I heard a top-notch bluegrass-style rendering of "The Moonshiner" this Saturday past.   It made total sense to hear it performed in this manner. We had taken the road up to Meadowgreen Park in Clay City to hear IIIrd Tyme Out.   They are superb - as good as it gets.

It was great watching them perform to a roomfull of Kentucky foothills folk. There wuz lots o' down-home humor, catcalling and fusses. As they introed the song, a bunch of folks were calling out that they'd fetch 'em some if they 'onted some.

The group sold out two shows. I was concerned that the dance floor, being jammed with the necessary extra seating, would leave out a critical element of the community's response to the music. Fortunately, when the musicians broke from Bluegrass into the style that people here call "old-time", a few old fellas elbowed their way to a little patch of concrete next to the concession stand and commenced to cloggin' with ease and skill and subtley. To me they looked like corn stalks or mature 'baccer leaf wavering on a breezy late-summer's day - the common man's majesty...

Yeeee- haaa!!