Sam Bush has such an incredible sense of rhythm on that mandolin...never a need for a drummer. Bela, of course, has gone on to push boundaries, i.e.......performing the entire score of Rhapsody In Blue for banjo.
I feel so sorry for anyone that never had the opportunity to se NGR live. I've seen and been part of many bands in my career and I have never seen anyone generate the energy they did live. You had to be there....Unreal.
One time back in the early 80's around the time this Austin City Limits show was filmed, I had the pleasure of going to Tut's, a small club in Chicago with Emmylou Harris, and her drummer and bass player and his girlfriend, to sit together with them and dance with Emmylou until 3am to the amazing reggae band Burning Spear! She was so much fun to dance with in her own unique country western style of dancing, but to reggae! What a riot! I adore this classy talented woman! She has the best female voice in folk/country on the planet!
been a big fan of both Emmylou and Rodney for many years. This is easily the best musical performance every by Rodney on "Queen of Hearts". Great to see them both on this old Austin City Limits. So many years, on Saturday night I would sit home watching the show at 10pm on the local ETV station before running down to see who was at the local bar when it was over.
Początek ...taki chropowaty....pewnie i dalej taki będzie- bo to , a nieznam się na tej muzyce - ale ogólnie ogarniam - to brzmienie cantry - takie szczere , wesołe, a że...chropowate....To jak chropowate jest życie w goniąc z lassem byczka. A Ona - no cóż - prześliczna dziewczyna -w której zakochują się kowboje - kochają bardzo ...A jednak odjeżdżają- coś ich gna w ostępy niepewnego jutra - taki zew natury - który doświadcza niejeden Samiec. Napewno każdy zna wiele Westernów - w których bardzo kochająca dziewczyna wypatruje coraz bardziej oddalającego się kochanego. I właśnie taką widzę tę Piękną Piosenkarkę. Dla mnie jest prześliczna!!! Pewnie pamiętacie niejeden film o tym jak dziewczyna wyjeżdżą z małego miasteczka robi na swój sposób zawrotną karierę- i któregoś dnia (z różnych przyczyn) wraca na chwilę do swego miasteczka. I tam odnajduje coś co dawno temu zgubiła- swojà podmiotowość. I tam znów odkrywa że chłopczyk z którym się bawiła niejest już chłopczykiem... I idą na imprezę- na której okazuje się że znają/pamiętają ją wszyscy - a ona przytulona do swego ukochanego w rytm tego typu ...chropowatej ...muzyki coraz bardziej czuje że już tu zostanie. Tak mi się teraz, pierwszy raz słuchając tego koncertu skojarzyło. Jeśli się komuś niespodoba - trudno....ale lubię takie filmy - a Takie Kobiety jak Ta Piosenkarka z tamtych lat - uwielbiam!!!! Wygląda ciepło i serdecznie❤
I remember being on a business trip to Nashville in, I think 1986, and there was a huge billboard in downtown Nashville, that said, “ right on Rodney!”. This was to acknowledge and celebrate that Mr. Crowell had written and recorded something like eight number one hits!
This Austin City Limits episode is the 3rd episode of Season 20, broadcast on PBS in 1995. It marks the 20th anniversary of Austin City Limits (1976-1995) and features an all-star bluegrass special with performances by Ricky Skaggs, Larry Sparks, and Ralph Stanley. Austin City Limits was introduced to bluegrass fans during Season 2 in 1977. That season featured a bluegrass performance by the legendary Earl Scruggs and The Earl Scruggs Revue.👍
Graham Parsons: one of the most over-rated, rich-boy, singer/song-writers of the 'country-rock' genre. Fortunately, Hillman kept him on a tight leash for The Gilded Palace of Sin.
I was a child of the 1960s and I grew up loving the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Moody Blues, the Kinks, the Rascals, the Lovin' Spoonful, Spirit, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, Led Zep, the Grateful Dead, Crosby Stills & Nash, etc. etc. etc. But when I was stunned by the world-class talent of these four guys while watching this very episode of Austin City Limits way back in 1987, I quickly realized that I was witnessing the absolute best band in the history of recorded music regardless of genre. I love the Sam Bush Band, the John Cowan Band, and Bela & the Flecktones, but the mid-to-late 1980s NGR line-up of Sam Bush, John Cowan, Bela Fleck, and Pat Flynn are simply the best musicians and harmony singers that the world has ever produced. Not a week goes by that I do not crank up their music on my monster vintage home audio system. There simply has never been anyone else like them and I am always grateful for the few years that they managed to stay together and play for all of us.
I too remember NGR's unforgettable take on "new grass"! They had a brief, meteoric rise, but still stayed below the radar of so many bluegrass and acoustic music fans. Why? Who knows, but it's their loss. As for me, I enjoy country and bluegrass in any package. NGR, the foursome, still outshines the musicianship of today's big names.
I'm only 44 and I'm jealous? Lmfao One of my uncles was a roadie. He has a hand drum signed by Rare Earth. He still stole $1000 worth of stuff stored at his parents/my grandparents back. I got my Technics 1300 back..... Ask me if I'm jealous? Yeah.
My wife and I used to go to Telluride, Colorado to attend the Bluegrass Festival. New Grass played with others such as Bill Monroe, Bruce Hornsby to name a few. Great times were had by all. Especially if you brought your cloggers.
I'm soon to be 74 years old and of course I love this and love anything to do with Emmy. A word of caution though for those that think this music was so much better than now! I find that if you dig you can find artists today that are putting out truly great stuff. A young man named Tyler Childers has been around for a while and is worth a listen. Miranda Lambert on the Marfa tapes- Awesome. Many others. Don't get me wrong I could listen to Townes, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell all day and be happy but as times change, I say have an open mind! Burlington Bill busking on the road and here on you tube (some original stuff)
I hear you echoing my own words. College radio and free form, tho there aren’t as many, YT. Great Christian singer just popped up, Josiah Queen, a lot of Piedmont Blues in his sound, like the Avett Brothers
@@burlingtonbill4687 it’s just great to see people who know the history and bring it forward. I’ve loved the Avetts since forever. I think it was Vin Scelsa on WFUV who introduced me to them.
I am 48 and was introduced to gram back in 94 ! The flying burrito brothers. That guilded place of sin album. Then the byrds sweetheart of the radio. Amazing amazing hidden gems! It was only when I was Emmy lu at Bonnaroo music festival in 2003. She covers a frying burrito brothers song that I went back and did the research that I found the fallen angels, God bless her I love the wrecking ball album from Emmy lu! When we saw her at Bonnaroo in 03 it started raining and the sun was out ! She has us all in TEARS! LOVE THD SOUND AND THE COMPANY SHE BROUGHT IN!!
Our emotions are a reflectom of our thoughts. We love because God first loved us. We don't pray to change God's mind. God opens our heart in prayer so we can align our heart with God's will. ❤
I'll tell you about this show. In the 1980s, I was in my 30s. It was a terrible time. No spousal prospects at all after years of hoping and trying. This show usually aired on Sunday night, and back then cable was not on the radar for most people. So, when a young person made it through another disappointing weekend, ALONE, seeing this show come on the air was confirmation of another failed week in the dating game. If you had nothing better to do on a Sunday evening than find yourself watching public television for a music show with music you didn't even like, you knew life was pretty much as mediocre as it can get. Lots of bad memories around Austin City Limits. Now, 45 years later, things still haven't changed, except I don't watch public television on Sunday nights anymore. Now I surf youtube for camping adventures. And oh, by the way, my little Jack Russell Penelope is all the company I need, thank you very much. The forced MGTOW was ok after all.
@@markpaulick262 You completely missed the point of my comments. The point was how sad life was at that time realizing that when you end an empty, lonely weekend watching something on public television, you know your life is over. As far as pbs goes? It is a leftist, communist cesspool of BS.
This seems to be the best quality of sound and video for this concert on YT, so thanks. I love the "renegade" kind of raspy and ethereal Emmylou here. I was a rocker and bought Elite Hotel because of local "progressive rock" FM station WJLN in Birmingham, AL turning me on to Emmylou with the cuts they played from Elite Hotel. Thus began a long and enduring love of her music. I had only heard James Taylor's version of Millworker until this video and I might like this version even better which says a lot since I found that song as Taylor performed it really moving as related to my own factory experience and in my mind conjuring an earlier time when the factory was, perhaps, the only choice for so many hapless workers during the industrial revolution.
