These GOO Foggy Mountain Boys shows are my secret folk music treasure. No glitz, no glamour, just pure music and simple adverts which have a charm of their own. Whole outfit was a treasure, but Earl Scruggs and Paul Warren priceless.
I sure do miss hearing those accents. When I was growing up, there were some of the most pleasant Southern accents. The music has changed along with the accents. Most commercial music lacks any "heart" , like you hear in this music. Everything has become bland and generic sounding.
The violin player really makes that sound tie together, wonderful line up of musicians!! That second song, I know what it means to be lonesome is one of my favourites!!
I took up the violin/fiddle about a year ago and I tuned in to see if i was as good as Paul yet. One maybe if i live ling enough and eat lots if martha white biscuits
Great time and Great music. I remember watching them every Saturday. WBLR radio had them come and do a show. I still have a brochure Josh Graves gave me.
I can imagine Guy Counce walking in the community country store and someone saying, " Heard ol' Josh mention your name on the Grand o Ole Opry Show, Saturday night!" Reading fans names on the air is one of those little nuances that make the show ooze with nostalgia. Ol' Lester and Earl literally recognized the reason they were where they were.
To aviatycourt. The only time Earl sang any lines by himself was on the Beverly Hillbillies Pearl Pearl come and be my girl. Don’t you marry Lester Flatt. He slicks his hair with possum fat.
I think Curly was in the band because he could sing great harmony. The mandolin was just his prop at first. But I imagine he got better at playing it as time passed.
Lester played mandolin in Charlie Monroe's band before he became a Blue Grass Boy with Bill Monroe. I've read that after leaving Monroe Lester and Earl decided not to feature a mandolin player at first to differentiate the FMBs from the BGBs. I'd love to run across an old recording of Lester playing mandolin with Charlie's band.
I just bought an open back recording king. It was a mind opening experience. I play old old time beat a banjo down chorded 5 finger clawhammer. I was comparing the 2 recording king open backs they had. Both old time short necks. 1 was 400 with a white lady tone ring, but on sale at 219. The other was 250, no tone ring. I want that old mail order catalog deeper sound. What amazed me was how easy it was to choke down the higher priced banjo. The tone ring worked against it, as soon as you put ot into overdrive ot would stall out. The old time s3, without the tone ring, no tone ring, had better projection, better more stble sound. The action is a bit higher than i like down the neck but the intontion is perfect. I get home and runs neck and neck with a long neck gold tone ot 800. Thats a price difference of 1350$. Of i had found the recording king 1st, i wouldn't have the long neck, which is also an amazing instrument. In the end tho, it all comes down to the individual instrument.
Shall we Dance,Bailamos, Millions of Blessings, Bearhugs,remember Music is Magical, So is our Glorious Lord,World Peace, Embraces,Red feather loves you and so does our Lord,Amen
