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The darker the times, the more powerful the music. Keep on strummin'

Love Dolly and the message in this story and your comment. Staying tough💙

Michael, I enjoyed your performance here. AND I also loved the note in your description. (And of course I always love when you play the J-50)

Love Dolly & this song. Donna & I hope it makes the setlist in Brooklyn next weekend.

Love your singing, playing and song selection! Thanks for making my day!

Cool!

Fantastic vocals and guitar!

I love Lefty and Merle! Man this was awesome! Beautiful dounding guitar snd solo.

I had no idea that was a Dolly song. That was fantastic!

Hey Michael, Interesting the mellowish kinda bluesy 70's sound you gave to this one. It was more contemporary sounding to me, complex and beautifully crafted. I was wondering if you might sometime play that electric mandolin you've got there behind you? Your guitar sounded great, as ever. Maybe that was a viola, on the wall, but it looked something like a Breedlove mandolin. I'm learning the mandolin, myself, and I'm pretty obsessed with the sound of it. There aren't as many mandolin artists as guitarists, that I've found recorded with Adirondack-tradition, mountain-style music and folk ballads, and the like; so I've been listening to Mississipi John Hurt for that picking that's like a train wheel going round; and Elmore James, for his wonderful slide guitar,... to hear the sounds I like. Your voice often sounds to me like a mandolin made into a man; especially when you do the Adirondack-high mountain style of singing with the breaks in your voice and yodelish sounds. That's my favorite of your vocal stylings. I hope you'll treat us with some mando, if you get the yen....

Yeee haw. This one makes the floor bounce, and invites one to get to some dancin', against one's will! Expertly and authentically played and sung!... I'm glad you had the daisy shirt to keep things light. That was some serious mountain, dancing grief! It sounded like the protagonist must've been moving on alright, though, because everyone around him would've had to be dancing and swinging their gals around the room, if he could play like you play and sing!

Oooooh eeee. I want to dance a jig around a campfire and kick up my heels to this. You caught the bouncy fun of it, as well as the fascinating, technically surprising changes. Masterful, as usual. Thank you for taking the time, Michael. I hope you record absolutely everything you enjoy and learn to play. There's no one else who brings your decisiveness and responsiveness to these festivals of musicality! It's great to see you enjoy it, too. The house is coming down over that performance. Super fast, but still so melodically coherent and nuanced!

Thank you so much for carefully curating these arrangements for your Lonesome Fridays' sets. You play everything with such an astonishingly confident attack, I always feel that you've written it yourself and feel every bit of the meaning of it, with no apologies. Somehow, even with that signature strength in your approach, the plaintive sweetness always comes through. What a treat.

Love the low notes in the vocals and the bouncing beat. Cool lyrics, and groovin' Cajun/folk/back-country hybrid sound. Love it. I wish you could hear us all clap!

That was fun to hear you play that guitar (not the vintage plywood one with the nice scratchy ring", with this lonesome sounding song. Nice ironies in the lyrics. I just love to hear your voice. There's no one else that can touch you with this distinctly American sound.

Ferocious! Your voice and intonation is a dynamic living piece of American history. Michael, you are a treasure! I'm learning mandolin and love to watch your performances for inspiration, because your voice seems like what my mandolins would sound like, if they came to life and could sing to me, without the limitation of my capacity to use their strings....

Lefty is spinning in his grave. With joy.

awesome dude....

Allow my blasphemous statement please. This is better than Lefty left it.

Really, really good.

Thanks Michael great song and awesome cover!

Thank you this is awesome.

Awesome Michael!!!!!! Perfect.

Thanks Michael this is really good and enjoyable!!

Good lord this jam was cooking

Michael, it is super cool! Love the sound of this old guitar. Cheers!

Is the guitar tuned down a whole step? I was trying to play along and surprised to find it in true G despite the capo…

Superb!! Love your Lonesome Fridays-posts!

Awesome!

He sure knows how to get the best out of that crappy old guitar.

In 2008 I attended Nashcamp and had the pleasure of speaking with Roland White on several occasions. I wish I had recorded some of those conversations. Here's my video of Roland White singing Why You Been Gone So Long https:ruclips.net/video/w9xV93x2fw8/видео.html

I can't figure out how to DM you for this, Michael. Could you help?

This guy always has a different twist on songs. Works well with this tuning. Good job.

Shot in the dark, but is this guitar still available? Been looking for one

Do have the tabs or transcription available for sale?

SWEEET!

who else knew John Lennon played bluegrass??

I want to hear you do this in an old chapel with wonderful acoustics, Michael. Are you a church -goin' man?... or do you know a friendly pastor who'd open the doors of a local church to some down home tunes?

Love it. Thank you for authentically preserving and celebrating this American sound! Your artistry and skill are deeply enjoyed. I'm a beginner mandolin player, and this sound truly inspires. Your voice is like what I love about the sound of a mandolin.

Great playing and singing. Need to dive a little deeper into your artistworks lessons!

It’s all awesome but the break at 1:57. Thats fire. Great harmony guys.

Hey, it's the same tune as "Hold Whatcha Got, I'm Coming Home Baby"

Beyond excited for this album!!!

Pick it Boys!

Someone got a haircut. In fact got them ALL cut. 😅

Special stuff. Thanks for sharing!

To much trying to show off but it’s a good song. I guess I prefer the original Hank Snow 👍

Love this song!

That's as good as it gets. Why haven't the two of you made a record?

Holy shit, Jacob got a haircut!