Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. One of the most famous bluegrass songs ever started out as a rocker by Manfred Mann. It flopped in America but was a Top 5 UK single just before the group split up; they resurfaced in the 70’s as Manfred Mann’s Earth Band. Banjo player Bill Emerson (later with the Country Gentlemen from Washington, DC) turned the song into a bluegrass standard. Tom T. Hall had a country hit with his take in 1976.
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