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🦋 Delmore Bros.

A very nice musical find while we were on vacation: I stopped by a record dealer who had set up shop across the street from the Havenside mall in Charlotte -- his sign advertised REGGAE REGGAE REGGAE in big letters and I thought it might be nice to get a couple of Reggae records, of which I currently have almost none. But as I came to find out, the dealer is a West Virginian and he has a nice selection of bluegrass mixed in with the REGGAE REGGAE REGGAE. In particular I found and bought Kentucky Mountains by The Delmore Brothers -- I've been looking for a recording by them ever since I learned their "Weary Day" from John Miller's version.

Well, the verdict -- after listening to the record, I like Miller's version better than the original (and actually, I like our version better than the original); but there are some excellent other songs on the record. "Trouble Ain't Nothin' but the Blues", "Freight Train Boogie", "You Can't Do Wrong and Get By" -- generally beautiful songs. I was interested to see that Dylan had said the Delmore Brothers "influenced every harmony I've ever tried to sing."

posted evening of Saturday, March first, 2008
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