Name: Bringing Mary Home by Wade Settle
Duration: 3 min 42 s
Description: I learned this from a Bill Clifton album on the Nashville label.

I learned this from a Bill Clifton album on the Nashville label.

Bringing Mary Home

One of the most well-known old-time tunes around. I'm not sure, but think my first exposure came via the Hollow Rock String Band version from an old Smithsonian compilation (Folk Song America). Alan Jabbour of the HRSB (and later the Library of Congress and American Folklife Center)  recorded it from Henry Reed in 1967 (which version you can hear here http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/reed/hrpres04.html) and the HRSB's version served as a point of wide dissemination to the old-time enthusiasts of the 1970s. Aside from hearing it at jams, I always enjoyed the versions by Michelle Shocked (with the Hothouse Flowers) and Leftover Salmon as well.

While I've used the harp before on songs I've posted, I really wanted a tune where I could play the melody on it unaccompanied for the first go-round.  Second time through the mandolin, banjo, guitar and washboard come in, and a little later the whistle. It's a little choppy as usual and in retrospect a little countermelody at some point would probably have been effective. Oh well. Thanks for listening & reading.

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