Senator Robert Byrd: Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1978 Recording)

[TruegrassBoy]

Robert Bird was an awesome man. He is sorely missed both by union people and those who love their folksy roots. Thank you for letting his wonderful fiddle playing live on.

[ralph5656]

If you think he was a bad senator then why don't you give it a run yourself. We are in desperate need of a GOOD senator. Racism is alive and well. Some just can't handle the fact Obama is president. Byrds' past didn't hurt his playing a bit. A talent that a lot wish they had. If he was still living he would still get my vote.

[ertel6]

Yeah, if only Byrd could have left his racism behind, and his US-destroying pork-barrel politics, he might have been remembered as a decent senator.

[vakeraj]

Senator Byrd, the king of pork barrel politics.

[amw1416]

he will be missed i live in the town he grew up in his death was felt by every body round these parts

[byan70]

WE MISS YOU

[ddll1996]

to brheas do that to your self he's the best west virginian ever RIP Senator Byrd

[liezerjane]

This album has just been reissued on CD by County Records. Google it, and you'll come up with the website. I don't think YouTube will let me give the url.

[Bearsharpe]

Your circle will not go unbroken kind Sir. West Virginians will step up.

[jayphill16]

WOW God Bless our Dear Senator Robert C. Byrd and Dang he can Tear up that Fiddle can't he!!!!

RIP

[Anomki]

Peace be with you Robert C. Byrd, welcome home.

[MOPEDER01]

You will be sorely missed by our country, Mr. Byrd. RIP

[WildeNotesMusic]

Extraordinary man, exceptional fiddler. Byrd worked tirelessly for what he believed. Fortunately, he was a man who continued learning and growing long into adulthood, and his beliefs and valued grew and evolved too.

He will be missed.

Thanks for sharing this wonderful bluegrass recording.

[classicvinylbiz]

@WildeNotesMusic Thanks for writing, and I am glad you enjoyed it. regards

[davenewcreator]

@WildeNotesMusic

I thought demacrats hate those southern hicks but I guess they make an execption for Byrd.

[WildeNotesMusic]

@davenewcreator We accept people for who they are now, not based on what they were several decades ago. Some people do change, learn and grow throughout their lives. Robert Byrd was a fine example of this.

[eddybaby58]

@davenewcreator DemOcrats ARE southern hicks, and city slickers, and Okies, and desert trash and everything else you can imagine, good and bad. We are people, and you shouldn't be surprised to find a West Virginia Democrat, considering they have a legacy of Unions and worker's struggles second to none.

[cory1thackston]

@davenewcreator west virginia isnt even a southern state... there is a difference between country and southern. West Virginia and Missouri basically make up that difference.

[brheas]

@makarovshooter Protip: Nobody cares, fuck off.

[makarovshooter]

In a 1947 letter, Byrd vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."



[makarovshooter]

"Just as a lot of young people these days join organizations they regret joining, I joined as a youth and regretted it later," he said. "I made a mistake."

But West Virginia Republicans discovered a letter Byrd had written to the imperial wizard of the KKK three years after he said he abandoned the group. In the letter, he wrote: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the Union."

[Leoncharlesblanc]

@makarovshooter

Here's the thing though. Was he a massive racist in '47? Yeah. No arguing that. But he grew up, he learned, he grew out of it. He tried to make amends, even felt guilt for filibustering the Civil Rights Act. People can change, and Byrd did, becoming a great American.

[emncaity]

@Leoncharlesblanc

Not only that, but turned his back on all the demented racists who supported him for all those years--as a senator from a Southern state, no less.

I've always said my dad gets more credit than I do for being as nonracist as he was; he grew up in rural Texas during and after the Depression, while I grew up in L.A. in a racially mixed neighborhood (Lynwood), just east of Watts and just north of Compton. Much, MUCH easier for me than it was for him. Same for Byrd.

[hippiedude64]

@makarovshooter People can change.

[hippiedude64]

@makarovshooter Former Ku Klux Klan member admitted his membership was a sad mistake and began voting for Civil Rights in 1968, even voting for Justice Sonya Sotomayor as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court, and endorsing Barack Obama as the first Black President of the U.S. He joined when he was only 24, at that time very popular in the South. He quit paying his dues and gave up membership after about a year. Ironically, it was a KKK member who encouraged him to run for office.

[TheGinaWV]

RIP Senator Byrd You will be missed...

[delise54]

God bless you Senator Byrd.