Michael Dinallo
@crookedroadsongs.bsky.social
Award-winning producer, guitarist, writer and deejay.
www.crookedroadsongs.com
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Christmas Day 2025
From December 2024:
“Christmas with John Prine”
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“Sister Carmelita”
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“It Was a Different Time”
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I hope you enjoy.
Peace.
From December 2024:
“Christmas with John Prine”
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“Sister Carmelita”
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“It Was a Different Time”
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I hope you enjoy.
Peace.
December 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Christmas Day 2025
From December 2024:
“Christmas with John Prine”
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“Sister Carmelita”
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“It Was a Different Time”
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/it-was-a-d...
I hope you enjoy.
Peace.
From December 2024:
“Christmas with John Prine”
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/christmas-...
“Sister Carmelita”
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/sister-car...
“It Was a Different Time”
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I hope you enjoy.
Peace.
"A Christmas Waltz" by Michael Dinallo
YouTube video by Michael Dinallo
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December 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
To read about cotton candy, and small town America in the poem, “Jubilee,” please follow the link.
Thanks!
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Thanks!
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July 8, 2025 at 12:26 PM
To read about cotton candy, and small town America in the poem, “Jubilee,” please follow the link.
Thanks!
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/jubilee
Thanks!
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/jubilee
Summer is jubilee time. July brings the start of heritage days, town jamborees, and street fairs all as precursors to the state and county fairs that will begin in August and blossom into great festivals of bounty come the fall.
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/jubilee
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July 6, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Summer is jubilee time. July brings the start of heritage days, town jamborees, and street fairs all as precursors to the state and county fairs that will begin in August and blossom into great festivals of bounty come the fall.
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/jubilee
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/jubilee
This video, when I originally made it, was an homage to the end of summer. With all that has transpired this year, leading up to the Fourth of July, 2025 and yesterday’s unconscionable, evil vote, I have retitled it to The Sound of Democracy Dying.
youtu.be/MGtWvvLJ6HE
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The Sound of Democracy Dying......
YouTube video by Michael Dinallo
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July 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This video, when I originally made it, was an homage to the end of summer. With all that has transpired this year, leading up to the Fourth of July, 2025 and yesterday’s unconscionable, evil vote, I have retitled it to The Sound of Democracy Dying.
youtu.be/MGtWvvLJ6HE
youtu.be/MGtWvvLJ6HE
June 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
We could sure use Woody Guthrie right now. (And, probably Mark Twain, too.) Woody’s iconic songs captured the struggles of an entire nation. He gave great awareness to the plight that had befallen so many. He would have plenty to say today.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:38 AM
We could sure use Woody Guthrie right now. (And, probably Mark Twain, too.) Woody’s iconic songs captured the struggles of an entire nation. He gave great awareness to the plight that had befallen so many. He would have plenty to say today.
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/pull-up-th...
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/pull-up-th...
Dave Alvin has stated that there are two kinds of folk music: loud and soft. “Mermaid Avenue” offers both.
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June 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Dave Alvin has stated that there are two kinds of folk music: loud and soft. “Mermaid Avenue” offers both.
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Today, Saturday, May 31, 2025 – 4-5pm ET
Michael Dinallo / Crooked Road Songs
WICN 90.5fm, Worcester, Massachusetts
Crooked Road Songs is the place to be at 4pm ET. I'll be coming at you over the airwaves in Central Massachusetts on 90.5fm and over the webwaves on wicn.org.
Peace.
Michael
Michael Dinallo / Crooked Road Songs
WICN 90.5fm, Worcester, Massachusetts
Crooked Road Songs is the place to be at 4pm ET. I'll be coming at you over the airwaves in Central Massachusetts on 90.5fm and over the webwaves on wicn.org.
Peace.
Michael
May 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Today, Saturday, May 31, 2025 – 4-5pm ET
Michael Dinallo / Crooked Road Songs
WICN 90.5fm, Worcester, Massachusetts
Crooked Road Songs is the place to be at 4pm ET. I'll be coming at you over the airwaves in Central Massachusetts on 90.5fm and over the webwaves on wicn.org.
Peace.
Michael
Michael Dinallo / Crooked Road Songs
WICN 90.5fm, Worcester, Massachusetts
Crooked Road Songs is the place to be at 4pm ET. I'll be coming at you over the airwaves in Central Massachusetts on 90.5fm and over the webwaves on wicn.org.
Peace.
Michael
Heath Street and Roxbury Street, Boston
Circra early 1900s
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Circra early 1900s
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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May 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Heath Street and Roxbury Street, Boston
Circra early 1900s
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Circra early 1900s
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Charter Street, North End, Boston 1912
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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May 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Charter Street, North End, Boston 1912
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Sometimes you need to get above your raising. My arrival in Boston, the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 1985, allowed me to do just that. I knew no one. I really knew nothing about this place but I was thrilled to be here. I still am.
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The Streets I Used to Walk
Sometimes you need to get above your raising.
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May 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Sometimes you need to get above your raising. My arrival in Boston, the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 1985, allowed me to do just that. I knew no one. I really knew nothing about this place but I was thrilled to be here. I still am.
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Boston Light circa 1910
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May 18, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Boston Light circa 1910
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
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Dudley Station, Boston circa 1900.
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May 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Dudley Station, Boston circa 1900.
Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Read more here:
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
Read more here:
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May 17, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Sometimes you need to get above your raising. My arrival in Boston, the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 1985, allowed me to do just that. I knew no one. I really knew nothing about this place but I was thrilled to be here. I still am.
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/the-street...
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/the-street...
The Streets I Used to Walk
Sometimes you need to get above your raising.
michaeldinallo.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Sometimes you need to get above your raising. My arrival in Boston, the day before Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in 1985, allowed me to do just that. I knew no one. I really knew nothing about this place but I was thrilled to be here. I still am.
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/the-street...
michaeldinallo.substack.com/p/the-street...