Where Was FourWallsdo?: Arkansas

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While I’ve had great BBQ (Dickey’s) and so-so BBQ (that place in Utah), it’s great to be back in my regular BBQ place! I continue to recount the trip in music as my back and everything try to recover. Here’s today’s song with a hearty Linda? NO!!!!! warning. Arkansas - Wilburn Brothers Even though you’ve probably never heard the Wilburn Brothers, you’ve heard OF them: they’re the guys who top my list of Country Music Hall of Fame snubs. Year after year. Doyle and Teddy (both their middle names: you don’t want any country singers out there named “Virgil and Thurman” ) first played the Grand Ole Opry when they were 10 and 9, respectively. After they grew up and served in the Korean War, they came back, scoring a series of hits and having one of the first nationally syndicated country music TV shows. Oh, and they also helped launch the career of a young singer named Loretta Lynn. This was the last closest-thing-to-a-hit single that they released. Doyle died of cancer ten years after this song was released. I miss their music and harmonies. And this is a beautiful song. Arkansas Written by Damon Black Recorded by the Wilburn Brothers From A Portrait, 1972 Old folks sittin’, whittlin’ on a stick: