Some music

[Swing]

 

[Swing]

I just discovered this fellow today. He can play!!!

 

[Patchouli]

This is for @Peanut

 

[Peanut]

This is the version I've played countless times... Maybell Carter on "Will the Circle be Unbroken" album (nitty gritty dirt band).

 

[Peanut]

Most of you know this version... same tune... different words.

 

[Patchouli]

I've been deprived. Never heard that one, and forgot about Jim Stafford. You growing that, @Peanut ?

 

[Neb]

Most of you know this version... same tune... different words.

That was quite popular on the AM stations i listened to in the 70s. Along with...

Turtle creek
Old green teeth
Dead skunk in the middle of the road.

I don't know the real titles but that is what I remember of the words.

Ben

 

[Peanut]

This is song is very old. Bluegrass is how I learned it as a little kid. I knew it by the name "Wayfaring Stranger". Later I learned the song was older.

I bought the Movie "1917" sometime ago. This song is sung by this man in the movie... haunting given the backdrop. Maybe ya'll like it.

Jos Slovick - I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger (from 1917) - Official Video

 

[phideaux]

Bluegrass is my favorite, living in KY.


A close second is Motown hits.

Jim

 

[kenv1950]

This is song is very old. Bluegrass is how I learned it as a little kid. I knew it by the name "Wayfaring Stranger". Later I learned the song was older.

I bought the Movie "1917" sometime ago. This song is sung by this man in the movie... haunting given the backdrop. Maybe ya'll like it.

Jos Slovick - I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger (from 1917) - Official Video

This is the first time I heard the song . History says no one knows who wrote it . Late 1700s . maybe mountain people , slave song , nobody knows..Yes it stays with me

 

[kenv1950]

 

[Amish Heart]

Wayfaring Stranger is a favorite of mine. Right up there with "I'll Fly Away", and "Down to the River to Pray"

 

[Peanut]

@Amish Heart

Just for you! from the o brother movie, Alison Krauss singing

Down to the river to pray

 

[Amish Heart]

Such a good song. I have that whole CD from the movie just for that song.

 

[Peanut]

And "I'll Fly Away" by Gillian Welch. Who has the most beautiful alto voice I've ever heard.

 

[Morgan101]

This group does a nice job with Wayfaring Stranger. Watching them was the first time I heard it.

 

[Morgan101]

This is my favorite from Jamie Wilson. Hope you all like it.

 

[Amish Heart]

Don't know how to link it, but I like Hayde Bluegrass Wayfaring Stranger version

 

[Smalltimefarmer]

Such a good song. I have that whole CD from the movie just for that song.

I bought it to play in the car when mom was with me. She loves the movie and George Clooney. My son calls him George Cooney.

 

[kenv1950]

Don't know how to link it, but I like Hayde Bluegrass Wayfaring Stranger version

Here ya go

 

[Amish Heart]

Thanks! Love that version

 

[Peanut]

A series of songs and ballads from the 1800’s, a few from the Scottish highlands. Some of the most beautiful acoustic guitar work I’ve ever heard.

The artist is Ron Block, of Alison Krauss and Union Station. He’s the guy playing banjo in “O’Brother Where Art Thou?”. He also did much of the guitar work you heard along with Dan Tyminski.

https://ronblock.com/store
On his website scroll down and on the left you'll see an album listed:

A Light So Fair:
Peaceful Guitar Instrumentals

It's free to listen, a lot of his music is free to listen to, or you can buy any of it. He plays a lot of other kinds of music besides bluegrass but there is plenty of great bluegrass.

These ballads aren’t everyone’s cup of tea I'm sure. It’s almost entirely instrumental, very soft, very slow… simple melodies. The vocals are just faint background harmony on a few songs.

 

[Magus]

#Neb

Was this green teeth?