After losing Jeff Austin, seeing billy cover “sorrow is a highway” made me tear up. All his covers are awesome, direwolf and willing we’re awesome coveres from that show too
Damn I’ll have to check out that Austin cover. He does black clouds from SCI too.
One of my favorite albums of all time. Managed to stay in regular rotation ever since I was in middle school, and I still love it just as much as I did back then.
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Hartford is def. one of the GOAT
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100%. Probably my favorite song writer in the bluegrass world, and that’s saying a lot
Been to bluegrass festivals and always asked the real, true, and old diehards what they dug the most. Answer was almost always Hartford.
He’s quintessentially, musically, and culturally, rich for bluegrass
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He definitely had more of a sing/songwriter approach to his music. You can almost compare him more to Bob Dylan and John Prine than you can the more traditional straight up bluegrass cats.
For sure. Definitely not the full picture but is a tremendous songwriter
Love it!
RIP Tony Rice
Fuuuuck
One of the GOATs. RIP.
The story behind Tony Rice’s Martin is really cool.
Damn, that is a tough loss. Cant think of many guitarists from the last 40+ years who have changed the way people play quite like Tony.
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one more for the GOAT…
Ouch…RIP 
TIL that Dan Tyminski wrote the version of Man of Constant Sorrow that appeared in O Brother Where Art Thou
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He also recorded the vocals for Clooney’s character.
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