Little Birdie (Rosco Halcomb)/Farewell Blues/Martha White (Earl Scruggs) Lee Sexton December 2003

(He is playing a 1927 Gibson Mastertone ( same model as Uncle Dave Macon) with a 1950 head and resonator.)
Lee’s infamous cousin Roscoe recorded this for John Cohen in 1963. On the Grand Old Opry back in its heyday they were sponsored by Martha White Self-Rising Flour, and Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs perfomed this commercial hundreds of times. Lee first began playing professionally on radio in 1941, and had grown up listening to his heroes on the opry as well as learning from his realatives such as his famous uncle Morgan Sexton ( A documentary film was made about him by Apple shop Inc.)
https://www.folkstreams.net/film-detail.php?id=216)