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@TheBustyGamer No, Randy never was black--he's very, very Jewish. However, his singing style has always borrowed heavily from Southern speech rhythms. (Although he grew up in Los Angeles, he was born in New Orleans.)

"Black Mountain Rag" is actually an amalgam of the first half of Keith's "Black Mountain Blues" with the second half of his "Clinch Mountain Blues." According to Keith, another fiddler put the two half-tunes together because he couldn't play the second half of "Black Mountain Blues."

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I don't really understand why you called this "Machine 3" when, pretty obviously, it's "Vaseline Machine Gun" from the armadillo album. Is a puzzlement.

Ah yes, Blaze . . . magnificent wreck that he was.

Remarkable percussive piece . . . almost violent in its styling. Is this (and Hedges et al.) a recent direction for you, or something that's been going a while?

@ividelcuervodel97 Jon Lord did it by feeding his B-3 direct into a Marshall stack rather than through a Leslie speaker, as most B-3 players do.

Yes--your style makes it obvious that you picked it up from listening to Fahey rather than from Kottke. The two versions are quite distinct; Fahey's recording sounds more like a little cabbage-stacked American pulling a short consist through bayou country, while Kottke's is more like a high-wheel...

VERY interesting to compare this version of "I'll See You in My Dreams" to the one Chet laid down with Merle Travis on The Atkins-Travis Traveling Show (1974), a recording WELL worth searching out.

If that's really Clayton McMichen, you can still hear why it was such a blow to Gid Tanner when he left the Skillet Lickers. He was *that* good.

Be danged if they don't end up quoting "The Old Soldier's Joy" right there at the end.