The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8428   Message #52185
Posted By: Bill D
05-Jan-99 - 10:30 PM
Thread Name: I wish I'd written that (songs)
Subject: RE: I wish I'd written that.
yes, Mick..that one too....

*re-post from a thread last June, about the death of Helen Carter...I needed to add this..*

" ....in 1978, when Mother Maybelle died, I was at an open stage in Bethesda, MD, the night the news came out, and a fellow from Baltimore, Ron Penix, came over and got onstage and played "Will the Circle Be Unbroken"....on one of Maybelle's autoharps which he had acquired from her a few years previously!! There was not a dry eye in the place...I have an old autoharp of that style, and I shall be tuning it up and playing the song later today...perhaps others will join me in their own way"