Here including ansi McClain Muriel Anderson and David hole down in the vault will hear the latest tune that has struck Mark Jones as fancy and guest host already Atwater will explain why we call some songs crooked all that and more this week when it was our columns radio. Folk music is often thought of as being either dark and serious or naive and childish Not so with this collection of artists and songs we've been really lucky here at the Ozark folk center to have been visited by some incredibly clever songwriters and this week we'll explore the lighter side of folk last year we had a visit from Tennessee author and songwriter ansi McLean as he brings his unique blend of music and humor with heart to the stage including his own life observations social commentary and imaginary sponsors from his home town trailer park of Pine View Heights Here's ansi. Me. It's not just fall. Back. On my. Home. Be that way. Your sweet. Mean love you. Back to me. Oh it was the elbows out there now come on. If I wasn't so medicated. Pack my bag and go. But every time my ghetto leaves the room spins rooms and gets passed. Down. This goes away. And I'm back inside my brain where. Everybody now. Because not just mine. But that. Was around me. Oh you guys are quick. Don't. Like me that. Your. View but everybody. Always just me appears. The world is warming. And. Forgot where. And when this Prozac everybody now. Not just my. But found. Around it would be. Good. To. Be that way. With everybody. Me. Thanks. That was AC McLean with this song Prozac made me stay. You may recall that on one of our past shows we featured an Arkansas band called said Daddy based in the Ozark resort town of Eureka Springs Arkansas 2 ladies who are part of that band have also been barnstorming as a duo called the Buffalo gas here Milissa Carper and Rebecca Patrick with a song that Melissa wrote about the love for a cherished vehicle that we all have probably felt at some time in our lives the Buffalo Gals with the old Chevy van. Man who comes around that was Bill in the bells playing the man who comes around a song that shows us that they weren't so prudish with music back in the day we visited several times over the last few years by the amazingly talented guitarist Muriel Anderson a protege of the late great Chet Atkins Muriel is the 1st woman to have won the national fingerstyle guitar championship not only is she a master on guitar in the harp guitar she's a fine singer and plays many different styles of music theory as music has taken her all around the world this next song addresses her visit to detain. I just suddenly wired to. The 1st ever International. Song in a language. That. Anyone a translation of this money here in. Mind saying what he's. Done from the 1st stone my one. Year old to this it. Goes by nearly died. The day they tried. To make me. Sing it sounds old again but hey I no dummy I knew nobody. Down to 5 to one by. That I was right. No like. The sun want. To Let. Down I lose my cum. I make. Like the leaves. Go oh no just like that. Right on the back. To see. You on the good news the sun dance games. With brightest. Toys are you out in disgrace. Lose lunch and face. Like. Real life. Your key sushi performed by world class guitarist Miri. Anderson from Nashville Tennessee our next humorous song comes from 2 big names in the old time music world David hole and Josh Goforth David Holt who hails from Asheville North Carolina has spent a lifetime learning songs and tunes from Appalachian old timers Josh Goforth was still in grade school when he 1st met David and as fate would have it they're now working as a duo all these years later both multi instrumentalists they put on a great show here at the Ozark folks center Let's listen to one of their songs. My last meal performed by North Carolinians David hole and Josh Goforth we have lots more humorous songs for you in this week's show after this break come with me down of the vault for a visit with my old friend Mark Jones this is Ozark Highlands radio support for k u a r comes from the person store in the so many Aber hood of Little Rock as he tells the story of the modern woman through the person its contents and the museum shop sells high quality and highly unusual handbags as well as eclectic handmade jewelry and accessories now an exhibit is hats and pins Bammers hats an exquisite had pins matching ones had to one shoes may seem long gone but there's something to be said for a hat that transforms an outfit to an ensemble has the person museum dot com. Coming up next time I'm from l b and be on their new releases in community excellent Josie any recent acquisitions and those are all the constant information from l.b. And beyond Saturday 8 pm. Then. Your listeners supported rhythm and news station. Welcome back those are columns radio as you know every week about this time I go down to the vault for a visit with my buddy Mark Jones I'm standing at the door right now let's go. Hello Mark hello I thought you might be down here I use the laying around I heard some good singing coming from down here was a you know. I remember. Get to know him as well as to lie to. Can I through your and now you know Rory is very popular family name just all around here some of the 1st settlers in this country were receipts for a a lot more out of the boy assured on the very 1st folk festival for Jose 1940 moron and Canada is. Saying you're good and harmonica ploy or and also he's taken no good photographs that have come here and there they're older photographs and more than they were scary what was he saying it when I heard that a minute ago in them time you know I'd like to hear that again all right in the past. Where this is. And you should know. a great high tenor voice doesn't he when I 1st heard that I thought it was a woman saying and then I realize it's just a good Ohio town or yeah it is he does a great job it's a good song to get Mark thanks so much just great to hear them fine day I'll see you next week. Let's get back to more humorous songs that we've recorded on our stage here in Mountain View Arkansas without a doubt one of the funniest performers we've had here is the irreverent banjo player and songwriter from Nashville Tennessee Mike Snyder My gets going with his hilarious original songs and stories he has people rolling in the aisles besides being really funny though he's a 1st rate musician and has assembled a backup band without equal Here's one of my songs we recorded a couple of years ago at our annual tribute to Grandpa Jones we're going to do this so that has put us for a we are today. This so had to charge it number 100 with an anchor. And left call Mark That was Stone County Arkansas his native son Jimmy driftwood singing about a very unfortunate man Jimmy's father Neil Morris was a local singer and Jimi learned to play the guitar at a young age on his grandfather's homemade instrument driftwood noted that its neck was made from a fence rail its size from an old ox yoke and the bottom from the headboard of his grandmother's bed this instrument produced a pleasant distinctive residence sound pay attention to the lyrics of this next song of Jimi drift towards it all makes sense sort of. And there's a song about a young girl about wanting to get married. And you have to listen back off the tail when the singer is the young girl. And when the Sanger is the father who objects to the marriage. And at last the mother gets into the act add the name of the song is the mixed up family. And it's kind of a bad sell now goes something like this not real bad no fight for our words. How dare father get off your lazy bones. Tomorrow I have a model of our ballet Jones daughter oh dear daughter you don't have to find another you cannot marry and then a jones for he is your half brother. And that's just broke the poor girl's heart and I couldn't get our to go anywhere for alone time. With Bonnie or girlfriend daughter go to Sunday school one day and she came back home about 6 months saying and some like this is Father oh dear father I hope that you won't catch tomorrow I will now. John. Dollar Oh do. You want to have to find another you're down a job or he is your half brother or. Her heart was broken apart on certain huge often and heart of the 2nd time and she just wore it she'd never never never have anything to do with me and as long as she was. But funny your girlfriend came over to say or if they asked that out to you now and as new. Next Sunday mornin bright and early I she was from Scotland. Next Sunday mornin bride let's get on Arrow. I'm out. Way down in valley. Where your pappy. Ain't never been. Well I did in this time in about a year she came back saying it's not like this there oh dear father I hope that you won't be around tomorrow on we are mad mind of our jam and. Their daughter you don't have to find another you cannot marry that Jimmy for he is your half brother well this time she went straight to her mother and saying something like this. Their mother my poor heart is gone. And every boy I love turns out to be my father's. Well. The mother who knew all the law of the old man was. Because she had been living with him. 40 years. She took a big deal post no. And looked across the cabin where the old man was a Sat no nail kag. Hand. And she's being loud. Oh dear daughter. Your found. No San for you no can tell you that a. Folks very very much well you've been listening to the national based hog slop string band playing the song Johnson's mule after this short break we'll hear from guest host Aubrey Atwater about unmetered and crooked songs you're listening to Ozark Highlands radio support for k u a r comes from in American Science Museum in Hot Springs celebrating the season with the 20th annual Taste of the holidays at 6 pm Thursday Nov 21st the annual event benefits the museum's year round educational programming and include food and drink from nearly 30 vendors hands on science a silent auction and in any will college scholarship presentation taste of the holidays with minimal science museum November 21st details admit American Museum dot org. I'm writing a for Sat next time on McKinney USA had someone I was 9 years old when he left Alsace now 20 years later he's forced to return to confront the family and country he left behind that's next time on the. Sunday morning at 6 am Monday night at 989 point one k u a r. Welcome back to Ozark Highlands radio the last few weeks we've been hearing folklore segments from guest host Aubrey Atwater a wonderful step dancer and musician from the state of Rhode Island here she is for this week's guest host segment. A on. How do you do with tapping your feet to that one that was it is better farther on performed by the laid out a Latin fiddler and singer Uncle Charlie Osborne a century and more ago when scholars from boss came into the mountains of Appalachia in the Ozarks to collect folk music some felt compelled to correct sensor or clean up the music they found transcribing it on paid for and putting it in the box of other more standard and formally educated genres as an aside and in defense of any of us we do view the world through our own lenses and can't help but change songs lyrics and melodies but as it turns out some songs and folk music do not adhere to strict time signatures or organization of beats and measures either because that's how the songs are or because they morphed into changed through oral transmission in time and individual players unaccompanied unmetered ballads in religious songs are perfect examples of music where you cannot for the life of you steadily keep the beat here is 7th Generation ballad singer Sheila Kay Adams from Madison County North Carolina singing Little Margaret in 1902 little Margaret. Comb and back. So. The way to worry a man is you may rag not. She threw down her. Threw back. And bit in fact and check this out beloved Irish song the Spanish lady as sung by Sor singer Frank Carney and I read a lot of. Them in the. About. The number 9. My husband Elwood and I sing this song as well and while our version is not unmetered the time signature changes throughout I'll count out a little bit out for you 12345612341234123456123412341234123412345612341234 there are also crooked dance tunes square dance music by definition is formulaic so that both collar and dancers know just where they are in the music the standard dance tune has 2 parts a and b. Each 8 measures long and each repeated for a pattern when there is an exception to this rule the color and dancers to. Anneli know ahead of time and there may even be a special dance for the cricket tune here is clinch mountain back step composed and popularized by bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley listen carefully for the extra half measure in the be part of an if we don't count it out we are so used to hearing aid measure segments in American music that we intuitively or unconsciously notice the HCA. Our last. Hour our hour our ass . And finally a little bit of bright morning stars from well a lot although this unmetered American religious song has been arranged here with single long beats on the Native American drum he still get a strong sense of free form singing a song partly in Cherokee the rendition is a beautiful reminder of the origins of cricket and an reader of music in America has native and African roots as well. Thanks Aubrey if you ever get an opportunity to see a live show by Nashville Tennessee humorist author and songwriter and see McLean don't pass it up his he includes both humorous and serious songs in his shows this tightrope walk between humor and heart that makes him a true original when as he did a show here it was accompanied by a slide show of his lovely home in the pines you Heights trailer park as well as slides of his imaginary sponsors like fireworks Here's a song he wrote about his happy home at times you heights. See I didn't even have to coach you. Your good here in the Ozarks. Ok some of you are lagging so we're slowing down a little bit to get. There. It's nice. All right. She had her eyebrows Time view high. From an entire new high. That's cool as a person of course I think that's plenty of clap and thank you guys very. Young right in there very you know you're going to go the whole song words in the air that. I was raised in that American made single wide mobile home given a man because. There I was looking at the world through the bay window of a. Single wide trailer we lived in 3 trailer parks and one trailer court although I never understood the distinction. Although a trailer court sounds like a place where bad trailers go to be judged. But there I was looking at the world and started writing as I got old enough to hold a pen and start figure in life out a little bit and I started making up songs. Here I am sharing my music across this great nation sometimes into Europe and Canada. Or I want to lead America can you imagine. Neighborhoods where there are homes on wheels. This place is so big it's so vast it's so diverse. That's what. We had our rugged pioneers crossing our fruited plains in search of their own Nirvana. And their covered wagons putting all their belongings in those covered wagons and packing their kids up and say All right we're moving we're moving across the plain. As America evolved. So did the covered wagon. Called Mobile Homes for our visa now these little vehicles collect in communities called. Trailer park. I was a knock kneed schoolboy I couldn't have been over the night. When I last saw or after recess in the lines my. Love at 1st sight sounds corny I guess without looking at any gunny sack. Oh yeah I. Miss having a nasty. I remember. A time I was a cicadas and the spear grb I sit in. The tree the smell of water riding on them. Yeah those were the happiest times. Time do you find. That was full moon nights and find you heart's in original song by n.c. McLean. Blind boy Paxton is an amazing fellow Paxton style draws from American blues and jazz music before World War 2 and was influenced by fast. Waller and Blind Lemon Jefferson your own is on our stage here at the center has a relaxed and friendly style makes it seem as though he's giving a private concert in your living room he's equally adept at guitar banjo fiddle piano you name it here's your run on the guitar with one of my favorites. I want to go guys. That. Have made my. Check out to him. By myself. For my looks. And all fours in fine. And I'm going out. Last night and yes. There's. Nothing make you feel low when there are no woman to. Hang the women of laughing ha to me. This is a serious affair for. Some uses of the get away with her. Song. Found out. The response to my place but I saw her frown there was no down and I was charming and I was cool. I'm. So proud. They slow down. The charming and I was very cool. When I went in for the cue that put the best. Buddies food sheets to me no. Joke. There to make you feel his load and a new woman to you know. I was crushed. But I was one of them our pride. Was not about to queer. I showed a little scar that I got in some of the law and she softened to put it in a little bitty bit. On search. Engines back. Up put in my request. Request didn't. Know. This really. Mean you. Know they're making you know love is to me woman to. My party she. Was only. 2 weeks or less to. Be you over to your country. And this all is better if you. Didn't me call me. Their vision. If you boyo must feel the one. You already know even show it to me you know. Them. Put her face. Make a really. Ugly Woman. With . 10000 people to. Treat and she got shook by him reprinting the faces she descended from the moment. He had the time poking around her neck to get to play with her because. I bet he she saw me when she was born to die just to have to. Add to My. Body. I think. Paxton singing his version of a song written by Champion Jack to pray when an ugly woman tells you know we've gotten some laughs out of these funny songs we've brought to you this week all of the performers on the show have been featured in past Ozark Highlands radio shows and you can find all those past shows at Ozark Highlands Radio dot com Thanks for listening this is Dave Smith and I'll see you next week but everybody. Knows our Carlin's radio is produced by Jeff Glover executive producer Dorton additional support for this program comes from the committee of $100.00 proudly supporting the Ozarks center state park since 1974 Arkansas state parks with 52 unique reasons to visit the natural state on the web at Arkansas State Parks dot com And by bank. With deep roots in Mountain View and a deep respect for those who preserve our heritage more information about what it means to bank Balder is it stone Bank dot com for information on upcoming shows and events where on the Web It was dark Highlands Radio dot com Until next time I'm Donna Farrar. Ties in my early twenty's and I've been a total loser in school but the world of musicians who welcomed me it didn't matter what I look like or what I sounded like I could say the craziest dumbest things at all and didn't matter if I couldn't talk to girls or by controlling the guitars that was good enough this week stories of feeling out of step with the world that's them off radio I learned from Sunday's at 12 noon on cable they are 89 point one. Broadcasting from the University District This is 89 point one a u.a.r. Little rock music culture from Arkansas.