Saturday music: If you don't love country, you hate 'mer'ca

Eddie Pennington, "Crazy Dreams."  This is a live performance, but if you can track down the album, there is a version on Just My Style: Thumbpicking Old Favorites.  Pennington is a sadly under-recorded guitarist who is probably the best living master of the Merle Travis style of thumbpicking, although Pennington traces the roots back to Mose Rager and Travis's earlier roots.  Anyway, everything is crazy now, so here's Eddie.

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