Joe Maphis: Dim Lights, Thick Smoke - 1959 

I played with Joe’s grandson in N VA. He now owns that guitar in the video. He showed it to me at his home studio. Yes we played the song when I sat in with them for a gig. Very cool guy!

love this REAL country music!

Oh, I like this!

Speial made guitar by Semie Mosley called Mosrite. The pickups are Carvin AP6s, which haven't been made since about 1977. However, Bob Shade of Hallmark Guitars has done a great job of reproducing the original look and tone..as well as a single neck version of this guitar, trimmings and all. This is about the best sounding guitar I've ever heard.

It don't get much better than this. I believe that's Gordon Terry on fiddle, a great singer in his own right.

This song has an exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame.

I was born to late! I was maybe a baby or even a zygote when this was done, but it is how I play guitar to this day and about the only music I play! That guitar solo rocks!

That's a very young Gordon Terry on fiddle. Nice of Joe to give him a ride in the middle.

I just shared hugs and God Bless You's with Rose Lee Maphis about two hours ago- Mrs. Country music herself. She is by far one of the sweetest, kindest ladies I have met and is a volunteer at the Nashville Country Music Hall of Fame.

One of the few guitar pickers who could make Roy Clark look like a rookie, saw an old episode of Hee Haw and joe just smoked on that tune he and Roy did. Roy was visibly in awe.

THIS is American music, not all the rap crap and RnB so popular on the radio now!

Rosie is still working with the County Music Hall of Fame. 102 years old.

my daddy sang this to us when i was a child. this song, in 1959, i was only 5, when it was recorded. but i love it! it's the music my parents liked and i grew up liking it! thanks for putting it on here. love, susie q

Sooooooooooo great! I LOVE it!

Joe would have been 100 this year, rose Lee is 98 and still kicking. She sang last night in Cumberland maryland, at Joe's 100th birthday remember. They are my wife's family

This is great! True Legends !

Drummer was kickin it

Great to see this video!! We know Miss Rosie and she's a sweetheart!! Would love to see more videos on here of her and Joe!

nothing like the original, great job

Super cool.

Joe Maphis wrote this its been recorded many many times..

Happy 98th Birthday, Rosie Lee Maphis! ❤

Every time I hear this man play, it sounds like he's got a fresh set of strings on his guitar. Every-time. 🙂

Love that song and an uptempo version, really kicks it up perfectly

Terry Gordon is awesome on fiddle, multi talented and one of my favorite performers. I like when him and June Carter do the old oak bucket on the grand ole opry, it's very funny.

The Derailers do a good version of this as well. This must be the original tho, it's great I loved it. Thank for sharing!!

RIP Rose The tone of the guitar and steel are phenomenal.

Love this oldie

Dwight Yoakam does a killer cover of this song!

In the mid sixties I bought a Joe Maphis album on the Starday label from a box with a lot of cheap LPs entitled Fire on the Strings. I regret not buying the whole box to this day.😂

Wow...I thought that Handsome Ned from Ontario did this song justice...but this original has just made my week. I'm getting chills.

The family that plays together.... Joe and Rose Lee.

Wow! Que cool! 😎

That guy in the background playing the fiddle is the same cat who's playing the fender Jazzmaster on George jones White lightning video from 1962

50 years old and as fresh as a daisy

Got a bunch of great versions of this...which will be joining them..NOW!

This stuff breathes soul unlike this goofy country crossover nonsense.

They were brilliant.True entertainers.Gordon Terry on fiddle.There is a good re-issue c.d. called "Cold Heart of Steel"recently released,well worth checking out.

Dwight Yoakam tells a story but how this man wrote this song he was in Bakersfield to see Buck Owens play on his way back to Los Angeles he thought of this song and who wrote it after that Bakersfield pretty interesting story Judah the Bakersfield sound Dim Lights Thick Smoke and loud loud music the classic

Yeeeee haw

Joe and Rosie maphis.

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Joe appeared on a local TV show back about 1958 with the Collins Kids and Johnny Cash among others. I think it was called Town hall party. Joe was sensational on guitar and fiddle. Anyone have a clip of that show?

I'd sure like to have Joe's Stetson.

"You just did it on record about 5 years ago." That's a long "just"! Haha

I think it is the Standel special he always used to get that great tone.

@ronaldt491 The drummers name is Pee Wee Adams.He was used on many sessions by the likes of Capitol,and others in the fifties/sixties.Not his best moment on this one though.

It's "loud, loud music," not "live, live music." Great video

a woman knew her place back then

I'm partial to the guitar, myself.

Is that Gordon Terry on fiddle? He was quite a guitarplayer himself.

This is COUNTRY FOLKS.

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I think it's funny that this song was written about Buck Owens and his Buckaroos

As good as this is Vern Gosdin made it his in the 80's. The slower version really sticks with you. Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers covered it in the early 70s too.

Them folks're all right. I did see a second neck on that guitar that looked as though it were being neglected.

Fiddler is Gordon Terry.

If you listen to the words and think about it, who would want her?

Sho looks like it!

Junior Brown plays a GitSteel. It's a tele style guitar and a lap steel combo that sits on a stand. The one in this video is a guitar and either a tenor guitar or a mandolin. It looks like a tenor guitar since I can only see 6 tuning pegs...hard to tell as the video is kinda' grainy.

anyone have a record of the "go fer song" by joe and rose lee maphis?

... is that a Bigsby neck on Rose Lees' guitar ?.....

Wade Hayes does a great job on this song!

This America no longer exists sadly

Who's the drummer trying to make them lose it and Rose almost did?

Nice pompadour, too!

Keith Moon on the drum set? Wtf

What TV show was this?

With all of the smoking bans going into effect nowadays, I guess we'll have to take out the "Thick Smoke" part of the song.

drinkin, fighting, and f***ing on friday night

whgo is the fiddler?

It's loud loud music. not live. thanks anyway

this is country this shit today is just awful todays country music sucks