Sweet Appalachia

[the12thwoman]

Thanks for writing such a great song which exemplifies anyone having Appalachian blood running in their veins. I love this song the first time I heard it. God Bless you!

[cathead77]

@the12thwoman Thank you so very much. That's very encouraging to me.

[tav168]

I am from Appalachia and there is no place like home. Been all over the world and I could not wait to get back home. Now I am back and I will never leave again. Bury me beneath the Mountain Larual and I will be in heaven.

[wvufanngarner]

if your not mountain your just an inhabitant.

I can't stand the flatlands,

I'll make it back home sometime. Montani semper liberi

[cathead77]

@wvufanngarner Come on home!!

[wvufanngarner]

@cathead77 I plan on it some day, believe me. If ever asked where i'm from I never hesitate. I love West by god. Mountaineer fan stuck in ACC country.

[WVliberty]

our appalachia would be much better if it wasn't for outside exploitation

[countrytruck]

great song! Del Mccoury band polished it up, and did a great job, but I prefer this version! keep writing!

[cathead77]

Thanks, man!

[WandaDOneal]

Looks like the Old Bluestone in your video. It's right down over my mountain,where I now spend the summer.

[cathead77]

Wanda, I watched and didn't see any Bluestone pictures but there are a few of New River. Maybe that was it. Thank you very much for watching.

[WandaDOneal]

Hi, I love this. I was born in Mercer County,but moved away for years. Bought s place up in Indian Meadows three years ago. I can't wait until April to go back.We can only go up there from April until Oct. It's a summer place.I miss West Virginia.

[cathead77]

Thank you very much, Wanda.

[dongreen69]

really GOOD !!! thanks for make'n me even more home sick...!pulaski co. va boy way to far from home.......

[cathead77]

Thanks for watching, Don.

[coalminerkid]

Hi there.I was born and raised in McDowell County.Your songs have a profound effect on my heart.You blow my mind away with these heartfelt words.Everything you write about is so true.Keep the great work going.

[cathead77]

Thank you so very much for the encouragement.

[hannahrae2]

wow! Alan I am so impressed! As usual you have really outdone yourself. I am sharing your beautiful music with friends and family here in SC and they love you and the gang! Please tell Jessi I miss talking to her. I love you all! Your music really makes me miss home!!

[cathead77]

Will do. Thank you so very much. That's Jessi singing on this song with me.

[cathead77]

By the way, who might I say sent the message?

[cathead77]

YouTube has said that this video contains copyrighted material. Well, I am the one and only writer of this song. Do I not have the right to post my own song?

[wvwkndr79s]

I think I saw a copywrite mark on the little deer's nose! Ha. Ha.

[cathead77]

Could be.....haha.

[wvwkndr79s]

I guess I bettr lurn to spel copyright. LOL

[kimberlysongwriter]

This is beautiful Cathead! You are such a talent, just as your beautiful daughter, Stacy Grubb! I need to scan my old pictures of the mountains and put them on my video of Oh Appalachia.  Yours is some Great stuff!!

[cathead77]

Kimberly, you are so kind. Thank you so much.

[sjackson198788]

I love it-as usual :)

[cathead77]

Thank you very much.

[MidwayMountaineers]

Great song, cool pics

[cathead77]

Thanks.

[lps45s8tracks]

Congrats on taking this to another level Alan.Your You Tube Bro.~(;Yrral Mallik;)

P.S. Imagine Del McCoury wanting to do your song.Great minds think alike.

[jennymaepearl]

LOVE this music and the pics make my heart homesick. where can I get a CD?

[dstrent]

Cat, thanks for showing the true side of the country there. People need to know.

[cathead77]

Thanks for watching!!

[n2pickn]

This is a killer song!!!!!

Your photography really shows your pride! Thanks for posting!

[cathead77]

Thank you so very much.

[kentuckyredbone]

I'd like to see more Appalachian people posting and taking pride in their Heritage! My Dads side come from the Mountains and I lived in Knott county Kentucky for a short time. South Eastern KY has some of the prettiest country I've ever seen.

[cathead77]

Thanks for watching and for the comments.

[yAyAmEeHuG]

hmm i heard the appalachai mountians have crazy people that are canibals i know that is a nieve thing to say but is it true?

[cathead77]

Yes. But we don't eat clowns. They taste funny........

[yAyAmEeHuG]

lol yes yes i knew that already lol thnx for not being rude with me sarcasm is always fun. may Allah bless you. ^_^ beautiful music btw. i watched some videos.

[yAyAmEeHuG]

um whats your point i didnt ask where this was.................dumbass!

[50peacegirl]

Great Pictures!! Loved your Song!! I wished I lived in Beautiful Appalachia. Maybe someday.

[cathead77]

Thank you. I wouldn't live anywhere else.....

[yAyAmEeHuG]

i want a wealthy country man to do out door stuff with and have lots of country taught kids lol <seriously, (//_-)

[cathead77]

Thanks for watching.....

[jen6425]

This is beautiful! I logged in trying to find out more about my father's home - Caretta, WVa. He is drifiting away from us with alzheimer's and dementia and I wanted to find something he would remember. Thank you for sharing!

[cathead77]

Thank you so very much.

[poikonen01]

Great music, great slideshow.  Reminds me of home.

[cathead77]

Thanks, man!

[shiiayaya]

I'm from Letcher County and I've lived abroad for over 7 years now.  But I have to say I only have one HOME and thats appalachia. I miss the mountains of my childhood so much sometimes, that it hurts to think of the memories I have.

[cathead77]

I know what you mean. I get those same "hurting" feelings when I think of my wonderful childhood when things were simple here in the mountains. Thank you for watching my video.

[MidWestSpy]

Awesome pics. I'd love to visit that part of the country but I doubt they welcome many Muslims down there.

3:06 cool rainbow origin. Ive never seen one

[cathead77]

You'd be welcome. Thanks for watching.

[IRONxMONKEY]

Beautiful country! I went to Appalchaia for the first time to visit my wife's grandmother in Clay County, KY..Some of the kindest people I've ever met in my life. Great slideshow

[dreamlady09]

theres no place like home...

[cathead77]

Thank you for watching.

[DPKFOUR7]

Appalachia encompasses several states, yet its one people.

[cathead77]

You are so right. Thanks for watching.

[MSfeller]

Beautiful, just plain beautiful!

[cathead77]

Thank you so very much.

[kentuckyredbone]

I used to live in South Eastern Kentucky and this makes me miss it even more!

[cathead77]

Thank you for watching.

[bulbheadmyass]

The images and the music is magnificent.

[1phyllishall]

Hey Alan....how's you doing? Did yu take any of these photos from the old Ieager road, near the old Stud Farm in Roderfield? It sure looks like some of it. Sheesh...I sometimes miss home so bad.........

[cathead77]

As a matter of fact, I did. There were at least 5 pictures from that road most notably the rock cliff. The small creek branch was also on that road. Thanks for watching.

[1phyllishall]

Thought so. I walked it far too many times to not recognize it. Wonderful vieo. Thanks for making and posting it.

[ArchieMeadies]

Hey Alan, you're the Man! This is great music and a really nice pictorial accompaniment. You clearly have the eye of an artist as well as the ears and soul.

[cathead77]

Thanks for watching and the kind words.

[ScrappyNana]

Been watching your videos tonight and love this one especially. I've sent the link to everyone I know :)

Now I have to go look and see if y'all sell a CD!

[cathead77]

Thanks for watching. Our CD is titled, Sweet Appalachia.

[wvlavender]

WV is quickly being destroyed by mountain top removal, this docomentation of WV nature, music, and way of life, will be valued when WV is nothing but a vast wasteland and a large amount of usa is suffering from the deforestation, weather changes, posioning of the few last bits of clean water. :(

[wvlavender]

Love the music, this is what WV sounds like at dusk, when the coyotes call, wild cats groan, and the hearts of man celebrate the end of another day close to almost heaven.

[midsummernight50]

Hi! I am from Canada and love your music and your country.

[cathead77]

Thanks a bushel for watching!

[rountreedon]

really enjoy all the vids you guys have out - will keep checking for more, I know you've got a lot more we haven't heard

beautiful song

[cathead77]

Thanks to you for watching and for the encouragement.

[stacywv]

Hey, I didn't even know this was here! This is really great. It would be neat to have one that takes you through all the four seasons of Appalachia :). I've got some great winter shots (even though winter sucks) if you ever want to use them. Adding in some of your old family pics from when you were a kid (I'm thinking right now of those from where y'all were all playing in that creek) would be neat, too! But this is a great pictoral of the beauty in which we live that *is* West Virginia.

[GuitaristInProgress]

Wow, that's haunting. Thanks for posting this.

[ghanlon]

enjoyed the picture tour alan, as well as the great song.

[2ndgeneration]

Good stuff there Alan.

[cathead77]

Thanks a bushel.

[jefferyb304]

Fine work Alan