Shady Grove (song)

Shady Grove (song)

Shady Grove is an 18th-century folk song popular in the United States. As it is usually played, the melody uses a Dorian pentatonic scale. Many verses exist, most of them describing the speaker's love for a woman called Shady Grove. There are also various choruses, which refer to the speaker traveling somewhere (to Harlan, to a place called Shady Grove, or simply "away"). The melody is strikingly similar to that of an old English ballad, Matty Groves.

Recordings

There are numerous artists who have recorded this song, notably:
*Jerry Garcia, Tony Rice and David Grisman on the Pizza Tapes
* Garcia and Grisman also recorded it on their album, Shady Grove
*Doc Watson
*Big Joe Williams
*Blood Oranges
*Quicksilver Messenger Service on the album of the same name
*Bill Monroe
*Jean Ritchie
*The Kingston Trio performed on their live album "...from the hungrey i"
*Richard Fariña
*Patty Loveless
*Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder
*Kerosene Brothers, also better known as Hayseed Dixie
*Crooked Still
*Mudcrutch, Tom Petty's first band, on their debut album released in 2008
*Kris Drever
*Pinmonkey
*The Everly Brothers

Trivia

Shady Grove is part of the soundtrack of Take This Hammer (http://www.take-this-hammer.com), a movie about the building of dry stack stone walls.

External links

* [http://www.contemplator.com/child/mattie.html Mattie Groves] , an old English ballad with a very similar melody.
* [http://www.floridamemory.com/Collections/folklife/folklife_cd4.cfm A live version of Shady Grove by Doc Watson recorded at the 1996 Florida Folk Festival; made available for public use by the State Archives of Florida.]


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