Bluegrass Time

Photos, Jim Potts (no connection with poem below)

Blue Ridge Mountains

Blue Ridge mountain horseback ride;

Down the forest track in Fall.

The owl is watching. The coyote prowls.

The deer are grazing; quilts are stitched

In the Shenandoah valley.

Country singers entertain us:

Bluegrass or Nashville, they glorify war.

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The songs that follow don't glorify war!

Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt
My Little Cabin Home on the Hill

Jim and Jesse
I wonder where you are tonight

Claire Lynch
Sweetheart, Darlin' of Mine

Bob Dylan and Ralph Stanley:
The Lonesome River

another song popular with bluegrass and country singers,
Jimmie Rodgers' Anniversary Blue Yodel

Hello City Limits, Red Allen and the Kentuckians 

Tony Rice and Terry Baucom, Blue Ridge Mountain Home (shaky camerawork)

Bill Monroe, Blue Moon of Kentucky

finally, one from The Monroe Brothers (Banks of the Ohio)