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great stuff

INCREDIBLE

Less pedals more practice.

I have no idea how this hit my facebook feed but it did. There was no sound as I was scrolling and I noticed your right hand. I thought this has to be a really great or a really awful player. I turned on the sound and was floored. I can't stop playing this over and over. Really great job.

Every time I hear wi get that sad melancholy thing that I actually love

I just played along with my mandolin and it was beautiful! Such a great song by George.

Beautiful rendition. That III chord sub at :38!

Beauty. Touch. Tone. Timing. Love. What a song! Wow, I just watched the YT you mentioned of her in her fancy gloves talking about how this song came along to her! You have paid her a great tribute. More YT stories about her too. Cindy Walker from Mexia,Texas.

Beautiful! One the greatest, saddest love songs ever written.

10/10 beautiful!

We will always love you Michael!

Michael, Any chance you might add Mississippi John Hurt’s, “That Lonesome Valley” to your Lonesome Fridays playlist? I’d just love to hear your rendition of that beauty. 😊

Drop D sounds great👍🎶

WOW, is all I can say!

That was great! I will return to your channel and probably subscribe! Actuall I going to!

I love these songs you play! Excellent guitar playing and vocals!

ANOTHER Stanley tune...... Carter is to bluegrass as Hank is to country.

Powerful good singing and pickin! Thanks for making my day,Michael.

Great cover of this song. Your channel deserves a lot more subscribers.

Great playing.

The darker the times, the more powerful the music. Keep on strummin'

Love Dolly and the message in this story and your comment. Staying tough💙

Michael, I enjoyed your performance here. AND I also loved the note in your description. (And of course I always love when you play the J-50)

Love Dolly & this song. Donna & I hope it makes the setlist in Brooklyn next weekend.

Love your singing, playing and song selection! Thanks for making my day!

Cool!

Fantastic vocals and guitar!

I love Lefty and Merle! Man this was awesome! Beautiful dounding guitar snd solo.

I had no idea that was a Dolly song. That was fantastic!

Hey Michael, Interesting the mellowish kinda bluesy 70's sound you gave to this one. It was more contemporary sounding to me, complex and beautifully crafted. I was wondering if you might sometime play that electric mandolin you've got there behind you? Your guitar sounded great, as ever. Maybe that was a viola, on the wall, but it looked something like a Breedlove mandolin. I'm learning the mandolin, myself, and I'm pretty obsessed with the sound of it. There aren't as many mandolin artists as guitarists, that I've found recorded with Adirondack-tradition, mountain-style music and folk ballads, and the like; so I've been listening to Mississipi John Hurt for that picking that's like a train wheel going round; and Elmore James, for his wonderful slide guitar,... to hear the sounds I like. Your voice often sounds to me like a mandolin made into a man; especially when you do the Adirondack-high mountain style of singing with the breaks in your voice and yodelish sounds. That's my favorite of your vocal stylings. I hope you'll treat us with some mando, if you get the yen....

Yeee haw. This one makes the floor bounce, and invites one to get to some dancin', against one's will! Expertly and authentically played and sung!... I'm glad you had the daisy shirt to keep things light. That was some serious mountain, dancing grief! It sounded like the protagonist must've been moving on alright, though, because everyone around him would've had to be dancing and swinging their gals around the room, if he could play like you play and sing!

Oooooh eeee. I want to dance a jig around a campfire and kick up my heels to this. You caught the bouncy fun of it, as well as the fascinating, technically surprising changes. Masterful, as usual. Thank you for taking the time, Michael. I hope you record absolutely everything you enjoy and learn to play. There's no one else who brings your decisiveness and responsiveness to these festivals of musicality! It's great to see you enjoy it, too. The house is coming down over that performance. Super fast, but still so melodically coherent and nuanced!

Thank you so much for carefully curating these arrangements for your Lonesome Fridays' sets. You play everything with such an astonishingly confident attack, I always feel that you've written it yourself and feel every bit of the meaning of it, with no apologies. Somehow, even with that signature strength in your approach, the plaintive sweetness always comes through. What a treat.

Love the low notes in the vocals and the bouncing beat. Cool lyrics, and groovin' Cajun/folk/back-country hybrid sound. Love it. I wish you could hear us all clap!

That was fun to hear you play that guitar (not the vintage plywood one with the nice scratchy ring", with this lonesome sounding song. Nice ironies in the lyrics. I just love to hear your voice. There's no one else that can touch you with this distinctly American sound.

Ferocious! Your voice and intonation is a dynamic living piece of American history. Michael, you are a treasure! I'm learning mandolin and love to watch your performances for inspiration, because your voice seems like what my mandolins would sound like, if they came to life and could sing to me, without the limitation of my capacity to use their strings....

Lefty is spinning in his grave. With joy.

awesome dude....

Allow my blasphemous statement please. This is better than Lefty left it.

Really, really good.

Thanks Michael great song and awesome cover!

Thank you this is awesome.

Awesome Michael!!!!!! Perfect.

Thanks Michael this is really good and enjoyable!!

Good lord this jam was cooking

Michael, it is super cool! Love the sound of this old guitar. Cheers!

Is the guitar tuned down a whole step? I was trying to play along and surprised to find it in true G despite the capo…

Superb!! Love your Lonesome Fridays-posts!

Awesome!

He sure knows how to get the best out of that crappy old guitar.