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GUEST,Jerome Clark Thoughts on Si Kahn's songs (52* d) RE: Thoughts on Si Kahn's songs 22 Dec 20


Somebody mentions liking "Wild Rose of the Mountain." I am fond of it, too. Something more about it from a review I wrote a few years ago of a bluegrass album by the Steep Canyon Rangers, titled "Lovin' Pretty Women" :

":Lovin' Pretty Woman" borrows the lilting melody of Bill Monroe's "Ashland Breakdown," but so does Si Kahn's "Wild Rose of the Mountain," which "Lovin' Pretty Women" resembles not just musically but thematically. A reliable source -- the estimable mountain-music authority David Freeman (who, as it happens, contributes this album's liner notes but does not raise the issue therein) -- insists Monroe composed the tune, that it was not something snatched while floating out there in the public domain. Still, I'm sure Monroe, wherever he is, doesn't mind in the least that Kahn and the Rangers carry it on. It's a tune eminently worth, er, recycling.


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