New Camptown Races, Dark Hollow

[watergroovin]

Americana in its purest form. So sad that tragedy folded out of this. We need to keep this alive the forces of Disney are slowly taking its toll.

[Edwardfan8808]

They're really poopy....

[JohnnysCoolStuff]

Don't you know all the hillbilly's back East were totally jealous of these California hippies

[Maysey1]

This is the kind of music I was hearing when I grew up. Good stuff!!! Love all the instruments.

[diatroptoff94]

that manolin player is killer man!

[nailswood]

I watched this on PBS with my dad, who loved bluegrass. He hated this,said "Them boys need a haircut." I told him "Them boys don't need anything." Still, he did watch it all the way through.

[shademonger13]

3:13 rowan starts to sing "then to be home alone" and realizes his mistake, and then clarence and him just smile at eachother. :) such genius. i could watch this forever

[PCPrabbit]

@shademonger13 potheads

[shademonger13]

@PCPrabbit potheads or not, theyre better then you.

[PCPrabbit]

@shademonger13 im totes a huge rowan, white, grisman etc fan. 'twas all in jest.

[shademonger13]

@PCPrabbit word, i took it the wrong way, sorry :P

[strawman8]

The banjo( Bill Keith) is played awesome in this one;not too loud as to overpower the other instruments and all in all a fantastic job by all musicians.Thanks for the post.

[jd51452]

Love the collar on Clarence's shirt.

[hooragood]

When you take into account that you could have dropped acid and smoked joints with the boys it adds a new dimension to their playing.

RIP Clarence.

[JimmyDeLocke]

I looked up "cool" in the dictionary -- It said, "see Clarence White"

Rest in Peace, my brother, you were the greatest.

[GregDrayGregDray]

You gotta love these guys.I guess their fame makes it seem that they are better but there are alot of really great pickers out there. Great music obviously Peter Rowan forgot the words! Shows you that even the famous pickers make mistakes.

[billrdk50]

@GregDrayGregDray Peter Rowan was the dude who wrote Panama Red. It's quite possible that he burned one just before this performance!

[speakwhnspkn2]

Wonderful. I'm not really that knowledgeable about bluegrass music, but the harmony here is tight and the playing is superb. Good musicianship will always prevail no matter the genre.

I do plan to learn a lot more about the guys like Bill Monroe, Flatts And Scrugs and the others who have created and/or preserved this great music.

[MauroPavanelli]

I was looking for this video a long time.

Thanks for the upload it's very hard to find something like that around here!

[descargaelbano]

What the heck is the dog doing there at 1:10 ???????????

[maddisx]

I did not know Clearence White until just recently. He was pointed out to me by the greatest guitar builder in the World, Mark Whitebook. I have started to appreciate him in a hurry. Thanks Mark, I miss you.

[zenstdy]

fantastic

[zenstdy]

fantastic



[TruegrassBoy]

Ooooooooie! Sweeeeeeeeet!

[Bareb0nes]

holy moly! its almost as if it were predestined for Bill's bus to break down.

[johnhamilton08]

My uncle has played with Peter Rowan

[skydogz1]

Clarence is what it is.

[lgomez222]

Wow!!!!

[lgomez222]

Wow!!!!

[TruegrassBoy]

Grisman and Rowan played together in "Old & In The Way" but for the most part this configuration was a new thing at the time. Great Bluegrass!

[zulubakery]

grisman happy head bobber

[4theluvofpete]

Okay...my bad and stinkin' dial up. Didn't get the whole video downloaded. Wow, that's just real bluegrass right there in 1973. LOVE IT!

[4theluvofpete]

Get outta town! Except...that is so not "Dark Hollow"...hello! Close your eyes and you would swear that is diehard traditional bluegrass. SWEET!

[bluesummer33]

havent watched this stuff before (instrumental guitars, fiddles, drums and so on)..... on YouTube, but ive favourited a lot of your favs......COOL

[jthuber2001]

I like how Pete f*cks up the words around 3:12 and Clarance gives him a look like he's saying "You're a Dork.". Lol. Pete really was a dork.

[mchelleswhite]

@jthuber2001 you probably hit the nail right on the head with that one -- Good reading, I think it's hilarious too :) You should also check out his expressions on the Bob Baxter video / interview.

Priceless *

[skydogz1]

Clarence's solo ..beauty and inovation.

[hawkwood44]

after watching this hairy bunch check out Fairport Convention playing Sir Patrick Spens......with the young Richard Thompson and Danny Swarbrick the brit fiddler.....then watch both Thompson and Del McCorys versions of Vincent Black Lightning...and you'll see how all the music is connected but the hair is a lot shorter

[bluegrassman776]

my friend said he talked to clarence's grandson the other day. me and my friend are going to try to get him to start learning bluegrass

[DisposableHero187]

i know one or two of them already flatpick...from what i hear they are incredible too

[wisesatyr72]

great finger pickin stuff..kudos

[dickass1234]

The Dawg is so young and awesome looking. him and Clarence are my favorite dudes! This is a great video. Thanks for posting it.

[dmthom]

Looks like dawgs having a stroke during the guitar solo! Great stuff

[flatpick650]

pete looks so young!

[PCPrabbit]

grisman is such a freak. it's awesome

[11shinnosuke]

clarence es fue un gran gran guitarrista.

[FiddleFan100]

Simply the best.

[edmunk]

Clarence died the next June 15 that year. What a loss of talent and a great musician.

[calebolin]

Such a shame. Fucking drunk drivers.

[henrynevins]

@edmunk No, Clarence died July 15, 1973.

[TruegrassBoy]

Pretty cool vid. I really like Bill Kieth back there on banjo. Man he rios it up!

[skydogz1]

Clarence is the genius here. Inovative, and has class.

[buckbuck666]

o god the misinformation out there is incredible really =) but o well n e v e r m i n d

[jimmyfrancicone]

lo mejor es q me aturde

[jimmyfrancicone]

great david!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[guitarice]

Two words come to mind when I hear Clarence play. Timing and elegance. And did he ever look cool. He seemed to have such a calm and gentle spirit. He is much missed.

[OldAndBlue]

Man alive!!! Unbelievable... thanks for unearthing this gem! 5*****

[dagetage]

Clarence White was killed in Palmdale, California on July 15 1973. He was playing a Mark Whitebook guitar at the time. His brother Roland has it...- the back was badly scratched by a well known country artist's belt buckle who had borrowed it for a long while after CW:s death....

CW"s daughter Michelle is selling some very fine T-Shirts online in case you want to support the memory of Clarence...

[blueterrace13]

I thought it was at the Palomino.

[jamesha175]

these guys were all rippin from beginning to end!

[alovesupreme71863]

Can anyone tell me how this great musician died? This guy was amazing.

[dudebangthosesluts]

google.

[taffycat21]

Killed by a car putting his guitar in a trunk in New York City I believe.

[roselovr2004]

Yes, it stinks. I've heard he was loading up (vehicle) after a show he did and a drunk driver hit him.

[VELMOUS]

It was  1973 and they had finished a gig somewhere in California. It was a bluegrass gig and they had to move their own equipment into their vans. Some drunk Japanese woman by the name of Yoko Ono (not the famous one) crashed her car into Clarence and killed him. Ironic that a year prior he was touring worldwide with the band at sellout venues. Never lifted anything but his guitar...they had roadies and some of the best equipment of any bank in the world.

[VELMOUS]

Let me add that some time later both his wife and daughter were in a car accident and both died.  Any family members in the forum that can add some more light on this story.

[roselovr2004]

Velmous: Who are you to be spreading such malicious garbage? As far as I know, Michelle is alive & well & is working on a book--GOD BLESS HER! What???? You WISH it on her?  I'm disgusted to see this post of yours in writing.

[eaglewheels1995]

It was his wife and son

[MadDaddy]

I love this Band. "Potpourri" is one of the best, and underrated bluegrass albums of all-time.

[btruboff]

great frank wakefield tune!

[cabinbowman]

Great video...classic love these guys

[froghopper022]

Just wondering. Could that by any chance be the D28 curently owned by Tony Rice that Peter Rowan is playing in this clip?

[collingsmando]

Definitely not. Clarence actually preferred a D18 for lead work. I think that by this time, he'd already sold the D28 that Tony now owns to a liquor store owner I thin(?). Tony later tracked it down and bought it from that guy for $500.

[blueridgekeith]

Correct. The guitar that Rowan is playing plainly has a normal-sized soundhole...The famous D-28 also had a replacement fingerboard that was bound and had no position markers. This aint the one.

[panamintjoe]

Rowan might be playing his '37 D-18 here. I think the liquor store owner still had Clarence's D-28 in hock at this time, the funds from which were used to finance a Colonels tour.(?) Clarence looks to be playing either his Roy Noble or Whitebook guitar. His '39 D-18 had been stolen by this time. Great video, even with the big hair.

[jobe69]

Hard To Believe This Was 35 Years Ago..This Also Was The Year Clarence White Was Killed..

I Got To See Him With The Byrds At The Fillmore East And Remember Them Doing "Eight Miles High" I Was Probably 17 or 18 When I Saw Them..What A Band That Lineup Was..Sweetheart of The Rodeo Band Without Gram Parsons..

[banjovi1953]

That was cool!

[Starladi106]

This is an awesome video and a real piece of history!

[counterstrikemasta]

i own a pretend cheap martin knockoff a d_28z with a plywood back and chipboard sides is that a good guitar?ive nearly mastered the cory heart catalogue so i know i must be good=-

[babbchuck]

Man - Clarence White, Peter Rowan, David Grisman, could it be any better than that?

[Hankray2]

Clarance has always been my favorite.

[zkafel]

Bill Keith is a legend.

[tayman1519]

that is fantastic music i bet you crazy rock heavy metal people can't play none of this

[taylor410ce]

and they can't. That is why people who really know they're music can understand this.

[Paul0169]

I have been lucky enough to play guitar for most of my life. I have played in plenty of hard rock and metal bands. And still enjoy it to this day. But I learned to play guitar from my dad and his old bluegrass albums and his bluegrass group. And i still play bluegrass to this day. Why can't good music be good music and good playing be good playing?

[burns81981]

Agreed. My musical taste runs all over the map, and for that I'm thankful to my parents for introducing me to everything from classical to early Metallica.

There is so much amazing stuff all over the place, what's the use in blasting a style that you don't like for no other reason than you don't like it?

[Paul0169]

well they do say most opinions are like, well you know how that story goes.......I hope to get some stuff of my flatpicking up soon!

[JimmyDeLocke]

Richard Greene still appears -- He was at Blythe, CA last year and at Sedona, AZ as well.

This is e great "all legend" lineup. Bluegrass doesn't get any better. Its great to see the guys in their 70's garb. Too bad about Clarence. That was a tragic loss for the whole world.

[bluegrassguy33]

The guitar that Tony rice has is a Martin D-28 Herringbone, with a large soundhole. It's not the same guitar as in the video

[froghopper022]

You might want to take a closer look at the one played by Peter Rowan.

[Darius50]

Great stuff! I was lucky enough to catch Clarence once back around 72.

[tayman1519]

not sure if it is but a guitar that clarence white has tony does have he even did some target shooting on it

[phriend2spin]

Is that the guitar Tony Rice bought?

[robertericks]

It's a Whitebrook or a Noble Custom.

[cantstanga]

richard greene is one of the most amazing fiddle players i have ever heard. and i was wondering what happened to him he seemed to just disappear

[Pipperfork]

report it??? these videos are the reason i bought the DVD!!!

[roselovr2004]

From Sierra Records, far as I know.

I really should *report* this, but I'm being wimpy.

Sierra Records Books and Home Video

P.O. Box 5853

Pasadena, CA 91117

You can actually see Mr. Delgatto--gent in white shirt sitting on the aisle clapping away--he put this thing out. It's awesome. I have it on VHS

Hey, any business ya can give him would be great.

[SFJonesy]

Thanks for providing this info. This is an example of the kind of service YouTube could really provide (and get the copyright guys off our backs). So many times I see clips I would love to "buy" (in any format) if I could get something with better quality than these little un-savable Flash clips. Though some are so rare I'd settle for anything!

[cooper4205]

great stuff! can this tape still be found?