written by Carl Belew & Van Givens
recorded by Charlie Walker


https://youtu.be/FepCOl3HzvA

My Uncle Charlie was the only brother in my father's family who did not sing or play an instrument. He was a real cowboy like figure. A loner and always separate from the rest in certain ways. He once told me that his out-right favorite Country song was 'Don't Squeeze My Sharmon'. He laughed...

written & recorded by Elizabeth Cotton


https://youtu.be/CpbPk55rnBM

I remember this tune from when I was young, It was always a tune folks wanted to be able to pick and so it was with me. Unlike Elizabeth Cotten, I'm unable to finger-pick so the way it comes out in this cover is radically different then you hear from her but then I'm no great guitar player. Still, I think This tune...

written by Eddie Cochran, Jerry Capehart
recorded by Eddie Cochran


https://youtu.be/rCSPCNAf-c4

These days, with my left hand starting to lose it's feeling, I tend to avoid playing much at all. Now and then I attempt to force myself to rise to my past glory, only to prove that my better days are truly behind me. Still what can I do? I'm addicted to playing music, you see. Last week...

written by Danny "Bear" Mayo
recorded by the Pirates of the Mississippi


https://youtu.be/1SSKl_RC0gM

I suppose that I'm an anomaly among-st musicians, I don't know, but I'm always trying to see the deeper message within a song. It's not good enough that a song should sound good or have good rhyming lyrics. If a tune is going to embed itself into my heart there has to be...

written by Billy Joe Shaver
recorded by Billy Joe Shaver & John Anderson


https://youtu.be/U4ARzpnr8UQ

My hands aren't much use for playing guitar, these days. Still, every now and then that old addiction to playing music gets so
overwhelming that I eventually give into it even though I I know that it's not a good thing for me. That's the price you pay for getting hooked...