Redeeming A Song From the Folk Scare

I heard this song quite a bit as a toddler. Sadly, it was not this version that I heard.

I don’t know what possessed such appalling third-rate “folk” singers as The Limeliters and Trini Lopez to think they could interpret this song with anything approaching authenticity. I only know that, when I finally heard this version, I stopped hating the song altogether.

Here are Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys with “Gotta Travel On”.