Whiskey

by Ken Waldman

For Mark Tamsula, Richard Withers, and Sam Bayard

Where does this music come from?
How to make fiddle and banjo dance
in and out, make sounds sometimes
simple as a single shot of whiskey?
Keep an ear out. You’ll soon enough
enter an era tough as these hills. Go back to
Yaugher Holler, near Dunbar, Fayette County.