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The Del McCoury Band & The Chieftains Rain And Snow (Live) Down the Old Plank Road The Nashville Sessions CD
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This song made the hair on my neck stand up being Scotch-Irish I love it. I am a huge Del fan been for years!!! @ WanderingMidget >> You are correct !!!!!!!
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@WanderingMidget “I was born, raised, and still live in eastern Kentucky.” So you don’t do much Wandering then?
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love this songggggg
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This is my roots. My family, both the German & Scot-Irish is recorded as settling in the Smokey Mountains, Tennessee in 1720.
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I thought when first hearing this that it was Lonnie Donegan singing, father of skiffle in the U.K. in the 50′s.
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@sanjuancb In the appalachians it’s called Scotch-Irish
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@WanderingMidget Your forgetting other areas where bluegrass also comes from. East Tennessee Western NC Virginia all have roots in bluegrass
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Worlds collide….
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@WanderingMidget Scots-Irish…Scotch is a drink.
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Awesomeness!
Thanks from a Canadian fan.
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This is one of my family’s FAVORITE songs – it is TrueBlueGrass and Classic Irish! Howisthat? Cause BlueGrass is just the grand child of Irish/Scottish ballads & reels. Nuff said! (As wanderingmidget knows – if it’s in your blood it doesn’t take any explaining – the words & music flow like they were born in you.)
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Just to mention to those mentioning the familiarity of Rain and Snow -
the melody is the same as Reuben/Reuben’s train, which probably goes back to the post American civil war era. If it is an Appalachian tune, as it clearly it, then it likely has significant Irish influence.
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@ctw1966 haha no worries bud. its k
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@mujiel Nobody; sorry, just a matter of personal taste.
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@ctw1966 who pissed in your cheerios
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so cool !! love this
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Really? I am from the mountains of North Carolina and I’ve never seen or heard of this Irish thing you speak of. For that matter bluegrass is a foreign thing to us.
It’s true Bill Monroe came from Kentucky, but the Irish/Bluegrass music in your hills was here all along. Where do you think Earl Scruggs is from? You know, the guy that made Big Mon’s band sound like bluegrass. He actually invented the Scruggs way of playing a banjo, You know instead of the clawhammer style
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I’m sorry, but the Dead are lame.
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THANK you.
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what you said.
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Some of you are saying that bluegrass bands aren’t familiar with reels? You’ve got to be kidding me. Bluegrass music comes from eastern Kentucky mainly. Most people in eastern Kentucky are of Scotch-Irish descent. The same reels are used in bluegrass because the musicians are Irish. I can listen to plenty of Irish folk songs and know nearly every word, with a few variations, because the songs were brought to America and because I was born, raised, and still live in eastern Kentucky.
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DMB is off the charts….
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Indeed…. Folkmusic all around the World.. fit together
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yanks have blue grass, irish have green grass, so i guess this is aqua grass… a beautiful colour and a perfect sound.. i like.
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Incredible.
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