#Appalachain bluegrass

[sillycourtjester]

Fairy commentors where are you. "Do this to your ex's car if they cheat" influencers where are you. "Spam this form" videos where are you. Civilian reporters where are you. Home-style hackers where are you. Midwest folkpunks and Appalachian bluegrass folks where are you.

Gen Z this is literally your time. Haven't silly-stringed a house and always wanted to? The police stations and ICE trucks are there. Haven't slashed tired before but wanted to? Tesla's are there. Wanted to spam a form to ruin someone's day? Go to the govt.'s snitch site for DEI. Maybe report ICE on ICE's report page if you're feeling silly. Wanted to just generally be a nuisance? Follow ICE vehicles around on bikes with flags and speakers. Or use a camera to follow around a cop talking to a citizen. Want to make art? You can make all sorts of graffiti: paint, chalk, even moss. Not an artist? If you happen to have access to snow, grab them shovels and sleds and haul snow in front of govt. buildings.

Be annoying. Be petty. Be loud. Be what the greedy old-heads in power are afraid of.

We're Gen Z. Fuck it up.

Trump’s staff hides negative news from him to keep him happy. Musk was so affected by getting booed at Dave Chappelle's performance he had a mental breakdown. Their egos are horribly weak. This is how we defeat them—unyielding insults and mockery.

This is what we trained for. This is our moment. We need to get a lot louder and way more petty.

I believe in you.

[folk-enjoyer]

Jean Ritchie, The Mother of Folk

[miloway]

Amazing Gothic bluegrass ep from Laurel Hells Ramblers, I'm absolutely in love <3

[quimperblue]

Soooooooooooey! 👻🪕

[thehollar-witch]

If anyone wanted a playlist curated by my brain, here it is.

[lauraepartain]

Justin Hiltner has some great, great things in the works this year, and that's all we can say for now. In the meantime, here's a photograph from our shoot last year in the Blue Ridge Mountains 🖤

[abortionado]

do you like country music?

Sometimes, yeah!

I have an issue with the patriarchal, nationalistic skew a lot of the post-9/11 mainstream stuff took, but I like Appalachain folk, bluegrass, and a lot of female-fronted stuff

Country is such a broad genre that I feel like writing all of it off as like, disgusting (the way I see ppl do) is kind of classist almost

[deep-n-disorderly]

West Virginia, My Home by Hazel Dickens Performed by Hillbilly Gypsies

[folk-enjoyer]

Song of the day

do you want the history of your favorite folk song? dm me or submit an ask and I'll do a full rundown

"Polly Vaughn" The Dillards, 1963

"Polly Vaughn"/"Molly Bawn"/ "The Shooting of his Dear" is a traditional Irish folk song that first appeared in print in a 1765 chapbook, as "Molly Bawn"

This Version was first recorded in 1936 by Emma Dusenbur but I couldn't find a digitized version.

The earliest recording I could find was collected by Alan Lomax in 1937 and performed by Aunt Molly Jackson. It was later recorded and performed on the radio in America, the UK, and Canada during the 1940s and 1950s. I had a hard time finding these recordings but here is one from 1954 by Evelyn Skaggs in Arkansas, collected by Mary Celestia Parler. The Dillards version was recorded in 1963, and, in my opinion, is the best version. The pacing and energy of the performance really add to the tragedy and drama of the story. They deliver the horror of a young man accidentally killing his lover as he mistook her for a swan. Other versions are nice but the one by the Dillard's sounds like how the story feels.

Some other notable covers include those by Tia Blake Peter, Paul, and Mary Hedy West

[folk-enjoyer]

Doc Watson, 1965. Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.