Since bluegrass has long since been taken over by nice SUV driving Baptist homeschooling families from the nice suburbs with a stay at home mom and a dad who makes his money in finance or in sales for a company like Comcast but yet likes to listen to cds of people playing banjo and singing about hardships, I now have to have my man of constant sorrow via other genres. My gain.
LOL! Well, we live in the woods, and my DH is the one who does the homeschooling, and I'm the corporate wage-slave, so we don't entirely fit that stereotype, but we do kinda like us our bluegrass. At least, the kids and I do. DH is fonder of doo wop.
Older son wrote one of his college-app essays -- the one that got him into UNC Chapel Hill (which he's not attending) -- on Blind Alfred Reed. Not bluegrass, of course...early protest/folk, rather...but it shows where his very eclectic musical interests lie.
I'm partial to Patty Loveless, myself. Never really liked bluegrass until I heard Patty sing "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive." That "high lonseome" voice did the trick for me....
Oh, and I don't drive an SUV, actually. I drive a 16-year-old Honda Accord wagon. That thing just never gives up. Honda made wagons for only a few years (mid-nineties), but I've been told those wagons have Honda's strongest transmissions ever. I used to want the old bomber to poop out on me, so I could get one of those cute little Honda Fits. But now that I have a kid about to start college, I'm grateful that the old bomber's hanging in there.
You might also enjoy this, being a nursing student, Gov't Mule's "Thorazine Shuffle": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4s4hW-oGZ0
ReplyDeleteLOL! Well, we live in the woods, and my DH is the one who does the homeschooling, and I'm the corporate wage-slave, so we don't entirely fit that stereotype, but we do kinda like us our bluegrass. At least, the kids and I do. DH is fonder of doo wop.
ReplyDeleteOlder son wrote one of his college-app essays -- the one that got him into UNC Chapel Hill (which he's not attending) -- on Blind Alfred Reed. Not bluegrass, of course...early protest/folk, rather...but it shows where his very eclectic musical interests lie.
I'm partial to Patty Loveless, myself. Never really liked bluegrass until I heard Patty sing "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive." That "high lonseome" voice did the trick for me....
Oh, and I don't drive an SUV, actually. I drive a 16-year-old Honda Accord wagon. That thing just never gives up. Honda made wagons for only a few years (mid-nineties), but I've been told those wagons have Honda's strongest transmissions ever. I used to want the old bomber to poop out on me, so I could get one of those cute little Honda Fits. But now that I have a kid about to start college, I'm grateful that the old bomber's hanging in there.
ReplyDeleteDiane,
ReplyDeleteYou are safe then.
I am a misanthrope, it is one of my few talents, thus I have to stick with it.
I love Patty Lovelace.