When I was in the 7th or 8th grade we learned to square dance to The Wabash Cannonball. Now in my late 60’s bluegrass is my favorite music, but square dancing is past me now.
My favorite Roy Acuff song is “The Great Speckled Bird”, tho I don’t know exactly what it means.
“Old Crow Medicine Show”
Great group that can put the old and new together.
If you haven’t heard them before, give them a listen. Check out their version of “Wagon Wheel”.
It’ll make you smile.
Such a great song.
Like just about every song, the Carter Family version is head and shoulders above all others. (Linked below).
I love the language in the Carter Family’s lyrics where AP Carter has the original language:
“Listen to the Jingle, rumor and the roar”
Not “rumble”.
Rumor meaning continuous, confused noise; clamor; din.
“Hear the merry hobos squall”. Not “call”.
“He’ll be carried off to victory”.
Not “we’ll carry him off to victory”
This latter lyric greatly changes the connotation of the line.
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Still, yeah, I like this 2014 get together and performance.
Very nice. I just watched episode 2 of “Country Music” last night.
Someone is mathematically impaired. 2014 would have been the 89.4th Anniversary of the Opry.
Started November, 1925. Went national in 1939.
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The Texas Longhorn Marching Band has always done a great version.
Country Music on PBS.org the history of the Opry
I have read that the biggest reception ever given an artist at the opry was Hank Williams when he sang, “Lovesick Blues”.
Or was it, “I’m so lonesome I could cry”.