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Our Captains are humble people, but… Some of them are SO talented that from time to time, the Harbourmaster will persuade them to “show off” just for you. Watch and listen as Gordon Mote displays a skill that will have you laughing and shaking your head in astonishment!
Here’s Jimmy performing a song he wrote AND recorded—that just went #1 on the Bluegrass charts…”Bone Dry!”
The idea for “Let It Heal” began years ago with the memory of a dark night at a friend’s lake house. While staring into the flames of a campfire and purposefully releasing his grip on negative thoughts, Anthony Crawford realized he had created space in his life for more positive things.
For some reason, I remember it being a Thursday. With lightning speed, my dad’s callused right hand landed on my face. I lifted my arms in a feeble attempt to block the next blow, but the left hand was also successful in finding its target.
In 1864, during some of The Civil War’s bloodiest fighting, poet Robert Lowry penned words of optimistic direction to a nation divided. Put to a simple melody, the song eventually became known by its first line.
The day this song was written, Jimmy Yeary had received a call from a family member who admitted she was suffering through a dark time. She was not only deeply depressed, but ashamed to tell anyone. “I just feel so isolated,” she told Jimmy, and added, “It’s as if I’ve been abandoned.”
Poking fun at the “family he never had,” Anthony wrote Cabin on the Hill with the same tongue-in-cheek he had written one of Sugarcane Jane’s biggest hits, Pedigree.
Jimmy was raised in a little town named Hillsboro, Ohio. One particular morning, he was really homesick and wishing he could–at least for a moment–return to the place he’d grown up.
With Gordon Mote on keyboard and The Settles Connection providing background vocals, the classic is performed here by Buddy Greene.