{"id":6055,"date":"2026-05-01T21:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=6055"},"modified":"2026-05-01T21:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:53:31","slug":"katy-clyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/katy-clyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Katy Clyne (Greenbriar Boys)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Katy Clyne\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/evH5Y68RxUY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>First, a note that I&#8217;m starting my brief Midwest tour tomorrow, Saturday, May 2, in St. Louis, followed by Thursday in Kansas City, Saturday, May 9 in Urbana, Sunday in Bloomington IN, and finally two Dylan oriented shows, Wednesday the 13th in Chicago and Friday the 15th in Louisville. Please spread the word &#8212; full info at <a href=\"https:\/\/elijahwald.com\/2026concertdates.html\">https:\/\/elijahwald.com\/2026concertdates.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And on to the music:<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember where, when, or how I picked up the first <em>New Folks<\/em> LP, but I listened to it a lot. It may even have been my introduction to bluegrass, thanks to the Greenbriar Boys. I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s what prompted me to buy their <em>Ragged But Right<\/em> album, which gave me several of my early showstoppers and has a special place in my personal pantheon.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6057\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2027\/04\/New-Folks-LP.jpeg?resize=240%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2027\/04\/New-Folks-LP.jpeg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2027\/04\/New-Folks-LP.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2027\/04\/New-Folks-LP.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>That album was foundational for me because the Greenbriars put no limits on the material they could play. They recorded bluegrass standards, old-time country, modern singer-songwriter compositions (they were the first to record Mike Nesmith&#8217;s &#8220;Different Drum&#8221;), old pop songs, new pop songs, some original instrumentals&#8230; I&#8217;ve already done posts on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/ragged-but-right\/\">Ragged, But Right<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/roll-on-john\/\">Roll On, John<\/a>,&#8221; and I&#8217;ll be posting &#8220;The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me&#8221; pretty soon. (I should also check if I still remember &#8220;Different Drum.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Along with the Greenbriars, the <em>New Folks\u00a0<\/em>LP was my introduction to Jackie Washington (a.k.a. Jack Landron, now a longtime friend) and Hedy West, who should be much better remembered. (It also had five tracks by David Gude, but I have to admit I rarely listened to them.) The Greenbriars had five tracks, all pretty basic bluegrass, including a dazzling version of Bill Monroe&#8217;s instrumental, &#8220;Rawhide,&#8221; which may have convinced me I&#8217;d never play mandolin.<\/p>\n<p>I fell instantly in love with this one, both because it&#8217;s a fun song &#8212; I file it alongside &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/roll-in-my-sweet-babys-arms\/\">Roll In My Sweet Baby&#8217;s Arms<\/a>,&#8221; which, come to think of it, also had Ralph Rinzler playing mandolin on the version that caught my attention &#8212; and because I imagined the name being spelled Katie Klein and thought if it as one of the few (only?) bluegrass songs about a nice Jewish girl.<\/p>\n<p>I just went back and listened to the Greenbriars&#8217; version, and find that in the second verse they sing that if they were a little bird they&#8217;d build their nest &#8220;in some tall yonder tree&#8221; rather than in their &#8220;sweet Katy&#8217;s breast,&#8221; so I didn&#8217;t get that from them. 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They had great taste in songs, John Herald was a terrific singer, Bob Yellin was one of the more interesting banjo players, and&#8230; I&#8217;m not actually making a case, just describing a personal reaction from back when I was thirteen or fourteen, and paying tribute to a trio that turned me on to a lot of fun material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a note that I&#8217;m starting my brief Midwest tour tomorrow, Saturday, May 2, in St. Louis, followed by Thursday in Kansas City, Saturday, May 9 in Urbana, Sunday in Bloomington IN, and finally two Dylan oriented shows, Wednesday the 13th in Chicago and Friday the 15th in Louisville. 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