I’m watching the Country Music series on PBS, and this song is sung in the very first episode, about the beginnings of country music in the United States. I posted this last February, but I enjoyed hearing it again, and I hope you do too.
I don’t know why this kind of music touches me in the way it does. My explanation is that my roots are in Scotland, Ireland and Wales and with those who left their homes to travel to America – many to Appalachia. Both my grandfather and great-grandfather played the fiddle; I don’t know where the musical talent went in my generation. I can sing though, so I guess that’s my instrument, rusty though it is these days!
This rendition is by Joey and Rory Feek, which seems apt, as Joey ‘flew away’ three years ago at the young age of 40. She was a great loss to music and those who knew her.
Stella's Place 
She was really good.
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When we lived in Scotland, I was so surprised at the number of really talented musicians we would hear in little pubs in little villages! We once went to a pub in Berwick-Upon-Tweed and were invited to join a celebration of a local ladies soccer team’s success. There was a guy on a fiddle, and his Dad on an accordian. They were very country, and it was so beautiful! It was so sweet to be invited into their celebration.
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The Feeks were a really beautiful couple, and she sang so sweetly. I can’t watch a lot of the videos of her last days without crying my eyes out.
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We watched every minute of every episode. Czar lived near Nashville and in the northeastern part of Alabama for a while. My mother’s families came from the British Isles and settled in the south. Altho no one in her family seemed to play any instument and we didn’t hear most those songs when I was a kid, they are familiar to me thru my varied background (for one thing, we sang them in school; suppose schools don’t teach that kind of music anymore). What was most interesting to me was the lives and the photos of the people from the south and mid-west, becuase that is the story of my mothers’ people going way back, and my father’s people once they moved to Oklahoma and Texas.
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I managed to tape episode 1 but wrongly assumed the next episode would be the next Sunday (as I never watch PBS) so I missed 2,3 & 4. Caught the rest of them but I really hate that I missed the old timers like Patsy Cline. We lived in Nashville for a few years in the 70’s and got to see some of the really great ones……. did they cover Brother Oswald at all? Awesome guy and good man – met him in Nashville in a sleet storm and a few years later he remembered us in W. TX when he was doing a tour with Charlie and some other bluegrass peeps. Good times, good times.
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I’m watching it on PBS, but I’m one of those small time contributors. I think it’s also available on Amazon Prime.
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I’m watching the 3rd episode (1945-1953) right now.
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It is on Amazon Prime and all the episodes seem to be there. I just checked. You have to sign up for PBS, but I don’t think there is any cost to it.
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