Dim Lights, Thick Smoke - 1959

[fergofns]

The Derailers do a good version of this as well. This must be the original tho, it's great I loved it. Thank for sharing!!

[pwea1]

... is that a Bigsby neck on Rose Lees' guitar ?.....

[TheLongshot11]

That is real good country

[ronaldt491]

Who's the drummer trying to make them lose it and Rose almost did?

[welshhillbillyful]

@ronaldt491 The drummers name is Pee Wee Adams.He was used on many sessions by the likes of Capitol,and others in the fifties/sixties.Not his best moment on this one though.

[bareknuckles2u]

Sooooooooooo great! I LOVE it!

[glencoe6305]

This song,is the Johnny B.Goode, of Honky-Tonk music !

[CommanderRZ]

drinkin, fighting, and f***ing on friday night

[tulsavintagedigital]

I want that Mosrite guitar!

[fuckyouhazzer]

''well we liked good whiskey,and we loved the pretty girls, and we played them guitars me and ole merle' greatest guitar player i never heard of

[thebigreason]

Hollow body baritone sounds incredible!

[JackGrider]

Love this song! love seeing Joe and Rose Lee do it live on TV wasn't it The Blackboard Club that he wrote it about?

[5jonesville]

The family that plays together.... Joe and Rose Lee.

[thedustybuskers]

It's "loud, loud music," not "live, live music." Great video

[welshhillbillyful]

They were brilliant.True entertainers.Gordon Terry on fiddle.There is a good re-issue c.d. called "Cold Heart of Steel"recently released,well worth checking out.

[bushwacker2008]

there is this man junior brown that plays a guitar just like joe. this is really great music. Joe was a great talent.

[NBTX4041]

Junior Brown plays a GitSteel. It's a tele style guitar and a lap steel combo that sits on a stand. The one in this video is a guitar and either a tenor guitar or a mandolin. It looks like a tenor guitar since I can only see 6 tuning pegs...hard to tell as the video is kinda' grainy.

[haruspex84]

@bushwacker2008 Junior Brown's "Guitsteel" is a little different, one of the necks is a lap steel and the other is a standard guitar. Maphis' guitar is a double neck Mosrite, basically two standard guitars fused into one. Both are absolutely stunning pieces of art and engineering played by two of the most talented people to bless the music business.

[btrisha1]

aint nuttin better than good ole pure "honky tonk'.........gone for ever

[imlaycitybob]

Is that a Fender Bassman Joes playing through?

[promagnum]

No. That's Luther Perkins' Fender Concert. One of the first ones.

[whitt702]

I think it is the Standel special he always used to get that great tone.

[ripvaneel]

Those drums at 1.21 are thundering!

[ronaldt491]

With all of the smoking bans going into effect nowadays, I guess we'll have to take out the "Thick Smoke" part of the song.

[powerkor]

a woman knew her place back then

[clean3]

Hilarious. The presenter can't think of the song title and looks to Joe who mischievously won't give it to him...you can see him desperately looking down to where someone's giving him the cue.

[mickyhikes]

@clean3 Yes, That's very observant of you! That's the sign of a guy who is extremely comfortable on stage.

[dkfelix]

Is that Gordon Terry on fiddle? He was quite a guitarplayer himself.

[promagnum]

Yes.

[blogward]

50 years old and as fresh as a daisy

[crocks2871]

anyone have a record of the "go fer song" by joe and rose lee maphis?

[mrfiddleman]

Joe wrote this after a trip to Bakersfield to see a young Buck Owens at the Blackboard. Bonnie Owens was barmaiding and got up to sing a song or two while Joe was there. One the way back to LA he wrote this song in the car. At least that's the story he told about it. It's the way the honky tonks used to be. One of the great classics of county music.

[TruegrassBoy]

Super cool.

[teddyboyward]

The tittle of this song describes exactly a bar here in San Diego The Spring Valley Inn where we'd go every weekend to see a band who covered this song THE BEAT FARMERS (they recorded a LIVE album there back in 83)You can see alot of um here on Youtube,check um out.

[whitt702]

I'd sure like to have Joe's Stetson.

[jpeanrkode]

I'm partial to the guitar, myself.

[bluesborn]

This stuff breathes soul unlike this goofy country crossover nonsense.

[mitoguitarman]

Great song, great very - nice that they cut the drums in later versions.

[cmlbob]

Great to see this video!!  We know Miss Rosie and she's a sweetheart!! Would love to see more videos on here of her and Joe!

[bulbheadmyass]

What a gem this is, vintage singin and pickin.

[BanjoFletch]

dim lights thick smoke and "loud loud" music not "live live" just thought to let you know

[farmgent]

Terry Gordon is awesome on fiddle, multi talented and one of my favorite performers. I like when him and June Carter do the old oak bucket on the grand ole opry, it's very funny.

[4321Blastoff]

Is that a Kent guitar? Neck pickup on the top guitar, how it's turned like it and it also us rectangle shape and Kent is the only brand I know who made a pickup like that.

[whitt702]

Speial made guitar by Semie Mosley called Mosrite. The pickups are Carvin AP6s, which haven't been made since about 1977. However, Bob Shade of Hallmark Guitars has done a great job of reproducing the original look and tone..as well as a single neck version of this guitar, trimmings and all. This is about the best sounding guitar I've ever heard.

[VivaLasVenturas]

very nice song

[mrfiddleman]

That's a very young Gordon Terry on fiddle. Nice of Joe to give him a ride in the middle.

[austinitesince1979]

Them folks're all right. I did see a second neck on that guitar that looked as though it were being neglected.

[wininboy]

Oh, I like this!