At least one of the articles I read mentioned that Uncle Dave played very, very little of what the author termed "Anglo-Saxon" music. I'm assuming he means the typical Scotch-Irish-influenced sound that's often associated with guys like Dock Boggs and Clarence Ashley. I like their music as well.

Uncle Dave, to me, just seems to embody much of what I like about the best of "popular" music. What I mean is that Uncle Dave took the people's music, style, slang, social attitudes and even religious persuasion and turned it into something that, as some theater people like to say, "played big". He took his personality, his playing ability, his musical and personal "quirks", so to speak, and sold them as a performing style.

Uncle Dave wasn't forced to get all homogenized and bland like even the best of today's so-called stars. They all wind up basically looking and sounding the same, genre by genre.

Uncle Dave Macon's music just reminds me of a time when the record men went out to find something that would sell (Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, and so many others), rather than inventing acts that get rammed down the throats of the public with no mercy.