Music Monday: Not my taste, but definitely Bluegrass talent
Posted By RichC on April 19, 2021
This past weekend I saw what looked like an amateur musician in a college dorm or apartment video roll across my Twitter feed and thought, “this young man has talent.” It reminded me of a post from 2014 when Jacob Tolliver sat down at a piano in a Portsmouth, Ohio hardware store.
This kind of Bluegrass music hasn’t been my normal Music Monday listening taste or trend, but even a hard of hearing guy like me can see this guy has talent. (I did mention Bluegrass when posting about Pure Praire League and Vince Gill, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Alison Krauss and Catfish John last year – mp3 below).
| Alison Krauss with Jerry Douglas, NGDB – “Catfish John” |
“Catfish John”
Mama said: ‘Don’t go near that river’
‘Don’t be hanging around old Catfish John’
‘Come the morning, I’d always be there’
‘Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn’.Born a slave in the town of Vicksburg, traded for a chestnut mare
Lord, he never spoke in anger though his load was hard to bear.Mama said: ‘Don’t go near that river’
‘Don’t be hanging around old Catfish John’
‘Come the morning, I’d always be there’
‘Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn’.Catfish John was a river hobo who lived and died by the river bed
Thinking back, I still remember I was proud to be his friend.Mama said: ‘Don’t go near that river’
‘Don’t be hanging around old Catfish John’
‘Come the morning, I’d always be there’
‘Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn’.Let me dream in another morning, to a time so long ago
When the sweet magnolia blossomed, cotton fields as white as snow.Mama said: ‘Don’t go near that river’
‘Don’t be hanging around old Catfish John’
‘Come the morning, I’d always be there’
‘Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn’.‘Come the morning, I’d always be there’
‘Walking in his footsteps in the sweet Delta dawn’.
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