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15 December 2015

Tuesday videos: Banks of the Ohio, and Farewell Nova Scotia

Here’s a twofer for Tuesday: Three Pickers and Allison Krauss performing Banks of the Ohio, and a young Gordon Lightfoot singing the great Canadian folk song, Farewell Nova Scotia.

The pickers are Earl Scruggs, banjo; Doc Watson, guitar and lead vocals; Ricky Skaggs, mandolin. Krauss plays the fiddle and sings harmony. This was one of Watson’s last performances.

Farewell Nova Scotia, composer unknown, is a powerful, but not happy, song, well suited to Lightfoot’s 12-string guitar and his strong voice.