Sean of the South

[Tidewater]

Has someone on the board heard of this guy, Sean Dietrich. Combination music hostorian and musician and has a blog and does occasional videos. Here is one I stumbled across.

He does shows here and there. Doing a couple in Birmingham in December. Might be interesting.

 

[Tidewater]

He seems like a good cross between musician and story-teller.
To me, it is really interesting the way Scottish & Irish music crossed the Atlantic and became something American.

 

[Padreruf]

He seems like a good cross between musician and story-teller.
To me, it is really interesting the way Scottish & Irish music crossed the Atlantic and became something American.

I listened to him and you are right on target. His songs are one's that dominated the old South Christian music before WWII -- primarily in the rural areas. And there were a lot of rural areas and churches.

 

[OakMtn4Bama]

https://1819news.com/news/item/sean-of-the-south-the-social-experiment

A Sean article from 1819. He is always entertaining.

 

[alabama mike1]

Never heard of him.

 

[Tidewater]

Never heard of him.

You should check him out.

 

[Tidewater]

Here are a couple of others worth a quick listen.

I never knew the story behind "I saw the Light." A very Alabama kind of song.

 

[AlistarWills]

we love Sean in this house. He has fb pages where he writes stories. (Sean Dietrich and Sean of the South). We went to one of his shows a few years back and loved it. He has a podcast that goes back a few years and then there’s a hiatus period before he recently revived it. He grew up around South Alabama/FL panhandle region. Basically, he dropped out of school after his father unalived himself. Learned through the school of hard knocks. He’s quite the musician. Been on stage at The Opry. His writings can be seen on his fb pages, newspapers and magazines alike. He’s very relatable.

 

[dayhiker]

His FB page is definitely worth a follow.