“I Can’t Go On This Way” was written by Noah Crase, a banjo player, and recorded by the Valley Ramblers in 1967 for a small Ohio label.
The song is a bluegrass ballad of lost love. Worn down by heartache, the singer admits that he cannot go on as things are; the lyric is a plain confession of someone at the end of his strength.
The obscure 1960s recording was revived by the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, a younger band devoted to the traditional bluegrass sound.
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