"Amazing Grace" Performed by Doc Watson & Chris Thile
Garrison Keillor reminds us that today is John Newton's birthday — Amazing Grace.
I was blind but now I see; rest in peace, Doc.
Labels: Albion, America the Beautiful, Anglicanism, Folk Music, Passings, Seperated Brethren
2 Comments:
Second time today I heard a song with a dulcimer or dulcimer-esque instrument in it. I love that sound, and today, for some odd reason, its sound has been singularly moving.
Great stuff. Thanks for posting! Here's a NYC pub called "Doc Watson's" -
http://docwatsons.com/
And here's that other dulcimer-esque themed song: a remake of "The Boxer", with Jerry Douglas on the dobro with Mumford and Sons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQpUs1qNxMM
Oh, and speaking of NYC pubs . . . when are you coming to town?
Rest in peace, Doc Watson, one of the greatest evangelists for American roots music in the last 60 years. What a voice, what skill at flat-picking, what an ability to transmit the heritage of the mountains to an audience far broader than the Scots-Irish folk he came from in Deep Gap, North Carolina.
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