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twenty-five mile radius has been through here (Ronnie’s Place).
Out of curiosity, 1 asked Ronnie to define a ‘good ol bo/ since it is a term heard used frequently. “The term covers a lot of territory. When you say ‘good ol boy1, it means he wouldn’t do anything to harm you or cause you any problems. If you went to him for help, he would help you. If you need their instrument, here, take it. Just a good person all the way around. There are a lot of what we call ‘good ol boys.’
It’s just what it says, just darn good people. There are a lot of ‘good ol boys’ at the pickings. My wife and I have met many nice people, good friends.
“When we play down here a lot of the time, you gotta feel the music. It’s not just only the instrument and knowing what chords to use, but you gotta put some feeling into it. It’s hard to describe what I am trying to say. There are tunes that you can chord and get by with it. When you really get into it, though, you feel it. You almost get it automatically. Everything flows and you become part of the music.
“And you gotta good bunch of musicians, everything’s tuned right, and everything is going right and you’re playing good and hard bluegrass and you get into another world. It’s something that you just can’t describe, the feeling you get from it.
“Johnny Clark told me years and years ago, ‘You got to feel it to play it.’
“The music and the people have meant a good deal to my life. Maybe I’m just a dumb ol country boy, but I think that if a child in school takes some type of music, I just got it in my head that they’d do better than the next kid. It might just be my imagination. Music is a good thing.”
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