Alabama Dances | Sean of the South

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A country dance with pinewood dance-floors, old barns, and old ladies sipping moonshine. Welcome to the world of walking-talking cliches from middle Alabama—with music from Copperline.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Sean of the South podcast today.
0:07.3	I'm your host, Sean Dietrich.
0:08.8	We're coming to you from northwest Florida.
0:10.4	And that music here in the background is the Copperline Bluegrass Group.
0:13.9	Roy McQuaghan on the guitar.
0:15.1	Matt Jones on the banja.
0:16.6	Jason Sloan on the Mandelaan and Ricky Stanfield on the Doghouse bass.
0:44.7	Music Jason Sloan on the mandolin and Ricky Stanfield on the doghouse base. Jason Sloan is a manufacturer, a builder of five manned lens, and he does this all in his garage.
0:48.8	It's a one-man operation. It's fun to watch him work.
0:50.9	Jason, tell us a little bit about your manolins.
0:56.3	Well, I started building mannlands in 2011. Made my first mandolin completely from scratch in L5. This is the one I play now. And so I've built through
1:04.7	the years L5 mandolins, A5 manilins. I've built one F4 mannland with the round hole.
1:15.4	And you can see my work, build blog, information, all that good stuff.
1:17.4	It's Sloanmanlands.com.
1:29.3	When I was a boy, they were the traveling missionary. He used to come to our church. He would play the banjo, and he'd play it like a man with his hair on fire.
1:34.3	He'd play hymns.
1:36.3	Hems that were sweet enough to make even heart and baptists by their heads and look into their laps.
1:43.3	That's no small feat for a man to make a Baptist look into their own lap.
1:50.5	Matt Jones is with us here today, young man with a banja,
1:53.0	and he's going to play, How great thou art. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm going to be. I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm
2:51.6	I'm
2:53.6	I'm
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