LOL Wayne Henderson once pointed out how that was a big contrast to the way that the Boone cops used to run Doc off the streets for trying to make money busking, Was the concert in Legends, I have picked there?

Genre?

no, that's lofi hip hop

​@@emanuelneagu14*overrated

@@charlieboy1201 Thanks!

Yep

This in the last Of Us 😎

"I got a girl in valentine"

Nice backstory

Lay down your head Tom Dooley. Romanticize it all lol

Pretty polly

The way he says “it’s kind of a ballad” comes off rather glib. The whole point is to show that actions have consequences, even if the consequence is relatively light. If his intention is to sing a catchy song and downplay the story it’s actually kind of worthless.

Such murder ballads of women were much more common before penicillin, birth control, and abortion became legally available.

@@writerrad 100% true

love Gibby and the Buttholes!!

Both of these are versions of a song more widely known as "Bad Lee Brown." Watson is singing a version he learned from Clarence Ashley a banjoist and guitarist from the East Tennessee Western North Carolina area Watson came from who recorded this in the 1920s and introduced the song into the old time music revival in the late 1950s and the 1960s with Watson as an accompaniest.

Try to find anything by Jimmy Driftwood. He does a lot of Americana type songs, writes a lot of his own songs. He’s very good but lost to most people. T. Farmer

Johnny cash didn't write cocaine blues

2024 , still here 🤘

Fennec Besixdouze You misread my post. I said Little Sadie at least partially inspired "Cocaine blues", made famous by Johnny Cash.

Yes Bad Lee Brownis the most widely circulated version of the tune and the version of the tune that made its way into more popular Black and White Southern music, That version is what Johnnie Cash started calling "Cocaine Blues" probably for copyright reasons. Little Sadie seems to be a very localized version of the song known in the mountain areas of North Carolina and Kentucky usually with local town names thrown in,

Try Tony Rice. His version will make your blood run faster!

HAHA best comment i've read in a while :))))))

Matthew potter I like the female version of crooked still more doesnt mean i dont like doc playing.Crooked still is just more calming for my head. But i understand that different people with different mindset prefering different versions. I dont go around internet Being an ASS...and using words like "Out right idiotic" and throwing stupid analogies. You're entitled to your opinion, but I'll say a prayer for that thing behind your eyes and between your ears. :)

I recall playing a show a couple of decades back and having a lady chew out our guitar player for a murder ballad, saying that it condones spousal abuse. Studying murder ballads, I've found that: -If it is a man killing a woman, the song is usually first person and the guy is a scumbag, often named Willie, who has little or no reason for his act and ends spending his life in prison or hanging from a white oak tree. (Little Sadie, Banks Of The Ohio, Tom Dooley) -If it's a woman killing a man, it's usually third person and, though she's sometimes hanged or put in prison, she's usually a sympathetic person, since he "done her wrong". (Frankie And Albert/Johnnie, Miss Otis Regrets, Monongahela Sal) -If it's a guy killing another guy, it's third person and he's unsympathetic. "At twelve o'clock they killed him; we were glad to see him die." (Jesse James, Stack O'Lee) -There are fewer songs about women killing women, but some, like The Cruel Mother are about women murdering their children. A singer is playing a part. If I sing Little Sadie, it doesn't mean that I condone murder or spousal abuse any more than an actor who plays a bad guy in a movie or TV show does.

God Bless You Victoria! I used to live in Ashe County

Let me just ramble about computergames in a thread about one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.

I wish everyone hadnt begged for a sequel

When did this play during the game?

What?

I listened to it for years and I haven't noticed it was in the games before today

This man is a national treasure.

He's actually playing drop thumb claw hammer with his picks on, and switching back and forth between that and three finger. Not an easy feat!

Are you sure it's Merle playing the banjo? If it is, he uses the exact same licks as Doc uses when he plays it on guitar. I always assumed it was Doc's banjo playing.

Merle preferred to play finger picking style on both guitar and banjo. I dont think there is any recordings of him down picking. He was really fascinated with the finger style playing of Mississippi John Hurt. This isnt bluegrass style 3 finger picking with rolls, but two finger picking, thumb lead. On the other hand, it isnt the kind of 2 finger with clawhammer brushing that Doc played either. Of course, at least according to Earl Scruggs--and what did he know--his style of banjo was just adding a 3rd finger to 2 finger thumb lead.

@@PHJimY No this is a live recording that I think I purchased in 1970 and matches seeing them perform the tune once around then as well. This came from a live double album of Doc and Merle,

what's up with the line through your comment?

The Pizza Tapes version is my favorite.

well the version they used in tlou was croked still's

Who is Greg Graffin?