John Meador - lead vocals and guitar Tim Laughlin - Mandolin and Harmony vocals Lincoln Hensley - Banjo Aynsley Porchak - Fiddle Gracie Meador - Harmony Vocals and Upright Bass
Real, genuine music. No electronic gimmickry just raw talent able to stand alone. Simple beautiful to the ear and a blessing to the soul. Thank you for sharing your gifts with us!
My uncle wept openly whenever he heard this song. As a young American soldier stationed in Germany after WWII, he met a local girl and fell in love with her. Her parents refused to let her marry him. Many years later (2003), he learned that he had a son living in Germany. My uncle traveled to Germany every year thereafter to visit his son, daughter-in-law, and grandson. Sadly, he and his Fraulein have departed the bounds of Earth in mortal life. Thanks for your wonderful rendition!
Nicely done! An outstanding performance by all. One of my favorite songs of all time, "Fraulein", was written by Lawton 'Slim' Williams. It peaked at #1 for Bobby Helms in 1957, it has been called "the Texas national anthem" due to its popularity here. Williams also wrote the country music classics "Farewell Party" and "Everything's Okay on the LBJ". Lawton pinned several top ten hits for other artists, "Geisha Girl" reached #4 in 1957 for Hank Locklin, "Color Of The Blues", co-written with George Jones, peaked at #10 in 1958 for Jones. "I'll Always Be Your Fraulein" (an answer song to "Fraulein"), co-written with Roy Botkin and Wally Jarvis, was a #10 hit in 1961 for Kitty Wells. "PT-109" was a 1962 hit by Jimmy Dean, about the combat service of President John F. Kennedy and his crew, it peaked at #3 on the Country charts and #2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In 1962 "Shame On Me", peaked at #18 for Bobby Bare. Lawton Williams passed in 2007 and was interred at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas.
@@Randolph1233 Did you know that some old german aunts of my greater family, looked quite like Aynsley and Gracie on old blackandwhite photos of my grandma... It's striking! Give 'em names like Susi Meier or Verena Taler and no one would suspect them to be something else than an old germans daughter...! They are quite looking like the Fraulein they are singing about! Somehow fascinating! Honestly, I never thaught about my aunts as beeing good looking or so, but some of them obviously were - 20 years before my birth - LOL! ... ;-)
it has more lyrics I think? Can't find them all ? You have them DONALD ? Lynda Faye 1 second ago AH, FOUND YOU! GREAT ACOUSTIC SOUNDS AGAIN! If I could only spell! Yes! this is the song my father from Germany used to sing to us ! Only we always thought the "across the blue water" was referring to the two rivers we used to row up and down on, in Illinois.! What an ignormous I am sometimes! I get so weary of typing song lyrics, but I DO WANT THESE FOR SURE! Please you guys, go listen to our Riverboat Queen; see if you'd like to help me out with it ? Sorry, google won't help me with ignoramous either; Guess sometimes THEY are guilty of that "condition" sometimes in their own "upload " requirements..so they took it out of their dictionary at spell check yes ?
@@townonhill Your message came to me (LyndaFaye) btw; I didn't say that. I said I always thought the song was called "Way across the blue water" so I could never find the lyrics! It has more lyrics btw; they just aren't singing them, I think.
Words just simply cannot truly express how beautifully they sang this wonderful old song. This is an extremely talented group. From the instrumentation to their beautiful vocalization. How I loved hearing that beautiful old bluegrass sound again. Please consider doing more videos. You're so worth listening to.
david i am rite behind ya in age i am 73 born in tenn.still love my blu-grass and the old country music..the crap they play today they call country is all shit excuse the language but true..we had to go X.M RADIO to get the good stuff lol take-care see-yaa..
@@patrickkane7207 patrick i hope not either we had to buy a X.M radio just so we can hear this good music.man if you are 83 you are doing something rite..
Love such a swabian Fräulein from east of the Rhein myself 😊. Now I have 2 german sons 😂 and a still gorgeous wife 😊 and the best mother I could get for my sons 😅. Only her cleaning obsession sometimes gets on my nerves. 😢 When I was a young lad who just quit the barracks I thought my German Fräulein would not become like the others. Error 😮 ! She exaggerates her tidy-up-the-whole-house-obsession to the point to even throw away things which are fully functioning, not defect, nor broken. 😢 Hard to bear, such a tough lady, but on the other hand she still fascinates me 😂 . Probably swabian Fräuleins have a highly addictive potential 😮, but instead of warning us from that, our superiors only warned us from smoking grass, 😢 not from touching a swabian Fräulein... 😮 Now if it's my destiny to die on the eastern side of the Rhein, I expect it to happen in winter... 😊 😊 😊
Old Bobby Helms would be pleased to hear this Bluegrass version of his Lawton Williams song (which was his first and a No. 1 on the charts). In the 50s, a lot of US service men served in Germany after the war and came back with German brides or had left a lover over there. It was kind of a sad thing. I was a kid in those days and knew some of these boys. I was sent there myself in the Army in 68. This is a very good group, and it was a pleasure to hear them perform a country classic.
I can't commend this highly enough. These guys are the real deal -such authenticity and attention to their craft. Wonderful musicianship, great lead vocal.
@@richardcallen1268 she sure does! I keep watching/listening to this and at 76 I think this is the most beautiful song ever. Every member here is a true asset,
The "high and lonesome" lead vocal is great. The fiddler is powerful and on the money with all those great double stops - such technique and mastery is truly rare. Country/bluegrass fiddling is more than just fast sawing and racing fingers.
Howdy Jimmy! They are all soo exorbitantly good, I whish they wouldn't need to work something else but just keep playing and singing Bluegrass till retirement. They are awesome! Just awesome! Make an old dying man's painful day turn into a good day! Wonderful! Terrific!
@linterpretemehariste9081 That's exactly how I feel. I want them to stay together forever and produce great music and great playing. And I want the opportunity to keep seeing and hearing them time after time after time. If I had millions of dollars, I would pay them just to play and never break up. Love them ❤❤❤
Now *that* is a high tenor voice! He can hit those high, lonesome notes and really hold 'em. I'm only a layman, but that much is clear to me. And while I certainly appreciate Scruggs-style banjo playing, it seems to me that hyper-speed is often substituted for rhythm and "feel" of the song. This group played and sang this song with patience, beauty, and old-school Bluegrass soul. Bravo!
Why do so many people like this type of music...because it's so so beautiful..No gimmicks just pure raw talent..I must have watched this clip ten times..New life to a great old number..Love the key change mid way through...
🇺🇸❤️🇮🇪 🏴 with out the irish an Scottish immigrating to this great country I wouldn't be here I love my heritage 😊 an I'm sending the love back Erin go bragh.
When you see the old man close his eyes, you know there is some great music happening. Glad to see these young people carrying on the tradition with their own talent.
Yeah! For sure they should present themselves to AFN for the "Top 40 country songs from coast to coast"! I could bet they would hit the top of the AFN-charts for weeks and weeks subsequently. They could win country music prices in Lynchburg and Nashville, they will be hard to be topped by anyone (except "Southern raised" perhaps, that Baritone with his three sisters is the only real concurrence for them, they can perform as concurrence against this quintett cuz his sis Emily is able to play fiddle and mandoline both amazingly, she is two musicians in one young lady...)! They should apply for some music awards without doubting to win! They are awesome!
@@Randolph1233 Well, If you would have Googled it you would have found on their website the following; Aynsley is also an experienced contest fiddler. She was Blessed to win the Grand Master Fiddler Championship in 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee, and in 2017, she also became the Canadian Grand Master Fiddle Champion, making her the first person to win both competitions. She also played in 2016 on the Grand Ole Opry.
Haven't heard this song in forty years - or seen that style of clock on the wall since then either! What terrific talent! These guys are the real thing! GREAT musicianship! John has a pure voice! Great job !
Everyone in this group is FANTASTIC........I just found your group on here a couple of months ago, and now listen VERY often. from northeast Mississippi.
And they do it obviously without any electric supply other than a microfone. That's pure handmade Bluegrass of mothers finest! They desserve a price for comforting old vets who became widowers!
Great job all around, loved this piece! I swear my parents had that identical clock in the living room in the 50's- along with the obligatory Silvertone wood console combo record player and radio.
When I was a kid back in the early 90s this was still a common thing to see and hear at a family gathering. Many folks in Kentucky and Tennessee were pickers. When they got together the instruments came out all evening and night long. Sadly all of my kin folks who did that are gone now. I was the only kid who picked up the tradition and kept it going but I do my picking alone now
Clean notes and great accompanying instrumentals. The upright Bass player was true to the song, flow and rhythm of the tune ..no off-beat or off-key improvisation.
There is a video on RU-vid with the Bobby Helms version AND the answer song together back to back. No credit given for the answer song. Sounds like Kitty Wells to me
Howdy Janet, right you are and strangely enough, their bassist looks quite like the one of the aunts of my german wife on an old photo where she was not yet married, so exactly what the Germans call a Fräulein. 😊 Even that type of kilt and the hairdressing are the same... 😮 La ressemblance est frappante, pardi ! 😅
Better even than the original... and a live recording makes it extra special...I was 12 years old and my fav. Aunt used to sing this one as her party piece... Alas passed away suddenly in her 30's...Something so beautiful about all these old beauties 🌹
My dad married my mom from Regensburg, he was an exceptional fiddle player, this was a song he played all my childhood. It brought back some memories to me and my siblings. Y'all s performance was grand.
Bravo--Great Authentic --Captures the original feeling maybe even better. Love authentic Country and Bluegrass not the crap called Country today. I am an all round bass player, played with a few big names in Pop and R&B, but when I listen to Country music, this is what I want to hear...You guys are GREAT.....Lead Vocal mix should be more dampered less room echo though.
I just got back from a visit to Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry on the 14th (August). This group sounds just as good (or better) than many of the featured acts that night. That includes Hank Williams grandson to boot.
