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Thread #130976   Message #2950757
Posted By: Jayto
23-Jul-10 - 01:16 PM
Thread Name: I like this version of WayfaringStranger
Subject: RE: I like this version of WayfaringStranger
I really like your version Olddude. I do it alot more driving and many tell me more angry sounding than either version. I don't have a recording of me doing it but when I get one I will send it to you. I really like the way you do it. It reminds me more of how I heard it growing up. The area I am from is a really small area (population wise haha). When I was growing up my great uncle (who was more like my grandfather bc we were so close well still are) was a circuit preacher. On Sundays he would preach in 4 to 5 churches in Western Kentucky and Northern Tennessee. I would go with him on his weekly circuit stops. Alot of the churches were small, old, and poor. They didn't have pianos or anything and would sing unaccompanied. I remember them singing this song in one of the churches. It was built pre-Civil War and was the oldest of all the Churches he preached at. I remember being overwhelmed when they would sing this song. The drone harmonies they would but out and the minor feel to it. The Church itself mesmerized me. I remember sitting there thinking about all the history it had seen. I was only about 12 or maybe even younger so my mind drifted everytime I was there taking in all the sights and sounds. This song brings back alot of memories. It is funny I remember how spooky it felt in some ways but loving that feel. The song sounded so old to me and I was sitting in a building thinking about how it was there when all the battles of the Civil War was raging around it. To a kid a hundred plus years is forever. It was so hot in the summer I would sweat through my shirt while I was sitting in the pews and in the winter would shiver and not take my coat off. Oh I am rambling but this song brings back alot of memories.