Dec 14
Jamie Dailey shares some Favorite Memories
Editor’s note: We’ve met and visited with a lot of wonderful people in the bluegrass world in the past few years, and especially in the last six months that we’ve been involved in our Web site. We asked a handful of some memorable people we’ve visited with over the past year and invited them to share a bluegrass Christmas memory. Although we didn’t meet Jamie Dailey on the circuit this year, we’re looking forward to crossing his path, along with his new singing partner Darrin Vincent, in the months ahead. In the meantime, both heard about our holiday project and were gracious enough to offer a holiday reflection. You can read Darrin Vincent’s Christmas Memories here.
Jamie DaileyOne of my fondest memories of Christmas as a child was decorating our home the day after Thanksgiving. We would start on the outside. We lived on a hill above a beautiful lake, with surrounding hills and a huge bridge off in the distance that crossed the lake that fed into the Cumberland River. My dad and I would put up hundreds of lights all over the hillside and around the plank fence that went around our five acres of land. When it got dark we lit up the house and land, and you could see traffic literally stopping on the bridge across the lake as they looked at our lights. After that we went inside to help my mother put up decorations.
On Christmas day it was time to see what Santa had brought and to see if he had eaten the cookies we had left! Then Mama had Christmas dinner ready around 4:00 or so, something we still do. I loved every minute of it and still do!
I have continued the tradition of decorating and going all out at Christmas time. This year my family and I will celebrate Christmas in my new home in Brentwood, Tennessee. Everyone coming in town to visit is staying all night on Christmas Eve. I can’t wait!
Jamie S. Dailey
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