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Monticello
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music blues country roots songwriting mono rural analogue folkways
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Great Big Yam is all about the picnics and harvests. Rural music from rural people.
Great Big Yam is a collective and individual effort to preserve traditional American music and create songs within that tradition. From the traveling blues to the banjo breakdown to the jigs and reels native to Ireland to the African roots to folk protest songs.
Song Info
Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic Folk
Charts
Peak #609
Peak in subgenre #115
Author
Bryan Newbury
Rights
2006 Bryan Newbury
Uploaded
August 15, 2006
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MP3 3.1 MB • 128 kbps • 3:21
Story behind the song
A highway death of a friend in Kentucky.
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In Monticello I found you a' riding in a fast car just like years ago. I didn't tell you to slow down when you came into town. O, so many things I didn't know. O, so many things I didn't know. There is no place like Kentucky in the springtime. From London to Louisville they've got bourbon in the air so the angels get their share and they run down singing "How do you feel, boys?" They come down singing, how do you feel? In the winter they float down the jet stream and fly a little closer to the earth. Then their wings come undone, doctors can't save everyone, whatever consolation that is worth. Sometimes you have to be in Nebraska. Sometimes Texas pulls you in. And sometimes the closest you can get to Kentucky is listening to songs we loved then, and playing them again and again.
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