5 on Friday -- Set 256

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

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In memory of my Uncle Frank, who passed away on Wednesday, January 21st, 2015, here's a set of traditional bluegrass and Appalachian music for a Virginia mountain man and gentle giant.

That's my mom giving her brother-in-law the classic Meuse sisters cheek squeeze in the early 80s. My grandma, originally a Meuse, and all of her sisters -- and possibly all female ancestors from this line -- were unrivaled cheek squeezers.

Usually he was too tall to have to worry about that too much. Ha ha!

1 - Wandering Boy - Adam Hurt 

2 - Take Me Home, Country Roads - John Denver 

3 - Keep on the Sunny Side - The Carter Family 

4 - Tis Sweet to Be Remembered - Flatt and Scruggs 

5 - In the Sweet By and By - Bluegrass Martins