pretty much everything you just said is awesome..
I love mountin music and the funniest thing is how diverse the genre is, from the ozarks to the high mountain bluegrass and to high country cajun all the way to the amazing mountain music from the high peaks of Columbia, just awesome.
I also think the story about your grandpa is amazing..a man's man who was still a romantic...baller.
what is this cd called, I have to give it a listen
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Feel my eyes tearing up a little here ...
My maternal Grandfather was a very interesting man ... tall and lithe and moved easy. He died when I was relatively young... but my Mother has said I have alot of his same charateristics . She has said that back when I was younger and out hunting , she'd look out the kitchen window and see me walking back to the house and was as if she was seeing the ghost of her Father. Said we carried a gun the same way,walked and moved similar . Most of these things are things I am unaware of. When I went into the service and took up smoking, Mom said we would smoke just the same. On the porch step, with arms draped over knees.
Genetics is an interesting thing.
One thing I remember vividly about my Grandfather is that anytime we went anywhere ; all the dogs came with us . He believed that hunting dogs are a members of a partnership and should be included in everything. So I can remember anytime we went into town, emptying the kennels so all the dogs could come along for the ride. From the Trigg hounds to the English Pointers....
Interestingly enough, both sides of my family despite being Scotch x Cherokee x Osage, had a curiously Black Forest tradition of placing boughs in the mouths of large animals taken . As soon as a deer or hog was taken, boughs of oak ar maple were placed in the deceased animals mouth. This is typically a Germanic tribe tradition... when I asked my Father about it ... he simply said some things just should be. Fair enough and have done it ever since. Sage for the smaller game like waterfowl, which is a Native American thing.
Anyway... the CD is by Okna Tsahan Zam Shaman Voices;Journey to the Steppe . Good stuff...
FWIW, I thought I knew what "hills folk" were until I visited my wife's family. Hat's off ....a whole different perspective on what it means to be a hillbilly. We're talking coal country. I felt eclectic amongst them . 
Like a regular Bohemian artisan ... and yet, I'd lay my life in the hands of 'em .
Direct quote " You wear those faggot sandals .... but any guy stabbin' pigs caught by dawg's gotta be awright; and to hear Alissa tell it , your dogs can point a bird or two....here drink this shit, it'll phuq you up..."
And it did, and I made friends .....
and it resulted in me being awake and hung over. Thought somebody might know a top-secret Latin American or Carribean cure unknown to North American society .
