church or they were singing those old mountain songs that came from the old world, you know, england, ireland, scotland, and all of those songs and it was still all rooted in the church and i think that s where people, certainly like me, i m an emotion until singer and i feel everything in my core and when mama used to sing the sad songs and break your heart if you were really in there and i think that that kind of gets embedded in that smoky mountain dna, i call it, and the church stuff where you ve got to have that hope, you know how it is when you sing a gospel song, you re a musician, a singer, and when you sing a sacred song, gospel song or a christmas song it s a different feeling, it s an emotional attachment. so, i really think that, you know, that mountain music when you sit around and that s just your entertainment, you don t go to town to go to the movies. you don t have radios and televisions, we didn t back then. so that was our recreation and