I am curious if you can pick up, on the Internet radio, Spotify, or Sirius / XM, any of the older traditional country music, and especially the traditional as it is still performed by regional musicians and on small local stations in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky.
I stopped at a store in the NC mountains a few months ago, and the clerk was a middle-aged lady from Canada, but I could tell it was originally Ireland. She quickly revealed that she had come there on vacation and decided to stay, was a musician, and was enthralled with all the old folk music and instruments.
A smattering of old and new traditional, from Marion, Virginia, and Bristol (VA and TN).
with some of the early radio from Charlotte, Greenville, Asheville, Knoxville, thrown in...
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