The time was the 1920’s. During those hardscrabble years leading up to the Depression, there was a husband, his wife, and her sister who were trying to make a go of it by singing the songs of the mountain people of rural southwest Virginia. They released a song that has been found in a hymnalContinue reading “Our Kind of Song”
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Small Town Southern Man
My father-in-law, Reed Hendrixson, passed away on July 27, 2013. He was 91 years old and died with his overalls on. He had either been working in his garden or was headed that way when his time came. Reed was a simple man. By that I mean he wasn’t complicated or hard to figure out as a person. IContinue reading “Small Town Southern Man”