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Saturday Afternoon Country: The Carter Family

It’s a beautfiul sunny* afternoon heralding the start of summer and so here, to celebrate that, is Maybelle Carter and the girls with one of their many classics, Wildwood Flower:

*Sod’s Law dictates it will pour with rain next Saturday since that’s when our cricket season begins.

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