Maybe You Will Change Your Mind

The lyric is a hopeful heartbreak song — a jilted lover holding onto the slim chance that his sweetheart will reconsider and come back to him. That mix of hurt and stubborn hope, set against Reno’s bright banjo and the duo’s smooth harmony, was characteristic of the Reno and Smiley sound.

The song settled into the bluegrass repertoire and was revived by later traditional bands. The version heard here is by the Johnson Mountain Boys, from their 1987 album “Let the Whole World Talk” — a younger band carrying forward exactly this kind of classic Reno and Smiley material.