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Named after a minor but memorable character on the Andy Griffith Show and written by Ronnie Bowman and Dan Tyminski — banjo man Sammy Shelor’s Lonesome River Band colleagues from the early s — the tune first appeared on Shelor’s solo release, Leading Roll. Almost immediately, it was adopted by parking lot pickers and semi-professional groups, and over the years, it has become an organic standard favored across the bluegrass spectrum, as liable to turn up on a Billy Strings set list as at a late-night North Carolina bluegrass festival jam session. Indeed, it w

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