10/22/05 NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday
Length: 4:37 ~ Listen
Country music historian Bill C. Malone shares childhood memories of growing up as a sharecropper's son on a farm during the Depression, and gathering around the radio to hear hillbilly and country music. One particular song, Rex Griffin’s “The Last Letter,” became a family favorite and a song that Malone and his brothers played when they first learned to play guitar.
Performances of "The Last Letter" are sung by Rex Griffin, the Carter Family and Bill C. Malone.
