#ulysses s grant brainrot strikes once again

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Been listening to southern country music, specifically to the Carter Family songs, and started to wonder if Thomas would like country music like from the Carter Family. Because honestly country music slaps genuinely, specially old ones.

YOU SEE IT TOO!!!!

"Will the Circle Be Unbroken" is the most Martha Jefferson jr. coded song I've ever listened to. The "mom is dead" lyrics is so perfectly vivid to illustrate the effect of Mrs. Jefferson's death on the family. If anyone has read "As I Lay Dying" by William Faulkner this song also has very strong vibes for that novel.

These country/folk songs are so unique and I love them so much. They feel like familial love, sweet iced tea, sitting on the porch in a rocking chair during a warm summer sunset, looking at sampler embroidery and other homely embroidering. This feels like the purest portion of Jefferson, the one that's beneath his cringe 18th-century and elite worldview, the part of him that believes in the goodness of humanity and it's ability to achieve greatness through honest work. It is somewhat representative of Democratic-Republican values that Jefferson cherished as this music is representative of satisfied living that escapes the fast-paced and worldly position that Federalists focused on.

I'm looking through their catalog and they have so many of my favorites I'm becoming hyperfocused :))))) sdiuvhsuidyfgbvsdu I can't believe they did Wildwood Flower, Keep on the Sunny Side, Weeping Willow, AND Storms are on the Ocean!!! Those are some of my favorites but I haven't listened to their covers before!

A lot of these songs are in my other history playlists. I actually have more of their songs on my Grant playlist 💀

This is the Jefferson playlist btw hehe