From Brasstown to Vermont and Back
Pap helping Chitter tune before a show My favorite Christmas gift arrived way back in October…but no one noticed it…
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Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Funerals are sad anytime of the year, but they seem especially sad during the joyous season of Christmas. On Friday…
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Thus Every Beast by Some Good Spell
Steve and Tipper – Christmas 1970-something I grew up hearing Pap sing the Christmas song The Friendly Beasts. He said…
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What Child is this?
I don’t recall hearing the Christmas song What Child Is This? until I was nearly grown. Because of that, I…
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Silent Night
Silent Night is said to be the most recorded of all Christmas songs and it may very well be the most…
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On a Cold Winter’s Night that was so Deep
The Christmas song The First Noel was never one of my favorites until Pap and Paul put it on their Songs of…
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Fairer than the Sweetest Flowers
It’s been a long time since Chatter and Chitter first learned Ola Belle Reed’s song “Undone In Sorrow” and…
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My World Ended Today
Paul and Pap produced their Lamp Lighting Time cd way back in 2009. Sort of hard for me to…
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Knoxville Girl
When I hear someone talking about the many murder ballads of Appalachia, Knoxville Girl is always the one that comes…
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In the Pines
The Pressley Girls first learned the song In the Pines back in 2013. They’ve been doing the song ever since….
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Gathering Flowers from the Hillside
We talked about Appalachian Murder Ballads last Sunday, more specifically the ballad of Tom Dooley. Today I have a different…
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Appalachian Murder Ballads
Tom Dooley is a song I’ve heard all my life, I even used to be able to play it on the…
