Stellar fiddling, mandolin, dobro, guitar, (acoustic and electric),Earl's banjo. FMB like you never heard it!! The whole thing was dynamite!!!!! No words......!!
as a youngster growing up in the hood this was something new to my ears and i feel in love after watching this pbs special when i was young.....HAHA imagine a hardcore gangster looking mexican like me playing this in my car hella loud riding down the hood LOL
I think, or at least hope, that there will always be plenty of bands that play real bluegrass. How great it would have been to have actually attended this event.
I used to think that an electric guitar had no place in a Foggy Mountain Breakdown performance.....that was until I watched John Jorgenson do it and make a liar out of me. This guy is the epitome of underrated. Bring his name up outside the music world and its usually met with "who"? Notice the nod of respect from Vince after that solo as he looked over at John and grinned? From one great guitarist to another, Vince knows talent when he hears it. Look up Jorgensons work when you get a chance. He has mastered just about every instrument there is from the guitar, banjo, dobro, base and mandolin and crossing over to the piano, saxaphone, and even the clarinet. To say he's a multi-instrumentalist is a gross understatement not to mention he was ACMs guitarist of the year on 3 occasions when he was with the Desert Rose band.
Bluegrass is not dead by a long shot. Just look at all the new young talent there is out there. I miss the old time bluegrass. I got hooked at the old festivals in Newport, RI in the sixties. I agree that Lester and Earl at the best of all time. Don't forget Ralph, Bill, Jim and Jessie, The Osbourne's, too many to name. It will never die. Bluegrass in Maine lives on.
@@sue12250 I've been listening to Billy for five years now. Saw him and his band in Fall River, Mass. in 2018 with my wife. We had front row seats and my wife thought it was one the best concerts we have attented in recent years. So much talent out there now. It's great to see AJ Lee, Molly Tuttle, Michael Cleveland, The Comatose Brothers, etc. It's a great time bluegrass music in this country. Try listening to Tuba Skinny for New Orleans.
I never knew Travis Tritt could play a banjo like that. I have long known of his singing, song writing, and guitar playing skills, but damn, he is top noch on the banjo.
WOW WOW WOW!!! and that dobro player was layin' it DOWN!!! Thank you Mr. Earl Scruggs for what you did for the banjo and our ears!! Rest in Jesus, friend.
Now that is some pickin'! All these young bucks, showing off their chops (and some quite excellent ones, by the way) and ol' Earl slide in there all relaxed, and sayin' I got this boys, I been here a time or two. Brilliant!
I was taken to a Bluegrass music show in Sumerduck Virginia about 10 years ago and Bluegrass will always live in my heart. Now in North Carolina I haven't heard Bluegrass any place around here and that's disappointing because that's where Bluegrass came from. It wasn't the big names like Earl Scruggs, but there was Smokey Winstead; Cobbler Mountain Grass and more.
It's November 26 2022 now. I heard that you are having music every Friday night now at the depot!who would ever think that I would run into this!send back a reply to see if you are the same Mike Smith
@bigmrclean Definitely. Earl will always be in the hstory books, not just for the first to play his peticular picking style, what is now called Scruggs-style, but as a hero always to bluegrass musicians and fans.
Me recuerdan mi infancia en una caricatura ke miraba mucho y no me recuerdo nombre pero si es ermosisima esa música cuando talaba leña en mi mente andaba ese tipo de música en mi rancho Tabasco mexico
Awsome part of that song use to be Charlie Douglas road gang show on wlw 870 am every nite Sunday thru Thursday nite at 11 pm awsome then as it is now rest in peace Charlie when the music stopped Charlie would say HOW U WAS those words would start the show for the next 6 hours it was awsome thanks for the memories charlie
