Anyone who used to frequent the Sunday afternoon bluegrass jams at Jimmie's Woodlawn Tap (55th & Woodlawn, Chicago) in the late '60s and early '70s may remember fiddler Artie P. Crowder the "Old Man from the Mountain."

Artie P. was a one-time Tennessee State fiddle champion and always claimed to have had a hand in the writing of "You Are My Sunshine." He said Davis' chorus originally went, "...when skies are blue." His contribution was to suggest the word gray because it made more sense and rhymed with away.

We never had any way to substantiate his story but those close to him swore it was true.

      - Mark