Such a family you got. My girlfriend love this. 😁 well she knows these family values better than I. Sounds perfect to me.

What an incredibly fun song. Great lyrics. Your family sound like they're a great hang. Best wishes to granny.

I was tapping my toes and bopping my head. Laughed at the tattoo lyric :) This is such a professional production. Great work, John!! I second @catmisgivings below. I'd love to meet someone someday from a functional family. LOL. As Tolstoy said, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

Ah, family. Ever met someone from a "functional" family? Yeah, me neither!

Love your bluegrass tunes. The instruments mesh perfectly and your vocals fit this type of song like a glove. Classic John Staples song. Outstanding!

What a cast of characters! Every line is a total hoot! Love the harmonies, the fiddling, the whole production is top notch.

Oh, dang, John. The sweet specificity of teaching Sunday School in jeans just pulled me in and everything about the song kept me there. Some songs are worth waiting for. It feels like an invitation to write more verses about all our own families. And yes to Gary’s harmonies.

Oh my goodness, those added harmonies add such a beautiful lift!

Love the vibes and story in this song! Perfectly arranged too. Wonderful, thanks for the inspiration to write about my own family.

New harmonies in the chorus (chef’s kiss)!

I’m already jiggling - only just started - past ass great rhyme- I am in tears here - what a work of art. Love the little tone shift in family at the end of the section. Brilliant- who’s fiddling?

Fantastic traditional (but NEW0 bluegrass! The alternating lead instruments, and full selection of backing instruments - just great!

That's a proper cowboy treatment. Makes me feel right at home, excellent work.

Now that’s some down home, good time stomping music. A fun song and great production. Excellent instrumentation… would have been absolutely perfect with a strong harmony on the ‘that family of mine’ in the chorus. Great job!

Hey is Granny the same one who does the beans??? https://fawm.org/songs/318761

wheee ooooch!!!!! (as we would say in Scotland). Go Granny!!! I have loved every thing you have put up.

You had me dancing in my chair. I love all the layers. The outro fiddle is awesome!

Okay, now this is one to be sung around a campfire (when the weather warms up, obviously!) Tight write and I had a smile on my face from start to finish. This one deserves a video now that you've finished it! :) Hey this could work for the Finish It! Challenge! 😃

Superb bluegrass, straight out of those blue rollin'hills of Kentucky!

Oh YES, loving the country tune! I grew up in South Georgia, and this is giving me flashbacks of some group jams I used to be a part of! Music and lyrics rock!

Pretty hard core country--I don't recall hearing that much of this from you in the past (whereas about half of what I do is country). Really a great song!! ❤️

I think you have every country trope possible in here! Some great playing and writing. Hate to be in your family though.

Think I saw your Grandmas face on a wanted poster here in Reno. This one is so much fun! I love the lyrics. You could be singing about my family too. Are we cousins?

Dude, one second in and I went, “hell ya!” Your banjo picking is off the chain, and the mandolin solo was 👌 chef’s kiss. All the elements come together beautifully and masterfully. By the end of the song I was singing harmonies with the chorus.

Loving this bluegrass jam!!!!! I’m a sucker for a fiddle, so that drew me in immediately. Love that you took the style of music that came from your home state to talk about your family, very fitting! Enjoyed hearing these lyrics, playful and fun. Great overall performance.

Love it! Bring on the lightheartedness of 2013!

OH HALE YEA-US!!!! I LOVE this song soooo much!!! Of course it's right down my kentucky alley!! The melody here is super catchy and the fiddle solos are divine!! I love Love LOVE the chorus!! It's already stuck in my head and I'll be hummin it all frikkin day!! 😂 The lyric are just perfect!! So many awesome lines like "on Wednesday night we're burnin' bush on Thursday we're all fried" LOL!! And yepper I caught the Johnny Cash reference too!! Man I needed an upbeat funny song to start my day!! As usual your vocals are outa the park excellent!! I just can't think of anything about this tune that I don't love!! Thanks John!! Splendid job!! Ok now I'm gonna have to write a bluegrass tune too - I've been inspired by the best!!

Man, grandma was a badass. The production is really good. That fiddle especially and the mandolin chops are on point. A nice proper hoedown!

a little bit of kentucky coming down to nashville to remind them all what country music is all about. the best shitkickin music i have heard in a long time..and those lyrics dont miss a beat. i especially love the grandma verse with its nods to both johnny cash and bessie smith. if people in hony tonks still go wild, here is a song to jack up the wildness a few notches.

Very enjoyable listen. Sounds like some colorful characters in your family. Definite foot stomper. Well done.

It needed to marinate and came out great indeed. Love love love the fiddle and mandolin. The lyrics, so many just made me snort…starting with picturing your dad’s ass tattoo right at the start 😂 Did grandma do everything leading up to the electric chair though?

How awesome to return to something 13 years later, I love that. Clever lyrics, and the music fits in perfectly. Sounds like you got some interesting family history in there!

This would have them.j umping in the aisles played live, maybe at the barn dance. Real toe tapper! I'm disappointed in johnny cash he always be claimed he shot that man. Class playing.

Heh, no judgement, except that they sound fun! Great characters. I really like the setup, it's toe-tappingly good and the fiddle adds such satisfying country vibes. I could eat it up on a plate. The changing choruses also worked really well going through the days of the week.

You should be proud. Sounding good and the lyrics is what had me stuck listening to the end.