For me it's the Scottish, Irish and English traditional music. Since I was a child, I always dog-eared all my music books to the pages with those tunes. I read somewhere that it is the modal sound in those old tunes. Whatever it is, I could recognize it before I had a name for it. Now I'm listening to dulcimer music, much of it from Appalachia, and I hear that same bagpipe drone that I love. I also love any tune that Ralph Vaughan Williams had anything to do with. Maybe somebody else can better articulate what these tunes all have in common.

As far as ancestry, I was always told that my father's family was Scotch-Irish.

Mary (in Kentucky via Texas & Arkansas)

PS LEJ, You said one time that you were kin to everybody in Rockcastle County...well, you may be kin to my husband by marriage!