VARIOUS ARTISTS, "Songs From Lyon County," Gracey Holler Music. Nine tracks
Dennis Duff, a native of Lyon County, Ky., wrote all nine of these songs.
He's joined on vocals by Paul Brewster, Josh Shilling, Bradley Walker and Darin and Brooke Aldridge.
Lyon County is down where the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers create Kentucky and Barkley lakes.
"Wilson Holler" is a moonshine song about an area that supplied 'shine to Al Capone back in the 1920s.
"Hey Mr. TVA" tells the story of damming the rivers to create the lakes and supply hydroelectric power to the Tennessee Valley _ and the impact it had on the families who lost their homes.
"Road To Dover" is nostalgia for a road that ran through western Kentucky to Dover, Tennessee.
"Night Riders" tells the story of vigilantes who enforced their own brand of justice in days gone by.
"TC & Pearl" is a love story that begins at a revival meeting.
"Castle on the Cumberland" finds a man serving a life sentence at the Kentucky State Penitentiary in Eddyville.
"Iron Hill" tells the story of a bunch of hobos waiting to hitch a ride of a train as he slows for the steep grade ahead.
"'37 Flood" is about the worst flooding in the recorded history of the Ohio Valley in 1937.
And "When I Leave Kentucky" tells about a man who says he won't leave his home until he's dead.
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