Moon Mullican used to be required knowledge for every son and daughter of the beautiful Missouri Ozark foothills I call home.
Nobody sang like Moon, but everybody’s grandmother tried to play the piano like him.
Here’s one Moon wrote about a little boy whose family had been ravaged by tuberculosis.
And another one that tells how families are torn apart by the death of a dear mother.
But the most requested Moon Mullican song at jam sessions fifty years ago and today is hands down, I’ll Sail My Ship Alone.
But of the dozens of Moon Mullican songs, my pick is Goodnight Irene.
Moon Mullican fit no specific genre.
It’s been said he inspired rockabilly.
But he sure could make those beer bottles bounce on the tables.