NU- BLU-Thats What Makes The Bluegrass Blue, Ive Been Every Shade of Blue-Bluegrass on the Beach

Thank you, my friend CW5 Jack Cardwell for sharing the music video of Nu-Blu performing a cover of Will Hopkins song "That's What makes The Bluegrass Blue" at Bluegrass on the Beach at Lake Havasu Arizona on March 7, 2015,

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Hailing from Siler City, NC, the textbook definition of a picturesque small southern town, Nu-Blu’s heart and soul is husband-and-wife duo Daniel and Carolyn Routh. Carolyn’s caramel-coated soprano is one of the band’s defining traits, at times a tender lullaby, at times a freight train headed straight for you, but always unwinding a surprising tale. Daniel is the group’s backbone, a multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who also handles band management. Zach McCracken on banjo, and Justin Harrison on fiddle/mandolin round out the quartet’s warm, layered, American roots sound that builds to a full country sound. Together they deliver upbeat, blazing-fingers pick work just as well as gentle, heartwarming ballads, and they do it all with a natural togetherness that can’t be faked, forged over hundreds of shows on the road.

"That's What makes The Bluegrass Blue" written by Will Hopkins
Lyrics
In a corner of Kentucky, where the hills are filled with coal
A young girl holds a locket to her heart
She fumbles with the clasp as the sun is sinking low
Just one more look before the sky turns dark
She gazes at a handsome man in that tiny frame
Then wanders through the rolling fields calling out his name

And she cries, cause her one true love is gone
Every night, from the dusk until the dawn
Her tears fall down and touch the ground and become the morning dew
That's what makes the bluegrass blue
That's what makes the bluegrass blue

Her man, he was diggin' coal a half mile underground
The day before the day they were to wed
She was trying on her wedding dress when she heard that awful sound
Wouldn't listen when they told her he was dead
She ran into the darkness, calling after him
That's exactly what she's done every night since then

Oh, she cries, cause her one true love is gone
Every night, from the dusk until the dawn
Her tears fall down and touch the ground and become the morning dew
That's what makes the bluegrass blue
That's what makes the bluegrass blue

The miner in this story died in 1939
One of twenty-eight men lost that day
The young girl couldn't sleep or eat; they say she lost her mind
Within a month, they laid her in her grave
But folks in east Kentucky, they swear they see her still
A woman in a long white dress wand'ring through the hills

And she cries, cause her one true love is gone
Every night, from the dusk until the dawn
Her tears fall down and touch the ground and become the morning dew
That's what makes the bluegrass blue
That's what makes the bluegrass blue

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CW5 Jack Cardwell She does well.

Good voice.