"Edgar A. Howard" wrote: > > I must say I love that "high lonesome" tenor of mtn. music and bluegrass. > That was what I meant by hearing with my soul. It just touches me. > I get some real strange looks when I tell people. It must be what the blacks > feel in the jazz and R&B. There is something very basic about it. Like it > tells us who we are. Our roots. ------- Well then, maybe that proves I've a Melungeon ancestor, 'cause I feel both! (Also African, opera, Cajun, German waltzes, etc.) LOL -- - - - Carlyine Ritter Jessee@harborside.com ICQ #9189377 JESSEE, BROWNING, HABRON/HAYTON - SW VA BLACK/SCHWARTZ, PARSONS - Ashe Co NC RITTER, MEIER, VANDER HEIU, SE IA, WA