About This Song
About "(Say) Won't You Be Mine" by Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs And The Stanley Brothers
A high, lonesome plea from the Stanley Brothers' catalog, this bluegrass cut trembles with earnest longing. The banjo's brittle roll and the close-harmony vocals create a tension between polite courtship and raw need. 'Won't you be mine' hangs in the air like a question that might never be answered.
