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ATTN: Kruger Brothers Fans

I you are a fan, you are probably aware of the live streaming shows they’ve been doing for more than a year.

I don’t know who did it, but this person has cataloged all their songs & linked them to the performance!

Check it out. It will knock you socks off!

https://otddi.com/krugerlist/

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Thank you for sharing this!

Happy to do it. It’s too good to keep to myself!

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Wow that’s a heck of a lot of work how did you stumble on this @BanJoe ?

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The Kruger Brothers played a song called “There’s Always One More Train to Ride,” a nice little jamming number. My wife (a KB fan) shocked me when she said it was “boring.” Then I remembered an old radio axiom :“Women listen to lyrics, men listen to the music.”
So the next question was “Did the Krugers write the song?” I typed the title into my search engine of choice , DuckDuckGo (which does not track you). I put quote marks around the title, hit enter & poof! Three hits about railways schedules and the next was this database!

Oddly, I’ve done the search a couple more times & it only came up once.

I dropped a note to the site designer. He’s an old retired guy who’s started playing banjo 6-7 years ago. He asked Melissa if they had such a database & she said no. So he used an old program from 20 years ago to create & maintain it.

Some days the internet is a wonderful thing!

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Hi @BanJoe, Search Engines like Google take a while to trawl the www their bots look for certain things that meet certain criteria before being linked to the engine. If this criteria is not met the website is ignored. As a Webmaster you can invite Search Engines to map your site using certain lines of code. If you go to Google and click on how search works you can learn all the background tricks coders use to get you to click on links to there website. There are paid / sponsored links that push your site closer to the top of the tree. You’ll see these links at the top of a page when you carry out a search they are usually preceded by ad. That said you don’t have to pay to get your site close to the top. A little bit of online research will provide all the answers you need.

I guess DuckDuckGo uses a different kind of way it collects data,

I haven’t used DuckDuckGo in a long while so thanks for reminding me to try it next time I get frustrated with Google when it keeps sending me the same old links again and again.

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Awesome…thanks @BanJoe!

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I’m with you. I have a decent understanding of how search engines work, which is why I really like DuckDuckGo. It certainly surprises me more often than Google!

And those flaws with Google are also apparent in YouTube (a Google -owned company).
I love music, made my living with music and particularly enjoy alternate versions of songs. Like this one -

Lately I can’t break out of “country music” when I’m looking for songs, so I was a bit taken back when I read Bob Dylan thought “Unclouded Day” was “the most mysterious thing I’d ever heard.” Really? Was he smoking dope at the time?
Digging deeper, it turns out he was referring to the version by the Staple Singers, recorded in 1959. Dylan was right.

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And a search on YouTube will find their cooking shows. I think they did around 38 of them? Lots of cooking and some good tunes. I love these guys.

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I’ve cooked many of the recipes. Jen’s Bread is delicious & easy!
It’s Episode 11 of the cook show, the one with the cured salmon.

Hi @blkelk31051 Becky if you click on the link that @BanJoe posted and look at the top of the page you will see a link to all the cooking episodes

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Thanks.