Music

     "Music is the universal language of mankind." ~Longellow--Outre-Mer   

I can't live without music.  From a child on up to adulthood, music is the same to me as breathing.  I performed with my sister (banjo) and her husband (guitar) for 12 years, playing the upright bass and singing vocals, mostly lead and solo, but also harmony.  What fun and a joy that was, singing gospel and playing instrumental bluegrass music together.  Now, I mostly listen.     *Songs our band sang  

*I'll Fly Away and Will The Circle Be Unbroken     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8840iDi2Kg&feature=related          


A young Alison Krauss singing Bury Me Beneath the Willow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaYh-acuZbg&feature=related

My Father's Son: Ricky Skaggs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqGlxUMsjE&feature=related

Who Will Watch The Homeplace: Laurie Lewis  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDaEjoD0cqM


*Where the Soul Never Dies:  Tony Rice and Ricky Skaggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSc1205qlX8&feature=related
 

A Simple Life performed onstage by Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jxvPK8KJm8&feature=related          


*Daniel Prayed:  Patty Loveless & Ricky Skaggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98jNS8MmEqw&feature=related

You Say It Best When You Say Nothing At All: Alison Krauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bNfay6HiUo&feature=related

Now That I Found You:  Alison Krauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvKtxTsVoMo&feature=related

Simple Love:  Alison Krauss (Fred & Louisa's daughter)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L15VHpCdLwk&feature=related

High Lonesome Sound (Bill Monroe):  Vince Gill and Alison Krauss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxljaATk370&feature=related
          
*Why Me, Lord:  Kris Kristofferson  (includes story to why he wrote it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tA7E7pbUws&feature=related

 Val's Cabin:  Laurie Lewis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAX_oJAbtqQ&feature=related
          
Paul & Peter Walked:  Claire Lynch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V96WNvm1Ip8
          
*River of Jordan:  Ricky Skaggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtqPxvWSKw&feature=related
          
*Uncle Pen:  Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnI3b9aHV9Q&feature=related

          
*I sang the lady's version of Mule Skinner; sung here by Rhonda Vincenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FdlExSv6uc&feature=related

Recently the Dyck Arboretum in Hesston, just 5 miles down the road from us, had a concert with The Roys, a brother and sister up-and-coming international bluegrass band.  What a privilege to listen to their traditional bluegrass (I think they some more progressive stuff too.  Here's a song off You-Tube we enjoyed at the concert:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552Rzb-Mq-k&feature=related
Here's a video filmed at a real coal mine with their instruments:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Gi3GczLvE&feature=related