Well, and Gentle Readers may have been figuring that if they held out during all the whining and noodling about the show, YHB would eventually come across with the Opening Night Mix. Others may have forgotten all about my tradition of giving the cast a Mix CD on Opening Night, chock full of music appropriate to the show. Or not, if I feel like that about it. The Trip to Bountiful<\/i> is set in Texas in 1950; I took the Texas part more than the 1950 part, and wound up with an album of country and bluegrass tunes, mostly. This is heavily tilted to the religious music that Mother Watts would have enjoyed (she sings hymns to calm herself when she is angry or nervous), but I have thrown in some stuff relating to some other themes of the show, the collapse of small towns, the rocky marriage of Jessie Mae and Ludie, and the hopefulness of journeying.\n\n
Here's a tentative track list:\n\n
Will the Circle Be Unbroken (Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley)\n
Momma Cried (Alison Krauss & Union Station)\n
Calling My Children Home (Ralph Stanley)\n
Down To The River To Pray (Alison Krauss)\n
Cotton Eyed Joe (Bob Wills)\n
The Devil Made Texas (Hermes Nye)\n
I Saw The Light (Hank Williams)\n
Man Of Constant Sorrow (Bob Dylan)\n
Peace In The Valley (Johnny Cash)\n
I'm Workin' On A Road To Glory Land (Flatt & Scruggs)\n
Wreck On The Highway (The Louvin Brothers)\n
Looking t'ward Heaven (Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley)\n
Angel Band (Ralph Stanley)\n
Keys To The Kingdom (The Nields)\n
Laying My Burdens Down (Willie Nelson)\n
Travelin' Prayer (Dolly Parton)\n
Run Come See (The X-Seamen's Institute)\n
When I Grow Up (Michelle Shocked)\n
This My Town (Eddie From Ohio)\n
She's No Lady (Lyle Lovett)\n
I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Living (Hank Williams)\n
The Old Woman's Hornpipe (Baltimore Consort)<\/blockquote>\n\nNow, Your Humble Blogger doesn't know a great deal about country music or bluegrass; I did a fair amount of research and listening, mostly to find things for the album but also to give myself mood music to play in the car whilst driving to rehearsals. So, while there's still time to fix it—what am I missing?\n\n
Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>,
-Vardibidian.\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Which Your Humble Blogger still doesn’t know the difference between claw-hand and three-finger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200,209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music","category-theeyater"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18885,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12430\/revisions\/18885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}