81Crowe POV | Mo Pitney - Blue Ridge Cabin Home 

I am from Croatia, people look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them I love country music. Well, they should listen to this.

If that don't set you on fire, then your wood is wet.

Man, these young people are killing it! We are in good hands!

Whomever is doing the harmonizing is doing a great job! And so is the lead of course

Some of the finest backup on banjo a man could pay for. And we got it for free. Russ, this is grade A bluegrass.

Mo's the BEST thing going on in Country music today

Definitely should make more videos like this. The first person view is amazing 👏

That'll put the butter in your grits and the pepper in your gumbo!

Awesome picking and what a voice! Thanks for sharing, Russ.

Music in it's finest, indeed.

Yeah, you should be grinning at the end, beauty ! Great to see a very good 5 string picker on guitar too !

My new mission in life is to learn that tasty double hammer-on lick.

What I liked was that each musician had room to play with someone banging into you or worse..your instrument!

Hey russ big fan and first comment

One of my favorites

I know this is clip is from 10 months ago, but all I can say is: Another AWESOME JOB guys!!! Russ, in listening to both your lead & back-up playing here, I couldn't help but think that if one didn't already know or guess, (from the name of your channel), that you're a big J. D. Crowe fan; they could've certainly figured it out by your playing on this song!! 😊 Watching this clip kinda reminds me of the Summer of 1988, when I and good friend, named Joe; made an attempt at putting our own Bluegrass Band together. Joe played Guitar and sang lead, I played Banjo and was on Baritone vocals, and a friend of Joe's, (whose name also, was Ron), played Upright Bass, & sang Tenor Vocals. We never got beyond a few rehearsals, & never got to recruit any other members, to round out the band. Anyway, during that first rehearsal, one of the songs we did, was "I'll Never Shed Another Tear" (which of course, the Bluegrass Album Band had just put out not long before). Now, before I go further, lemme say that I'd only been playing Banjo, about 8 to 9 yrs. at that time, and had mostly worked on leads, as I really had no one to help me learn any of the proper back-up techniques I needed to use on any given tunes; and my lead work, (at least, to my own ear anyway), still had a little ways, (or more), to go! 😊 But anyhow; after running thru, "Another Tear" about 2x's or so, Ron the Bass Player spoke up and said: "Man! With the way you played those Banjo breaks, I'd say you must've listened to the "BAB's" version of that song, A LOT!! LOL!!! I can tell you that I very likely, didn't play those breaks in the same order that J.D. did, nor did I really attempt to play them note for note, but as I'm sure you can relate, it made me feel really good to know that I played 'em close enough, to where Ron could tell, that I'd indeed been studying J.D.'s breaks from that song! 🙂 One last thing I'll say, is that believe it or not, it wasn't really until between 2011 and 2013, (which is when I finally returned to playing the Banjo full-time), that playing Banjo back-ups, really began to fully, come together for me, and a lot of it came to me like I heard Tony Rice say about some his Guitar Breaks: "Right on the stage!" 😊 I guess that's partly because I worked primarily as a Guitarist, from 2000 to 2010, and though I picked banjo fairly regularly at home, and frequently at jams, during those years; I was working a fairly demanding day job, plus raising a family, & I just didn't have much time to try to work on those back-ups, lemme tell ya!! Take Care Bud! Your Friend, Ron In Abilene, TX.

Just found this page. Every single musician is insurmountable and i am so glad i found this!

Oh, yer hangin' around with that Mo fella? Sigh... Hi, Mo!!

This music will save your butt. I promise.✌️🇺🇲

Russ you are sumn else man crazy picking

Love blue grass👍

Yes.....the 2nd banjer break straight from Crowe and the first BAB record!

The way it should be played !! Great job guys !!!

Wow! You're all so good and Mo absolutely blazed that solo. That was right up there on some, Clarence White / Tony Rice level awesome. Just smoked it, impeccable timing, threw in some dyads and crushed the G run at the end :D

Awesome!! I love these kind of videos!!

Excellent musicianship..!! 👍

More Bluegrass 101!!

All you guys make a great lineup

Awesome Grass👍👍👍👍

Makes me wanna dance

Yip love it but rattle the bass man give it some drive 👍👏🥃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

0:27 that a way to get that banjer in tune.

Just great!

Sounds so good! Kind of a remake of the BGAB version (or at least a lot of “nods” to JD and TR)

👏👏 great job

🎶🎵💪👍🔥 Thanks for sharing

OK, OK, I give up, I'm subscribing! Fantastic playing. Reminds my of when I used to be able to play banjo, and you'd lay down such a tasty lick at a jam that your jam mates would smile. Man, I miss those days! Thank you.

JD would be proud son...

always love the banjo cam

Awesome with Mo. Thanks

Very well done!

Please make more of these POV videos 🎉

This made me so happy!❤️Thank you!

I really enjoyed your jam with the young fellas. Beautiful , reminds me of when I was younger and we had a family music secessions numerous times through the week. 😊😊

⚘👍 ⚘👍

Nailed it !!!

yessir

Greatest RU-vid channel. Hands down

Is that stand in the middle recording?

Great content, as always. Thanks 👍

John Meyer has unbelievable talent

No better bluegrass than that!!

You sing great Bluegrass sounds great

That's great stuff right there!!

lol. I love the mistaken "in my blue ridge cabin home" instead of "near my blue ridge cabin home".

What a great group, all of ya

The girl on the fiddle smokes that thang.

As well as Mo being my fave young country artist he's also my fave bluegrass such a talent...

SOOO Happy to see youth carrying on traditional music. :) Please carry on!

What kind of banjo is being played? I want to start playing music like this! I love it! Thanks for sharing

I have idolized Charlie Cushman for over 12 years. I even caught he and Warren's performance at the Old Town of Folk Music in Chicago a couple years back. My old banjo teacher said he has met Charlie and said that me being a Black American, Charlie would not be interested in meeting me. I guess it's not always wise to meet your heros. 🙂

Bro I absolutely loved this

❤️🎼❤️🎼he is the best!!!

Great point of view!

Grass at its best! Thanks for the share Russ!

Such talent all and nice guys

Good stuff. Thanks.

Hell yeah!!!!

Well done.

Awesome...

OH YEAH!!!

Killer!

Fantastic!

❤️❤️❤️❤️

😍

I'm moving to East TN soon and can't wait to join in on jam sessions like this. Not much bluegrass in CA.

Briery creek

Can I ask what your mic setup is here?

Great pickin guys, love it