This is part what I think of. Among other things.
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This is part what I think of. Among other things.
If I may intrude -- besides hearing my West Virginia grandparents since birth (we're Carters), my string-picking mania began about 55 years ago listening to, playing, and later building mountain dulcimers. To me, "high lonesome" means modal melodies, harmonies, drones, and dissonances. Put modal harmonies in falsetto over a nasal melody and you've got it!
Good to see you back again resurrecting old threads, mando-tech! You do realize that danmills (the guy you're responding to) wrote that statement 8 years before you joined here? That would be 14 years ago as of now ...
Mind you, I'm not complaining, happy to see these old threads and to read your replies, but it's a bit odd to see you responding to what folk wrote over a decade ago. At least danmills is still here, seems his last response to a thread here was only two days ago, so maybe he'll see your response.
To me the quintessential high lonesome sound came out of Ralph Stanley with his a cappella "Oh Death" ringing through the rafters of the middle Freight and Salvage - Just my experience in Berkeley, CA... but no one can argue if your heard it in person. So hunting, so high and lonesome after losing his brother Carter.
https://youtu.be/krIVsZP-YaY "O Death"
here is Ralph Stanley and his "mountain" music, sounding high and lonesome (not at the Freight though)
I know those chairs and Meyers Monitors - Freight and Salvage ("Middle Freight") Berkeley, CA
(I'm new to this kind of thing: How do I delete this? I should have selected "Replied with Quote" for context with "Elizabeth LaPrelle sings "Pretty Saro'" https://youtu.be/TSI-jMiagLw)