Your birthday fiddle filled the air In nineteen twenty-five, Your broadcast sent the signal out Country is alive, With iron wills and steel guitars They traveled to your door, From orange blossom country To the wide Pacific shore.   Your grand ole walls Se …

Back in nineteen seventy With music-making schemes, A group of friends put up a barn From broken boards and dreams, The word spread like a forest fire To every house and farm, There's bluegrass music cookin' in The Everetts' Music Barn.   Off Stonecypher R …

You don't need to take those drugs, Just take a shot of Flatt & Scruggs, When your spirits are running low Try a little Bill Monroe, Pour them in with all the others And add a dash of Stanley Brothers.   Stir it all up, Drink it all down, Cool your tem …

I remember grandpa Jacob here in northern Indiana Mending fences while the wind blew a low mournful sound, As the freezing rain blew past him, I just shook my head and asked him Don’t these hard-living winters ever get your spirits down?   He said, These h …

Time will never wash away The sweet dreams Patsy cried, Or tear apart the cheatin' heart That tore Hank up inside, Like all the rest who played their songs On midday music shows, They carved their notch in history On country radio.   From the Louisiana Hay …

The other night I dreamed I died And left this life so dear, I knocked upon those pearly gates And called out loud and clear, Is there bluegrass in heaven? Are there festivals to see? Can I hear that lonesome fiddle Like I did in Tennessee?   Is there blue …

The tender seeds of music Carried from the British Isles, Sailed far across the ocean And lay dormant for awhile, Then rising in a fertile field Of Appalachian ground, Those seeds began to grow With a high and lonesome sound.   Back in the day When that fi …