The Next Best Thing

No, not health care. Sorry. I’m talking about the ballots submitted at the debut of this nouveau ragtime project I put together. I invited the audience to name the band, and this is what they came up with.

I’ve withheld my own because I don’t want to prejudice the jury. I’m curious to hear how people respond to the sound of the music, not to my conceptual ideas. To hear clips from the show, click here and here.

Oh, and another reason I haven’t shared my own list is that it has ballooned to SEVENTY-THREE ENTRIES and … let’s just say I may have identified a new diagnosis for when the DSM-V comes out.

In case they’re hard to read:

Dean Olsher and his four Facebook friends
[flip side]
Dean Olsher and his deleted friend requests

Blue blow

78 RPM
The Vertical Grooves
The Lonesome Whistles
[flip side]
Dean Olsher and the Child Laborers
Dean Olsher and the League of Nations
The Maple Leaf Cookies

(Dean Olsher and) the Bridge of Sighs

Dean Olsher + the Ragged Edge
Dean Olsher and the Hot Ticket!

Dirty Rags

Boxcar
The Ne’er Do Wells
Tin Ceiling
Fog Tattoo
Wailing Hornpipe
McKinley’s Assassin

Dean Olsher and the …
… Hush Puppies
… Ham Hocks
… Hardtacks
… Johnnycakes
… Hoteliers
… Maître d’s
… Doppelgangers
… Wisdom Teeth
… Jaunty Rags
… Last-Minutes

Music Joy Group

Junk on the Rag

THE “MONOTREMES”

Any Old Time
21st Century Ragtime Revue
Dragtime (but you’d have to wear a dress)
Joplinesque (Joplinesque)
Piano Roll
The As-Yet Named Band

Alesandro’s [sic] date

White Shirt Black Vest

The Opposable Bums
Right Whales
The Blurry Winds

“CARTOON” or JALOPY

The Rod Stewarts

Porkpie
The Widening Gyre
The Tall Order

Weedtumble

Dean Olsher’s Ragtime Attic

Hotel D’Olsher