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fishnetmom November 11 2008, 13:41:06 UTC
Oh great, now I'm seriously homesick.

Jeffy, you might honestly want to check out that festival around Morehead/Olive Hill that draws Bluegrass fans from literally everywhere nationally. I've never been to it, but people loved going. And that area is a hotbed of weekend festivals. I'll have to look up what it is for you online, I've been removed from the area for 10 years now, so I don't have any idea what it is called any more.

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sitonotis November 12 2008, 00:47:24 UTC
The irony is that I'm not even a big Blugrass fan at all, perhaps I was traumatized at a young age by a father who insisted on trying to teach himself to play the Banjo. But I was driving down Madison last Sunday and I happened to have PHC on... The song just made me really, really happy.

And I have a strange relationship with the Commonwealth. I did live in Newport for a few years, just east of Pompilio's, but travelling out of the 275 loop I find vaugely unnerving.

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mrcomfypants November 11 2008, 19:41:28 UTC
I can't quite place the tune but it's very similar to "Old Joe Clark."

Track 155 here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2382

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sitonotis November 12 2008, 00:43:10 UTC
Actually, I found it somewhere else on the page - it's 162. I knew "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss" was an older song, but I didn't know if it was older as in 30 or 130.

But thanks for that link!

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