April 9, 2013
With warmer evenings,
few campers, and spare time before dinner it was time to add music to the
office front porch. Playing at the store
provided us with a change in venue (from our camp site), new photo ops, and new
audience opportunities. The new audience
was Heather who owns Indian Creek Campground.
Heather was working the evening shift and we knew we had a captive
audience! “Let’s go!”
Taking the banjo and
guitar we headed to the rockers on the office front porch. The view and wood rockers are perfect for
old-time music. Why waste time?
The first few tunes were
old-time songs: Waterbound and Banjo Pickin’ Girl. Now both mention North Carolina and Heather
asked “Did you write these songs?” Unfortunately
not, but we had her attention as we explained the tune history. This was followed by a couple of fiddle
tunes, my original trash tune “Cleaning the Swales for You”, and then relevant Don
Grooms songs. We figured his Winnebago song was appropriate as
Heather owns both the campground and a Winnebago! Back
Roads suits our road, Bunches Creek Road.
We finished with a song about Don’s grandmother which shares so much
wisdom without preaching.
Never heard of Don
Grooms? Ask a Florida Folk
musician. He was born and raised in
Cherokee, NC but known for his work, teaching, music, and love of Florida.
Here are a few links documenting
Floridian’s appreciation of Don, a man with amazing wit, for more information:
Guess
I’ll leave you to your reading…
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