I like the high & lonesome sound there, Dak, but I'd call that clawhammer banjo Old Time rather than Bluegrass.
Bill Monroe would have been 100 years old this Tuesday, September 13.
Uncle Penn:
UNCLE PENN Recorded by : Doug Kershaw; Bill Monroe; Buck Owens; Elvis Presley; Ricky Scaggs; The Flying Burrito Brothers; Hank Williams
Oh, the people would come from far away They'd dance all night till the break of day When the caller hollered ""Do-se-do"" He knew Uncle Penn was ready to go.
CHORUS: Late in the evenin' about sundown High on the hill and above the town Uncle Penn played the fiddle, oh how it would ring You can hear it talk, you can hear it sing.
He played an old piece he called ""Soldier's Joy"" And the one called ""The Boston Boy"" The greatest of all was ""Jenny Lynn"" To me that's where the fiddle begins.
REPEAT CHORUS
I'll never forget that mournful day When Uncle Penn was called away They hung up his fiddle, hung up his bow They knew it was time for him to go.
I used to drive all over hell with girls to hear music here and there. We'd drive twenty hours non-stop to Texas with an open twelve pack and a quart of coffee and drive without stopping. It's a wonder that we never got nailed. Those were the good old days.
the thing that really bothers me is that nobody knows what they're capable of.
like this beach in baja california... the topography made a slit with a natural reverb, and the mexicans would sing there... the americans shit there, despite their knowing what the place was about.
mexicans seem to assume they can sing, so they sing... americans seen to assume nobody can sing unless they have a microphone.
lord knows how many americans have... voices... that could reach us, if they wwere still human.
Lots of those great voices of the past trained up without microphones like Hank and Kitty. That includes the big classical voices that I'm real fond of too and have on vinyl.