Red Foley - Freight Train Boogie

[ebeneezzer]

Early rock n roll pioneer.

Show this to any idiot who claims that blacks and blacks alone invented that musical style

[Fmaj7b5]

Speaking of Grady Martin. Grady is smoking hot on Johnny Horton's studio work. Check out Johnny Horton - I'm Coming Home (1957) here on YouTube.

[NickRatnieks]

The album notes on my Delmore Brothers compilation mentions that Jethro Burns played electric guitar on the original recording of Freight Train Boogie. Jethro is rightly famous for his skills on the mandolin but he was a serious guitar picker as well.

[coy0te9]

I watched Burlison play live with the Memphis AllStars, he sure played Train Kept a Rollin and all the other songs associated with him that Martin's fans say he couldn't have played. Grady Martin was a top notch studio and concert guitarist, that doesn't mean Paul wasn't as or nearly as good.

[jsilence418]

Grady Martin is a new guitar God for me !!

[JamesMatchboxLee]

Awrighteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­

[bluefukingreene]

i love hearing people discuss this music because i know very little about it,its great stuff.john cash led me to patsy,loretta,the carter family ect.jimmy deans cajun queen prompted me to discover this great stuff.now its time to check out the delmore bros,never heard of them.

[rangu66]

I found out about this guy when i was 11 turns out hes my great great gradfather

[BadboybillyC]

Grady Martin , the King of Hillbilly, Rock-N-Roll, Jazz guitar, and the greatest tone. Hats off to this wonderful musician.

[boblackey1]

@BadboybillyC Grady's acoustic guitar playing on Marty Robbins' El Paso is still some of the best I've ever heard.

[sanQ]

So I had a hunch that Grady was playing on the song Midnight by Red Foley. And I was right! Damn that is magical guitar work on that song. It actually sounds as midnight should sound. Midnight being one of the last, if not the last, song that Hank Williams Sr. sang in the car before he died.

[standelman95]

Check out the CD "Stay a little Longer, with Red Foley" its the exact same band and exact same style like this, awesome CD, its On Jasmine Records, just buy it !!

[TierodMcslush]

HELL YEAHHHH!!!

[rockabillybyron]

old time classic!!!!!

i love it

[dburlison1]

P. Burlison's son..Actually on the trio cuts..the distortion/octaves are my dad P. Burlison..Unique to the Trio cuts and never duplicated by G. Martin before or after."Train Kept Rollin".. two guitars..However..I agree.. G. Martin was on of the best session guitarist ever..

[whitesidewalls]

Do please give some credit to Tommy Tomlinson on Johnny Horton's recordings. Example Grady played electric bass, think you'll find TT played lead

[williamanesbitt]

I'd like to have that old 18.

[echovarde]

Doesn't make no difference what the Red Foley group is called... other than everyone should call them good... why don't we be having musik like this any more. Outstanding tunes from yesteryear... this music brings tears to me eyes and then I wonder why we don't be having music like this on the radio any more. Thanks to YouTube for saving all this great music for a new generation.

[1crankyvet]

Is that Phil Baugh on double guitar? looks like him.

[Weidenberg]

Bill Haley was a big fan of red Foley and copied his style when he started as a country singer in the mid 1940`s. Ten years later Bill Haley became the first international star of Rock and Roll. But what is Rock and Roll?

[CaptainRed]

Is that a 5-string electric mandolin for the second neck on Grady's guitar? Looks too small to be a guitar and I've heard that he also played fiddle and mandolin.

[rentatrip1]

Pat Boone's Father In Law ?

[yourparents]

...woulda been better with ol' Bill Monroe playin'.

[doubleotwentyone]

Yeah, western swing...listeing to this you can hear the similarity to the early Bill Haley stuff...and Grady Martin? Just wonderful.....

[BigRedMcCool]

This is good music. Love this singer!

[rockin56]

grady the best..western swing/ hilbilly/ rockabilly,, wat ever he played on the "feel" the man had was priceless and prob unique to bout 3 or 4 of the early session/road artists jimmy bryant/speedy west..... brilliant all of them..shped my life for the better thanks guys god bless x

[andrealuvshouse]

what grady did on that double neck bigsby is IMPRESSIVE. Among many other styles of music, I also play western swing which is what this is. There is no such musical style as "Hillbilly". If you're referring to "Bluegrass", this isn't bluegrass but the Delmore brothers did perform a lot of bluegrass along with western swing.

[pappyredux]

Wow...interesting take on the genres...no such musical style as 'Hillbilly'? The Maddox Bros & Rose, Gene O'Quin, Jimmie Murphy, and about a hundred other acts would be interested to hear that. And the Delmores never played a lick of bluegrass, which is characterized generally by fast tempo banjo & fiddle, in their lives. Close harmony, boogie & blues - that was their game.

[andrealuvshouse]

I am familiar with all of those groups - they're more traditional folk in my opinion - I play a lot of their music in various folk jam circles. I still would not call them Hillbilly. I have heard bluegrass recordings by the Delmores, but by and large most of the Delmore recordings I've heard have been western swing, and boogie and blues like you mentioned. But yes, I have heard some bluegrass recordings by the Delmores.

[pappyredux]

Traditional Folk, huh? Well, I guess anybody can call it what they want...I've heard Pete Seeger called traditional folk, but Gene O'Quin? That's a first for me...

Billboard started calling it Hillbilly in their charts in 1939, so there's the 'tradition' for me...

I've probably got 100 tracks (CD, LP & 78) from the Delmores -- where can I find them playing 'bluegrass'? Anxious to hear it.

[spurnthemuse]

"Hillbilly" used to mean anybody who talked Southern. SPURN THE MUSE!!

[01twincam]

@andrealuvshouse come on man, let's not be so sensitive. My parents were from Southeastern Kentucky and growing up in the 60's we called all this "Hillbilly" music. We called ourselves Hillbillies to boot.

[freddysouth]

WOOOOW!

Thi is realy hillbilly!

[yeosei5533]

how many are they?!eight?!wow!

[hillbillyboy77]

true music needs a real work of talented fellows but shit needs only a PC and a user, that's all

[yeosei5533]

you are right

[coy0te9]

btw backthisway, your own source says it was Paul on Train Kept a Rollin.

[coy0te9]

If Grady Martin discovered fuzz in 1961 per wikipedia, it was five years after Burlison "discovered" the effect with the Rock and Roll Trio and that was several years after Willie Johnson used it recording with Howlin' Wolf at Memphis Recording Services and who cares really? All three men where great artists

[cravenmoorrrrrrrrr]

Kinda looks like Linden B Johnson to me. All the way with L.B.J.!!!!

[1MisterAaron]

what year is this song came out?

[MrSteamhammer100]

faboulos ! i love this kind of music. thanks for posting.

[jamesabilly]

Go Grady go! One of the greatest & most recorded guitar players in history. From raunchy fuzz-tone & hillbilly licks to great jazzy, clean stuff Grady could do it all! One of my biggest influences on guitar. I played this song at our gig tonight ironically enough! Thanks for posting this!

[hillbillyboy77]

AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!!

[hillbillyboy77]

Grady Martin is at least 50% of Decca's great rock-billy sound. And not only Decca's. How could you imagine Columbia's Johnny Horton or Bobby Lord without Grady's "Bigsby" doubleneck?

[gangerollo]

Cool footage. Always great to see them old clips. Thnx for posting!

[Pascalammann]

yeah! grady martin is my favorite guitar player !!!

[hindview]

The great RED FOLEY!"

[KittraKittra]

Thank God for Pappy Too!

[dkfelix]

Grady Martin sure helped birth Rock 'n' Roll - playing with Johnny Caroll, Don Woody, Bobby Helms,Roy Hall, Marty Robbins. I even saw him playing fiddle on an Hank Williams TV-appearance!!

[themightyatomics]

Grady is unbelievable!

[KittraKittra]

Wow. This is fabulous! Bob Moore (Bass) Billy Burke (Accordian) and Bud Isaacs (steel guitar) are all alive and well.

[forthorton]

Yes! Grady Martin footage--there ain't enough of it, huh?

[backthisway]

Yep...I only found out 2 weeks ago that it was HIM that made me buy a guitar and choose music as a career...having listened to the RnR Trio every day on the way to school for 3 years...but I was stupid enough to believe what was written on the record sleeve...so it's a big deal for me sure.

[krunchie63]

Grady martin at last !!!! Wow..thanks..the man who played the fantastic Rock n Roll trio

guitar parts !!!!!

[fenderman0463]

ummm...you are sorely mistaken....paul burlison played those parts....

[dkfelix]

What parts?

[fenderman0463]

The guitar parts on the Rock and Roll trio records...Do you know who they are???

[whest]

You are kidding about Paul Burlison playing lead on the Burnette records(please say you are!).

Twas Grady Martin-search Grady Martin Dreamboat here on YouTube and have an ephininy.

Actually Burlison did play lead on the weaker records but all the classics 'Train Kept..HoneyHush..Lonesome Train.. Sweet Love..Rockbilly Boogie ect ect were Grady Martin.

Spread the word!

[fenderman0463]

whatever...I was under the impression that Paul Burlison played them and I'm going to keep that impression...He invented the fuzz sound on Train Kept a Rollin'...not Grady Martin..I don't doubt Mr. Martin's talent, I do realize he played on countless records recorded in Nashville, El Paso comes to mind...

[whest]

The sound on 'Train Kept Rollin' is Martin-read the whole story on the Rockabilly Guitar site (google Grady Martin Paul Burlison).

It has been hard for many former Burlison fans to accept that the man was a charlatan.

Anyway I can only hip you to the facts,I can't put a gun to your head!

Regards,

[gangerollo]

I also thought that it was Burlison playing on the Burnette classic rock-a-billy stuff but one have to accept the facts. Can't understand why people have so hard to 'kill their darlings' to use an expression from the science. There you must always try to kill them as in prove they are wrong and not right or othervise your biases can take over.

[backthisway]

You must be deaf .. you can see PB LIVE in 1956 .. he was not capable of those parts ... and there are identical parts on Don Woodys recording from the same studio the same month .. and Don is alive and clearly states they were Grady .. and nobody ever questioned those credits .. Bob More the bass player is still alive and states clearly they were Grady and him .. dont worry ,... i was duped by Paul just likie you .. but now i know.

[CottonJohnson]

What? Now Burlison invented the Fuzz tone? Mercy. So all the people who were in the studio with Grady the day the Fuzz Tone was invented have been lying all these years? And for what purpose? Neither Grady nor Burlison held a copyright.

[clean3]

@whest There's film of Burlinson playing here somewhere....I was shocked at how poor it was; Grady was the man, some of my favourite GM guitar is with Johnny Horton....great great rocknroll guitarist, no one knows about him...criminal.

[backthisway]

It was NOT Burlison who played sweet love, lonesome train, rockbilly boogie, honey hush etc .. watch Burlison live .. he could hardly play !! Its on yotube ..search johnny burnette hound dog !!

[AtlantaSpike]

Dude - Grady was on many of the good trio records, but to say Paul Burlison "could hardly play" reveals your ignorance. I knew Paul for a long time - let's put it this way - I'm pretty sure he could outplay your lame "read it on the internet so I am a freaking expert" stuff.

[dkfelix]

Have you ever heard any live recordings by the Trio? Paul Burlisonn does an outstanding job on those and their recordings in New York are fantastic.