The Most Authentic Bluegrass Salty Dog Blues I Ever Heard. Earl Scruggs & The Morris Brothers.

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The Morris Brothers were wonderful characters, great musicians and so kind to me and my crew when we showed up at their body shop to film them picking a few tunes with Earl Scruggs and his son Randy.
This clip is a portion of my 90 min. documentary on the great banjo picker, Earl Scruggs which was made in 1972. Earl played backup banjo for the brothers when they first recorded "I Want To Be Your Salty Dog" which became very popular on the radio. I love their beautiful North Carolina mountain accents and their subtle sense of humor.
I love watching this moment as I did when I first filmed it. I do not know what it is about country/bluegrass/mountain/old time music that so appeals to me. If I am in a bad mood or having a tough day, it lightens it. If I am feeling really wonderful and floating through life, it becomes even more wonderful when I hear those songs, backed up by flat picking guitars and 5 string banjos. And when you are lucky enough as I was to go to the North Carolina mountains, the southern Appalachians, into those small hollers with the mountains all around, and just sit down and listen.
What you hear is magnificent. I once played the banjo which I have learned in high school, I was okay until I heard these folks and others like them and then I just put the banjo down and never played it again. I'd rather listen to masters like Earl. My documentary also has unusually great performances by Bob Dylan, Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, Joan Baez and of course Earl Scruggs.
"Salty Dog Blues" is a traditional blues song that has been recorded by many different artists over the years. It is a blues standard that has been recorded by numerous artists, including Lead Belly, Elvis Presley, and the Allman Brothers Band, among others. The song is a traditional blues form with lyrics that tell the story of a man who has been cheated on by his lover and is feeling down and depressed as a result. The song has a catchy, upbeat melody and has been covered by a wide range of artists, making it a well-known and enduring classic of the blues genre.

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@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Год назад

Here is the complete film with so many musical icons - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OlneqC0mVsk.html

@Tokinjester Год назад

Hi David, thanks for posting all this awesome musical history 👍 I only found out about Flatt & Scruggs through Sierra Ferrel's cover of one of their songs, Before I Met You. If you haven't heard it, it's definitely worth catching on RU-vid love from Scotland :)

@hlriiiviiiv Год назад

Ol Earl tried to run off with it after the first verse and they wouldn’t let him. Perfect, you never get bigger than them you was raised with.

@3fsw3 4 года назад

David, I can’t figure out if you were a hippie filmmaker or just someone truly in search of Americana, but the insight you had to record so much of your material boggles my mind. You were(are) wise ahead of your years and had the sense and the wherewithal to reach out to people regardless of their status, walk of life, race, or most any other category... pick any one!!! Thank you for being our country’s true historian.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 4 года назад

Frank. Hardly a hippie. The budget on this documentary which took 6 weeks to shoot, was nearly $200,000. 6 months in editing back then. 16mm film. David Hoffman-filmmaker

@christopherskipp1525 Год назад

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmakerHave you transferred any of your film films to other kinds of (more current) media?

@stewartfenton7660 Год назад

A hippie? Have you seen the film of David in the shower with Joan Baez,wearing his suit?

@ladycharsw Год назад

Thank you. God Bless🙏♥️🙋 Charlotte in Oregon. PS That was sang on Andy Griffith.

@apjbuilder Год назад

Well said !!!

@edrose8358 Год назад

I never had the pleasure of meeting Zeke Morris. I did meet his son John about 25 years ago and still know him. He lives in the same neighborhood that I do and I pass by his place often. My dad is also an automobile body repair and paint professional that retired a few years ago. John has painted my service van, a pickup truck and a Corvette for me. Not only is he a master of his trade, he's a lively and fun fellow like his dad was. Good banter is always available when he's around. I wanted to thank you for documenting these national treasures for everyone to enjoy. May God's richest blessings be yours!!!

@TheSuzette1 Год назад

I was born in a small coal mining town in southwestern VA. All of my uncles, my daddy, and my grandfather, worked in the coal mines. My daddy talked about all of the greats. They all went through the coal mining towns to sing and play. Ralf Stanley lived in Clintwood Va. I don't know if that helped bring those like Hank Williams, the Carter sisters, Loretta Lynn, Flat and Scruggs and so many more, but daddy lived it. On Sat. evenings, daddy's grandpa had a radio and they would sit and listen to the grand ole opry. They are all gone now. Everyone seeing this should ask their parents and grandparents to tell them about when they were growing up. When they are gone, it is too late. We need the power that comes from family history and I grew up listening to men and women talking just like in this video.

@Commenting-answering 6 месяцев назад

My Dad was born in our hollow in 1936. He grew up all over as his parents were peripatetic. He always felt grounded to his grandparents home. My husband and I took our kids to see family and my great grandparents home where my father was born about 18 years ago. My daughter is going back to see cousins later this year. Ralph Stanley’s museum held the doors open for us because we were going to be a little late getting there. The people of this region, with their lovely accents, are wonderful people. I am glad mine and my children’s roots are there.

@Gary-xu8xp 5 месяцев назад

Nice comment my blood is founding as in the revolutionary War type .from Russell. Tazewell. And Buchanan counties.been there since day 1.

@notsuretwo Год назад

I love these guys. Hardworking, entertaining very well spoken. This is a glimpse of true Americana.

@christopherlynch9006 Год назад

Love this - as an Irishman I feel a real affinity with these people . Reminds me of the near past in my country - relative poverty alleviated by love of music, stoicism and coarse good humour.

@chuckbrewer4502 Год назад

From what I've read, Bluegrass has Irish roots. At least if you go back before it was know as Bluegrass. These tunes are sometimes refered to as Old Timey or Hillbilly music.

@kaleidoscope8743 Год назад

@@chuckbrewer4502As a descendent of Irish people who settled in East Tennessee ( the other side of the Appalachian mountains ) My grandfather was a farmer and worked at the factory where they made the Abomb. He played guitar and fiddle... they just didn't call it bluegrass then. According to local and family legend he could "play the hand out of the fiddle" ... (a southern expression where the word hand is substituted instead of saying 'hell'. He could play very good. My sister has his fiddle and bow. He was a slim 5' 8" tall. When my dad died, mother moved us from the city, back to the farm she grew up on.

@katperson7332 Год назад

@@chuckbrewer4502not sure if it’s true but I read somewhere that the term hillbilly came from the abundance of boys and men called Billy, because their people had come over from Northern Ireland and many of them were supporters of King Billy (William of Orange).

@retireorbust Год назад

Appalachia was settled by mostly Scots and Irish and they love to drink and fight like their ancestors as well. Tough, hardy people.

@brucecollins641 11 месяцев назад

@@chuckbrewer4502 bluegrass will have it's origins in scottish fiddle reel music. them being indigenous to scotland.the earlier scots settlers would have taken it over to amerikay.

@nadanada5698 4 года назад

How can anyone click a thumbs down for anything David Hoffman does ? ?

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker 4 года назад

Thank you Nada. David Hoffman - filmmaker

@nadanada5698 4 года назад

David Hoffman - you are so welcome 🙏 you are as part of Americana as Apple Pie ! ! ! !

@goatboy150 Год назад

Watching those grease-covered fingers go up and down the fretboard was humbling. Thanks for the history.

@47fireguy16 4 года назад

I lived 2 blocks from the Scruggs and went to school with the boys. Walked by their house many a morning going to school and the "Martha White" bus would be parked on the street by the house and whole Flatt and Scruggs group would be loading up to head out to play that great music. I think back to all of the country music stars, musicians, and writers that lived within 2 miles of me and how many friends, that were their sons and daughters, were just that -good friends. Even with all of their parent or parents successes it was a hard life and very few followed in their footsteps. I remember one friend who got in the business , that I saw at the funeral for a big name in the music and we talked about how our lives were in the 50's and 60's. His son was with him and I asked if he had ever though getting in the business and his father answered for him. No Way. They did us a great service with all of the music that was put out but it all wasn't anything close to the big money that is out there now. It was definitely a different era.

@TheStuport 4 года назад

Wow...A very cool story to share...Thank You Fireguy...Cheers From Ohio

@mrjakedog07 4 года назад

Hello Shelby NC!

@DJK-cq2uy Год назад

Thanks for the details!!!

@DJK-cq2uy Год назад

Frank James and I read Shakespeare with Donsld Duck and Popeye

@dayender 4 года назад

too bad RU-vid wasn’t around in 1972, a whole generation missed this till now. Welll what else you got with the brothers picking dave

@reneeroth4045 4 года назад

Indeed, what else ya got! lol. I love it! Thank You for bringing this to us.

@BBRocker75 3 месяца назад

But in there was TV, but these "things" were considered oudated, for rednecks, an old heritage to send into oblivion, things for olds folks. Mass media project was MODERNIZE USA. And the mass media almost destroyed all these cultural expressions. But some people were resilient, they keep their traditions in all ways from music to food, from handcrafting to plant knowlegde. But SO MUCH WAS LOST! Americana was almost destroyed to the ground. And many people is asking today, 2024, why USA is downfalling? My gosh, you cannot be a Great Nation if you erased your traditions.

@barry1705 Год назад

Love the real down home people. I was born in Asheville. All my relatives live there. Dad moved us to the triangle of N.C.,Beacon blanket factory closed. He got us out of there for a better life, and opportunities. Education and jobs are plentiful , in the triangle. But l miss the down home nice people that will give you the shirt of there back to help there neighbor. I’m retired now , l might just get me a Cabin on a hill. 5:37 Thank you David for the time capsule of great music 🎶.

@lindaleduke5016 Год назад

I remember this song from when I was a child. Radio was our link with the world. I can't keep my toes from tappin' when I hear this!!! Thanks for bringing back a great memory.

@edsyphan3425 Год назад

I don’t know how much performing they were doing at that time, but it didn’t look like they lost a single step in timing and harmony. And Earl along with Doc Watson were two of the top musicians as well as, just human treasures. Thank you so much for taking the time.

@stevedouglas7375 4 года назад

Wow, this really takes me back and in a very good way. If you look closely to the mandolin player, you can see years of grease encrusted in and around his fingernails. I grew up with not only seeing that with my uncles, but also with smelling the grease, gasoline, cigarettes and "Schlitz" beer. People will say that was uncouth, but for me it was "family" and they were "good" people!

@softshoes Год назад

Yep it looks like they drug him out from under the hood of a car and said let's play one for the fellas.

@stevehahn4066 Год назад

My grandma used to tell me ALL work has DIGNITY!

@goatboy150 Год назад

Some of my favourite smells 😊

@jadefire2817 Год назад

Maybe it is uncouth. But a man with a hand that looks like that , to me, feels like peace and safety. My Dear Daddy's hands look just the same.

@MezzMcGillicuddy1 8 месяцев назад

What a treasure! Thank you David Hoffman!! ❤

@pmscalisi Год назад

This just popped up out of nowhere on my feed. That was really great. Reminds me of Sunday afternoon at my uncle’s house playing music with him and my cousins. Really good times

@johnbuterbaughsr.933 Год назад

I ran lights for the Earl Scruggs Review with his son's at a petunia festival . He waited for me to find a poster , signed it and had his band sign it . A really great man not a snob who didn't have time for his fans . I was touring with Wedsels Edsels out of Lancing Michigan and we supplied sound and lights.

@mistergrandpasbakery9941 4 года назад

Thank you for preserving the legacy of Earl Scruggs as the cultural icon he will always be! 🎵

@michaeldaltonsr8954 Год назад

Yay!Man! I was born in Galax, Va in early '50's. Before we moved away(for Dad's work) we lived on hill X from Felt's Park/ Old Time Fiddler's Convention every summer!! Yep, you playin my memories!! TY!

@efinkens 4 года назад

Fabulous. Thank you.

@powersv2 Год назад

Thanks for archiving American culture

@uncleeko7212 Год назад

The algorithmic gods smiled on me today and put this masterpiece in my feed. My Lord I don't think I've spent a better five and a half minutes than this in a long time. Thank you! (Just noticed the link to the entire film. Yes!).

@mrkultra1655 Год назад

This kind of thing should be digitally archived for the rest of time. Far too many of these situations and one off occurrences have been lost to the ages, because most people, especially the people involved, think of it as no big deal, it’s just something we (they) do every day, and that it’s not anything special. Well, let me tell you. These things are VERY special and important. This kind of culture and these kinds of people are disappearing at an alarming rate, and just like a lot of other things, when they’re gone, they’re gone forever, and eventually be totally forgotten.

@jimmccarley9609 28 дней назад

Gotta love me a little Salty Dog blues.

@ShortbusMooner 4 года назад

Love me some pickin' 'n grinnin'!

@michaelluzius5704 4 года назад

Hello David, I remember watching this from '72. I loved it then, and I love it now! Thank you!

@steveallen2681 Год назад

Thank you zoo very much Mr. Hoffman

@KC2DZB 4 года назад

Awesome, love it!

@frankdisilvio9131 Год назад

Love it ! Mr. H , thanks for making the film ! What talent ! And ya got to Love how these men were real men. Not fancy pants entertainers who don't know how hard people work.

@ikkenhisatsu7170 Год назад

Like it or not, these people represent the USA more than any group I can think of. And for the record, I'm on their side. Great music, absolutely American. Let's not let it die.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Год назад

No worry. It is very much alive in the mountains and around the country. The music is extraordinarily popular and many young people are involved. David half and filmmaker

@jimmccarley9609 28 дней назад

Take up an instrument, and go sing! there are groups all over. David's work is pretty cool, no?

@melissapietrok8050 Год назад

God Bless you and keep you 🙏

@paulring4267 11 месяцев назад

My daddy was born in Ash County NC He played the fiddle. ❤ Thanks for sharing

@bug______ 4 года назад

another amazing piece of history. wow!

@fdawei 2 месяца назад

Absolutely fascinating.

@tonywtyt Год назад

What a great moment to capture!

@drytool Год назад

Thank you for this channel, David!!

@claudioortiz5830 Месяц назад

I freaking love Earl Scruggs ❤

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Месяц назад

me too. DAVID HOFFMAN filmmaker

@seanmuir9594 Год назад

What a treat. Thank you.

@pwm9433 Год назад

Classic. Thank you

@philipevans1897 2 года назад

I am forever grateful to you, David! My folks were Southerners and I got to experience these harmonies as a child born in California. Coming back to San Diego from our yearly family reunions in Arkansas, it took a few days to shake the Southern accent! I can "pass" for a Southerner anytime I please just for giggles. To this day, at 73, I can still hear the singing and harmonies in the old country churches we would attend. There is nothing like that in the whole world - least of all in California!!

@ParagonPFL Год назад

Growing up in the swamps of Florida my Dad used to take us out to these bluegrass camping weekends, now some 30-35 years later I'm up in Canada where I been all this time since, and yet still I talk my country ways I suppose, get called out for it every now and again and just love that my son can understand me when I get real down in the muck with it =)

@thomasfoss9963 Год назад

How did you end up in Canada coming from the swamps of Florida? It was either a job, or you grew tired of the heat, misquitos, and "critters" of Florida!!!!

@yourmomsdaddy9130 Год назад

It makes me happy to see this music given positive attention, and not just the music but the mountain people of Appalachia. The brothers are a good example of the ingenuity and grit that is common among mountain folk.

@ManScoutsofAmerica 4 года назад

You got to have something to fall back on and I fell back a long time ago. I’m going to use that anytime anyone asks me why I’m doing something. Johnny Cash’s recorded version of this song was my first exposure to it, great song.

@avagrego3195 Год назад

thank you very much, very enjoyable

@HeardFromMeFirst Год назад

Real and Raw...thanks David..another good one .🍷

@cb6866 Год назад

Thank you ...that was great !

@pamarabenton9039 Год назад

Thank you for sharing that. So good.

@rcc2741 2 года назад

I first saw this full show 15 years ago ! Was blown away! Someone loaned it to me ! I watched it over and over, my neighbours went mad.

@freetomato Год назад

What a lovely little gem that came across my feed!

@PilgrimLJC 2 года назад

Love this! Hill people are the best-be it the Smokies, Appalachia or the Ozarks. Thanks for capturing this and sharing it with us. I have a cassette tape of my Granny singing some of the old songs and even telling an old children’s story. She made it for my first born baby over forty years ago, and she has been gone over thirty years. I miss her every day.

@elliotportner8020 Год назад

Great to see you-- freilichn yor -- you are wonderful.

@davewheeler5573 3 года назад

Thank you for this. Until now, the Earl Scruggs Family & Friends (DVD) has been a treasure that only I seemed to know about. I never imagined I'd have some context, but through the magic of youtube, here you are. These clips are great. Thanks for all you do. RIP Mr. Scruggs, Mr. Watson, Stevie, Randy, the Morris Brothers, et al.

@lrow5416 4 года назад

How much fun was that!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful clip! It completely brightened my day! Wish we could all go back to the old days...they were so wonderful!

@donnaadams7121 4 года назад

I think I have decided that we call the fun times in our past "the good old days" is because we were neither good nor old then. Just a thought.

@comments_from_me 7 месяцев назад

My parents were in a bluegrass band; we went to festivals every weekend. I heard this song more times than I can count. Love watching your content.

@justforever96 Год назад

I am jealous that you got to see this world that i never will. And upsets me that someday people may look back on these years the same way. I already saw the last years before the internet, cord phones, actual mail. Gas cars that you drive yourself. Someday these will be as archaic as big V8 rwd cars and men in feed store caps sitting outside the shop. And mountain folks tend to be the same wherever you go. Good folks. Special kind of people. I am proud to have grown up in the mountains.

@bobgilbert3436 2 года назад

Incredible! To see the guys that influenced Earl Scruggs! I grew up in rural WV and my dad watched every episode of the Flatt & Scruggs show. Meaning I did too bc back then there was 1 TV and we watched what dad said! Love your post here!❤️🎶👍

@DJK-cq2uy Год назад

Wow

@melanieahrens6739 4 года назад

David, I love your Earl Scruggs videos! I did a RU-vid search on him after watching "Country Music" on PBS, and came across your videos of Earl with the Byrds (which made me embarrassed for the Byrds and proud of Earl and you) and your two videos with Joan Baez, which warmed my heart. They were responsible for my subscription to your channel.

@toastoflondon3362 11 месяцев назад

I sat in a garden in Miami in 1980 listening to fiddle, guitar and banjo played by people who sounded just like this who came to live in Florida from places like S. Carolina, N. Alabama and even east Texas. I flew back to London UK the next day and back to the London Irish/Scots family were I heard this music for the first time (well, at least it's origin!) Best wishes from London

@pattitroy5706 4 года назад

So glad I found your channel, a little slice of youtube heaven ❤️

@JOEZEP54 Год назад

Thank you. Stay well, Joe Z

@tomjones2202 4 года назад

Thank you David for this piece of history. Without you and those men it would be lost in time. I love how he told Earl to " back him up" LOL. Keep these videos coming as long as you can!! AWESOME!

@sleaponit21 4 года назад

Life is full of surprises ? I watched this vidio over ten years ago, when I brought my first banjo, and now find out it was you who filmed it David, wonderful.

@clarkefountain2258 Год назад

My great uncle played classical music on the banjo in his Vaudeville act, as well as classical music on the guitar. This before anyone ever heard of Segovia.

@MartyMoose1611 Год назад

That was great! Country as a stick.

@tomraw4893 Год назад

A great old song, and a must for all bluegrass banjo pickers.

@sunfish87 Год назад

I'm a Morris brother myself. Wonder how we're related. I dig that song and the stories. Thanks for sharing.

@diggingmary129 2 года назад

Absolutely toe tapping!!! 💕

@AMYBIERHAUS 4 года назад

Loves me some Bluegrass! What an outstanding video; thank you! ❤

@Commenting-answering 6 месяцев назад

Love the sly humor in the intro by one of the brothers. Great harmony. Earl wonderful as always. Thanks!

@craigpilgrim5793 Год назад

Superb. Much respect from Brisbane, Australia.

@Peter-sk5vg 3 месяца назад

Stunning. Absolutely heartwarming.

@movingforward6099 Год назад

Really neat to see the Morris brothers, some how im related to them. My grand pap grew up in Old fort NC. I have allot of rellitives down there,aint been there since i was a little boy

@GotDangJosh Год назад

I was raised on a Mississippi Delta homestead by depression era sharecroppers, “Salty Dog” feels like home. As a child, I loved to listen, not talk. My Mawmaw Ruby Belle loved quiet kids & kept a gun in her purse. She’d quiet the others & I’d quietly listen to my grandfather playing music like this. Thank you for the enjoyable sound David!

@marielg9143 4 года назад

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS I can watch this kind of stuff all day long Much love and appreciation Love the song so much When I sing it my friends think I'm nuts I Love it cause you have to sing it with heart and bravado ty

@HarryFCallahan 3 года назад

This is incredible, David. Your work is fantastic.

@jmdavis45 4 года назад

David, I remember the documentary. But the main scene in my memory is the one with Doc Watson. It is a true pleasure to be able to see all those I didn't remember these many years later. Thank you.

@johnhill1629 4 года назад

His great niece is a brilliant Atlanta artist April Scruggs Sipe! It makes you wonder if artistic ability is genetic.

@luliluli1471 Год назад

Fenomenal artists. Thanks for sharing such a treasure.🙏🏻

@matthewbutler6420 3 года назад

Thank you for your contribution to the Bluegrass archive.

@jxk7712 Год назад

Thank you

@toddclark332 4 года назад

Thanks David was really cool

@RandySchartiger 4 года назад

I've watched that video probably 100 times and didn't know it was you who recorded it. thank you for it! makes me wonder if you were the one recorded Earl and Doc Watson at Doc's house playing in the back yard.

@Beth-s3n 11 месяцев назад

I'm sitting at the Ole commentary in Wisconsin where all my relatives are resting and I'm playing this video for them❤ the Stoner farm boyceviile Wisconsin ❤

@robertafierro5592 Год назад

I would just LOVE to meet the Hoffmans!

@GordiansKnotHere Год назад

Great footage, This is very important stuff. Stepping out into the true country. Experiencing perspectives, going to places that will slowly die off due to "Modernism". Anything created will never last. Thank you for this.

@mikeashcraft4354 Год назад

Made me tear up.

@mikec886 Год назад

Thanks for sharing

@chipke7 4 года назад

Short but loving this old music.

@EldenSmith 4 года назад

A great share David. Thanks. Looks like a fun time.

@lewiemcneely9143 Год назад

A collection of Tarheels. YESSIR! Thanks much, David!

@Sherlock067 Год назад

Absolutely wonderful, I bet the Dillards, and Andy Griffith would of chimed in too.

@richarddavid1426 Год назад

For me...this is America. Absolutely luv it. Real people...down home music....and fixin cars. 🥃👍

@RowdyRory 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Really enjoyed it. Thanks.

@shirleyrobertson9267 11 месяцев назад

These guys still played music, but chose to have a normal happy life!!

@BeStill-zy5ye Год назад

Mr Hoffman thanks for your wonderful film work.....I'm a bluegrass picker guitar mostly. I'm 31 now. But I remember having a DVD on this performance and I spent hours watching this as a kid