will learn it and sing it too. Sing it your way. Music isn’t sacred and unchanging. it moves and adapts. Change is not th enemy, neither in music nor in ‘real life.’

The Blotto Page has some SSWB relics and ephemera at https://blotto.net/sswb.html#.

May i present Goody’s Garage by the Star Spangled Washboard Band?