Bill Monroe - With Body and Soul

[fiddlinfool94]

Does anyone know who's playing second fiddle with kenny baker?

[fiddlinfool94]

There's nothing like those screaming twin fiddles!!!

[MrBluegrassFiddle]

Bill Monroe shared his life and his music with the world. He created the genre of Bluegrass. While many wonderful musicians worked with him, it was Monroe's vision that brought this music to the world. Thanks for this great video.

[howtoplanaparty]

@MrBluegrassFiddle whoever made Bill Monroe certainly deserves to be credited well.

[rocmaven]

ricky skaggs and kentucky thunder take over the watseka theatre watseka illinois on aug 26

[jimricksable]

seems the rythum got faster as the song went on .....Monroe could do that and often broke rythum

[mandolinman2006]

RIP Kenny Baker. Lost another one of my idols today.

[11smokee]

@mandolinman2006

[CrestVisionInc]

I had read that Jerry Garcia was influenced by Bill Monroe, that before the Grateful Dead, he traveled back east in the early 60s to meet and tape him, like Deadheads did years later. I never knew how big the influence was til I heard this.

[thegizable]

Beautiful, high lonesome.  I love Bill Monroe.

[dovie2blue]

What do you know? There's at least ONE video on Youtube that has -0- dislikes! This one! LOVE Mr. Monroe...I hope I get to meet him and the Boys in Heaven some day...

[canvids1]

I met Bill in Nashville many years ago at his club near Opery land hotel.

He was a wonderful man I shook his had and told him that I loved his music for so many years and I still love his music! there will never be another that can sing BG like he did

[lpmccook]

Chilling!! His voice gives me chill bumps 

[Hillfunk]

Is this actual version available on album..cd..itunes?..anything so I can get it !

[chinesecresteddoll]

I had the pleasureand honor or seeing Bill Monroe perform two times at Sunset Park in the early nineties, and everything he performed was perfection. What a truly wonderful legacy he left behind, and how very much he is missed. Thank you for posting.

[SpooksHill]

i wonder how many great old songs were saved because of this man. I imagine that alot of those old time numbers would have been lost if they werent brought to a new generation through his music

[shelibeane]

This was always one of my favorite numbers Bill performed...this epitomizes the emotion Monroe evoked with his voice, his mandolin and his music...the fiddle work is impeccable (as always when Kenny Baker took the stage with Bill!)...Thanks for such a marvelous posting.

[hmsmagpie]

The audience are as awestruck as we are, by a truly memorable performance.

[bluegrasssingingman]

Thats what talent looks like

[bluegrasssingingman]

Mr. Bill Monroe, The Great of all Greats. The Greatest American, to ever live. A Man that had God's Blessings.

[D0PESP0TENT]

my all time favorite bluegrass track... ol' Bill's voice in this gives me chills... first time I heard this I was hooked... I want my country idol, D-Wight Yoakam, to cover this...

[jimmydoit]

none better this this one

[larrykohling]

great song, due had a voice.

those fiddles are joke, though.

[blueridger28]

I watch this vidieo a few times a week

[TruegrassBoy]

As well you should!

[TruegrassBoy]

I have been enamored with many different BG videos that have been posted on youtube, but overall I think this is the greatest one ever. The soulful singing, the camera work and the presence of the band itself. As a cameo, this is the Mona Lisa of bluegrass.

[localbrewz]

i agree, but not only that, ole bill looks REALLY REALLY high....which is weird........

[Rt254]

@localbrewz U R NUTZ it is a look of Love for his music.

Bill is concentration to put on the best show he can.

[AnsonFiddler]

Just, wow!!!

[thefourthhorsemen661]

i am veary hornored to be from where the father of bluegrass is from Rosine, Kentucky

[etancross]

nothing but a true true classic!

[blueridger28]

This is a great song. Ive lived in the Blue Ridge all my life this is what i cut my teeth on.

[hylonsmgirl]

My ALL TIME FAVORITE SONG!  . . . gives me goosebumps. Thanks for posting

[missrachel83]

beautiful song!!!

[jwhonkeytonk8905]

Love it

[dp11issosweet]

sweetness

[dohwho]

Mr. Monroe travalin' about. Of course "The best fidlder in

bluegrass music, Kenny Baker." That's ol' Charlie Kline on guitar, I think. Where's Bessie Lee? Boy Howdy y'all.

DPH

[46r11]

Who is the fiddle player, he looks like the guy who played with Acuff on the wabash cannon ball. Tks Wayne in Canada

[mandolinman2006]

The one on the left is Kenny Baker. I don't know who the other fiddler is. He does look familiar though.

[thorneswift]

Bill is my hero, but I still wonder if he could have taken John Duffy in a bare knuckle fight. Oh, come on, both of these guys were tough dudes in their prime.

[ladyblue614]

WoW !! GREAT !! I Enjoyed it!

[AmazingOne84]

I wish there was more footage of Mr. Monroe and the bluegrass boys over the years. I am interested in watching footage from the 50's through the 80's more so though.

[karentrevor]

MR Monroe is a God

[Erkele]

I love this.

[6route]

Great rendition. Saw Highways myself, very good programme. Nostalgic for Americans eh?

[PowerAndThePassion]

Great performance!

I saw this clip in the "High Lonesome - The story of bluegrass" movie.

[BanjoBoyMatteo]

If I'm not mistaking, Dean Hoffmeyer taped this footage at the Opry House in 1969. The father of Bluegrass!