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In My Young Days

from Sun to Sun by Alice Gerrard

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    -Standard weight 12” black vinyl
    -Single pocket jacket on 24pt board with matte finish
    -Polybag
    -Poly-lined inner sleeve
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Some of my thoughts about getting old hooked on to childhood memories and stories of courageous strikers (often women) who lay down in front of bulldozers in the anti strip mining days (now mountaintop removal), and who made jack rocks (large nails, both ends sharpened, welded together in the shape of a jack and thrown in the road so non-union truckers would blow out their tires). And if you don’t know who Mother Jones was, look her up.

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Mountain mornings, mountain laurel
Pictures of life slowly fading away
Rocking chair rhythm, waltz time livin’
Said ‘you know I was a lot like you in my day’
In my young days

I remember, this old woman
Her name was Amazing but they all called her May
She came from East Kentucky to old California
She told me stories bout her younger days
In my young days

In my young days just try and catch me
Burrs in my hair, skin off my knees
They hushed and they scolded, said ‘lordy have mercy'
But most of the time they just let me be
In my young days

4 walls around me did not contain me
But I don’t get around much, can’t shake these old bones
Still I once bet my body big dozer would turn back
And I set a few jackrocks for old Mother Jones
In my young days

I still see you, I won’t forget you
Daydreams awake a sweet memory
You smiled and you nodded when I told you my secret
How I flew with an eagle across the great sea
In my young days

credits

from Sun to Sun, released October 20, 2023
lyrics & music © 2021 Alice Gerrard Agate Hill Pub, BMI; recorded recorded and mixed by Joseph ‘joebass’ Dejarnette at Studio 808A; Marcy’s guitar recorded at Community Music Takoma Park, MD by Cathy Fink
Rhythm guitar, lead vocal: Alice Gerrard
Pedal Steel: DaShawn Hickman
Lead guitar: Marcy Marxer
Bass: Hasee Ciaccio

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Alice Gerrard Durham, North Carolina

A singer and songwriter, Alice’s recordings with Hazel Dickens during the 1960s and ’70s influenced a generation of women musicians from Laurie Lewis to the Judds. Nominated for a Grammy in 2015, she was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Assoc. Hall of Fame in 2017. A documentary film about Alice, "You Gave Me a Song" premiered at the Full Frame Independent Film Festival in 2019. ... more

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