Road Trip (Blue Ridge Mountain Blues)

Hit the road, Jack!

Route 66

Nick Smith, Country Music at The Jefferson-

support act to Cody Purvis

Nina-Maria's tweet

Hear Nick Smith, Stay With Me

Cody Purvis, Rain

Homer in Charlottesville, Virginia

From Homer's lyre to the Wurlitzer...

Chris King has it covered!

Above, Chris King, record producer
(his projects have included Blues, Albanian and Epirot music,
Ukrainian and Polish songs, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Cajun, Zydeco and Klezmer)

Blue Ridge Mountain Blues

John Fogerty version

Doc Watson version

Blue Ridge Mountain Home (Osborne Brothers)

Down in Virginia (Jimmy Reed)

Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party

Johnny Cash version (Seeing Nelly Home)

I Never Will Marry (Carter Family)

Little Cabin Home on the Hill (Elvis version)

Million Dollar Quartet

Little Cabin Home on the Hill (The Osborne Brothers)

Country Roads

East Virginia Blues (Ralph Stanley)

East Virginia Blues (Carter Family)

Where the sun will never go down (J D Jarvis)

Two flags (US and Greek) at Fort Defiance, near Staunton, Virginia

Country Fiddler, copper sculpture by Steve Shields. Amongst many other major works, Steve Shields also created sculptures of Tom Ryman (outside the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville), of Bill Monroe and Minnie Pearl.

"My grip is packed to travel, and I'm scratching gravel
To that Blue Ridge far away".

(Blue Ridge Mountain Blues).

Bluegrass Time (old posting)