New millennial Ragtime Blues

Greatness moves across the vast American expanse
Continental drifters making gold records
Busking eternal neon street corners
Crooning tales of mountain witches and vengeance
West Virginia coal camp dust
Kicking busted floorboards
Down the hillbilly highway and back
Stringing stacatoed 16th notes
From the southern Appalachian trail
Pine sap Georgia box car tunes
Florida sweaty swamps, South Carolina coastal dunes,
Back up through the Cumberland gap,
Old traditions run deep as mountain springs
That place where, Irish, African-American, and Native American all meet-
Where Elvis learned to stomp his feet,
Jerry Lee to pound the keys,
Rual music and indigenous music, and the pioneer spirit of young post war America built Rock and roll....

Its spirit still lingers today....