The foggy mtn boys. The first ones to perish were Lester n Paul both in 79. Then Cousin Jake in 88, n Uncle Josh in 2006. Earl died in 2013, leaving Curly the last one standing dying in 2017. Long Live the Foggy Mtn Boys 🙌🏽🙏🏽
lester flatt had a voice that was pitch perfect for that high lonesome sound bill monroe called for... i really enjoy watching these programs than you thank you!
THank you Lord,Just reminds me of Grandpa, at the table,talking with us all,Pass the biscuits was his favorite line.Sure miss you Grandpa.Thank you Lord,take care of all someone's Grandma,and Grandpas,Alive or with you Glorious amen bend is ones Blessings,Bearhugs,Embraces Amen
Bloody great band, love it!! And they all seem to be really enjoying themselves playing music together, laughing along, they all have really good voices too.
39:42 Seven year old Ricky Skaggs 54:48 Ricky was born in 1954 ...being 7 years old in this video if my math is correct i'm guessing its about 1961 When Flatt&Scruggs made this music
Well, RedWolf, "The Wildwood Flower" is actually credited/attributed to the Carter Family, lead songwriter A.P. Carter. It is cited as a variant of "I'll Twine My Ringlets," published in 1860 by composer Joseph Philbrick Webster, who wrote the music, with lyrics attributed to Maud Irving (from Wikipedia). Of course, as with many tunes "discovered" and first recorded from/in the Appalachian Mountains, they have British Isles, and/or Celtic roots....thus may have found their way to Australia from the same source(s). It has been the#1 "mastery" tune of folk musicians in the US for more than 60 years. Enjoy it all.
@@PrismRisen thanks for that ,very interesting, I play Aussie trad. So heard it there first, I find it interesting how our musical styles diverged even though we're from the same anglo- celt stock.Have a great new year !
I, for the first time heard the Earls Of Leicester, Damn, I've been listening to Bluegrass Music for about 82 years or since I can remember or 5 years old. I remember listening to a Battery operated Silvertone Radio on the Farm down in Oak Park Georgia, We could hear WSM (650) all 50,000 Watts Grande Ole Opry STATIC and all that was present over the air waves. Point is the Earls are as good as it gets, Jerry said his Dad said they were better than the originals, Jerry said not so, Earls are here because of the Originals. Me, I think they are so good it feels good.
I play mandolin like a guitar player, dead give away to mandolin players. Earl plays the guitar like a banjo player. Watch his right hand. 16:18 Makes me feel better about my mandolin playing.
@@williamtrakas3142 You can always tell. But at least we are really playing the instruments. I was watching a movie tonight and the actors were suppose to be playing Fiddle and Banjo. They were so bad at faking it, it was painful to watch.
You should feel fine about your playing because music is for all of us, regardless of technical mastery. However, I have never understood the oft repeated statement that Earl plays guitar “like a banjo player.” He learned from Maybelle Carter and Merle Travis, two lifelong guitarists with no real connection to the banjo at all. Fingerstyle guitar has existed for hundreds of years and Earl mastered it along with own style of banjo; his guitar playing is absolutely not some degenerated banjo style
@@bobthabuilda1525 I left that comment 2 years ago and had to rewatch it just now because I didn't remember. So after first reading your comment and then rewatching the video, I stand by my original statement. However I never called it a "degenerated" banjo style. But I still say his right hand and the use of his thumb gives him away as a banjo player, even compared to Merle Travis. Merle played a similar two finger style that was very popular back in the day but he planted his hand with the three remaining fingers, used his thumb to play the bass line and his index to pick the melody. That's how every guitar player I've ever seen does it with the thumb from Merle to Jerry Reed to Chet Atkins to Tommy Emmanuel and many, many more. However Earl uses his thumb to play the melody all the way up all 6 strings, that's what a banjo player who is used to playing the lead with his thumb would do. Nor did he "plant" his right hand but instead curls his fingers in, also like a banjo player. I can't think of another guitar player I've ever seen do it that way. Normally the hand is planted and the thumb plays the 3 bass strings and the fingers play the high G, B and E strings. There is NOTHING wrong with the way Earl played, it wasn't a "degenerated" style, it's just what worked best for him because that was what he was most comfortable doing as a banjo player playing guitar. Mother Maybelle was a legendary founder of country music and a good guitar player but I wouldn't classify her as a great guitar player in the league of the other people mentioned. Respectfully, best wishes, feel free to agree to disagree, we can all have our own opinions. It's to late to ask Earl.
There's something comfortable about all this old-fashioned down-homey stuff - howdy friends and neighbours - until, perhaps, you remember that, in the days when this show was recorded, that good ol' Tennessee welcome wouldn't have extended to black folks. Great music, though; redneck, but y'all can't help lovin' it..
