@@williamwright I'd argue that this song is both, with bluegrass being a sub-genre of country and this song in particular having a more country structure and flavor than most of the material that the FMB (and their fellow bluegrass contemporaries) played
They couldn't. There was no such thing as autotune. Autotune was a pitch pipe or guitar note. They had to have the ability to actually DO it (which is talent) on request.
They sure liked the Reverb though! They recorded this pretty well. The sound of these guys over a big console radio must have been great. On clear nights you could hear Grand Old Opry 6 states away
@@1coopjsn that's it hehe, he sure takes the whole thing up one notch with his breaks. Fun fact: apparently, his skills on the fiddle earned him a better treatment as a prisoner for the germans in Africa.
The country music community owes a great deal of thanks to the Carter family that made an all day trek from clinch mountain in Virginia to Bristal Tennessee to record that first country song on a record " bury me under the weeping willow tree. Sadly country has seen a murder on music row.
Joe always said he wrote it in his head on the way back to LA. from Bakersfield. In the early 1950’s there was no I-5 Freeway. The old “grapevine” road through the hills to the L.A. basin would have taken about two hours, obviously enough time for Joe to come up with a classic.
It’s a little before my time but I’m about 90% sure Flatt & Scruggs were the first to record this classic written by Joe Maphis, the all time great guitarist famous for awesome picking on his double neck Mosrite. Joe & Rose Lee, his wife and singing partner, didn’t record it themselves until about two years later in 1954. Their version and the F&S version are both head and shoulders better than any others including the cuts by Gosdin, Wagoner, & Twitty.
He did that a lot. Check out video of F&S playing "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down". They played it in F, so the chords are D-G-C-F. Pretty straightforward, right? But Lester capo'd at fret 1 and played C#7-F#-B7-E!
