The Local Honeys Share Old-Time Songs & Stories About East Kentucky Music | CONTRARY WESTERN

The day after the record release show for their self-titled third record, The Local Honeys stopped by Carter Vintage Guitars to talk to us about the profound influence traditional music has had on their lives—and the ways in which that music has connected them even closer to East Kentucky.

Following up on “The Local Honeys' New Take on Old-Timey Folk Traditions,” their interview with Anna LoPinto for Ranchlands, The Local Honeys dove deep into their connections to Cowan Creek Mountain Music School, where they’ve made music, mentored, and been mentored over the years. Based in Whitesburg, Kentucky, the school has created a community of folks who’ve found the timelessness in the stories that can only be told through traditional music.

“You hear certain songs for the first time and they knock the wind out of you the first time you hear them, and they continually do,” Montana said. “Because anybody that has an interest in traditional music has a duty and a fear that this music is going to be lost—if it’s not passed down, from me to her, from her to you, then in twenty years that song is not going to be around.”

Picking out a vintage banjo and acoustic guitar from the iconic Nashville shop, The Local Honeys also performed a pair of stunning songs: “Octavia Triangle,” which they learned at Cowan Creek Mountain Music School from dear friend Jimmy McCown, and “We Shall All Be Reunited,” a gospel song by Alfred G. Karnes, the Baptist preacher who recorded a half-dozen songs in the Bristol Sessions before returning to the pulpit because, as Linda Jean noted, in Karnes’ eyes “the musician’s life wasn’t on the straight and narrow.”

Check out “The Local Honeys' New Take on Old-Timey Folk Traditions” by Anna LoPinto over at Ranchlands—with special thanks to Carter Vintage Guitars for the space and time that came together to create this one-of-a-kind session.

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Videography by Kip Kubin
Color by Alex Hochstetler
Edited by Sam Farahmand
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Directed & Produced by Contrary Western in Nashville, Tennessee