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FLOYD — During the second bluegrass piece that the senator joined in on, a waitress and a friend came out flatfoot dancing; by the fourth, Sen. Tim Kaine had ditched his BlackBerry, and at a nod from banjo player Alan Graf, took up the melody line to the song “New River Train” on his harmonica. Tim Kaine in Floyd from The Roanoke Times on Vimeo.Deep in the heart of reddest Virginia, the state’s junior, and definitively Democratic, U.S. senator was doing one of his favorite things: listening carefully, then unobtrusively joining in with the music.It’s not too much different from what he does in Washington, he explained a few minutes before sitting in on the Sunday afternoon jam at the Floyd Country Store.When he went to Washington six months ago, Kaine kept saying he wanted to try to break down some of the partisan walls that keep the government gridlocked.Six months on, he said, he sees signs of progress. The roots are pretty simple — and social. From casual, friendly contact,michael kors canada, he and the Senate’s other newcomers are finding they have much in common.The rest of the Senate got a reminder of that earlier this month when members gathered and finally fended off a showdown over filibuster rules.A key icebreaker in that session came when Kaine’s Russell Senate Office Building neighbor, Texas Republican Ted Cruz , stood up to say the Virginian “had gotten into political trouble by being nice to me,” as Kaine tells the story.He joined up with fellow Senate newcomer Deb Fischer, R-Neb., on a recent trip to Afghanistan and the Middle East, and has won backing from several Republicans for his first major bill, which would make it easier for military personnel to win civilian credentials for their service training.He and GOP stalwart John McCain have joined forces in an effort to clarify the status of the War Powers Act and the president’s responsibility to consult with Congress over foreign interventions by U.S. forces.It seems as unforced as the way Kaine makes music.“I can kind of keep up,” he says.Although he doesn’t read music and hadn’t heard many of the Sunday jam’s songs before, he said what works best is to listen for bit, try to follow the melody for one go-through, “and then I just do what seems to fit.”But then, that’s the way they do it at Floyd Country Store.So, when Christina Zawerucha, who just moved to Southwest Virginia from New York, asked if the musicians knew one of her favorites, “Adieu False Heart,” and they said they didn’t, she sang a few verses for them.Kaine, head cocked, listened closely. And when Mike Pendleton, who plays the fiddle for the Lone Ivy String Band, the group that anchors the jam, nodded, Kaine softly played the tune; one by one, guitars, violins and banjo s joined in.When Kaine told the musicians at the Floyd Country Store the songs he knew best were gospel ones, they had him sing “The Lord is My Light and My Salvation” in memory of a longtime Sunday afternoon jam fan who recently passed away.After the last verse, which invites all to “Wait on the Lord and be of courage,” half of the audience joined softly in the refrain: “Whom shall I fear.”“I had a pretty good choir back there,” Kaine said, thanking them, before one of the guitar players moved on to another song:“Where do I go, where do I go, to seek refuge for my soul?”The answer, evidently, was Floyd County, Virginia. |
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