Ricky Skaggs Cotton Eyed Joe __top__ -

“He’d been in the field since half past four…”

He leaned into the studio mic. “Let me tell y’all something,” he said, voice low and easy. “My granddaddy used to play this at pie suppers. There was a fella named Joe—lost an eye in a sawmill accident. But the women? They didn’t care. He danced so hard the floorboards bowed. The song ain’t about cotton. It’s about uncontainable joy .” ricky skaggs cotton eyed joe

The problem wasn’t learning it. The problem was unlearning it. “He’d been in the field since half past