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John Gooding

John Gooding

Guitarist for the GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass band The Po' Ramblin' Boys, based in Sevierville, Tennessee.

Oct 13, 2026

118:32
Bye.
118:41
Well, the blues are close in kind Coming faster than I planned The blues walked in when you walked out the door But I'm all alone tonight And they got me in their sights For me, the blues keep knocking at my door Oh, the blues are coming, I see them Coming tonight, oh, they're chasing after me Oh, the tears in my eyes, the tears that I've cried These little blues just won't let me be Thank you.
119:23
Well, I sit here in my mystery, wondering if you'll match me.
119:27
My heart is broken, I don't know what to do.
119:29
Well, the sun will come up tomorrow, I'll hang and steal and borrow, do anything to keep from feeling blue.
119:37
Oh, the blues start coming, I see them coming, and I know they're chasing after me.
119:43
Oh, the tears in my eyes, the tears in the pride, these mean old blues just won't let me be.

16 MINS LATER

135:32
him that little song, that old-timey song.
4:00
Yeah.
4:01
I moved out to Tennessee.
4:03
My older brother was already, he went to ETSU for a year and was playing with Little Roy.
4:08
And I moved out in 2022, the very end of 22, to work with Roy and Lizzie, worked with them for two years.
4:17
And then in that time, I started working at the Old Smokey Distilleries here in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, where I live now.
4:25
And that's where I met CJ, our mandolin player.
4:27
I had met him.

15 MINS LATER

19:30
And,

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