Willard Gayheart and Friends, “At Home in the Blue Ridge”
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Galax, Virginia, is one of the most important musical communities in North America that you’ve never heard of. It’s at the heart of a part of the world where people gather in the barber shops (see ‘Pickin’ & Trimmin’ on YouTube, a profile of the Barbershop in Drexel, North Carolina) or the diners (sadly the Cook Shack in Union Grove North Carolina is closed now, but lives on in YouTube) and play music in ways that can quietly take your breath way with its joy and its ease.
Willard Gayheart and Friends, “At Home in the Blue Ridge”
Willard Gayheart and Friends, “At Home in the…
Willard Gayheart and Friends, “At Home in the Blue Ridge”
Galax, Virginia, is one of the most important musical communities in North America that you’ve never heard of. It’s at the heart of a part of the world where people gather in the barber shops (see ‘Pickin’ & Trimmin’ on YouTube, a profile of the Barbershop in Drexel, North Carolina) or the diners (sadly the Cook Shack in Union Grove North Carolina is closed now, but lives on in YouTube) and play music in ways that can quietly take your breath way with its joy and its ease.