Watch how Stringbean waves his left hand around and extends it to the audience like a 19th century orator seeking agreement. Hilarious, and deliberate. I want to learn to do that.
Yeah, I saw Earl on a show with Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs and he told Skaggs that he admired his clawhammer banjo playing and wished that he could play like him. So (unless he was joking) apparently Earl didn't (or couldn't) play clawhammer like Stringbean could either. And probably really did admire him.
Stringbean at his very best. He was mainly known for his comedy, but he was one hell of a musician too. This clip is especially cool because String plays his banjo in two finger style instead of his usual frailing/clawhammer style. Earl Scruggs plays a basic accompaniment behind String and seems to enjoy every second of it.
Yup, that's old time two finger thumb lead actually. A lot of old timers that played clawhammer could also play two finger. Actually, clawhammer is also two finger, but down picking instead of up picking.
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1969 and 70 Saturday night my Dad pulled up in front of the Riemann Auditorium. pouring down rain got tickets we went in we saw about a 13 year old Tanya Tucker Grandpa Jones Minnie Pearl String Bean Ernest Tubb the whole bunch .afterward we went down to Ernest Tubb's music shop where they was broadcasting from I was about 10 years old🎉
He had such a cool style, and love the accent style the way he talked and sung. My favorite one by him is Run little rabbit run. First time I heard that id be singing to it when I'm at work and I'm whistling away!!!
HAH, from the "good old days" that people pretend existed. The more I listen to Stringbean, the more I appreciate him. I love his line, "Looord, I feel so unnecessary.".
Correct, he's playing 2 finger here. On several videos on the Tube, you can see him reach into his shirt pocket to get a finger and thumb pick when he's gonna do a 2 finger picking number. 'Bean played banjo for Bill Monroe's early Bluegrass Boys but only for a short time and probably used this 2 finger style then. I think he is playing on one early recording only. Must not have impressed Monroe all that much because he was quickly replaced by none other than Earl Scruggs who played and popularized the 3 finger style. That move was great for both Scruggs and 'Bean's career, without a doubt.
@@tablature6121 He played 2 finger with Monroe, recorded breaks on a couple songs (True Life Blues, Bluegrass Special, , but he left the band on his own choice, and Earl came around two years later... You can hear some similarities with the two finger style string plays and Earls 3 finger style, folks like Charlie Poole and Dave Macon really pioneered that style which in turn influenced Snuffy Jenkins who himself was the first practitioner of "scruggs style"
@@keeganbluegrass Thanks for the corrections/added info. Jenkins was not the first practitioner of three finger style, however, which only later became known as "Scruggs Style." Apparently, there were several pickers in the surrounding Flint Hill community where Scruggs was raised that practiced the 3-finger style of picking, Jenkins being amongst them. Earl Scruggs said in his autobiographical banjo book that "...the player who inspired the most people at that time was probably Seth Hammett...born in 1887 in Gaffney, South Carolina and died in 1930 when I was 6 years old....As far as I can trace it back, he was the first banjo player I know of to pick with 3 fingers." He goes on to say he was kin to him on his mother's side, by marriage (Hammett's wife and she were cousins), and any visits would always include some picking. Also, that Hammett not only influenced his brother, Junie, to pick up the banjo, but that he, Hammett, was a big influence on him as well.
"Heres a song been baffling the world." Right at the start, another poster commented this, Makes sense and sounds like it. Real question is what does he say at 1:51.
I read somewhere that Stringbean hated beef. He couldn't even stand to smell it cooking. So when String and Grandpa went camping, Estelle would cook herself a steak.
I was told by my father that my grandpa actually met Stringbean while he was out fishing on the Tennessee River.. he recognized him as he was coming in off the water and my grandpa was putting his boat out.. said that he was the nicest guy you could meet but said he'd never seen someone with fingers as long lol
Somebody mention the Dobro picker please.....LOL These people were a big part of my childhood and dad had the honor of pickin with most. Oswald had that raspy laugh, scared me...took his big pocket watch to get me to come over to him for pictures...I was probably 3. I have the polaroid and a big clock on the wall that looks like his pocket watch. Stringbeans costume was an easy halloween get-up...but it was really hard to walk fast and keep up..nobody knew who I was and I got knocked over a few times...
@@MrPhantooz Sorry, I wasnt implying this was Oswald, Just one of many memories. Here's one about Josh. He and my dad would stay up picking until all ungodly hours of the night. Dad built a dozen or so resonator guitars and had a press made to press resonators. Josh liked the sound and traded dobro for dobro. I gave two of dads guitars to Brent Burke a few years back, an old Dobro and a Regal. I know he was extremely excited to have them as they had made rounds in bluegrass circles.
Just discoverin' String as I am Canadian and grew up on 70s music but this is great. There r lots of bluegrass up here in Nova Scotia too all along the Appalachians from here on down to Kentucky. Jack White has roots here in Cape Breton and has done shows up here. I got family who play bluegrass down along the south shore area of NS too so yeah I can dig Stringbean.
I still remember when he died(I was 9, and was not told he was murdered),probably the first celebrity, whose passing I felt, cause I watched Hee Haw for his bits.
