Bringing Mary Home
Shadowboy was recently introduced to Bluegrass by his viola teacher, and encountered this song at a concert. It’s an example of the “vanishing hitchhiker” urban legend which inspired Jan Harold Brunvand’s seminal collection of such legends.
The song itself is a fine bit of Bluegrass, with a chillingly understated final line.
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December 19th, 2016 at 7:45 am
*ahem*
https://youtu.be/e4Ao-iNPPUc
December 19th, 2016 at 6:56 pm
One of my favorite songs based upon an urban legend is Johnny Cash’s Phantom 309 about a hitch hiker picked up by a phantom truck driver.