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Bill Monroe & BG Boys in the smokies ca 1969

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This is a live performance of Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys in the Smokey Mountains.
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I don't know exactly where so any information regarding location would be welcome. Banjoist Rual Yarbrough was hired for the first time on 3/24/1969 so we can assume that the recording of this performance took place in that year. The MC points out that Bill Monroe had been a member of the Opry for 29 years at the time of the taping of the show and - of course he joined The Grand Ole Opry in the fall of 19 and 39.
James Monroe - Guitar
Kenny Baker - Fiddle
Rual Yarborough - Banjo
Douglas B "Ranger Doug" Green - Bass
U P D A T E !!! Ranger Doug Green posted some valuable comments below... recording date was May 31. 1969 in Gatlinburg...Thank you very much, Doug...

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@lindseywalker6925 Год назад

I met a 19 boy from Rising Fawn Georgia at Ralph's festival in McClure. We became friends immediately. That fall he called me and said Bill's playing a Moose lodge in Grayson in January. We met. We sat on the floor in front of row 1 for the whole show. This same lineup. It cost $6 @ the door and fountain Pepsi in wax cups were 15 cents. One of the biggest nights in my life.

@randyjones7818 5 лет назад

Baker can kill a fiddle tune at any age..even in 1969.there..awesome fiddle licks on that tape..he is the king of bluegrass fiddle..kenny baker..love to watch this tape..he is so good.muleskinner blues..rj.

@billsterling6485 2 года назад

AMEN!!

@rangerdoug193 9 лет назад

In Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Great memories.

@11conversion 9 лет назад

Ranger Doug Great Show!

@ericlewis2416 8 лет назад

love this Bluegrass is my top favorite

@donclark8673 2 года назад

Goodness gracious that's good

@MrRontac 9 лет назад

Kenny Baker was the smoothest with a bow .... loved to listen to him fiddle Mule Skinner blues

@redlinemando 4 года назад

@Ronnie Tackett Kenny baker & Benny Martin had the best fiddle tone in bluegrass during that time!!

@MrRontac Год назад

@@redlinemando indeed 💯💯

@brasspick 8 лет назад

Rual Yarborough, in my opinion played some of the best backup Banjo ever. Banjos have a tendancy to override. yet Rual blended his licks in behind the lead singing and playing and matched like it was molded that way. Ray Goins had that touch; fit so well you could barely tell who was who.. There's an art to this, folks!

@redlinemando 4 года назад

@brasspick It's all about listening to everybody else. Honor thy vocalists & then come in strong when it comes your time!! Bluegrass 101 & these guys knew how to get it done. The Bluegrass Album Band knew how to do it too. That's why there could be 6 of them on stage at one time. No one was there to outshine the other. That's what makes a band. There's no I in band!!!! lol

@CAROLUSPRIMA Год назад

Thank you for mentioning Ray Goins. Incredible musician and great guy.

@petercyr3508 3 года назад

I told Ranger Doug one time that him being a Bluegrass Boy was kind of like being an astronaut. Very select group.

@rangerdoug193 9 лет назад

It was filmed May 31st, 1969!

@JanJohanssonmusic 9 лет назад

+Ranger Doug Thank you very much for the infor, Doug...

@redlinemando 4 года назад

@Ranger Doug Thank you for your great contributions to music!!!!!!! The time jumpers were one of my all time favorite groups!!!!!!! So much talent & respect for each other. I actually got to travel some with Dawn & Kenny in Amsterdam & Norway back in the summer of 2008. I was playing mandolin for Audie Blaylock at the time & that trip was an awesome experience for me!!!!!!!

@tonymarcus1827 9 лет назад

James Monroe looks terrified every time he has to play the G run in Uncle Pen...sometimes the simplest things are the hardest.

@klezmando 9 лет назад

+Tony Marcus It's the timing.

@MrMusicguyma 7 лет назад

James fudges the G run in Uncle Pen nearly every time. Unfortunately.

@sandyrothman2430 7 лет назад

But not so simple if you've never done it! James had taken the guitar chair in the band that spring, having played bass for a few years just prior (with no musical background), and knowing only the basic guitar chords. As he did with the bass, James eventually became a good guitarist.

@MrMusicguyma 7 лет назад

Fitting the specific G run into Uncle Pen does require precise timing.

@Galvan198 5 лет назад

@@sandyrothman2430 "no musical background"? wasn't he Bill's Son??

@MrMusicguyma 7 лет назад

Doug Green (here on bass) has been the guitarist and lead singer in Riders in the Sky for decades. Great swing rhythm guitarist and entertainer.

@nancyhall4376 3 года назад

Love his music

@randyjones7818 5 лет назад

Monroe's old 75000 loar.mando sounds awesome here..before the Gibson rework on it later..its a loud 50 year old mando there not touched..awesome..for the archives..rjones.

@gomez8733 8 лет назад

Brasspick - great comment and I agree. Rual really understood support.

@fuzzyallan 9 лет назад

nice. thanks

@mikekirley 8 лет назад

Wonderful stuff Doug.

@procol0616 7 лет назад

Wanna play Bluegrass fiddle? Listen to Kenny here on Muleskinner and learn it. Then, listen to what you ended up playing, then re-listen, then learn it again.,LOL He was simply the best--he Compliments, then, stays clear of the vocals, But, at the same time ADDS to them.. Elegant Mr. Baker ..you are very much missed......

@JanJohanssonmusic 6 лет назад

That's nothing but the truth, Procol

@andrewmartin538 2 года назад

Wow. This just..I dont know, it just gives me faith in mankind again .

@user-cf9np9cy8q Год назад

man kenney Baker could burn up a fiddle beautiful talent!

@randyjones7818 5 лет назад

Kenny.b.is 45 here..1968 he starts play in for Monroe band till I guess.81 or 82...this is not with his famous acuff.black fiddle that he owned later...which made his playing a lot louder on stage..r

@mosswareproaudio6328 Год назад

Kenny started playing with Bill in 1955 as I remember. I think I have some tapes of those shows that I rescued from a tape over with another type of machine. There he is also doing the part of Spark Plug and singing parts. The instrumental album is another source. He went back to the coal mines at one point, then joined again a few years later. Then he walked off the stage in 1984.

@mosswareproaudio6328 Год назад

Doug Green got much better on the bass in the years to come. He sounds great on the show they did at Humboldt University in 1973. James also got much better with G-Runs. Baker told me that in the 1960s, the later 1960s, he got some instruction from a violinist in Washington which changed his fiddle sound to what you hear on this tape and later. Before then he had more of a scrubbing sound. You can tell in his earlier, maybe 1950s, performances. He also didn't yet have Blackie then.

@WildwoodvalleyBoy 6 лет назад

....about that 'Uncle Penn' G lick,....James is starting it on the wrong note,...trying to get one too many notes in,...that first note doesn't belong !

@redlinemando 4 года назад

@wildwood valleyboy He does the same thing on the intro of "Muleskinner Blues". There's no doubt that Bill let him know about it later. lol