Bluegrass Music for the Soul

Bluegrass Music for the Soul
March 19, 2012


I look around the world today and there's very little resemblance of what the world was like 35 to forty years ago. What do I mean by that exactly? It's a number of things but most noticable are the automobiles, clothing styles and rude people. My teen age years occured during the 70's.

The one thing that takes me back to brighter days is bluegrass music. One of my foundest memories was enjoyed at an outdoor concert in Stumptown, West Virginia. We were attending the Aunt Minnie's bluegrass festival and there I was sitting on the ground in the front row watching Bill Monroe singing the blues. It still gives me goose bumps just thinking about that day. I don't remember any of the other bands that played but Bill Monroe. I assume this bluegrass festival is still ongoing and back in the day it lasted the entire week.

I've seen some cool stuff and visited some famous places in my day but I somehow knew that on that day it would become a treasurable moment so I savored it just like a juicy steak dinner.

Now everytime that I hear some great bluegrass music I'm taken back to a day that saw things much simplier than the weares of today.


On the Sea of Life by Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver

Uploaded by Glass232499 on Nov 7, 2010


We are on the sea of life
Sailing to a better home
Where the saved of all the earth shall abide
Leaving all our trials here
Many pleasures wait us there
When we cross the foam and reach the other side

(Chorus)
We are (Sailing on) sailing onward, sailing , sailing o'er the foam
We are talking to the captain as the angry billows hum
Soon yes (Sailing to) soon we'll reach the harbor and we're safely o'er the tide
We are going onward to the other side

Many millions now abide
In that home beyond the tide
Where the reassumed pilgrims wade free from care
There is room on board for all
Who will head the captain's call
And take ship for Heaven's country bright and fair


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Godsped,


Philip Atkins
Tacoma, Washington
253.987.6261