Bluegrass All-Stars - John Hardy

[SanguineSociopath]

INGMARS LĪDAKA!!!

[Anthonyeugenebuck]

Tony rice is an awesome human being. Was the greatest vocal stylist ever. It would behoove any music fan to search every recording this man ever performed on. My favorite ever is church street blues just Tonys voice and his Martin guitar. AWESOME!!!!!!!!!

[capnlumps]

im 15 and i would take bluegrass music over that shit they put on the shelves and the charts on any day of the week. good music never dies.

[rocmaven]

ricky skaggs and kentucky thunder watseka theatre watseka illinois on aug 26, 2011

[pupcake2]

Hey! I know this song. They're just playing John Hardly

[rocmaven]

Tony Rice unit comes to the watseka theatre watseka illinois on may 7, 2011

[airborne173able]

Used to play this with some friends--never even knew it had lyrics.

[toutnu]

My new favorite song.

[rosescentedshit]

this song is great listen to tony rice sing "the old home place" by JD Crowe, its badass!

[1937rb75]

Cleanest Rice break Ive yet to hear.

[Mandolin1944]

Awesome picking -- even Tony Rice stuck to the melody this time!! LOL (>:

[stellingbanjos]

where can i get this dvd

[stellingbanjos]

where can i get this video

[hacrac2319]

JD kills it on that RB-75 damn what a song.

[shademonger13]

i think after watching this ill just give up playing guitar. damn.

[goose1785]

agreed: best tony break ever, you can even tell he thought so too

[retropicker]

Tony Rice lives up to that bad ass mustache.

[TheJamdolinPlayer]

geez, grisman's break is nuts...

[Hannes87]

One of the best Tony solos I've heard to date!

[birddoggarton]

This is the time that I knew Miss Krauss.

She is very very Cool to hang with.

Great personality. Just one of the guys.

[eyeballcasserole]

Looks like she's wearing an Alison Krauss rubber mask!

[allman21]

alison krauss looks extraordinarily baked. . .

[boobsax]

@allman21

Ha ha ha I didn't notice that but she sure looks young.

When was this made? From the hairstyles and clothes it looks 80's.

[LukeDayInTheUK]

Fantastic... I've just watched a couple of other versions of the John Hardy song. This one has something really gripping about it... TonAAAY!

Haha I just thought... Anthony Rice sounds odd dunnit... bless.

Must say I think his voice is the Icing on the proverbial cake that is his Pickin'... not forgettin' of course, he's also very confident as a band leader... probably a great friend to the others... sorta guy who gives everyone advice and encouragement off stage. Great stuff!

[guibox3]

Tony Rice is the man. It's not that he is so incredibly talented that makes him good it is the crazy little things like that bend he does at 2:39 that make him almost unduplicatible even when someone can play the same notes.

I just came across a two disc DVD instructional video of his that I'm going to have to sit down with again.

Awesome!

[smokinbassist]

WTF??!! I'll paypal someone 10 bucks if that fiddle player isn't a man!!!

[phriendlyphool]

what?? have you never heard of Alison Krauss?? That's who the fiddle player is.

[IommiFan70]

@smokinbassist well dude you need to give someone ten bucks asshole

[sophiesage]

Too bad TR lost his voice....w/ apologies to Larry Sparks, Charlie Waller, John Starling, Ricky Skaggs, etc...i think he had one of the most soulful voices in Bluegrass.

[PCPrabbit]

you said it. at least we have tony's recordings

[EvanMonster]

These guys are fucking great!

[GetRhythm125]

Talent comes from the soul and these people have Talent.

GOD given for sure!

[NorwegianCrows]

Someone take that banjo and crush it before I turn inbreed.

[apollosg85]

If you don't like banjo because of its tone and general sound, I can relate. But I have a suspicion that most people dislike banjo because of stereotypes that have nothing to do with its tone.

[4131955]

Are you nuts? This guy's a banjo God man. Go see a doctor about your problem. Sorry bud you started it.

[4131955]

see a doctor pal this guy's a great player. you are nuts

[zulubakery]

you're an idiot

[ray8up]

@NorwegianCrows ?

[sclawman]

Yes, Rounder's 20th Anniversary Celebration.  It was formed in 1970.

[bluegrassaficionado]

Tony Rice is the man! "To me it doesn't really matter if someone makes a mistake or whatever" LOL! Awesome!

[M55ikael]

Well, none of these guys would ever make a mistake anyway..

[bluegrassaficionado]

So true, so true!

[bluegrassaficionado]

The irony of the comment was the humorous part.

[HillbillyJ]

Yeah, WHEN HES TAKING A BREAK!

JD is one of the best banjo players out there, I've never heard him override the lead singer unless the P.A. guy was drunk or something.

[dales6868]

hillbillyj another banjo player that is way underrated is Dave Evans.His voice is so powerful that many dont pay that much attention to his playing...you get the 1982 poor rambler cd of rebel records..Sit back and enjoy...you can thank me later...

[eleanorroosevelt1]

BANJO IS NUMBER 1

[sexydarin1]

Was this show recorded in 1990?

[gabinicak]

nauc sa pisnicky ty blbe

[flatpikinguitar]

it scares me when tony looks like he is actualy having to think about playing guitar.

[yemenmushroom]

it looks like grismans just waggling his fingers.. how do they do it?!

[JonEricMusic]

Simply AWESOME!

Thanks for sharing.

Banjoistically yours,

Jon Eric

[elevate155]

David Grisman is incredible!

[5041carol]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is GREAT!

[koc1a0pipes]

Wow tony rice your are an acoustic god buddy!!!

[marshalldylan1]

rice is fucking insane

[robinhood48]

Allison, I love you!!

[fletch212]

Rice has never sang better. He was on fire man. Mistakes can be cool, they can get the audience on your side if you handle it right. Music is too sterile these days anyway, I want to hear a train go by like they were on a porch. Fine with me.

[robinhood48]

You are absolutely right.I am enjoyed that there are people who have the same opinion what real good music has to sound as I have. Nevertheless I think you pushed the wrong button. I am the guy who loves Allison!

[austinitesince1979]

"...to me it doesn't really matter if somebody makes a mistake..." ~Tony Rice

[highonbluegrass]

Yeah...cuz 99.9% of the time these folks don't make mistakes.

[austinitesince1979]

Yeah, the music Nazis have infected me to some degree, I have a very strict sense of taste now, but I know how much it hurts when someone acts like Django Reinhardt and stops playing because you played one wrong note. I know that if you act like that, then the less experienced players never get any better. You have to have compassion and patience so we can get the whole world singing. At least that's the inference I'm drawing from Tony's comment.

[highonbluegrass]

I was really just trying to testify to their incredible talent...I NEVER pass up an oportunity to share my music with others.

"so we can get the whole world singing" AMEN

[austinitesince1979]

Oh yeah, you have to be watching really close and listening carefully if you want to catch Tony Rice making a slip. I want to start getting into his cross-picking technique, but from what I have learned I think I need to use a guitar pick. I have always been against picks because I can feel the nerves in my fingers touching the strings better 'n I think that the two fingers holding the pick could become two picks, but the technique involves more wrist 'n less finger, which a pick facilitates.

[highonbluegrass]

Yes, well I can appreciate the fingerpicking style...however the flatpick is my friend. Just a different style, one not better than the other. I know plenty of people who do both well, so I imagine it to be attainable to anyone who puts in the time.

[dodgewaldo]

tony's style doesn't involve as much wrist as you think

ppl who imitate him never can seem to get the picking pattern's down quite right because of this.

he actually moves his thumb and index more than he does his wrist. you can see alot of this when he's crosspicking like in church street blue's. wich is nowhere near traditional crosspicking its like his own style and mix between crosspicking and flatpicking that really fills out the song alot more

[flatpikinguitar]

yeah he is twisting the pick to get a diffrent tone or some reason like that

[mackae1]

django reinhardt was very talented, but also a hug prick. but that doesnt keep me from enjoying his music

[highonbluegrass]

Huge pick you mean?

[mackae1]

haha, yeah

[donnyaldridge]

He liked hugging pricks? Wow a prick hugger!

[emilernebro]

ghahaha!

[rmbion]

Both versions are stellar---got to admit, though, nobody tops Tony's pickin"!

[HillbillyJ]

Thats all a matter of opinion. For me, its hard to beat someone whos blind and still picks as good/better as anyone in his time period like Doc. I liked to see Tony tyr to do this without Doc influence, much less being blind.

But based on picking alone, Tony beats pretty much all of em I agree.

[rmbion]

I love Doc Watson, and I love his rendition of John Hardy with Mr Earl. My first guitar instruction was back in 1959---a 45 rpm record by Doc teaching guitar techniques. Learned some flat picking and also finger techniques from it.

He was a true innovator and his accomplishments are without equal.

[flatpikinguitar]

personaly i like the doc watson and earl scruggs version better

[Morahman7vnNo2]

This Why I Love Blue Grass.

[tombrown417]

perfectly perfect in every way

[desmogger]

I'll agree Tony Rice was "The Best Bluegrass Vocalist" bar none and there is and still is noone that can touch his pickin'

Support Bluegrass Buy some real Tony Rice CD

s I own every one of Tony's CD's

[oldcremona]

There's only one Tony Rice.

[canopyroad]

It just does not get any better than that.

[cnedwick]

john hardy was a desperate little man!.....

[flatpikinguitar]

personaly i think doc watson and earl scruggs do a much better job of it

[kotounski]

I could not agree more! Doc's vocals make this song...not to mention that John Hardy was just up around the bend from Doc.

[dreadnought45]

Tony Rice is the master of flat-top picking!.

[Kevindad123]

If I may, this shit is kixk ass. I live for it. I play myself and strive for the on the cuff. If there is anyone else who lives in the central KY area who wants to experiment with this type of style with us, respond.

syncerily

Daddy123

[jlhymer]

3:09 to 3:20 listen to that

[funability1]

phew..finger fatigue watching these masters...Yikes Grisman is scary Thank for posting :)

[myrio1]

There was a video on youtube of he and Ricky Scaggs doing "where the soul never dies". I think it is a crime to humanity that anyone took that video off of youtube! The camera captured there what I think should be an american tribute to bluegrass music.(If anyone has that video and would like to email it too me please, please do!!)

[myrio1]

Tony Rice has one of/if not the best attitude of any musician I can think of. He is a rock solid bluegrass vocalist! Also. I can tell that he tries to surround himself with musicians that have good attitudes. I have been playing music since about age 6. Grew up listening to bluegrass because my dad was a fan. In my 50's I am just now starting to try and learn some bluegrass music. Tony has been probably the most influence so far.

[kaysandesses]

" I can tell that he tries to surround himself with musicians that have good attitudes"

Yes. If you haven't already seen them check out the Rockygrass 2006 Manzanita Band vid's on youtube.

[erroredisk]

Was a singer. Sadly he's not now.

[ggron]

Did something happen to him?

[dakind50]

Yes he has a voice problem called dysphonia. Thus he mostly tours with Peter Rowen now and when he plays with his on band, they play instrumentals. Was the greatest bluegrass singer around for a time...still the best flat picker!

[PaliHornak]

Great music.

[kattsas]

JD is my neighbor and we have been friends over 40 years and let me assure you he is just serious about his picking, he is very friendly to everyone and is a plesant man and never has anything bad to say about anyone and truly is one of the finest musician's in America today.

[carteru93]

Bluegrass/country musicians seem to be very accessible. Nice to talk to. He is a great picker for sure! You ever get to pick his ol 75 or Banger?

[kattsas]

When I first met him in about 1965 he had 2 RB 3 Gibson's both of which were solid no hole tone rings. I drilled 23 equal spaced 3/16 holes in one ring we thought it might sound better and I believe it did, he still has one of those banjos and plays it a lot still. The RB 75 came later. have not had a hold of that one though.

[carteru93]

What a privillage!

I think Banger is a no hole 3.

[kattsas]

The RB 3 that he plays the most he found in a pawn shop with Jimmy Martin one day, it was an original 1934 Mastertone but needed a neck and Harry Sparks made it in the Reno pattern for him. This banjo has the deep tone that JD is known for.

[carteru93]

JD would sound great on any banjo! I think Banger was a '33 but as you said he had 2 RB-3's, a 75 and a Granada.

[carteru93]

Wait, my mistake. He had 1 RB-3 that was about '33-34 and an RB-75 that is I think a '37 and a Granada.

He used the RB-3 on most of the Jimmy Martin recordings.

[gibsonbanjo96]

Amazing

[05rsx]

what all great talents

[andrecomeau]

That first guitar solo... Whoah!

Tony Rice is the coolest... Personally I like the raspyness of his voice. Maybe if he had continued singing he could've taken on a more Dylanesque, Tom Waits approach?

[o0oWVUo0o]

I believe Tony was beginning to lose his voice a bit here... still, they all played great.

[skinner831]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! What a treat!!! Excellent quality video-- please post more!! Humble thanks from a huge Tony Rice fan!!!

[86meplease]

What year is this?

[vintage18lover]

I think around '88.

[hindview]

I'D LOVE TO SEE TONY RICE & CHET AKINS.

[blugrastooth]

is it me or does JD Crowe never look pleased?

[blugrastooth]

damnation. this video plum wore me out just watchin it. that fiddle will damn near peel paint. kudos

[726ryblz66]

Man, please keep these vids goin'! Tony Rice showing some remarkable riffs.

[MoonshineGirl]

I have a clip of Tony Rice and Chet Atkins from 1984 on the Nashville Network. It is awesome I will post it one of these days.

[140221]

thanks alot for sharing

[guitarice]

Great stuff. Tony Rice absolutely burns on that guitar solo.

[ultimatebanjo]

Thanks for the awesome video. It's greatly appreciated!

[dcguitar]

yesyesyesyesyes!

more please!

[vintage18lover]

don't worry dude...it's coming! should have some more from this tv special up tomorrow.