Borned in Ya

I don’t think you can get this sound unless it’s borned in ya’, said bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley, when asked what he considered ‘old-time mountain music’. When Melissa Carper heard those words, something jumped inside her. While staying in the country with a friend, she found an old DVD of ‘Down From the Mountain’,’ the documentary and concert film of the ‘O, Brother Where Art Thou’ soundtrack that featured this particular Stanley interview. She immediately jotted down ‘borned in ya’ on a piece of paper. ‘I knew I had to write that song’, she recalls.