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Pieces of Heart
Kate Long
This
CD features "Who'll
Watch the Homeplace," the Kate Long
original that became became the International Bluegrass Music Association
Song of the Year in 1994 after Laurie Lewis recorded it.
Of
"Homeplace," Kate told The Hampshire Review not
long ago, "The seed for that song was planted one night as
I passed a small farm in southern West Virginia that had a hand-lettered
FOR SALE sign on it. It was a beautiful little place, obviously
cared for. The thought came into my mind, 'those people don't really
want to leave.' At the time, some of my friends had to leave to
find jobs. I thought: Will the people who get this place love it
like the people who are leaving? And I heard the little voice singing,
'When I am gone from here.'I pulled out my little tape recorder
and sang that fragment onto it, so I wouldn't lose it."
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