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Artist Guide » Folk » Traditional Folk » BOB THOMASON: Wayfaring Stranger/ I'll Fly Away

I was born a poor redneck child on a cotton mill village in the foothills of SC. I grew up listening to my family sing the ballads on the Old Country and the country music of the new. The old country is the British Isles . I loved music and sang for the public at the age of four.I began playing guitar at 15 and played rock and blues music as a bass player in bar bands and dance clubs. I fell in love with the folky sounds of Dylan , Arlo Guthrie and James Taylor and began doing solo acoustic work and left the electric world. I married into the dulcimer biz and got a fine singer in my wife, Melody. We opened a dulcimer /folk music shop in Helen , Ga in the summer of 1981 and worked it until 2001 and went full time performing and teaching. Over the years I have built 900 dulcimers and sold countless more. I also learned to play clawhammer banjo and became a world class teller of tall tales. Life's been mostly good with a measure of bad thrown in so you can tell when it's good and say" Damn ain't life good" ? My work is a reflection of my heritage and a life spent marching to the beat of a different plumber.

Check out the artist's website:
http://dulcimerbob.com

Track List:
1. Wayfaring Stranger
2. Boatman
3. Canadian Waltz
4. Lark In the Morning
5. What a friend we have in Jesus
6. The Ash Grove
7. Danny Boy
8. Haste to the wedding
9. let All mortal flesh
10. Mazurka
11. harvest Home
12. Maggie In the woods
13. I'll Fly Away
14. Amazing grace
15. Simple Gifts
16. Be thou my vision
17. On Jordan's stormy banks
18. Holy Holy holy
19. Shall we gather
20. Sweet hour of prayer
21. Lif'es Railway
22. My Jesus I love Thee
23. My Shepherd shall supply my need
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