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- Mar 3, 2013
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When I was a small child living with my grandfather in the mountains of SW Va, there was only the radio - and he listened to WCKY in Cincinnati - Bluegrass and Gospel then.
Rank Strangers, by the Stanley Brothers (1950) was his favorite song. He had the 78 of this, and played it over and over. He was a WWI navy veteran, had been all over the world, and covered front and back by tattoos - Battleship on his chest, and battleship on his back mostly a blur by then, and box upon box of pictures. I wish he were here today so that I could talk to him. He passed while I was in Vietnam.
And, I have to say that Rank Strangers is my favorite song out of some 5,000 favorites....
Credits for Rank Stranger are given to Albert E. Brumley.
However, Brumley is noted to have taken historical songs and documented as his own writings. In the early 20th Century, there were many who did this, for example the Carter Family - they traveled and adopted songs from the mountains and isolated areas. Many of the songs came from the immigrants, with some dating back to Shakespearean times.
Rank Strangers To Me (Albert E. Brumley)
My personal feelings is that Rank Stranger sounds like the times following the Civil War in the South, when our world was destroyed.
But then that is only me.....
Rank Strangers, by the Stanley Brothers (1950) was his favorite song. He had the 78 of this, and played it over and over. He was a WWI navy veteran, had been all over the world, and covered front and back by tattoos - Battleship on his chest, and battleship on his back mostly a blur by then, and box upon box of pictures. I wish he were here today so that I could talk to him. He passed while I was in Vietnam.
And, I have to say that Rank Strangers is my favorite song out of some 5,000 favorites....
Credits for Rank Stranger are given to Albert E. Brumley.
However, Brumley is noted to have taken historical songs and documented as his own writings. In the early 20th Century, there were many who did this, for example the Carter Family - they traveled and adopted songs from the mountains and isolated areas. Many of the songs came from the immigrants, with some dating back to Shakespearean times.
Rank Strangers To Me (Albert E. Brumley)
My personal feelings is that Rank Stranger sounds like the times following the Civil War in the South, when our world was destroyed.
But then that is only me.....
