Joe Maphis - Pickin' And Singin'

[guitargoalie]

And my generation thinks Radiohead is a good band :(

[emanhacker]

wtf is this? the only good part was ALLL OF IT BAHA I LOVEEE his amazing talent big fan of the maph!

[cjoey39]

Awesome stuff for sure! Only incredible passion pared with a desire to feed your family can bring about such genius! 300+ shows a year, not getting rich!! That's true love!! Joey Vaughan "World Blues Attack"

[guitarlickerus]

This just blows me away....!



[wildcattamergirl]

his music does the talking but keep the name alive so they can hear and c his talent.

[greaseSpider13]

left me with my jaw dropped, thats for sure...shoot

[Atomicflash500]

ok...so you play many instruments....just play one for now all the way through....thanks

[PrettyMommyOfTwo]

@Atomicflash500 He's got talent... there aren't many people that are able to play more than one or two instruments well. So I think, my personal opinion, he's great... and it's pretty awesome that he played the variety that he did. Thank you. ~Mel~

[elzbieta1986]

wow



[Dust6chap6]

My Band Backed up Joe and Rose Lee Maphis In Buffalo NY In 1964 He was Hot He was the one who did the sound track for the Beverly Hillbillys too.

[justinbe54321]

damn...joe was shredding back in the day....very tasty..

[penn4644]

Joe also played the theme and soundtrack for the Robert Mitchum movie Thunder Road in the late 1950s. He played on countless records including Ricky Nelson's first LP and Johnny Bond's Hot Rod Lincoln. Mr. Maphis is my favorite country and rockabilly picker, bar none. Cheers, mates.

[HeatherMarieMagness]

This is my great uncle! Gotta love it!

[pro3tlb]

Joe Maphis is what most guitarist aspire to. The theme song to the TV program "Bonanza" is played by Joe.

[sdidi666]

It's called talent.

[RobertELegal]

Wow, that guy could make a rubber band sound good. What a talent, he makes it look easy.

[bob7258ful]

Wow!

[TheReilly8]

WTF hardly any views

[07BBingham]

hey nice video, does anyone know if joe has recorded "pickin' & singin' " on an album? 

[scottduncan44]

Players like Joe Maphis , Merle Travis , Speedy West , Eldin Shamblin , Les Paul , Chet Atkins and others are a big reason why the young British players copied the Chicago Blues. You couldn't fake the stuff these guys were doing. Nothing against the British blueplayers but its total bullshit to compare them to most of the American Country players like Jerry Reed or Glen Cambell.

[penn4644]

@scottduncan44 I think you've really hit on something there, with the possible exception of Albert Lee.

[banjoman1978]

@scottduncan44 You're probably thinking of Jimmy Bryant, not so much Speedy West (who played steel). Bryant was the best of the lot, to me . . .

[synesthesia67]

holy doo doo

[MrBateman138]

Joe Maphis is the greatest over looked musician of all time. When will he get the credit he is owed.

[penn4644]

@MrBateman138 I strongly agree. Perhaps YouTube will help him get the recognition he deserves. I watch this almost every morning to get my day off on a good note(s)!

[GameLevelEditor]

What a picker! Cripes them theres is asparagus fingers! LoL Just Excellent.

[goffbum]

Love that gal on the steel guitar.....oops wrong video.....

[goffbum]

Love that gal on the steel guitar.....

[rednar1000]

best all rounder ever!!!

[snizzlebox]

Wow, I never thought that this was possible, but Joe Maphis can roundhouse kick Chuck Norris while counting to infinity twice.

[Modes9]

And I thought Roy Clark was great...

[redlizzardpoker]

way before his time

[penn4644]

Terry McArthur of TNM Guitars, North Hills, Ca. makes a mighty fine replica of Joe's guitar. Just ask Deke.

Joe Maphis was so smooth. He made it look so effortless. This is one of the best showcases for his talent I've ever seen. We thank you !

[TwisterAmpsLLC]

The best there ever was, and ever will be.

[synesthesia67]

damn...!!!



[astolennova]

I'm guessing Junior Brown knows about this guy.

[sonofapreachaman]

Oooooooooweee! I'm in CHURCH. Clap yo' hands and stomp ya feet. GO JOE GO! Get down.

[bogeyat3]

you know those guitars, that are like double guitars! man you crazy! yeah, i'll just shred some fiddle now. You want mandolin, i'll give you f**'n mandolin? etc...Viva America!

[MultiDinart]

This guy is amazing!He´s so good playng all the instruments,he´s one in a million.

Only in YT for to see a insane video!Thanks .

[RobertELegal]

Wow, nobody should be allowed to be that good. Amazing.

[RockPartyzan]

Wicked!!! Old School!!! Thumbs up and Hats off!!!

[kemlo]

this is the classic example of pure talent. back then [in the fifties,] there was no second takes, no special effects, not even colour t.v. just the great joe maphis and band, there to nail it for you, LIVE....if theres anybody around today that can do what joe did on this clip, LIVE,...hey,,,lets see it...

[DougPatton1]

Multi talent Maphis (no mock angst) juss a Pickin an a Singin an a GRINNIN !!!!

[Ultimatesadventures]

insane!!!!!

[MrGustavoagonzalez]

after moody waters in 1982 the best performance i have ever been, i could say this is one of the best performance in video ever...

[bogeyat3]

@MrGustavoagonzalez agreed, knocked my freakin socks off. I'm cold!

[tandb8887]

A straight up bad ass dude.

[dratekarlstad]

amazing thats just beyond words am i right or am i righr???

[Okpolosi]

As Les would say.... that boy do play nervous

[brotherneil]

Guitar, Fiddle, Mandolin, Banjo, Lead, Stand up Bass, singing with his buck teeth the whole time, wow.

[speck444]

joe makes me want to cut my whole head off woops their it gos

[quieterrps]

God bless Mighty Joe Maphis for his good deeds in helping out that young'un Larry Collins and for being one of the most spectacular instrumentalists ever! Such a humble dude to boot!

This is one that I've never seen! Thanks for posting!

[therebel1960]

What talent! Wonder how much influence he had on Roy Clark? Their styles are quite similar. Both could play about anything with a set of strings.

[ari1234a]

Joe Maphis was phenomenal... nuff said.

[jaimev21]

definately one of the best instumentalists who ever lived!! they just cant play even close to that today now all we got is this fake shit they call new country wat a sack of shit...love the vid!!!

[Skifflecat]

Thats a Bigsby guitar Joe is playing there

Boy there was some talent around then

Amazing

[spiderdaniel]

What year is this?

[5jonesville]

1958 Spider.

[waterphoneman]

Strong, versatile, cooking, creative and confident.  Joe has it all covered and some.

[teeteeboi]

Joe makes me want to give up. WOW!

[BSS14285]

EASY?????  yeah right

[acceitunas]

Bravo,perfecto mondo,love this.

[guitarpicker29]

Awesome video! And I just wanted to let joker1ification know that I just posted your comment as my Facebook status line! Joe Maphis was the man!

[memphist1]

What are you people talking about??!! This guy couldn't even play a whole song on one instrument!! Just kidding he was an amazing picker. Crazy man, crazy!

[joker1ification]

If this guy were still around he would eat Clapton for breakfast with a side of Eddie Van Halen.

[barbillafonic]

What a great comment!! The best one! Thanks a lot.

[Rogermiler]

@barbillafonic I agree! This guy is lightening!

[0coincidences]

hehehe... now this is a good one.

[dratekarlstad]

@joker1ification as a swede i could say he could eat the whole gayish yngwie malmsteen or how he spells it is a big jek compared to this man!

[memphistube]

@joker1ification HEAR HEAR! ; )

[steeliedude]

@joker1ification amen

[44eelz]

@joker1ification Hahahaha!

[jazzbass0321]

Hoooooooo Hoooooooooo Hoooooooo

[jellyrollbaker]

i am not lazy and am not slow but i did enjoy the SHOW!!

he is great!!!

[laslos3]

that's a cool guitar!

[101Volts]

You mean the double necked guitar Joe Maphis was playing? It is a custom Mosrite guitar. Joe was tone of the earliest people to endorse Mosrite but that was before they became a bigger company, They were a very small operation before they hit the jackpot with The Ventures in 1962 or 1963!

[101Volts]

*Joe was one of the earliest people to endorse Mosrite

[AtomiKKillA]

gnarly

[quiffheaduk]

You tell em Billbo :P

[memphist1]

Wow, just think about it (all of us) modern guitarists, try doing that fast picking without the effects and distortion we've all become accustomed to using-it ain't easy. Makes you appreciate his abilities even more.

[BlueSuedeTom]

Country CLAPTON!!!!!!!!! = GOD.

[0coincidences]

wth are you talking about?!?!?

[BlueSuedeTom]

i am talking about him being the COUNTRY CLAPTON.

now if that needs explaining, well i just wonder about people . . .puh!

[0coincidences]

funny but clapton is known as slow fingers... because he is a good slow blues musician... nothing like this... he's more like the stevie ray vaughn of country... nothing like clapton at all.

[0coincidences]

and there are also much better blues musicians than clapton... clapton was at the right places at the right times... check out people like joe louis walker, sonny landreth, freddy king... there weren't a lot of people better than joe maphis in this type of music... there arent a lot of people as multi talented as him either... so i find comparing him to clapton is a shame to Maphis...

[0coincidences]

or even people like tommy johnson (the actual first guy that spread a rumor that he sold his sold to the devil, robert johnson never said that himself, son house spread that rumor in the 60's in a delta blues revival period because he taught robert the blues, so he was the devil) charlie patton, blind lemon jefferson, mississippi john hurt, big bill broonzy (which clapton covered hey hey of on unplugged) lot of better artists out there than clapton... open your muscial soul a bit more.

[BlueSuedeTom]

hmmmm! i can see your going to be hard work!

IT WAS AN EXPRESSION OF HOW GOOD HE IS, AND NOT A COMPARISON! . . . .PHEW!

[0coincidences]

and my point is still that he is way better than clapton... and nothing like him at all... if you want to express how good he is... then just say it... don't compare him, which is what you did whether you like it or not.

[BlueSuedeTom]

and whether you like it or not, . . . .your boring me.

saying one guitarist is better than another shows a lack of diversity.

if we both like Joe Maphis, let's just end it there.

i have no intention of responding to any more of your childish rants.

[BoscoeFrance]

Hell Yes.

[lunsj]

Great video! As a guitar fan I'm ashamed to say I wasn't familiar with him. I came here after watching a video where the late great Danny Gatton mentioned that Joe was a hero of his. Thanks for sharing.

[sludgefingers]

wish I could do that

[laslos3]

right!

[perromanchado]

terrific

[bootscoot406]

metal as fuck

[farbeyondjuban]

holy shit. metal.

[CountryRoadTrip]

There is not one artist on modern "country" radio who could do anything close to this. This is talent, my friends.

[bootscoot406]

brad paisley could match his guitar skills, as for everything else naww nobody can compete

[driftingdirtbag]

Brad Paisley is a quality player. But nowhere near being on par with Joe Maphis.

[AuH2O]

Whatever you're smoking, I think you better put it down. Brad Paisley on par with Joe Maphis?? The ROFL-copter is hovering over your house as we speak.

[MikaelLilienthal]

Woah..

[kirkwallboy]

Yeeeee haaaaaaaw!!!!

This is finger breaking mindblowing.

Some great guitar sounds sprinting around in here.

Thanks for posting.

[pegxxx]

This is an excellent video. I enjoyed this !

LB

[danielpoeira]

I'll have to slow this down to understand what the f is going on.

[101Volts]

I think... I think... O_O AMAZING!!!

[namnoiz]

He knows how to get your attention !!! Great musician !!!

[TruegrassBoy]

Great video - but you should also put the host's name in there - Tex Ritter.

[AuH2O]

Well duh, who doesn't recognize ol' Tex?

[Kevin2oo]

well gooodd damn!!

[wes1220]

un-fuckin'-believable.

[hunchdrunk]

Damn that was cool...noticed the line "chicken in a bread pan pickin out dough"---guess Charlie Daniels borrowed that for Devil went down to Georgia.

[InstructorMatthias]

Fine showman, he was...

BLAZING guitar player, too!

[GodsFavoriteBassPlyr]

Huge fan of Mr. Maphis - years ahead of his time -

Met his neice once in West Palm Beach - real gracious person, probably heard the same questions 1000 times, but still answered them like it was the first time.

[whitefalcon64]

What a great musicien, Joe was

[prostaff1n2]

Shjeeeaaahh Eanis, git me ma riffle !! I' me ne git me some hog !!

[guitarmaniax]

GREAT

[AbGretsch]

oh man.. i HAVE to learn to play this

[LinkWray1]

That's Deke Dickerson, ain't it? You know, of Deke Dickerson and the Eccofonics? Yee-haw!

[wrotenwasp]

Who would want to go on stage after that? I'd say this was probably from the late 40's, early 50's. Uncle Joe Maphis and Hank Sr were the pioneers of rock & roll and didn't even know it at the time.

[oramikleepunk]

I agree, it's pre rackabilly...it's fast like jump blues and boogie woogie.

[bobbybluz1]

Holy shit!!! How could anybody go onstage after this?

[Exocytosys]

Greatest guitarist ever.

[heliflyer7]

Whoa!!!!!!!!!!

[Jannell]

Oh. my. god. Amazing. Thanks for posting it. My boyfriend is in a classic bluegrass band and I hope they get as good as this.

[garethbawden]

That was amazing..

[upst8]

That is amazing alright. People came along later that could do that but not many people were rocking like that back then. When is this from?

[burntcj]

holy bog that was amazing. real horrorshow.

[capitalcontested]

not really a place for thenadsat droogie

[AuH2O]

Joe Maphis is my new idol!! Thank you YouTube!

[smartandsane]

Joe was the original speed king and godfather of hammer-ons and pull-offs. The original shredder numro uno!

[gatemouthbrown]

this man is my new idol

[rutabayga]

Yet another God of Bluegrass;

all but unknown!

Incredible!

[55Diddley]

This is one cool Joe that really kicks ass! Jimmy Page has got nothing on this Joe and he is a great singer to boot.

[stretchslapper]

This still Blows my mind (and ALWAYS will)!!!

good Ol' Joe.

[SummerRkl]

What a superb talent!

[howardstern666]

Joe Maphis was the Roy Smeck of the 40s and 50s.

[stablejelly]

Wow, first time I've seen Smeck's name mentioned on Youtube..

[howardstern666]

Do a search for Smeck. There are a few cool clips on YouTube.

[captaintanuki]

Thanks barbillafonic ! Pure magic ! I never heard of Joe Maphis until today !

[gretscher]

So would you say that country music and hillbilly came out of the roots of Celtic music? The Irish came over here in the 1860s and brought over their Celtic music and fiddles and it evolved into this? I love this music by the way.

[PamK36]

Yes, it came from that mixed with African-American music also.

[gamster68]

Mastercollector try Raucous records or Bim Bam records websites foe Joe Maphis material.

[ChristerDahlback]

Well, so gooooooood, This is music and rock n roll from the 40-50s

[jbartz]

i swear I'm living in the wrong time. Beats the consumerist propaganda sludge we're force fed now I.E. Entertainment.

[sgwest1]

Finally...ultimate coolness

[carlperkins56]

"Musicians from another reality"

[steby123]

Philistine indeed it' a tenor banjo not a five string!

[tradbluegrass]

notice he can't play three finger scruggs style on his banjo.....philistine.

[65stratplayer]

Although to me Joe's talent was absolutely extra ordinary,I can't understand why his fame didn't rise above some of the other well known country guitarists? No doubt he could out-play most of his rivals.

[MasterCollecter]

IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE WHO KNOWS WHERE TO GET JOE MAPHIS DVD/VHS? IS THERE ANY ON EBAY? PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION. THANKS!!

mastercollector

[daisuki333]

les"guitars heros" des 70s sont au bac a sable a cote des guitaristes des 40s et 50s...

[Bopalena]

Holy crap! I plum give up!

[TEXASSURFDONKEY]

I love the Guitar Hero quote!

This guy was like some cybergenic Hillbilly music Terminator fucker...unbelievable.

Roy Clark is a Hell of a talent also but Maphis speed and flawless technique is mind-blowing. He never even misses a lick...

and looks like hes bird watching or waiting on a bus. Totally effortless!!

How in Hell do you get that good?

Makes you want to just quit playing altogether.

[goodmorningcapt1]

I know people that good, and all they do is play. Eat, sleep, and play. That's how you get that good, assuming you were also born with prodigious talent.

[rr111111]

Good old Joe! He's remembered everything I taught him.

[superficus]

gitar pwnage

[timjmoran]

HOLY Guacamole....UNbeLIEVEable!!I guess Maphis

could not be accused of showing off.Wonder what

he could do on the Contrabassoon?

[LawrenceArms]

This man...I'm just gonna go and kill myself. Have a great day.

[InteriorCommando]

Try that one on Guitar hero ....

[jrybiski]

Absolutely speechless! I wonder if Joe Maphis and Roy Smeck ever met up? Probably not as that would have warped the time-space continuum.

[Madadder2]

Fuck you Joe Maphis, you're too good.

[OleManBourbon]

Where's the synthesizer?

[MetDisciple2]

i'm taking up knitting.

[eastgaryradio]

Never mind - did you see the size of his teeth - he could play both necks of that guitar with those choppers...

[travispickin]

How could you not love that?

[chrisplows101]

Did I just see that?

[oilpainter]

taking my guitar back to the woodshed........

[cettyboy]

I'm burning mine!

[mika62223]

is the real prince roger nelson father

[oldsgt6]

what a great talent too bad he never got the acclaim he so richley desevered

[pirrung123]

WOW WHERE HAS HE BEEN ALL MY LIFE :o)

[Bopalena]

More like an old time Johnny Winter. Johnny's the one who burns up anything with strings while Edgar on fluent on sax, drums, keys and about 147 other instruments.

[SpecialFL4]

Joe nevere achieved the acclaim that he deserved.

[G4R4Y3]

Pity he didnt show you what he could do with a harp..LOL

[heisholt]

He's like an olde tyme Edgar Winter!

[chrispu]

dobre

[valentin80]

This is something that every guitarist should see.

[bassrockin]

Wow!

[RockReynolds]

Awesome!

Rock Reynolds

[slowpokecat]

try that billy ray, ha!rockabilly

[reaperpro]

LOL! Amazing! Awesome!

[madmodpo]

super picker