Johnny Cash - Pick The Wildwood Flower

[toots1958]

thats a man in that dress!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mountianmusic97]

I love this! I play the Autoharp, Guitar, Piano, & Banjo, All taught myself except for the piano My Aunt Dopey taught that to me, But I love Maybelle & Johnny. I would love to have that Gibson that Maybelle has!

[phishhed44]

Yes.  Thanks YouTube!!!

[Leecanuck1]

Does anyone know what she answers Johnny ...He is talking about chords and she quipped back, making the audience laugh.

Please post if you can hear what she says. Thanks

She was a sharp wit

[crusherbmx]

It just looks SOOO awsome to see her looking like and old grey haired granny in an old fashioned dress rocking out with that giant Gibson.

[Leecanuck1]

Please explain what it means to be a shredder!

When I see her in heaven, I hope to sing and play Autoharp with her.

Can you tell what Johnny said to her at the end and what her response was/

[phishhed44]

@Leecanuck1 A "shredder" is referring to the shredding of the finger's skin from playing a lot(?)

[Leecanuck1]

Please explain what it means to be a shredder!

When I see her in heaven, I hope to sing and play Autoharp with her.

[cameronfields681]

somewhere in heaven someday Angus Young, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, and other amazing players will be sitting in a circle patiently taking lessons from the original leads guitar player, Mother Maybelle Carter

[BenDuvallIrwin]

Maybelle was the original shredder!

[stonedrocker666]

and they say yngwie malmsteen shreds...now tell me mama maybelle isnt shredding?

[human453]

@stonedrocker666 excellent comment

[stonedrocker666]

@human453 thanks lol

[lvrwfefrnd]

Amazing!

[RevrnDale]

AWESOME .. I was so blessed / fortunate to actually get to see the CASH Family several times ....

[pegcage]

You know Mother Maybelle was good on the guitar if the great Earl Scruggs took lessons from her. Which is true. She was his neighbor and taught him how to play the guitar like her. You can watch him pick the Wildwood Flower right here on youtube.

[walsham]

Every day it gets just a little bit harder aand yet..............

[thecarters28]

its funny because at first maybelle was capoed on the first fret, but then changed to the 3rd !

[IStillLoveLucy111]

@thecarters28 What's so unusual about it?

[65bluzman]

love it! wonder who wrote this song

[TheUnique3]

My dad got me listening to old time bluegrass and old songs like this. I can't thank him enough and when I get to heaven, I'll tell him so.

[Katcrazy7]

This is just so pure! Mother Maybelle was a fine picker! So simple yet so profound. Absolutely great music!

[mariesadler]

I wish there were more singers like this nowadays. {tear}

[scooty40able]

I love the way she plays, pity we didn't see more of this music today, thanks for posting love the old music

[slicerprime]

I LOVE than Johnny takes the time to remind everyone that Mother Maybelle has a thing or two to teach all of us...including him!

[eireman]

Mother Mabel.. was and even not with us she is still AMAZING.. her spirit Lives.

[brad04970]

I woke up this morning with this song in my head,, And I'm glad I wasn't there to hear my Mother cause you know she of cryed for hours... Now it's hard to turn a around and look back down that long road i've traveled......

i never foget watching this Man in Black...... God Bless them all for they are gone and the music is gone also...

[ingzingaingi]

is this like a variation on "Wildwood Flower"?

beautiful anyhow

[Katzeleine]

@ingzingaingi It´s sounds so, doesn´t it?

[ingzingaingi]

@Katzeleine It does, especially the intro and interludes...

[Sing4More]

@ingzingaingi I remember that Gene Watson came out with this song later-it's called "Pick the Wildwood Flower". Don't know if you have your answer yet.

[ThomasASwilling]

In the era when I learned to play guitar, a guitarist wasn't worth his salt if he couldn't play two songs: "Under the Double Eagle", and "Wildwood Flower". I can play both. I am, after all, an old country boy. I may be half Cherokee, but I'm still an old Southern country boy. Mountain people play mountain music. (Under the Double Eagle isn't country, I know--not until bluegrass guitarists started playing it, that is). Anyway. those two songs were the measure of a guitarist back in the day.

[johnnyjackpot]

Thanks!

[miehaga]

How nice....Missing Johnny so much..Love Marei.

[bjx101]

my pa hill use to pick this song i loved listening to him i sure do miss him. His last christmas with us he played for us untill he was to tired. I'll always remember that christmas as long as i live.

[Rabadamtimtimti]

Carter Family Picking!

Gotta love it.

[quackkedupfunnygirl]

Why isn't there a "LOVE" button?

[swansrule1]

The best acoustic guitarist ever in my opinion, but i am biased, she is a wonderful human being who doesnt get the credit she derserves, what skill she had what a star. R.I.P. Maybelle.

[MrSimonGirty]

The student has become the Master!

[AusPole]

It saddens my heart knowing I'll never get to see these great people perform, or even just alive...

Oh to be born so many generations late...

[riorocketxo]

@AusPole

I know how you feel :(

But at least their music is not completely gone, and we can at least still hear it! :)

[lornanorman]

@AusPole I know how you feel. I love these guys.

[Batninja24530]

@AusPole i was old enough to see johnny cash preform when i was young muahahahahaha

[lornanorman]

@Batninja24530 well, I was too young to see them. I think I was negative 30 when this was taped.

[TheSilentfro2010]

@AusPole sorry i accidently voted ur comment down but i agree 110%



[ThomasASwilling]

@AusPole That's why God created cameras, film, recording tape, videotape, CDs, DVDs, the Internet, MP3 players, and YouTube: so these phenomenal people can live on share their music with us, and continue to inspire us, even though they have gone on to another plane of existence.

I was lucky enough to have shared this planet with them for many years, and I miss them. Maybelle Carter inspired me to learn to play guitar. I can play Wildwood Flower like her, but my picking style is different.

[helmet14]

@AusPole I was lucky enough to have seen Johnny about three times - during the late 50s, the 60s and and the 70s. Just this past week I visited the cemetary in Hendersonville, TM where Johnny, June. Mother Maybelle and several other country greats are buried. Inspiring, to say the least.

[GrizzlTooth]

@AusPole ahhh bull shit...i get so sick of people stating on here how they were born too late. Enjoy life for what it is and the music for what it is...chances are you'll appreciate Cash much more having never seen him live. Not saying that's a knock against Cash, but for the most part people do not know a good thing when they see it.

[mariesadler]

@GrizzlTooth At least we have digital recordings of their songs. Better that than nothing at all right?

[globetrekkerboon]

@AusPole

exactly!!!

[1211alovesc]

@AusPole Agreed.. people these days never appreciate the GREAT music like this.

[rrdoran]

Do you think you could upload the song after this one? It's "Rocky Top" by the Carter Family. For some reason, the song will play through one speaker after I downloaded it. This clip plays through both. I'd really appreciate it.

[eldridgebeaver]

So great to have Johnny's whole career on file and available on YouTube from the Sun Records days to the Highwaymen and Travelling Wilburys...such an American treasure

[CaptainDuke71]

so awesome...wildwoodflower was the first song i learned to play on the guitar

such a genuine love is the way Johnny plays

takes me back so much and so good

I hold this vid as priceless

thank you world.

Earl

[CntryInVa]

"Now as evening lays it's shaw across the shoulders of my life..."--I don't think I have ever heard so much said in so few words.

[ogalala]

What a smile Johnny Cash has, just lights me up.

[rustyBIGKITTY442]

Yes,, he was great. The damn movie didn't do him justice in my book. Ogalala? close to Big Mac?

[iloveclassics50]

dont be so hard on joaq :P

[rustyBIGKITTY442]

joakin & reese were ok, it's just the movie didn't tell the whole story. a sequal would be very nice.

[iloveclassics50]

heck yeah! ive said that too. thought i was the only one. hmmm it could be called ring of fire : johnny and june :P

[utoobube]

Nice to know Im not the only one who thinks so! Lets make some noise, and see if we can get "hollywood" to agree and do it! I like your idea of the sequel title "Ring of Fire"

[iloveclassics50]

thanks :) , and ur ideasounds good! reese needs some work-shes selling perfume, and im gonna personally shampoo and shave phoenix! lol

[davidgmetoo]

oh what a aura of love she had always around her. it was angelic in a mortal world.

[swansrule1]

what a lovely duo these two make, Mother Maybelle had one of the best smiles i have ever seen, let alone her magnifient musical talents she just seems like a very kind human being.

[quwazy]

The Family (Johnny included) played music because they loved it. Fame was just something that happened. They were the same on stage and off. Money or no money, it was the music that mattered and that was their gift from God.

[4freespeech]

Its a great story how Cash had been

fooling with drugs and living loose

until he met and fell for June Carter,

and her, ol' Maybelle and Jesus

straightened out his life. That's what

the song: "I Walk The Line" is

referring to.

[Dustpan04347]

actually walk the line was written before he met june...

[SwooningCrooner]

Cash is the fucking man!

[harrethwool]

hi brother yes cash is the fucking man.

so much in fact im getting my awsome tattoo saturday morning.

long live the legend of johnny cash.

[HymnTimeGospelSongs]

enjoyed this great clip...what music .

[MrsHowl]

both are amazing ^^

but...

what do they say at the end?

[crabtrap]

nice archtop mother! $30,000 pile a wood there

[Ridger1978]

Hey Baby, try $575,000... that is what that guitar went on sale for by Gruhn guitars.

[crabtrap]

I meant the model of guitar not hers specificly which obviously adds just a little more value LOL!

but at $575K sign me up for two and send the bill to my buddy Obama

[jnizny]

good return from $275 in 1928

[ffairlane57]

Nowaday's price.

The vintage guitar thing was only beginning to happen about this time.

[crabtrap]

arch tops have commanded high premuims for decades even in the 70's(when this show was filmed)

[Hankallasbimbim]

really great <3

[hillbillyclimber]

They are both so great, my heroes. Thanks for the post.

[countrybible]

Mother Maybelle was a real lady, she was already 64 when this was recorded! Had she lived she would have been 100 years old on May 10th 2009. This is great lets have some more.

[eh0214827]

Mother Maybelle is the cutest person ever. I love this song! Thanks for posting!

[pegcage]

Who says you can't love your mother-in-law?

[Dustpan04347]

lmao no kidding!!

[club349]

he bettter, becuase he married June and her mom was Mother Maybelle he got some street cred, and helped his career, he owes her quite a bit

[curlyceltic]

For as long as we remember our heritage, and that of our brothers and sister, this music will not die. When you look at the history of 'folks', it is a miracle that people and their spirit survived given their hard graft and yet great poverty. They deserve respect, and the line goes on with us. This isn't music for a quick buck, but tales of the common man - priceless.

Cheers y'all,

[Midlands, UK]

[anilomd]

Yeah man!

[jimjeffmaria]

Mother Maybelle was a real American treasure, and JOhnny loved her so much!

[offwhiteangel]

I know johnny since about 10 years and im 20 and i have never heard that song!! and she picks that song Awsomely!! ;D

[elcash53]

You're looking at America's country music royalty there. She's so sweet

[Ridger1978]

Does anyone not realize that she was burdened with Arthritis. She suffered so that the music wouldn't. She was a national treasure. BAR NONE

[lancego30]

this kind of talent made america great, i hope islamism will not take over america or this will be lost forever. Americans, take care of your freedom, in europe democracy is used by idiologist islam to slowly take it over

[bayareanumerouno]

bitch ass america is not a free country

[lancego30]

fuck you, hpocrite islamist, you are even going there and go out for a demonstration which is not allowed in an islamic country and your music are all percusion instrument without bass guitar it sucks!

[andybulletbass]

beautiful song.

[belle19Uc]

so talented.....

[dri63]

ja vi er gla i johnny cash i norge å.

i play him every day

[uglymoon78]

Å ja, det er vi. So do I

[Canonfotografen]

Wonderful! So strong and powerful! I really liked this one. Thanks for sharing.

(Here in Norway, in my remote corner of the world, I've never heard this one before.)

[CashPresley32]

Mother Maybelle Carter is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I love the way she picks. Thanks for posting.

[TrevorTolt08]

ZakkZombie1 - If you search for a lesson taught by Ken Middleton here on YouTube, you should find a lesson taught by Ken teaching you this tune. Not chords really, but it is a great, fairly easy lesson.

[ZakkZombie1]

I want these the chords for this song..

[aussiejohnr]

Johnny was at his greatest at this time. great timbre in his voice great looks and yes he can play that guitar if he needs to. well done great song John Regan

[EmotionalResQ]

Maybelle, the greatest of all the Carters.

[markmissestexas]

absolutely.. for my money, she is the Mother of Country Music

[davie12]

Total stars both of them... the quality of this performance just hits you... and what a great ending....

[markmissestexas]

wow.. this is great... thank you very much..

[drew081682]

the queen and true first lady of country music!!! what a musician!!!

[isjerryzkid]

holy sh*T this is awesome thank you