Okay, it's two months late, and I finished reviewing the last of the videos two or three weeks ago. First, here's the last batch of comments, which were all made on the YouTube pages already:
librainian - Bourbon Street Parade - Holy crap, Andrew, that was fantastic! I had to go back a couple of times and take a better look at those fingerpicked walk-downs at the start of a verse. I don't listen to albums of ukulele music, so I'm not familiar with Papa Lemon, but I've got nothing but respect for the style and the performance. Wow!
AlanDP - Pineapple Road - This is a great song! Great find, Alan, and you played it great. Now I know what "pau hana" means. The local luthier who made my armadillo-shell uke out of an old mandolin uses "Pau Hana" as the brand name for his homemade ukes.
UkuleleLow - Streets of Baltimore - Great job on this. I'm impressed with your multitracking skills. I'm still trying to learn how to do some basic things. I don't think you were with us yet in Season 168, where I hosted a theme about "bright lights at night". I was used to songs from the '80s about wanting to go out and have an adventure in the night life, but all the country music lovers brought sad songs about how those awful bright lights made their woman leave them. This song was one of them.
Desert Pavement - Dead End Street - Very well done. Your playing is great, and your singing is a lot better on this than you give yourself credit for. I like the "pizzicato" picking on the verse. I've got one song where I've been doing that for years, yet it never even occurs to me to ever try it on other songs.
thesillydave - L.A. Freeway - Hey, Dave, great to see you! And still sounding fantastic! I like the wardrobe change between this song and the next one. I admire a man who commits to the part! I'm curious as to just what kind of trouble the narrator is escaping.
thesillydave - The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane - Wow, this song is a stupenous find, Dave! Thanks for coming by for this Season and bringing something so silly to the pary. "She just needs someone to change her."
lizalele - Leaning on a Lamp Post (at the Corner of the Street) - Excellent, Liz! Great fingerpicking, and taking those tempo changes with confidence. I haven't listened to much Formby, so I don't know this song, but I've got to think most ukers would have just strummed those chords instead of the intricate picking. Good job.
JodeTheToad - 6th Avenue Heartache - That's an interesting song. I've never heard it before. A sort of "Hymn to the Unknown Busker". A good song choice, and well done, Jodi.
Tootler - The Streets of Laredo - This is a very good fit for your voice, Geoff. My formative years were spent listening to Allan Sherman records, so I always hear this song as Sherman's version, "The Streets of Miami", sung in a heavy Yiddish accent.
decaturcomp - Human Highway - And the cigarette lighter is out and held up! Fantastic, Alan! I don't know if I've ever seen a baritone banjo uke before. Was the camera angle chosen specifically to show the sign over the door?
hendulele - Rocky Road - A tribute to a fine flavor of ice cream! Thanks for bringing this one, Rick. And I want a better look at that Cthuluau t-shirt! Has AlanDP seen that? Since falling way behind in watching the videos, we've had a couple of t-shirt days here since the Season ended. But this morning was 11 degrees.
myrnaukelele - On the Road Again - This brought a big smile to my face, Myrna. This is a song that never made that much of an impression on me, but I'm really enjoying hearing Seasonistas playing it. Hope you had a great trip!
UkuleleLow - Life's Highway - Very nice. I don't think I've heard the song before. Sort of a driving song version of "Morning Has Broken". Drive well today, and try to stay out of life's breakdown lane.
TheOnlyUkeThatMatters - Worse Than 43rd - Yeah Ralph! I'm happy to give you a reason to dig into your rock star past! And it got me listening to a few Feelings sound clips on iTunes to hear you sing leads. On uke, this almost ends up sounding like ska. Go Sal!
ddanner - Endless Road - Really nice, Dennis. The Bonanza episode was in 1965, so why is it Axton didn't ever record the song until 1978? Unless the Internet has it wrong (I can't imagine such a thing). I also saw something on-line that said the song was really written by Axton's mother.
MikeOnTheUke - Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Great job on this, Mike! And thanks for doing this one. It's a song that I was really hoping to hear this Season. One of the names I considered for the Season was "The Boulevard of Broken Strings."
JackLuis - Six Days on the Road - You've got a good voice for trucking songs, Jackluis. I like this. I don't recall hearing this song before, though it looks like dozens of people have recorded it over the years. Wikipedia says the song is "often hailed as the definitive celebration of the American truck driver."
greenie44 - Lonely Avenue - Fantastic singing there, Rick! And a great job with the multi-tracking and processing the ukulele sound. Great job on this.
greyghost - Highway Song - Great as usual, Luis! I've got to say that I don't remember Blackfoot at all from the '70s. I looked them up and found the band still exists, with founder Rickey Medlocke only acting as producer, and an entirely new set of band members put together in 2012. I've never heard of a setup like that before.
Barbablanca - Thundering Down the Interstate - Oof! That's the road I drive down bringing my daughter to and from college. I think that's the hardest I've ever heard you rock, Berni, and I love it! It makes me want to hear a whole set from your band. I'm a little surprised that "Interstate" is a word that would make it into your songs -- I wouldn't think that the word would have much meaning in Europe.
PlastikUke - Streets of London - A lovely version of this. Well done. I can't really see the uke, but I'm going to guess it's smaller than the one Lil played this song on. And congrats on graduating from Hogwarts! You're not a Hufflepuff, are you? Because, just theoretically, I might have written a song about Hufflepuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXiqAc_-RqY
bonesigh - 12th St. Rag - Very nice, Janet. A high contrast between your take on this song and Rex's, which was more like the Johnny Marvin version. I like both the fast and slow versions of Scott Joplin's rags.
bonesigh - Tobacco Road - And the crowd at Newport went crazy when Janet went electric! This is really great, Janet. I love the energy and multi-tracking and the vocals and the everything.