http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2007/08/12/ray-charles-%e2%80%9ci-can%e2%80%99t-stop-loving-you%e2%80%9d/ a conversation about black music Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:24:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2007/08/12/ray-charles-%e2%80%9ci-can%e2%80%99t-stop-loving-you%e2%80%9d/#comment-29326 Assim Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:14:23 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2007/08/10/ray-charles-%e2%80%9ci-can%e2%80%99t-stop-loving-you%e2%80%9d/#comment-29326 Some of us grew up on country music, my Great Grand Mother (Ibaye) was born on a plantation in Alabama her parents were slaves. She played slide guitar sang plantation songs and field hollers. She listend to country music and so did we. (She had the only TV in the house at the time) But as I got older I realized CW and Bluegrass is roots music. If you grew up in the south or black Appalachia it's what you knew. At almost fifty I still have a penchant for good bluegrass and country, right along side Miles, Donny and the Funkadelics! Some of us grew up on country music, my Great Grand Mother (Ibaye) was born on a plantation in Alabama her parents were slaves. She played slide guitar sang plantation songs and field hollers. She listend to country music and so did we. (She had the only TV in the house at the time) But as I got older I realized CW and Bluegrass is roots music. If you grew up in the south or black Appalachia it’s what you knew. At almost fifty I still have a penchant for good bluegrass and country, right along side Miles, Donny and the Funkadelics!

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