Tunes For Tuesday – Dale Ann Bradley “East Kentucky Morning”
A sample of some obscure – and some maybe not obscure – tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.
Today’s selection: Dale Ann Bradley East Kentucky Morning 1997
It’s where I am if all goes to plan.
East Kentucky Morning is Dale Ann Bradley’s first hit. She’s been awarded the Female Bluegrass Vocalist six times. Born in Bell County in the SE corner of Kentucky (Cumberland Gap region) as the daughter of a coal-miner Baptist minister. The album of the same name was released in 1997.
I feel a that music. My Momma grew up in the Ozarks, went west as a teenager with her family in ’39, but the mountains never left her. I can still almost hear the stories told at family gatherings.
Sweet face sweet voice. Wonderful music.
What did you think she would look like?
22 years old
single
5′-5″ tall
105 lbs
medium tan
long (mid back) straight brown hair, tied back
green eyes
comic book lips (no lipstick or make up)
light blue flowered short sleeved dress
tan, low heeled sandals
no jewelry
4 years experience in a blue grass band
17 years experience singing and playing guitar
a good gurl singing/playing a song about a gurl that made a mistake
has a decent support band
should play at a bill monroe fest next month so i can hear her on my front porch
did i conjure a detailed picture in your mind?
or just my vision of perfection?
WORD POWER
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Accelerating Immediacy
“Get off my porch!”
“Get off my fucking porch!”
“Get your ass off my motherfucking porch!”
“Get your ass off my motherfucking porch!”, while holding a Remington 870.
She sounds like an Appalachian Angel dudn’t she?
You can see a video of her doing this song by herself, sans accompaniment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJF1FW3HTQ
East Kentucky Morning==================
It′s an east Kentucky morning
Like so many, I have known before.
And the rumbling of the tow trucks,
Reminds me why, I don’t live here anymore.
But the reason I′m returning,
Is more painful than the reason I’ve been gone.
Now it’s starting to rain, I hope I make it to Pineville before dawn
10 years ago today,
I closed my eyes, turned my back, and walked away.
From a sweet and tender love,
That wasn′t strong enough to make me stay.
I followed my dreams,
And I left him there behind.
Now my heart is wandering back,
To a love, I hope will still be mine.
Empty faces, a million places I still find.
As I walk along the highway,
A thousand thoughts go rushing through my mind.
After all these years of running,
I find myself standing at his door.
The face that I see there, is one I haven′t seen before.
She says that I can find him,
Things have changed since I’ve been gone.
Now my tears won′t stop fallin’,
As I read his name upon that marble stone.
Empty faces, a million places I still find.
As I walk back down the highway,
A thousands thoughts go rushing through my mind.
It′s an east Kentucky morning
Like none, I’ve ever known before.
And knowing that he′s gone,
Is the reason I can’t live here anymore.
FromWIKI
Dale Ann Bradley
BornBell County, Kentucky, U.S.GenresBluegrassLabelsCompass, Mountain Home, Doobie Shea,[1] PinecastleWebsitehttp://www.daleannbradley.com
Dale Ann Bradley is an American bluegrass musician. She is a six-time (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2021) Female Bluegrass Vocalist of the Year, a distinction given by the International Bluegrass Music Association.[2]She has released music both as a solo artist and as part of the group New Coon Creek Girls.[3]
Early life
Bradley was born in Bell County, Kentucky. Her father was a coal-mining Baptist minister.[4]She grew up without running water or electricity until she was a senior in high school.[5] She also lived with heavy religious restrictions with her father being a minister. She received her first guitar at the age of 14, making a guitar pick out of a plastic milk carton to play.[5]
As a junior in high school, Bradley met a childhood friend of her mother who was also her new band director at school.[5] He and his wife sang at Pine Mountain State Park, located in Pineville, Kentucky, in the summers and invited Bradley to perform with them. She played with the band (Backporch Grass) and recorded a few singles and had the opportunity to perform in front of live audiences.[5]
Career
Bradley auditioned for the New Coon Creek Girls in 1988 but was unsuccessful.[3] For the next couple of years, she worked as a solo artist before finally joining the group in 1991.[3]She released her first solo album, East Kentucky Morning, in 1997. The album was top ten on both the Bluegrass Unlimited chart and the Gavin Americana chart.[3] In early 2015, Bradley left her record label Compass Records for Pinecastle Records, with whom she recorded her first solo album.[6] In late 2015, her 7th album, Pocket Full of Keys received a Grammy nomination for Best Bluegrass Album [7]
From 2012 to 2020, Bradley was a member of the all-female bluegrass band Sister Sadie. Their second album received a nomination for Best Bluegrass Album in 2019.
Good one here.
I could imagine Judy Collins covering this song.