Christopher Henry Surprises His Mom, Murphy Henry, With Album of All-Stars Playing Her Songs

At a recent concert, after her sound check, bluegrass veteran Murphy Henry heard music over the house speakers that stopped her in her tracks. Bewildered, she was hearing one of her original songs being sung by the Queen of Bluegrass Rhonda Vincent. Running through her mental bluegrass database, there was no notion found anywhere in her memory of Vincent recording her song “I Ain’t Domesticated Yet,” with its blatantly recognizable song title. And yet, there it was, coming through the speakers. Henry has been active in the bluegrass industry for many years, and as such has kept track of nearly everything that goes on in the genre. Therefore, the idea that a big bluegrass star would record one of her songs without her knowing it just didn’t make sense. Henry grew up in the church in Northern Georgia and came out of the folk music scene when she first began to perform with her guitar. After being talked into going to a bluegrass festival, she was hooked. At another bluegras