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Basic Folk - Field Music with Chris "Critter" Eldridge
Episode 47
Published 6 years, 7 months ago
Description
Recently, Chris "Critter" Eldridge won instrumentalist of the year at The Americana awards in Nashville. 2019 is proving to be a banner year for Critter, as his band The Punch Brothers won the Grammy for folk album of the year for their album All Ashore.
This week Critter talks about a mysterious tune that he learned from his mother and grandmother called, "The Glendy Burk." Later on he discovered this mysterious song was a Stephen Foster tune after googling some of the words.