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BlindPigAndTheAcorn
United States
Registrace 27. 03. 2008
Traditional music from Appalachia. Our music is available for download in iTunes, at cdbaby.com, on Spotify, and in our Etsy Store-see link below.
This channel houses the video content for the blog blindpigandtheacorn.com
This channel houses the video content for the blog blindpigandtheacorn.com
Oh My Papa
Happy Father's Day, All. I wanted to upload a special song for father's day and almost waited too late. I started making this video around 9:30 the night before. I apologize for the odd setting. I'm in the process of moving everything out of my house into my garage so I can redo the floors in my house. I added some photos of Pap (my father, Jerry Wilson) to spruce the video up a little. I have been blessed in more ways than I could ever count, but one of the biggest blessings that I and my siblings ever received is having such a wonderful, loving father. I could never have asked for a better dad in any respect. I heard this song one Sunday afternoon when I was watching PBS with Pap and Granny. A gentleman named Roger Williams sang the song. I was probably in my early teens. I heard it more recently online by Eddie Fisher. The Everly Brothers also recorded it. The song seems to be of German origin because the title is sometimes written as "Mein Papa." Some singers sing the word "papa" with accent on the second syllable, which no American English speaker that I know would do. It's a very sweet song that I can definitely relate too. I changed the words of the second verse slightly, replacing "always the clown" with "so wise and strong," just to make it fit Pap a little better. He definitely had a great sense of humor and loved a good joke or funny prank, but it was rare for him to be "the clown." I never called him Papa, only "Daddy" and later "Pap," after his grandkids were born. If you still have your father, take a moment to tell him that you love and appreciate him and why. Do this not only on Father's Day but anytime you have a good opportunity. :-) If your father is gone, I pray that you have the same kind of happy memories that I have of Pap and more importantly, the Promise of seeing him again with the Heavenly Father. Thanks for watching!
Listen to original singles released on Spotify:
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Listen to Shepherd of My Soul (Album released in 2016):
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Listen to original singles released on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/artist/5VX6ZKjBvDB31BhNdR7EXC
Listen to original singles on CZcams:
czcams.com/channels/2WQqe6yfRH2zahVpfZ_teg.html
Listen to Shepherd of My Soul (Album released in 2016):
open.spotify.com/album/4VnoOyUTOtSqrmVKinmSJz
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Will there Be Any Stars in My Crown?
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Happy Memorial Day! I thought this song would be fitting for Memorial Day since it speaks to the transition from this life to the next and encompasses the idea of being "decorated." When I grew up, many folks used "decoration day" interchangeably with "Memorial Day." It was always a time when churches beautified their cemeteries and paused to remember and respect loved ones gone before. Granny ...
Seven Year Blues (in Honor of Ira Louvin's Birthday)
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I'm a couple of days late this year with our birthday tribute to Ira Louvin. Hopefully, Ira would have understood. :-) If you want to jump straight to the audio of me and Pap singing Seven Year Blues, go to 13:51. I mentioned in the introduction that Pap and I sang the song too low (based on him giving in to my preference way back then). When I listened to the audio, the pitch was even lower th...
Columbus Stockade Blues
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This duet of me and Pap is even older than the last two that I posted. As you can probably tell by my voice, I was only around 16 years old when we recorded this. When I was little, Pap would sit around and sometimes sing bits and pieces of this old song. I had never heard anyone else sing it, so our version turned out quite a bit different than anyone else's. Maybe around 10 years after this r...
The Preacher and the Bear
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Hi There, Acorns. Well, I thought the story song series was over for this year, but my friend Pritish finished this cartoon by Easter morning after all. I didn't want to post it on Easter, so I held it until now. I debated about saving it for next year's story song series, but who knows what the future holds. It could be now or never. CZcams will allow me to schedule videos to publish a whole y...
His Tomb is Empty Now
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Happy Easter! or Happy Good Friday! If you're watching this video on Friday, it means that the cartoon for Sam Ensley's song didn't get finished in time, and I uploaded this video as our last story song for the 2024 series. If you're watching it on Easter, then the series wrapped as planned on Friday with Sam's song. When I can, I like to upload a song for Easter. Last year, I uploaded a song f...
I'm My Own Grandpa
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To jump straight to the song, go to 11:45 in the video. For this story song, I was a little too lazy to type a long description, so I just spoke most of the background info for the song in the video just before singing it. However, it seems like I still wound up typing a lot! Jamie Shook and I do have plans to get together and work out a set of songs to perform for the Cherokee County Arts Coun...
A Tiny Broken Heart
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For this installment in this year's story song series, Katie joined me on a Louvin Brothers' song from their album Tragic Songs of Life, the same album that featured Knoxville Girl. Corie also played rhythm guitar and Tipper played bass, though both of them are out of frame. I always thought this was a really nice melody with a great little story, though I never knew of anyone else recording it...
Life to Go
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I apologize for being a little late with this story song upload. Better late than never, I guess. I figured...why not one more Stonewall Jackson song? So here's another one, probably the last one from his repertoire. This one has a writer who is far more famous than the singer, as it was written by the George Jones. It's a pretty original song, though it borrows one line from a Hank Williams so...
BJ the DJ
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One of the best received train songs last November came from the repertoire of Stonewall Jackson, so I thought I would start this year's story song series with a story song from him. This is a song that Tipper and I used to listen to as kids. We always liked it, even though it made us sad. Sometimes, our friends the Malpass Brothers perform this song. This is one of those songs that proves you ...
Too Late (Pap and Paul Duet)
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I'm a little late getting this uploaded, and it just hit me that next month is March, which is when we do our story song series! I haven't even started or reached out to any other musicians! So I'll have to whip up some story songs quickly for next week! This upload comes from the same recording session as Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die that I uploaded two weeks ago. In the notes for that upload...
Pap & Granny Duets 1981
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The songs on this tape aren't quite as practiced as the ones I found on reel-to-reel, and they're a bit more melancholy. I generally think of Pap always singing old songs, Granny too for that matter, so I was surprised when researching these songs to learn that several of the songs were only a few years old at the time Pap and Granny recorded them on cassette tape. I assume that Pap learned som...
Don't Let Your Sweet Love Die
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I decided to upload some songs that Pap and I recorded on cassette tapes when I was in my late teens. I considered uploading a bunch of them in one video, as I did with the compilation from Pap and Granny. Instead, I decided to upload them individually so someone who doesn't even know about our channel might find them by searching for the song titles. I'll add them to a playlist as I upload the...
Pap and Granny Singing 8 Duets Circa 1975
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Our good friend and musical influence John Samuel Ensley passed away back in November 2023. Ever since I received the news, I wanted to upload some music in his honor, but I wanted it to be the right music. Sam had broad musical interests, but like me, his favorite was close, two-part harmony. Outside of me and another gentleman in Kentucky named Lonnie Smith, Sam may have been the world's bigg...
Millsaps Family, Chastain Family, & Sonny Reighard @MCCC
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Back in late October of 2023, the Martins Creek Community Center held its final Saturday night singing of the year. I hauled off granny's garbage that day, and someone at the landfield told me that the Millsaps Family would be singing that evening at the community center. I arrived late but was able to make it in time to hear some from all three groups that performed. I came kind of unprepared ...
Blow Your Whistle, Freight Train (Reshare)
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Blow Your Whistle, Freight Train (Reshare)
Words of Life 50th Anniversary Side B
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Words of Life 50th Anniversary Side B
Hank's Still 29 (in Honor of Hank Williams, Sr.'s Birthday)
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Hank's Still 29 (in Honor of Hank Williams, Sr.'s Birthday)
Are You Afraid to Die (Birthday Tribute to Ira Louvin, April 21, 1924)
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Are You Afraid to Die (Birthday Tribute to Ira Louvin, April 21, 1924)
I'll Wear the Banner (Wilson Brothers, from live radio broadcast in the 1980's)
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I'll Wear the Banner (Wilson Brothers, from live radio broadcast in the 1980's)
Beautiful song! Thank you so much God bless
This last song leaves a special place in my heart!
Oh girls it blesses my heart watching you all play and singing. I could listen to workin on a buildin all day long!
Amen, a great song blessed my heart this morning.
We like it and makes me feel better…beautiful.
One of my favorite videos!
I absolutely enjoyed this music and the Amazing Family! Thank you God bless
I enjoyed it ! It's a beautiful song the lyrics are perfect meaning!
I loved that Song great Job Paul and Corie God bless please tell Granny hello praying for you
Thank you!!
I enjoy listening to y'all singing it's absolutely refreshing music I love it reminds me of long ago
Love this song Paul and Tipper Thank you God Bless
They sing so beautifully together!
Priceless. Thanks for sharing!
Love this.
Loved hearing this again!!
Such beautiful voices I just love hearing you play 💕
still beautiful thanks
Loved the video
💙💙💙💙💙 love from New Zealand, love you guys so much.
I love this hymn so much!
This is what the angels sound like 😊
That is so kind! Thank you!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful music.
Another good one!
So pretty girls!
One of my favorites…oh how I loved this!
Tell Paul I love hearing him sing. I can understand his words so good. Love it.
Thank you Paul and Granny!! Absolutely a song that makes you think!
This is blessing my heart so much! I love to sing along. The stress just seems to fly out the window…
Simon and Garfunkel ?
Yes 🙂
Paul has an incredible voice. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to get his own recordings. Awesome guitar player too
So beautiful. Thank you@
miss hearing my daddy sing that, grew up listening to my moma sing lullaby Yodel by Jimmy Rodgers ,love your music
so beautiful paul thanks you brought back a lot of memories and havent heard it for years have a great day faters day here not till september
I love this song so much. Would love to hear it every day…oh my how good to hear your all play and sing.
Beautiful! Such a blessing tonight to get to hear all my favorite music!
Thank you for sharing!
Love this ! Love Paul’s voice in all he sings.
Great job.
Love this Working On A Building.! A great job.
Such a blessing tonight! My old foot has hurt so much for two days. Need prayer.
Want to hear Waiting on a train!
Precious.
How precious to get to see and hear Granny and Paul sing. I could listen to this all day and night.
Praise the Lord! What a blessing to hear y'all! My family isn't too far from where y'all are. Many from Lookout Mountain. No wonder y'all sound is family to me! There are no folks like Southern folks that love to sing for the Lord. There's a reason why they took our hymn books out of the churches, all the new churches forgot to build altars! The Lord tells us he inhabits our praise, meaning that we come together singing and praising the Lord, he is there with us! Sing praises to the mighty God that has already overcome this wayward world people. Don't stop till he gets here. He said occupy until i return, and we shall. Lord bless and keep y'all, you are a wonderful blessing! ❤🙏
Beautiful grandmother, y'all did a wonderful job! It was exactly what I wanted to hear, and I couldn't have chosen a better video! My aunties used to sing this and played it in church on acoustic guitars. Our entire family would gather and eat, then everyone played guitars, piano, harmonica, banjo, and anything else they could find. But the important part is the songs they sang. Like this one. Ministers to my heart that hurts to see them again. Until then, we've got to keep singing to keep my feet firmly planted on earth. Thank you both! I wish I could hug you. Do y'all know Wait A Little Longer Please Jesus? Lord bless and keep you and your family. You are a blessing. ❤🙏
That is a great song! Thank you so much!! You can hear Corie and Katie sing it here: czcams.com/video/3FrAt06Mh5Y/video.html
@@BlindPigAndTheAcorn Awesome, you just made me cry happy tears!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart❤️🙏
What a talent! I know this is a dated video, all these years later and its still a Blessing. Thank you!
Great song Paul! Thanks for sharing, and God bless
Paul, beautiful song and tribute. I love those pictures so much. Are you refinishing hard wood floors or putting down carpet or something else. Projects like that are so much better when they are over with--if you ask me! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching and commenting. So glad you liked it. I am taking up tile and putting down laminate (fake hardwood). :-)
Thank the Lord for blessing me again by letting me hear this beautiful song, by some incredible blood harmony! GOOD BLESS