[Dixielandjazz] SCD and Scots in a Warmer Clime

[Rick Campbell]

Ken wrote:

Certainly the Scots-Irish input to bluegrass music is pretty apparent,  
so they were around in large numbers in the Old South. That's scarcely  
surprising, since anyone who has endured a Scottish or Irish winter  
will see the attraction of a (much) warmer clime.

As a descendent of Northern Mississippi Campbells near Ackerman  
(Choctaw County), I can assure you that the inland parts of the Deep  
South can be as miserably freezing as Scotland on occasion. That is  
why I never understood "Tishomingo Blues" (in the adjacent Tishomingo  
County) because the song suggests idyllic warm bayou country, unlike  
the harsh red clay upland reality. It must have been the poetic ring  
of the word :-)

Rick Campbell
Milneburg Social Aid and Pleasure Society Jazz Band
Portland, Oregon USA
503-701-7356
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