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When Sorrows Encompass Me Round

from Fists of Violets by Sarah Alden

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Les Blank did a documentary on Tommy Jarrell, a great fiddler from Mt. Airy, NC. Tommy played with a banjo player named Fred Cockerham, and they performed together for almost all of their lives. When this documentary was made Fred had just died a couple of years prior. When asked about Fred, Tommy said "it's OK, I still talk to him, " and then the camera shot moved to the graveyard where there was a plastic heart with fake flowers and a plastic phone in the middle with the receiver off the hook. Then he played this tune in the middle of the graveyard on a wooden chair. That sentiment and image has stuck with me.

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from Fists of Violets, released October 13, 2012

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