music clip of the day

 passings

Wade Mainer, singer, banjo player, April 21, 1907-September 12, 2011

“I’ll Be a Friend to Jesus” (1936)

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Singing, playing, talking (c. 2004)

Part 1

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Part 3

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lagniappe

What we was playin’ in the ’30s was true country music—no electric instruments, no copyrights. Something’d happen and someone’d write a song about it—nobody owned it, nobody’d know who wrote it. The music just told a story.

—Wade Mainer