Hey dude. Figured more than anyone, you will know where I'm coming from. I have no one else to discuss music with now that dad is gone. Way back in the day, he picked with Bill & Charlie Monroe. They asked him to go to Nashville with them, & mom said no, 'not if you ever want to see me & this baby (being me) again'. I'm related to the Carter family, paternal grandmothers side, & would be 5th or 6th cousin to Loretta Lynn, paternal grangfathers side. Dad made beautiful violins, mandolins & guitars, & I started playing at age 4. Couldn't help it. It was in my blood. I play folk, bluegrass & classical, & a lot of old W.V. mountain music. I really miss the mountain music. It seems like no one knows it anymore. Do you? One old ballad, Little Maggie, has been adopted by bluegrass pickers, but one called Little Margaret seems to pretty much be lost. I sing it Acapello (spelling). I remember singing it on Aunt Ollabelle & Uncle Alex Campbell's radio station when I was about 5 yrs old, & then dad & I did 'Tom Duley'. Do you remember any of these old songs? Most are hundreds of years old, brought over from England & Ireland. Damned I miss this shit. Thinking about the old songs & the people who used to sing them is making me homesick for my mountains, & the sweet people who used to sing them are dead & gone now. Never was a cry baby, but I'm about to be one now.
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