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Moonshine Enjoys Resurgence In Popularity: 'Moonshiner' Still a Great Song
"It's a symbol for us. The way the Confederate flag used to be. But the flag today has taken on so many unfortunate associations, nobody feels good about showing it anymore. So we've embraced moonshine: making it, moving it, drinking it. Moonshine has become a point in our identity. It's a way of saying, ‘I'm from here.'"
-The resurgence of moonshine brings to mind the nice article on the history and production of the stuff Garden & Gun magazine did last year. And also, the many versions of the classic folk ballad that goes with it. Here are six more, in ascending order of my preference.
That was the right order!
Oh bu-but! There is a live during the down and out in the Village days version of Zimmerman himself singing "Moonshiner" on a very early days live comp from the (ahem) Starbucks label (SHUT UP IF SONIC YOUTH CAN DO IT I CAN BUY THEM SOMETIMES OKAY) that is just devastating. Like, it makes me think I will maybe stop drinking for about 10 minutes devastating.
I always forget about Garden & Gun and am always delighted anew when I come across a reference to it. Aaaaaand now I'm gonna go subscribe I think!
Yes.
True Fact: My rich late great-aunt lived in Dennis Day's former house. And served nothing but expired supermarket leftovers at dinner.
When my wife was four or five years old, she caught her grandfather and a pal of his up in the woods behind his farm running off some shine.
She pointed at the still and asked them: "What's that?"
"That's a separator," said the sidekick.
"Grandpa doesn't have any cows," she said.
This was in Norway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gI_gdhSP6lM
Roscoe Holcomb – Moonshiner
Good one! Thanks.