Norman Blake is one of my Guitar Heroes. His tune “The Old Brown Case” appears on a couple of 1970s albums (in slightly different versions), and this morning the [consistently magnificent] Old Blue Bus blog linked to OBC3, a more recent version with Nancy Blake and a bass player. Don’t miss it.

It being winter, one has time for Kurt Gottschalk’s A Field Guide to Staying Inside: Bagpipes, from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog. Not everything here will be to your taste, but examples like Birchville Cat Motel’s “Piss Perfume Overkill” will give the cobwebs in your speakers a good airing. And the Alfred Hitchcock quote at the beginning is worth the price of admission.