Oh, well, just another example of my swimming against the current. I
love accordion music. I'm starting to be able to tell who's playing based on the style.
Here are some of my favorites:
David DiGuiseppe (
http://www.daviddg.com/) of contra dance fame has a CD called "Welcome to Heaven" as a direct result of too many people giving him a copy of that Far Side cartoon. I first heard David at a contra dance at Glen Echo outside of CD--it was just him and a piano player, Pete Campbell. I thought at first it was going to be a very weird dance, but they really rocked the joint.
Sharon Shannon--don't be put off by the strange titles she gives her sets. Many of them are trad tune medleys but you don't know that until you get into the liner notes or after you've listened a little bit.
Phil Cunningham--I always liked him better than his late and dearly missed brother Johnny. I'm just not into Scottish fiddle.
Bob McQuillen & Laurie Andres have a contra dance CD "Hand it Down" that's sitting in my car player right now.
That's Laurie with the "stomach Steinway":
Jackie Daley of Patrick Street, Joe Derrane, the list goes on. I don't listen to nearly as many flute players. Just strange, I guess.
M