The "Great " Mr. Scruggs, to this definition I agree. His skill will never be equalled or supassed and not yet anyone to step in and carry the trade. FN Roni Stoneman was close with massive talent and played the same style. Steve Martin is trying to continue the tradition and had Mr. Scruggs at a few venues ta boot; This song is true country music Not country POP or trash as is today!
Look up the Sleep Man Banjo Boys,, they are a band of young boys who play this style of music and they are soooo good! they have lots of videos on youtube.
I can't find many original recordings of bluegrass like this one on Youtube. My favourite bluegrass album I bought this year is "Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways", just the best from a bunch of artists.
IMHO, actually they were supposed to play "Farewell Blues" and Earl accidentally played "Fireball Mail". That's why everyone in the band is laughing and smiling.
You can see Curly looking at Earl, wondering what just happened. I think Earl said it was a request on last minute, just a a joke. It's so easy to start off on the wrong song. These guys pulled it off perfectly, and boy am I happy it happend , 'cuz Josh Graves smiles so cute on this!
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL Hey CC - in case you haven't heard there is a new DVD out of Lester from 1971 with Josh, Paul, Haskell, Roland, and Johnny Johnson available form Bluehighways TV website. Picture and sound is perfect. Josh plays Hound Dog Ramble and Flatland Two Step and there is a couple of comedy skits. There is around 18 or 19 songs. You need to get it - you won't be sorry. He also plays guitar on about 3 and dances with Lester on Ballad of Jed Clampett. Feb 15, 2011
Which cottonpickin' assholes rated this great music with 7 "dislikes". Y'all should have your heads and hearing examined ! This is the best music that ever happened.
@bomark2002 He's not ticked off. He is amused. The reason? Flatt introduced it as another song. After this clip Earl explained, saying his sister and her husband requested it at the last minute. I have the video this is on.
@toutnu...Hi . This video is on Volume 2 of The Best of the Flatt & Scruggs T.V. Shows. There are 10 volumes with 2 half-hour shows per volume, and I have 'em all. Available from The Country Music Hall of Fame's website. And I highly recommend them - they are all FANTASTIC.
Not a single one of these modern C&W players can hold a patch to these old time pickers and musicians. Earl Scruggs is the best there ever was and probably the best there ever will be! Can't improve much on just about perfect.
"Fireball Mail" is so GREAT the way they play it. Fun to play too. If it aint familiar, you oughta learn it, 'cuz it's an old standard. Anyway, you gotta admit , no one can make this song sound so good like Earl and Josh can!!
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL Type in Curly Seckler and there are some videos made in 1992 of Josh with Chubby Wise, Benny Martin, etc. that have just been posted.
@cmlawson16 they were grinnin bacause Flatt had introduced "Farewell Blues" and Earl changed it to "Fireball Mail" on his own at the last minute. You can see it on the Flatt & Scruggs show that you can get off Netflix.
Genome your an idiot If Hate us white folk so much than dont use your computer internet or drive a car also no western medican for to keep your red ass alive Im sick of hearing how the white man done you wrong and no your not native americans your native assholes...
My brother Markus Bott had been assassinated by the German BND which is the renamed GESTAPO after having been tortured during five and a half years. Because of our homepage linked on my channel. By the way, German snitchers are following me on Youtube and immediately flagg many of my postings.
@barker747 No dipshit real americans are native americans this is music from farmpeople, It's really good though. But don't go calling america your america because your people murdered hundreds of thousunds of people just so they could sit back on their fat white asses just to see black men slave all day for your own profit. i really hate all of you, you make me sick to my stomache. you goddamn nationalist asshole. you are offspring of the worst people to have ever lived and you still are.
@GenomeSoldier87 Go get drunk and pass out in your fuckin teepee you red alcoholic piece of shit. I'm here to listen to great music and fuckin idiots like you get on here and start shit. Go die in the gutter behind your reservation's casino. USA FOR LIFE!!!
Modern-day bluegrass outfits can do their best as they see fit, at what they regard as their own expression-session & interpretation of what they regard as 'Bluegrass" music .. BUT .. 'far as I can see .. nobody ain't never goin to put out top-of-the-line, best-quality blugrass product again, like this band did .. week after week, year after year. These guys were a 100% peerless once-in-a-century phenomenon.
Just listen to how GREAT Earl and Josh sound ! Earl's style is the envy of every banjo-picker on the planet. And Josh was just the ULTIMATE dobro player---
im 22 and love this. i wish we could have more bluegrass. i just discovered them. amazing stuff. this was when you had to have real talent. i am downloading a lot of their songs and watching them on you tube.
@sponyge Yes, I hope someone can post "The Crawdad Song"....If not , Josh & Jake sing it great on The Flatt & Scruggs T.V. Show, Vol. 5. It's magnif !
What is it about Earl? I've played Firebail Mail 80 million times on my banjo and my best version will still never sound as good as Earl's worst version. The guy was just born to pick the 5-string...
I could never know what the Martha White Show was back then. There are alot of Porter Wagoner jokes regarding this show. They sure had alot of real talent. These guys are extraordinaire 10 Stars
@williestots They have mics set all over the place. There's several infront of them you can't see...and a couple of guys runnin all over the place with them trying to get it as good as possible.
@johnniescarlett ....I guess it looked neater to use just that one mic. Incredible !! ... Reckon they didn't need the 2nd mic at the other end of the stage.
@johnniescarlett ...Yes that one mic is superb! No matter what an electronicsGEEK thinks, alot of things are NOT obsolete a month after you buy 'em. This vintage show is awesome !
@Ray50005 lol....She would think you were speaking spanish even mentioning it...But yet she's entertainer of the year or whatever this crap they're giving away these days is called.
@hungrooster She sings off key and can't play a guitar...Boy that has star wrote all over it..Course in today's "country" garbage that's what the qualifications are I think.
@fishgutdumper hell yes, most modern american and Australian country is basically pop music anyway, I don't think half of it deserves the title country:) bring back the good stuff:)
On Josh's 1st break you can really get a good look at the 3 wound & 3 unwound strings. He gave me a set of John Pearse strings like he used and told me to try but I'll save them forever as a good memory.
No, I do not - I am not good at noticing people's eye color, just ask my wife. Can you tell on the color video of New York Town and Flint HIll Special that is on You Tube?
These performances are so rare these days, but still do exists! Keep this kind of music alive, people, it's great and if you can play like this, you truly have talent. Not to say you don't have talent to perform other types of music...but there is just something so classic, so meaningful about this kind of music. :)
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL My guess would be about 5'6". I had my picture taken with him about 20 years ago and I'm about 2-3" inches taller. I'm 5'9". By the way the best quote I've ever heard from Josh was when I asked to take the photo. Quote" Let me go out to the van and get my teeth son ,I left my real ones in a bar in Canada"
The reason Josh is laughing is that Lester introduced the song as something else. I have this on DVD. Earl explained afterward that his brother-in-law and sister requested Fireball Mail at the last minute. Lester was not advised! If you like these, order the DVDs. They are great!
I wondered ..... because at the very beginning he makes a little mistake on his beginning notes. His mind is distracted! I'll bet he is thinking he forgot to tell Lester and it just hit him at that moment! (Or he is playing with Lester's mind and pulled a fast one on him!)
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there is only one microphone for this recording and each musician playing lead steps up so his instrument is louder on the recording. watch the dobro player you tool.
There are 2 microphones. In this clip, you can't see the 2nd mic on the other side of the stage. The only way I know is because I have the video. Sharing a mic can be awkward, but they manage it quite well ! What CAN'T they do well ???
Great Song Thanks for uploading
BluegrassMastery 5 months ago
boy that's some fancy song you got there
TradingTutor 5 months ago
ricky skaggs and kentucky thunder august 26, 2011 watseka theatre watseka illinois
rocmaven 6 months ago
Earl Scruggs is THE MAN.
Never could understand just what Lester Flatt
had to do with it, (except he could sing a little).
GooglFascists 6 months ago
Steve Martin is very good, but Mr. Earl Scruggs has him beat. Perhaps with a few more decades of practice Steve may be close.
williamboyd1978 6 months ago
lol at the guy laughing at the end
Rxdvd 6 months ago
@Rxdvd thats lester flatt
MrBanjoman32 5 months ago
@MrBanjoman32 i'm pretty sure that Earl
fdgd380 3 months ago
@fdgd380 at the very end its lester flatt laughing
MrBanjoman32 3 months ago
@MrBanjoman32 lol i new that i thought you was talking about the with the banjo now thats Earl lol sorry bout that
fdgd380 3 months ago
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RyanHelbig 8 months ago
The "Great " Mr. Scruggs, to this definition I agree. His skill will never be equalled or supassed and not yet anyone to step in and carry the trade. FN Roni Stoneman was close with massive talent and played the same style. Steve Martin is trying to continue the tradition and had Mr. Scruggs at a few venues ta boot; This song is true country music Not country POP or trash as is today!
lemgretzorr 8 months ago
this is great! it’s a shame that most young folks don’t get it. a lot of kids seem to want to hear that damn rap or hup-hop rubbish.
ropermrmeredith06 8 months ago 3
who's the gentleman on the slide guitar?
freddo27 8 months ago
@freddo27 Josh Graves on the Dobro (slide Guitar) Jake Tullock [sic] on the bass
APSTTGTO 8 months ago
@APSTTGTO Appreciate it.
freddo27 8 months ago
Look up the Sleep Man Banjo Boys,, they are a band of young boys who play this style of music and they are soooo good! they have lots of videos on youtube.
BuckLA84 8 months ago
pass them biscuts.
supersnakegtr 9 months ago 2
Just saw this and many other episodes with netflix. sweet stuff
MellowCruisin 9 months ago
@BizzleLop you some kinda gay er sumthin?
DIPwhenyourSICK 9 months ago
an amazing 1 microphone recording.... audio wizardry!
danablett 10 months ago
Tony Rice Unit comes to the watseka theatre watseka illinois on may 7, 2011. marty stuart on july 2, 2011.
rocmaven 11 months ago
The Flatt And Scruggs are my favorite bluegrass band.
sponyge 11 months ago
I can't find many original recordings of bluegrass like this one on Youtube. My favourite bluegrass album I bought this year is "Classic Bluegrass from Smithsonian Folkways", just the best from a bunch of artists.
Check it out.
gestalt100 1 year ago
Doesn't get better than this!
london512 1 year ago
IMHO, actually they were supposed to play "Farewell Blues" and Earl accidentally played "Fireball Mail". That's why everyone in the band is laughing and smiling.
You can see Curly looking at Earl, wondering what just happened. I think Earl said it was a request on last minute, just a a joke. It's so easy to start off on the wrong song. These guys pulled it off perfectly, and boy am I happy it happend , 'cuz Josh Graves smiles so cute on this!
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL Hey CC - in case you haven't heard there is a new DVD out of Lester from 1971 with Josh, Paul, Haskell, Roland, and Johnny Johnson available form Bluehighways TV website. Picture and sound is perfect. Josh plays Hound Dog Ramble and Flatland Two Step and there is a couple of comedy skits. There is around 18 or 19 songs. You need to get it - you won't be sorry. He also plays guitar on about 3 and dances with Lester on Ballad of Jed Clampett. Feb 15, 2011
olehoundog1 11 months ago
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL Go to Bluehighways Tv and click on store and you'll see DVD -clik on it and look below and you will see list of songs.
olehoundog1 11 months ago
Which cottonpickin' assholes rated this great music with 7 "dislikes". Y'all should have your heads and hearing examined ! This is the best music that ever happened.
FalconSupreme 1 year ago 3
American Made...Bluegrass...a Southern Original! Go Earl Go!
NCBoyJess 1 year ago
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CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
i have the banjo in the vid
55457trevor 1 year ago
@55457trevor You have the banjo in the video???????
basfiddler 1 year ago
@55457trevor Doubt it
nasty5oh 1 year ago
Love that tune with Uncle Josh Dobro sound - thanks for posting !
Nashvilleagain 1 year ago
I NEED A SMOKE AFTER THAT!!
supersnakegtr 1 year ago
@supersnakegtr You can light it off Earl's banjo! It's on fire!
bigmrclean 11 months ago
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CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
Check Earl out, he looks like he's ticked off about something or he feels bad or something. Excellent piece, I'm learning it now.
bomark2002 1 year ago
@bomark2002 He's not ticked off. He is amused. The reason? Flatt introduced it as another song. After this clip Earl explained, saying his sister and her husband requested it at the last minute. I have the video this is on.
pegcage 1 year ago
@pegcage what's the title of this video. I would like to see if I can get my hands on it.
thank you
toutnu 1 year ago
@toutnu...Hi . This video is on Volume 2 of The Best of the Flatt & Scruggs T.V. Shows. There are 10 volumes with 2 half-hour shows per volume, and I have 'em all. Available from The Country Music Hall of Fame's website. And I highly recommend them - they are all FANTASTIC.
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
ermmm... all you speed demons out there...
Notice Earl's tempo..
Please take note.
procol0616 1 year ago 2
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ncomtois 1 year ago
Not a single one of these modern C&W players can hold a patch to these old time pickers and musicians. Earl Scruggs is the best there ever was and probably the best there ever will be! Can't improve much on just about perfect.
OldBenFranklin 1 year ago
Ji HAAA..since I was a kid I liked old western movies and always listened to his music you like to hear the great Earl Scruggs
Pachichin2012 1 year ago 56
Thanks Earl, many hours of joy you brought me, listening to you play :) .
Ikaika1955 1 year ago
Awwww good ol' bluegrass nothin can beat that
LegallyMoi 1 year ago
sounds like LINDA LOU by bill monroe
buchananstreet 1 year ago
"Fireball Mail" is so GREAT the way they play it. Fun to play too. If it aint familiar, you oughta learn it, 'cuz it's an old standard. Anyway, you gotta admit , no one can make this song sound so good like Earl and Josh can!!
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL Type in Curly Seckler and there are some videos made in 1992 of Josh with Chubby Wise, Benny Martin, etc. that have just been posted.
olehoundog1 1 year ago
Dagone! Pick it! xD
MrTrainfanatic 1 year ago
appreciate the perfection
craighargisify 1 year ago
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CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
whos that on the dobro???
Master100Mind 1 year ago
@Master100Mind-..That's Uncle Josh Graves on the dobro.
His given name is Burkett Howard Graves. Born in 1927.
++Ain't Josh the greatest ? **
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL yes the greatest of the greatso is earl scruggs
Master100Mind 1 year ago
I like how Earl messes up the kick off.. and and everybody starts grinnin behind him...even the masters make mistakes
cmlawson16 1 year ago
@cmlawson16 they were grinnin bacause Flatt had introduced "Farewell Blues" and Earl changed it to "Fireball Mail" on his own at the last minute. You can see it on the Flatt & Scruggs show that you can get off Netflix.
bigjstout 1 year ago
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CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
this is music
46r11 1 year ago 6
Forget "Newgrass"---This is truegrass ! 100% top-notch traditional BLUEGRASS !
You gotta love Earl and Josh...They play beautiful music. I'd love to have talent and golden fingers like that !
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
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CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
Genome your an idiot If Hate us white folk so much than dont use your computer internet or drive a car also no western medican for to keep your red ass alive Im sick of hearing how the white man done you wrong and no your not native americans your native assholes...
whitemans14 1 year ago
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wwwtotalitaerde 1 year ago
This isnt country music. Its the music of the country. It's the music of the real america!
barker747 1 year ago 5
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@barker747 No dipshit real americans are native americans this is music from farmpeople, It's really good though. But don't go calling america your america because your people murdered hundreds of thousunds of people just so they could sit back on their fat white asses just to see black men slave all day for your own profit. i really hate all of you, you make me sick to my stomache. you goddamn nationalist asshole. you are offspring of the worst people to have ever lived and you still are.
GenomeSoldier87 1 year ago
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@GenomeSoldier87 Well, payback is hell. Now the white man slaves all day for the welfare sucking black man.
txmacartist 1 year ago
@GenomeSoldier87 Go get drunk and pass out in your fuckin teepee you red alcoholic piece of shit. I'm here to listen to great music and fuckin idiots like you get on here and start shit. Go die in the gutter behind your reservation's casino. USA FOR LIFE!!!
barker747 1 year ago
@GenomeSoldier87 obvious troll is obvious
dano209 1 year ago
hoo lawd thats pretty music
oldbluegrasskurt 1 year ago 17
Modern-day bluegrass outfits can do their best as they see fit, at what they regard as their own expression-session & interpretation of what they regard as 'Bluegrass" music .. BUT .. 'far as I can see .. nobody ain't never goin to put out top-of-the-line, best-quality blugrass product again, like this band did .. week after week, year after year. These guys were a 100% peerless once-in-a-century phenomenon.
colindominy 1 year ago 7
i wish i had this music when i drove my 47 chevy....
hetzermg42 1 year ago 3
Just listen to how GREAT Earl and Josh sound ! Earl's style is the envy of every banjo-picker on the planet. And Josh was just the ULTIMATE dobro player---
the ten-star inventor of bluegrass dobro !
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago 4
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cockhandle 1 year ago
Talor Swift should be on YOU PORN!
cockhandle 1 year ago
See now this is good music to do the Clinch Mountain Backstep to.
Solomohn 1 year ago 2
Listen to that old Granada......THAT is the holy grail of banjo tone!!
banjoez 1 year ago 7
im 22 and love this. i wish we could have more bluegrass. i just discovered them. amazing stuff. this was when you had to have real talent. i am downloading a lot of their songs and watching them on you tube.
lizzyvance 1 year ago 5
I wish this music was still prominent today, the world would be a better place!
AsphaltCowboy57 1 year ago 7
@AsphaltCowboy57 .....Amen ! We all need to keep bluegrass alive. This band is about the BEST ever, and man, they really knew how to dress nice !
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago 2
Perfect and with that Dobro Guitar -nice touch !!!.
1Bandit455 1 year ago 5
A wonderful lively upload. Thanks to you and to melodyl52 who shared. Stars and hugs..Jan and Susan ♥
weeyin1155 1 year ago 2
Your video gave me a smile at the end of the day. Thank you :)
melodyl52 1 year ago 2
Please post the Crawdad song by The Flatt and Scruggs.
sponyge 1 year ago 3
@sponyge Yes, I hope someone can post "The Crawdad Song"....If not , Josh & Jake sing it great on The Flatt & Scruggs T.V. Show, Vol. 5. It's magnif !
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
Lovely playing and noticeable its not at breakneck speed - they let Fireball Mail "breathe". I''ll have to start playing that one again!
Motoguzzi750 1 year ago 2
What is it about Earl? I've played Firebail Mail 80 million times on my banjo and my best version will still never sound as good as Earl's worst version. The guy was just born to pick the 5-string...
collierscourt 2 years ago 7
I could never know what the Martha White Show was back then. There are alot of Porter Wagoner jokes regarding this show. They sure had alot of real talent. These guys are extraordinaire 10 Stars
mosrite60 2 years ago 4
Soooo smooth. He was the best! Check out my banjo videos on my channel. I learned from listening to Earl play every day of my life for 44 yrs.
banjovi1953 2 years ago 2
@banjovi1953 I checked out your videos...You are very good banjovi....Just like Earl..Earl scruggs would be proud for you to play his banjo!
bigmrclean 2 years ago
Boy Howdy pick my teeth and pass the moon shine iam home
liarsthieves 2 years ago
Those fellas could really play. Best I've ever heard. Sure enough!
BigRedMcCool 2 years ago 5
I need a hat like Josh is wearing.
MandoThrasher 2 years ago 2
@MandoThrasher Yes, the hat looks awesome !
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
Stereo and Multitrack recording were not even invented
Maguirearch 2 years ago
there is only one mic because of the technology (or rather lack there of) at that time
williestots 2 years ago
@williestots Only using that one mic, Yes,.... because of the technology. ..Hard to believe there was such good audio equipment back then.
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
@williestots They have mics set all over the place. There's several infront of them you can't see...and a couple of guys runnin all over the place with them trying to get it as good as possible.
bigmrclean 2 years ago 2
i am a bassist in a funk metal band and this song is so awesome for some reason love it!
latinoheatwhoa 2 years ago 5
Brilliant! Only one mic. and it sounds so good.
johnniescarlett 2 years ago 2
@johnniescarlett ....I guess it looked neater to use just that one mic. Incredible !! ... Reckon they didn't need the 2nd mic at the other end of the stage.
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
@johnniescarlett ...Yes that one mic is superb! No matter what an electronicsGEEK thinks, alot of things are NOT obsolete a month after you buy 'em. This vintage show is awesome !
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago 2
LOVE it!!
Knickinic 2 years ago 3
Taylor Swift would be intimidated by a single condeneser microphone.
*Ray*
Ray50005 2 years ago 3
@Ray50005 lol....She would think you were speaking spanish even mentioning it...But yet she's entertainer of the year or whatever this crap they're giving away these days is called.
bigmrclean 2 years ago 2
Earl had ''the roll''. So smooth and dynamic!
banjovi1953 2 years ago 3
Hellz yeah great foot tapping music right there!
sshonuff 2 years ago 2
love this shit!
yuraum 2 years ago
This is the best kind of blugrass. Taylor swift's got nothin on this guy
Ibanezheadz 2 years ago 7
taylor swift aint got nothin period.
hungrooster 2 years ago 40
@hungrooster She sings off key and can't play a guitar...Boy that has star wrote all over it..Course in today's "country" garbage that's what the qualifications are I think.
bigmrclean 1 year ago 7
taylor swift doesn't play bluegrass. that's pop music with a fiddle
fishgutdumper 2 years ago 86
@fishgutdumper ur exactly right..this new so called "country music" is nothing but garbage..bring back the real country
jaimev21 1 year ago 6
@fishgutdumper hell yes, most modern american and Australian country is basically pop music anyway, I don't think half of it deserves the title country:) bring back the good stuff:)
HeilJohanson88 1 year ago 2
@fishgutdumper i know....people are stupid enough to compare taylor swift to this music. =][=
paolajm12 1 year ago 3
@fishgutdumper Thats The Greatest Comment I've Seen On Youtube...hahaha
zombiedrummerkissfan 1 year ago
@fishgutdumper Contemporare 'country' - as I always call it. =P
But yeah, it indeed is just a standard rockband with a few bluegrass/country instruments added in.
DuskY1991 1 year ago
@fishgutdumper amen!!!!
bonesmoloney16 1 year ago
@fishgutdumper Taylor swift plays country pop... This is bluegrass, that is country pop. The sky isn't green and it isn't falling either.
Unisizo 1 year ago
I knew Josh as we shared the same hometown, Maryville, TN, although Josh was raised in nearby Friendsville, he lived in Maryville in his later life.
TheMemphisSlim 2 years ago
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CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
These guys were the best band there ever was.
DrPretorias 2 years ago
Finest bluegrass ever! Don't get no better than these guys!
BeadStallcup 2 years ago 6
No one can choke a dobro string like Uncle Josh can !!! AWESOME !
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
On Josh's 1st break you can really get a good look at the 3 wound & 3 unwound strings. He gave me a set of John Pearse strings like he used and told me to try but I'll save them forever as a good memory.
olehoundog1 2 years ago 7
That's cool. I wonder if John Pearse strings are still available ?
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
They are available I know from First Quality Music. They are called "Uncle Josh" set and are part #3050. It has the026 unwound 3rd string.
olehoundog1 2 years ago
@olehoundog1 , do you know what COLOR Josh Graves' eyes were? Thanks, you are a good egg.
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
No, I do not - I am not good at noticing people's eye color, just ask my wife. Can you tell on the color video of New York Town and Flint HIll Special that is on You Tube?
olehoundog1 2 years ago
@olehoundog1 Thank you ; I will look and see.
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
what do you mean was? he still is! old Earl is alive an kickin!
crispinchicken 2 years ago 4
he was so good on that banjo
80penglish 2 years ago 4
this is cool, we got love for Earl in the Netherlands!
toxic420timothy 2 years ago 2
These performances are so rare these days, but still do exists! Keep this kind of music alive, people, it's great and if you can play like this, you truly have talent. Not to say you don't have talent to perform other types of music...but there is just something so classic, so meaningful about this kind of music. :)
ashleyzombie 2 years ago
.. perfect gentlemen the way they share the spotlight - those were the days....
shortattentionspan1 2 years ago 3
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CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
Anyone know how TALL Josh Graves was? Or maybe you would know how tall either Scruggs or Flatt was ? ? Thanks.
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL My guess would be about 5'6". I had my picture taken with him about 20 years ago and I'm about 2-3" inches taller. I'm 5'9". By the way the best quote I've ever heard from Josh was when I asked to take the photo. Quote" Let me go out to the van and get my teeth son ,I left my real ones in a bar in Canada"
redneckwhisperer 1 year ago 2
@redneckwhisperer...Thanks! Awesome story!
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 1 year ago
listen to that hillbilly laugh in the end
goofy?
FazlokAaAaAaA 2 years ago
Love Earl Scruggs. He keeps that deadpan look when he's jammin his best. Like he's not even trying.
mullerheinrich 2 years ago 4
Love how musicians can do that, I'd be contorting, blinking and sweating buckets.
hankedful 2 years ago 2
@mullerheinrich lol.....I don't think he had to try very hard back then
bigmrclean 2 years ago
My last name is Scruggs!
sharkman643 2 years ago 3
. . . still I have great memories with Uncle Josh. We were touring in Europe with him and Kenny Baker in 1989.
Nashvilleagain 2 years ago
Uncle Josh FTW!!!
animosthunderheart 2 years ago
Awesome!
latachia888 2 years ago
love it..!!!!
LadyAltheaIsMe 2 years ago
This is music gentlemen -oops and ladies also. I was raised listening to this.
46r11 2 years ago
So genuine music.I love it.
TheSunRecords 2 years ago
The reason Josh is laughing is that Lester introduced the song as something else. I have this on DVD. Earl explained afterward that his brother-in-law and sister requested Fireball Mail at the last minute. Lester was not advised! If you like these, order the DVDs. They are great!
pegcage 2 years ago
I wondered ..... because at the very beginning he makes a little mistake on his beginning notes. His mind is distracted! I'll bet he is thinking he forgot to tell Lester and it just hit him at that moment! (Or he is playing with Lester's mind and pulled a fast one on him!)
plucknpick 2 years ago
im learning this song right now in my banjo lessons
nowhereman161 2 years ago
IS That Oswald On the Dobro???
alsnow469 2 years ago
No, That's Uncle Josh Graves On The Dobro.
sbbeth57 2 years ago
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fuck youtube this shit dosent need a aprroval rating lmao lick my ass youtube long live real bluegrass FOR EVER AND EVER fuck your mixed kids
TheTherealdiehl41 2 years ago
This is so good, it makes we want to learn how to play the banjo.
Love the way Earl pushes the guitarist out of the way when it's his turn.
johnniescarlett 2 years ago 3
This comment has received too many negative votes show
there is only one microphone for this recording and each musician playing lead steps up so his instrument is louder on the recording. watch the dobro player you tool.
Cambone13 2 years ago
There are 2 microphones. In this clip, you can't see the 2nd mic on the other side of the stage. The only way I know is because I have the video. Sharing a mic can be awkward, but they manage it quite well ! What CAN'T they do well ???
CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL 2 years ago
***DOBRO PLAYER***
nasty5oh 2 years ago
Everyone is great in this video, think what a great sound if recorded with the present technology.
They only had one mic, but it still sounds great.
Hardburly 2 years ago 7
hi.
sponyge 2 years ago
If you can't hear musical truth in Flatt and Scruggs, you need to donate your ears to science, they're not doing you any good.
bootleggersouth 2 years ago 5
Preach it BROTHER!!!
libertyM60 2 years ago
Timeless bluegrass. So sweet.
phdoyon 2 years ago 2
makes we want to break out my banjo!!!
libertyM60 2 years ago 6
mee too
owsleyforkmusic 2 years ago
sick
dutchybag 2 years ago
Whenever I search The Foggy Mountain Boys up they never come up.
sponyge 2 years ago
sponyge: Search Flatt and Scruggs
pegcage 2 years ago 2
Prewar sound ! WOW
Travis
tb40ford 2 years ago
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sponyge 2 years ago
They may be union station. Maybe not.
Dylanmattingly123 2 years ago
Earl made banjo-pickin' look EASY. He & Josh on dobro, both masters of their art. This really takes me back.
feathersax 2 years ago 5