Re: "Oh Marry in Time"
I pine for the days when "hillbilly" musicians featured traditional songs in their repertoires. I have an interesting bluegrass version of Barbara Allen on a '60's Hylo Brown & the Timberliners LP, and the early Doc Watson recordings were sprinkled with songs from the same vein of tradition that Prof. Child and Cecil Sharp mined. Bill Monroe's Pretty Fair Maiden In the Garden is a version of John Riley, Banks of Claudy, and others around the "long absent sailor/broken token" theme.
There's so much out there to be found and reinvigorated; not necessary to compulsively write new ones, IMHO.
Allen Hopkins
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