Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys - LIVE - 1986 Austin City Limits - "LEGENDS OF BLUEGRASS" 

A Cavalcade of Bluegrass that we will never see again. That and old time mountain music on the back porch are dying art forms because New Bluegrass players want to inject modern themes and even agendas into the songs they write. I don't want that crap, i want to escape it and go back in time when people Loved God and acted like it. Now everything is totally crazy and out of control. Thank God above that i'm old now. I'll be graduating soon.

Am 26 years old and have been listening to this music for about 4 years now. Am blessed that God introduced me to this music. Singing along to Bill Monroe’s gospel music led and helped bring me to Christ. It’s quite funny to say, but Bill Monroe was one of the components that brought myself to Jesus Christ.

The great Joe Stuart on rhythm guitar-he has played EVERY instrument for Bill -Guitar, Fiddle, Banjo, Bass-on records & live! Even the Mandolin, when Bill broke his arm !, from the 1950's on !! A musicians musician. The originators / inventers of Bluegrass.- no such thing as 'Bluegrass' Music before Mr. Bill. Nearly ALL REAL Bluegrass musicians, like the African American Blues 'originators are gone-only 'interpreters' and lousy ones at that-one had to live the life, and that life is long gone-to me ,Bluegrass is the true white mans 'blues' .True American music originated in the Southern states, along with some of the worst aspects of the U.S.A. Lynchings, cracker racists, the 'klan',poverty, natural disasters--oh, but the music ! :Blues, Gospel, Soul/R&B, REAL country music, Bluegrass and of course ,Jazz.

that dance at the end of the first song made my heart genuinely happy :) thanks so much for posting

Bill got that pentalcostal jump I’ve seen a thousand times at family gatherings with my grandparents. Now I’m the grandparent but still feel like a kid. It’s weird.

wow, the great Ralph Stanley made an appearance nailing it as usual - haunting voice and the best banjo claw-hammer ever.

Thank you Butch. Watching this with my 5 year old and he say this is my music ,I like this Dad and moves to watch this. SO Grateful!

Good to hear Bill with a top notch sound system!

WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN A LITTLE MORE SPECIAL IF THE THE OSBORNE BROS. HAD BEEN THERE

Love it, love it, love it!!! Thank you for sharing.

Fiddle Player gets perty sloppy 3 or 4 songs in. Repeatedly flat. Dude next to him gives him the look too like "Dude-no more drinkin' before shows"

So nice to come here and spend time listening to sounds of my youth even if I didn't fully appreciate it back in the 1950s and early 1960's. Well, anti-social media does have some positive elements afterall. One just has to take time to look for them.

This is just too good

Its remarkable [to a non bluegrass player] how they sense 5 bar phrases - mixed with an occasional 4 bar with a sort of a hidden signal .

Happy birthday, Bill Monroe!

Bill Monroe's second appearance on Austin City Limits with Ralph Stanley in Season 11 (1986).

Pure raw singing. Love it

I still have this on VHS I recorded. The entire show. When I was first getting into bluegrass. I watched it every day!

Anyone know where you can get the entire episode? I had it recorded on VHS forever and lost it!

Fantastic performance

I saw Bill Monroe perform once in person while stationed in Norfolk VA during the 1990's.

Should have had Mac out there with them for “can’t you hear me calling” ❤ imagine 🤯

praise the LORD !!

Ralph Stanley is one of my favorite blue grass artists

Brings back sweet memories of when I was a child growing up in the Applation Mountains and hearing this kind of music in church and on the radio of the Grand Ol Opera on a AM radio station on Saturday night at 9 pm.

Amazing quality of the video. Thank you so much for posting!

These trouberdores make me smile

Goosebumps watching this. Heaven has a helluva bluegrass band!

The best bluegrass pickers

wow! proud to be Canadian...ya blue grass lives here too

So fortunate my family listened to real music or I would be missing this right now ❤

Can someone tell me the name of the first instrumental piece?

Mighty fine 😎

COMIN FOR TO CARRY ME HOME, ABSOLUTELY !!

Just so you know I am blowing how I feel you know

Thank you Bill Monroe& boys

Needs more cow... banjo

Damn, they are superb :.

1986 I was connecting iron on NATO Base in Mouse Jaw Saskatchewan.

❤ to watch old Bill cut a rug

Professionalism bar none

This is the BEST 🎼

hard to beat that sweet time fiddlin

the gold standard

Absolute best , yes too many greats here . Who is the solo at 17:33 on " Ill Fly Away"?

That sound system...wow.

7:20 Is this banjo break psychedelic?

❤

Like #100

So Cool

So Cool

Amazing

Cool stetsons))

Don't you love it when they interrupt a song with an ad? Great timing, RU-vid.

If Bluegrass music don't light your fire your wood is wet...

What is the song Bill and Ralph sang here?