2 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

My gpa was a coal miner in sw virginia. They had it hard but dad got out and got in with the railroad.

So was my grandad, Wise, Virginia more specifically. He was killed working on a  coal train when my dad was fairly young. There’s probably lyrics to a country and western song in there somewhere .........

 

3 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

So was my grandad, Wise, Virginia more specifically. He was killed working on a  coal train when my dad was fairly young. There’s probably lyrics to a country and western song in there somewhere .........

Mine worked at pocahontas coal mine. He died in his early 60s, probably one of older ones to survive.

 

 

2 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

My gpa was a coal miner in sw virginia. They had it hard but dad got out and got in with the railroad.

 

Small world.

My wife's uncle was a coal miner who did not get out. He died young of black-lung disease.

 

Roger

 

 

 

 

 

8 hours ago, RoLo said:

Hoedown (bluegrass) sure is country.

Being raised an Appalachian-American (we've decided hillbilly is culturally insensitive), fights used to break out over such thing as whether music truly was bluegrass if it had a upright bass as opposed to a jug Saturday nights at the store in Hillsville.  Scotch-Irish are known for quarreling, but evidently most that live in Southwest Virginia have a purist streak.  Me, I somehow had that bent skip over me, so if you want to wash down your avocado toast with bootleg damson berry corn liquor, have at it.  But I can't get so far from my upbringing as to not separate the two.  I love them both, but I do feel like they've separate and beautiful genres of America music.

1 hour ago, roadwarrior said:

 

here’s another version of the same song by a family bluegrass band I’ve been listening to 

1 hour ago, CountryboyinDC said:

Being raised an Appalachian-American (we've decided hillbilly is culturally insensitive), fights used to break out over such thing as whether music truly was bluegrass if it had a upright bass as opposed to a jug Saturday nights at the store in Hillsville.  Scotch-Irish are known for quarreling, but evidently most that live in Southwest Virginia have a purist streak.  Me, I somehow had that bent skip over me, so if you want to wash down your avocado toast with bootleg damson berry corn liquor, have at it.  But I can't get so far from my upbringing as to not separate the two.  I love them both, but I do feel like they've separate and beautiful genres of America music.

Then you also have “old time “ music, where bluegrass and country came from...

 

 

 

 

19 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

Then you also have “old time “ music, where bluegrass and country came from...

That's what we'd call bluegrass where I'm from.  You'd usually have a bass, stringed or a jug, but not always.  Those sounds bring me back to summer evenings of finishing up making hay, and stopping by Parker & Orange store to listen to the good ol' boys picking.

56 minutes ago, N Florida Mike said:

Then you also have “old time “ music, where bluegrass and country came from...

 

 

I love how the one lady sets her purse down to start dancing 

 

......and some Roy Clark

 

 

 

 

In ten years this may be Classic ?