Sadie
I first heard this song when I got my copy of Doc and Merle Watson’s Watson Country CD. Well, then our niece and her husband had their second child and decided to name her Sadie Ruth.
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Rest in Peace, Mr. Watson
It’s a sad time as I start to write, having just read the news that one of my all-time guitar heroes, Doc Watson, has died. Like many of my generation, I first heard Doc on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s … Continue reading
The Ninety and Nine
When three adorable sheep ask you to sing their favorite song, how can you refuse?
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When I was about 16, a friend turned me on to an album by Goose Creek Symphony, Words of Earnest. One of the songs on that album stuck with me. It was a tune by the group’s leader, Charlie Gearheart, called The Gospel. … Continue reading
When We All Get to Heaven
It’s been fun to work this tune up for thumbpicking, and the song works really well on guitar. When We All Get to Heaven was written in 1898 and first appeared in Pentecostal Praises (Philadelphia: Hall-Mack, 1898). Eliza Hewitt penned the … Continue reading