Issue: From the Chesapeake Bay Magazine Archives Destination:
Tappahannock, VA  Just an old sweet song—and 35 miles of
river—put this small  Rappahannock town on the list of favorite
cruises. [May 2008]  By Jody Argo Schroath Photograph by Starke
Jett  This was me, sailing my boat and singing:Come on, Bill,
let's take them for an old country rock. / Let's go back down on
the Rappahannock, down Tappahannock way. / Whip it, Bill, while
everybody rocks. The song is Bill Moore's early blues
composition "Old Country Rock," but my rendition of it could
not, alas, have been counted in any way a success, since I am
incapable of carrying a tune. However, I thought maybe Moore's
ghost would be okay with it because (a) I was sailing alone and
therefore not subject to mutiny, and (b) I was in fact sailing
up the Rappahannock on my way to visit Tappahannock, Va. 
Moore, who had been a barber in Tappahannock, was also a leading
bluesman of the East Coast or Piedmont variety. He recorded this
song and five others of his ow