 Ladies and gentlemen the bell has rung. It is 12 noon and welcome to the hunger mountain co-op sponsored brown bag concert series It's every Thursday at 12 noon weather permitting unfortunately last week it got rained out and We missed out on a Nashville duo called the twang town paramours So they have a website if you want to check them out because unfortunately, we didn't have them here last week This week we are here in this beautiful sunshine. We want to thank Christ Church For allowing us to use this fantastic courtyard Next week is Green Mountain swing right here in the courtyard 12 noon on Thursday, but you're here right now, so Enjoy an hour of Dana and Susan Robinson Thank You Fred Happy to be here. Glad you're all here too in this beautiful beautiful day So yeah, let's just start off for the song. It's called the Asheville blues Asheville blues. I got the blues those Asheville blues Ain't got no got no shoot. Well the mountain's high to steep It's no place to park My SUV I got the blues Those Asheville blues those Asheville blues in Asheville for about 15 years and Just as it was getting just a little too gentrified. We thought you know, we're gonna move to Vermont back to Vermont where it is not So we're gonna do next for you song I wrote along the Ohio River one beautiful Sunday day much like this when The trees were putting carbon back onto their branches and trunks and roots This is kind of a song about our Inevitable shift to alternate energies Little kneel the grass Tyson inspired Song calls the is called the river flows on Coming around the band of the lazy blue Ohio Big long bar just making its way down Savvy with coal Sinks in it to the current Gonna keep the lights on this time Last night I saw the smoke dissolve into the moonlight Like the petals of a flower this reflected on Surface of the water and the cold kept coming steady as the hour River flows on changes come it goes on the greening leaves The way is a massive engine Building muscle in its branches Every breath of carbon that it takes There is so noses the sunlight flowing freely from waiting by our choices Head out to the conditions Changes come it is yesterday's abundance Possess a certain think above this river In the bosom of this place Lest we forget keeping the instruments in tune with this So we're good to sing a song In honor of the fabulous farmers market that happens here free Saturday The song was written by our friend Louie Collins Who grew up in Barry Barry? Louie was Working on a music curriculum for children and she was after an alphabet song and this one Came to her after visiting her local farmers market. So in the song we go through the alphabet. We go around the alphabet two times Two strolls around the farmers market. You kind of have to pay attention You never know when your favorite vegetable is gonna jump right out. That's a very singable chorus See how many you can find it's called farmers market a to z So nice to see you downtown here the last weekend the summit school put on their first annual Old-time on the onion fiddlers gathering up in at the onion river campground in the playing field There was lots of people there was fantastic time kids adults Everybody camping playing music all day long all day long and all night long, too And it wasn't just old-time music. It was all sorts all genres of traditional music Heard a lot of this there this weekend tunes like this one here That was a tune called Roscoe change keys. Oh unless you want to do a next song. We're going to Play as an old old traditional song They first brought to life to American consciousness in 1920s with the AP Carter and the Carter family singing this and then we've gotten to know it from In a more contemporary context thanks to the Cohen brothers and over where old brother where art now, but Dan Tominsky Really jazzed it up, which is kind of fun, but we found a 1947 recording of this Recorded a little radio station in Mount Erie, North Carolina by a gum by the name of Juanita Moore very obscure and We liked it a lot so we Kind of copied it and in the process of copying it it didn't sound like that anymore. So we're doing our own version here now We have our own version here of a man of constant sorrow. Hey, just curious. Do any of you kids play any musical instruments? You look like you're on yeah, you play let me guess. Do you play ukulele? You play violin. Oh you play ukulele. What do you play piano? cello Do you take lessons at the Monteverde school? Uh-huh school program. That's great. It's really nice schools have programs that can teach things like cello Just curious Here we go, man of constant sorrow. The sun is so hot Witten instruments. Thank you. Let's play an older old another old-time tune here This is a very southern kind of a southeast Virginia short tune Cuckoo tune I Could try to line you all up for a dance, but but the student is so crooked you might The students called five miles from town is not a traditional song very ukulele's and cellos knees, Virginia North Carolina was dark in kerchiefs The rosy rain beside her the song Fantasy the green back down. Don't you watching change? Well, sometimes you take it for granted beautiful Clean water and clean air we have here in this State of ours. I took a little just a couple weeks ago in a small plane these little like a antique Cessna or whatever it was and and it was really it flew from Cabot down to Rutland and it was amazing to see You know you think down here at ground level that there's houses and people everywhere and roads and cars and buildings But no, it's like Vermont seems like 97% just green and trees and Montpelier looks so small from the air So we do take it for granted how how good we have it here Sue and I were in touring and out west a couple years ago And we say Kata cool Must be getting hot We're in California and it was when the drought was still happening and Now they say that the drought is over in California right now, but they don't take it for granted They're this far from emergency all the time. So I wrote this during the drought and Though I can't really sing about a drought happening in out west right now. I can dedicate this song to the EPA Which I think could use our our support actually not for the kind of agenda they have now But for what the EPA really stands for So this is the song here. This is called John Muir's walking blues What you gonna do when the well runs dry? What you gonna do when the well runs dry? Commence to cry Hit the road and say Goodbye at the John at John Muir's walking blue What you gonna do when the rains don't come what you gonna do when the rains don't come Remember the year the old keys fled now. You've made the very same You got the John you were at John Muir's walking blue There was water in the ground and in the mountains high Now the valley sunk down and the snowpack is dry Cag is playing like Chinatown if you want your pastor's green You got to lay your money down You got the John I've got John Muir's walking mountains and valleys forever stay You can damn Hetch Hetchy. It'll do no good Still be thirsty and hungry at John Muir's walking blue You'll have the John know who John Muir is look him up Help found our national parks. You have somebody at least. Oh, we're gonna go to lead belly here the wellspring of HUD buddy I say HUD buddy HUD he led better You don't get too many Hutties these days. Do you? Not too many lead betters either Say that three times fast Little song here called poor Howard So we're gonna play a Couple tunes the first tune is called old greasy coat we learned from the playing of jimmy triplet and the second tune is called ways of the world You first I'll go first Free here this afternoon at least let's see Gonna do a road a song we wrote this on years ago It's about kind of finding home and in a sense of place Plies to how we feel about beating back here in the The bosom of Washington County. Did you chuckle the bosom of I make no qualifications when I say that quote me if you want Ashley is free to quote me on that It says it's kind of a love song to play this is called loose the ties It goes will you loose the ties that keep you from me now? Will you show me how to walk that way? It's the only song I get to play my harmonica on so by gum We're gonna do it you got to get some of those carbon fiber instruments that don't mind the sun All right loose the ties one two Will you loose the tie you show me how to walk that this rope has been kind Sights focused on the star and sister Ringing your to walk that before we uh end with this one last song here I I think we should give a little plug for our recordings if you if you have Enjoyed what you've heard this afternoon You can pick up cd I've even got a download card somewhere in there if you just want to be strictly digital, but cd sound pretty good there people have been forgetting how nice cds are this tactile thing with all those liner notes and information and song credits and all that good stuff to all the art The good stuff to look at and I want to thank my pillier alive I want to thank hunger mountain co-op for sponsoring this. I want to thank fred wilbur here and Yeah, thank you very much and ashley absolutely ashley. Thank you ashley from the bottom of our hearts It's really it's a really great thing all these thursday afternoons with music in the pocket park This is what this little park was made for him Beautiful little amphitheater sort of space shade underneath the tree. This is our this is our town. This is Shade for the musicians. I'll be working on shade for the musicians, too The song is very old maybe 500 years old and we we learned this from singing over in england But you may know this as well from maybe a children's book or just the song is called who killed cock robin I think the traditional interpretation or the At least maybe within the last couple hundred years is that this tells the story of Robin Hood's funeral and how robin hood was so well loved it took his entire community to bury him when he died So you hear all the different community members the fish and the crow All stepping up and saying it was I and taking part We also like to think of the song as basically all the community members participating and and for instance if you whether you vote or whether you don't don't vote It carries the same weight. So We'd like to think of it in those terms as well. So vote dammit Thanks again. Thanks for hanging out. Thanks everybody. Come on up and say hello And enjoy the rest of your afternoon beautiful beautiful day. We got a mailing list too. We play out and about see you again. I hope