Pretty Polly

This is one of those touching ballads where the singer stabs, strangles and drowns his loving woman then wonders why. 

• Ralph Stanley & Patty Loveless [utoob] with bluegrass band

• David Rawlings with Gillian Welch [utoob] guitar & sing

• Coon Creek Girls [utoob] string band, old recording

• Stringbean [utoob] banjo & sing

• Dock Boggs [utoob] banjo & sing, old recording

• New Battery Broadcasters from Charleston SC perform at Galax 2010 [utoob] with Birchfield-style banjo.

• Old Sledge [5th track]. We bought this CD at Watermelon Park. 

• Identical Strangers [utoob] very clear singing.

• Queen Adreena [utoob] electronic, pretty strange.

• Old: B.F. Shelton [mp3 player on The Bristol Sessions]

Not to be confused with:

• The Missouri fiddle tune called Pretty Polly. Roger Netherton plays fiddle [utoob].