Bill Monroe with Jim & Jesse - It's Mighty Dark to Travel

[xopowo69]

This is what I call 'blast your face off' bluegrass. If you have been to a bluegrass concert and sat kinda close, you know what I mean.

[willburr]

I get chills every time I hear that first line of the chorus...

RIP, thanks for a lifetime

[DrZaius75]

Does anyone know how old this song is?

[carolinablooz]

What a lineup-2 fiddles, 2 mandos, 2 guitars! And how about Blake Williams ! Buddy looks like he's having the time of his life !

[TruegrassBoy]

Well, Golly! Of course I liked this - in fact I loved it!

[glencoe6305]

Great video. Love the line-up !

[malkeh2008]

Are these some handsome fella? Wow!

[howtoplanaparty]

@malkeh2008 Anglo Saxons and Germans. They get that way when BOTH parents look like that.

[TheGmdriver]

blake williams and tater tate was with lester flatt & the nashville grass before he died.

[itmightbetime2012]

There are relatively few recordings of Jesse McReynolds and you seldom hear him playing anything other than his own style (which is fabulous). He does more standard work really well, too. Great post.

[freedomisnocrime]

compared to this THE GRASCALS sound  like a bunch of vegetables

[GETERDONE1955]

I this song.

[MrELVIS2]

super super:):)

[MrPurple30]

just wonderful where did  real coutry music go

[8907box]

Thank you so much for posting this. Love the twin fiddles and twin mandolins, and Bill's high baritone harmony over Jim and Jesse. Super.

As Bill Monroe introduces, Buddy Spicher, fiddle. Mark Squires, fiddle. Tater Tate, bass. Blake Williams, banjo. John Euen, guitar, Bill Monroe, mandolin plus Jesse McReynolds, mandolin, and Jim McReynolds, guitar.

They did it up right. Perfect speed & timing, imho...

[RKJanetsy]

Bluegrass

[TruegrassBoy]

I thought Bill said he was the only mandolin player in the band?

[PCPrabbit]

jim and jesse are guests on this song. Bill was usually the sole mandolin player.

[swnakle]

I remember when THIS was country. Those guys have some serious talent. Now country is pop-rock. I miss the old bluegrass days.

[tjbare78]

I totally agree! I may only be 31 but, I know for fact the only place you can find true country music is the small bluegrass festivals! Its hard to find in Nashville anymore thats for sure!

[elwillo9]

@swnakle dude i agree someones gotta show its all about skills anda banjo not pop and a computer i was raised on this stuff

[elwillo9]

@swnakle dude i agree someones gotta show its all about skills anda banjo not pop and a computer i was raised on this stuff

[1776Shaman]

@swnakle Bluegrass is still out there if you know where to look, its still alive and well in West Virginia and the Blue Ridge Mountains

[fiddlercrab3]

Yes!! Buddy Spicher is the man! He's still cookin' too, and a harmony master. I've seen him take a melody and on the spot put together two hamony parts, one above, one below, and play them at the same time!

[marcusalexander63]

awesome video

[stellingbanjos]

GREAT!!!

[firebreathone]

good

[TruegrassBoy]

Excellent!

[buchananstreet]

timeless ! what a marvel !!!

[WestPoint2014]

i just took a test on this stuff.....good work

[beboobeboo]

high lonesome sound!

[roselovr2004]

How, beautiful! Thanks, BluegrassLibrary, for posting this!!! Jim McReynolds reminds me so much of Del (McCoury) here.  Funny. Awesome clip. I was too stupid to watch this show when it was current on television!

[gantock]

they do not look outdated in anything really, haha! I just meant that they appear " old fashioned " - in a way, but not to me, ever

[gantock]

now you may say that these guys look a bit ... out dated,but then : will ANY of the one hit wonders of today sound so timelessly fresh and exciting , still, after almost 75 YEARS ??! YOU GOT IT!

[bluegrassrulz]

in what do they look outdated?

[firebreathone2]

How would you analyse this song?

[bluegrassrulz]

I don't quite know what you mean....yes, its a good bit different than Bill's original recording (bari with the lead and tenor and triple fiddles) but its live and most likely was entertaining for the audience to see the father of BG with a top country/ BG act.

[firebreathone2]

I mean how would you analyse it in terms of rhyme scheme etc...

[bluerailroad]

Oh, man. This is it. Jim McReynolds on lead -- perfect. Makes you really miss him, and of course Bill too.

[corey00897654321]

awesome

[WWBZT1]

from Aunt Bee to Uncle Sam this is the best.

[hch49]

Fantastic!

[thorneswift]

What an awesome group of songsters... The Greats!

[Paul0169]

I can't tell you how amazing this was to see. Thanks for posting it.

[buckbuck666]

favorites all the way i like it a lot

[mand0play]

Absolutely haunting.

yet beautiful.