Carolina Quotes
[W]hen I sing "Young Emily" it's like I am transported back in time to that little girl that held on to the tail of that cow and I can smell warm milk in my mind, in my mind's nose I guess is what you'd say, because it takes me back to especially in the early spring and the late fall when Granny was milking the steam would rise up out of that bucket and I can still smell that smell whenever I sing that song.
Sheila Kay Adams Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Interview with Josephine Reed on her porch in Madison County, North Carolina, Art Works podcast, National Endowment for the Arts, September 2013
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- Art Works podcast, NEA
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- 2013
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“when I sing "Young Emily" it's like I am transported back in…” Sheila Kay Adams. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-EF2BFCD023. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/ef2bfcd023
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Do you know the funny thing is that when I sing "Young Emily" it's like I am transported back in time to that little girl that held on to the tail of that cow and I can smell warm milk in my mind, in my mind's nose I guess is what you'd say, because it takes me back to especially in the early spring and the late fall when Granny was milking the steam would rise up out of that bucket and I can still smell that smell whenever I sing that song.
I wonder how many more things I missed because I just didn't know the right question to ask
Well, mountain people don't like change for one thing and the other thing is that they stay in the same place. It's just like the woman that I refer to as Granny. Granny lived, was married, raised her children, buried all of them but one, buried her husband, and then died and was buried herself within a five-mile radius