Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Flatt and Scruggs

[ditttch]

anyone who has netflix can watch 10 volumes of The Earl and Scruggs Show, all on streaming

[lefftycox]

Con ellos me aficione al bluegrass, el 1º CD que cayo en mis manos lo puse una semana seguida ,era como el aire de la montaña, pura frescura.Me encata la puesta en escena de los grupos clasicos pero; Flatt & Scruggs son especiales en todo.La verdad es que me gusta todo :musica,atuendo como entran y salen de plano,creo que los grupos actuales tienen mucho que aprender.Tengo todos los DVD. Un saludo desde La Coruña de un amante de toda la musica popular americana.

[whorewrangler]

Amazing. I know that when I put down my banjo and pick up my guitar, my fingers are lost for a few minutes. Not here, not with Earl Scruggs. That man is amazing.

[Addiskrilla]

Perfect quiet small town music

[errgray]

pegcage thanks so much for sharing this treasure!

[DiscipleofElijah]

The Scrugg's and Carter families were neighbors. Maybelle Carter was a great influence on both Earl and Randy's guitar playing.

[FABTECH1958]

When I was 10 years old I met Lester at Ponderosa Park, Salem, Ohio. shook my hand and he really intimidated me. His fingers looked like little sausages... I wish I could relive that again....with my dad who made me go...LOL. also met Jimmy Martin.... wish Ponderosa Park was still working! Scruggs is the MAN ! ! ! ! He was making love to that guitar.... these musicians nowadays are wannabe's with no class...except for George Strait.

[CathyMae12345]

Isn't Earl handsome?

[CathyMae12345]

I love this! I keep replaying it over and over.  Thanks!

[madolinryan]

also seen on the best of flatt and scruggs

[benivere]

I often wondered if Lester could have opened both sides of his mouth when he sang would he have lost his wonderful whine???

[IGOROZKARSKY]

I LOVE TO SEE MR. BANJO-MAN ON THE GUITAR

[JCH1952]

PHJimY - maybe they just screwed a nut cover on the Martin neck. It's a stage guitar. On stage, plywood can be made to look like marble.

[PHJimY]

skydogz1 said that Earl was playing a D-18. Since I've never seen a Martin with a truss rod cover, I assume he had a custom neck made for the guitar.

I've never seen Earl play guitar with the capo below the fifth fret. In this song and in You Are My Flower and I think in I Am Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes, he plays in C positions with the capo at VII while Lester plays in open G.

[MrStubat]

@PHJimY ..yeh noticed truss rod too...but it still seems to have the marin logo on it

[MrStubat]

@PHJimY looks like lester has a snowflake herringbone d28...or 42 or 45...cant see the peghead

[wproct1]

Wonderful video, Flatt & Scruggs are an American treasure!

[LemoN8tr]

He looks like Bill O'Reilly.

[musicmart]

earl was cool before country was

[rockyrmt]

Earl Scruggs looks like that gee-tar he's playing is vital to his existence, like it's a vital organ keeping him going...so natural that picking. second nature as they say.

[pds3939]

Nothin' in the world to lose! I'm out!

[laurel595]

I wrote a long article on this song back in 1972: “Selling the Gospel News: Or, The Strange Career of Jimmy Brown the Newsboy,” Journal of

Social History 5 (Spring 1972): 269-309. If anyone is interested in the history of newsboys, public images of them, and the like, check it out.

[94757598494309438]

@laurel595 Do you know who wrote the song?

[fnkyolsol]

Banjo "deity" Earl Scruggs playing Piedmont style guitar capo'ed way up.

This clip is extremely educational.

Thank You.

[bytwyzz]

@fnkyolsol

the tempo is soooo not upbeat , eeerie timing , wow ! and Lester singing out

the side of his mouth ,,, priceless .. ETN rocks .

[rdostrom]

Perfect..

[garoleyva1]

love this song

[parttimepicker]

This is the first "real" bluegrass tune I learned to pick. No one can top Earl when it comes to classic picking like this. Outstanding.

[dh1366]

Earl was a picker, didn't matter what the instrument was. I remember watching this show with my grandpa when I was a kid. Cas Walker pretty much ruled and sponsered Saturday afternoon from Knoxville TN with the Wilburn Bros, Flatt and Scruggs, and all the rest of the old country folk. Sure miss them days.

[docsavage98]

@dh1366 I went to graduate school at UT, remember listening to Cas Walker early in the morning...by then he was pretty old and mostly talked about suing somebody and playing old Dolly Parton tapes...but great fun. I watched Flatt and Scruggs, Wilburns, and Porter Wagoner every Sat. Afternoon.

[dh1366]

@docsavage98 nice to hear from ya doc, I knew I couldn't be the only one.

[gottaluvkaty08]

these were the original gangstas, just look at the way he wears his hat. and string bean was the originator of saggin the pants. the thugs now are just copying the OG's playing bluegrass back in the day

[curbshoppin]

Flat and Scruggs was the fasnizzle back in the day...they showe the rest how to do it

[goneoverboard2]

Over here in the UK in the fifties it was covered by the fantastic Lonnie Donegan,

We all called it Skiffle music back then {Bluegrass in the States I believe} Such a brill version. However,this is the first time I have heard and seen Flatt and Scruggs do this song, Wow! just knocked out!!! True American Legends. Love it.

[tube2720]

Spend some qualitytime with Jimmy Brown the Newsboy - Flatt and Scruggs one of the best film this year. watch it here: F/REEM/OVIEP/LANET.I/NFO

[alpep1307]

with all that pickguard on the guitar he needs to lean his head on it just to hear the top vibrate

[Jerenator333]

My grandad said that he would wake up listenin to his mama sit on the porch justa pickin' this song away...His dad was Invited to go to the grand ole opry but he declined...Amazing!

[dcburg]

Growing up I used to hear this song a lot. Most of the time I heard it it was by Mac Wiseman. I like this version much better. It is hard to beat Flatt and Scruggs. I wish that there were more Bluegrass radio stations on the air....I love it. Most of the ones that I hear play this modern bluegrass junk. Let's get back to the old style like this!!

[pds3939]

good music...don't have to be an American Idol to enjoy!

[noyup]

I learn something new EVERY day. I'm 50 years old and grew up listening to Flatt and Scruggs. This is the first time I've ever seen this clip, though I heard this song as far back as I can remember and I never new it was Earl on the guitar, I always thought it was Lester.

[pds3939]

I like how they "sainter" out of the way when its time for the other one to play.

[pds3939]

Damn good musicians! Real people, no pretension at all! You don't have to be an "American Idol" to sing and enjoy this music? America needs to get back to this....humility.

[DrPretorias]

Wot no response!

Love this track more than any other, it's the story of my life.

The moment when Earl put's his ear to the guitar my soul takes flight.

[DrPretorias]

Always wondered why Earl didn't pick the banjo to this track, not that he ain't a class guitar player.

[daisymaescragg]

@DrPretorias I think Lester Flatt wrote that song, and it was written for guitar. It wouldn't sound right with a banjo.

[SuperOlds88]

I was joking

[SuperOlds88]

I am new to this stuff, that dobro sounds pretty good, do these guys still perform together? that dobro dude must have taken lessons from Jerry Douglas.

[jojothebanjoman]

they are dead or with one foot on the railcar and one on the platform

[daisymaescragg]

@jojothebanjoman Earl Scruggs and his sons perform together. They were at Harrah's Casino in Cherokee, N.C. last year. My brother got Earl to autograph his banjo while he was there.

[skydogz1]

Awesome sounding D-18

[ernie27177]

Thank's Youtube.

[lane6407]

Peg,

Let me tell, I appreciate this video a great deal. In 1973, I was listening to "You Are My Flower" on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" Album, and listening to the beautiful guitar licks inspired me to learn to play the guitar. It was years later that I actually learned it was Earl playing the guitar on that song. I still get my guitar out most every night. A lot of songs and a lot of friends later, it was one of the best decisions I ever made.

[docsavage98]

It didn't hurt that Mother Maybelle Carter was a neighbor to Earl and helped influence his guitar sytle.

[pegcage]

@lane6407 Sorry I am so long in seeing your message. I love Earl Scruggs. He is a great American musical hero. Happy to hear of your story. I wish I could do more than just admire music; would love to play. I play a bit of piano, but not much. But I love great music wherever it is found, even the great classics.

[ezridgemu]

@lane6407 Learning and playing guitar with friends is fishing, golf, and hunting all rolled into one thing.

[chub4play]

@lane6407 "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" inspired me to change from playing Led Zeppelin to country. If anyone thinks Doc Watson is easier to play than Eric Clapton, please come to my house and I'll pay you for lessons.

[5stringkeith]

There'll never be another Flatt and Scruggs. Man, I gotta learn this one. Have always loved this tune cause it's so nostalgic. Thanks for posting...

[pekoe67]

The way Earl rests his head on his guitar ( 0:39 )

shows you this is a man with soul.

[daisymaescragg]

@pekoe67

He rests his head on his guitar, because he has his ear to the box to hear the notes better. It sounds incredible that way. I've done it, and most people who play acoustic have done it. If you play acoustic, try it. You can't get that kind of sound from an electric pickup.

[redstone95]

@pekoe67 Have you done that? It sounds better, you can feel the sound..its very cool to do xD

[pekoe67]

@redstone95

Yes I have- Earl doing it on stage seems so unselfconscious and natural.

There's something very special about Mr. Earl Scruggs.

[inky960]

@pekoe67 I often lay my head down on my guitar while I play - I'd never seen anyone else do it. Some people pick at me for it, but I find it... I don't know -- just a natural way to play. I can't do it standing up like Earl, though.

[heyshippy]

@pekoe67 Not that Earl wasn't a man with soul, but there's a practical reason he's doing that. It's so he can hear what he's playing. Putting your ear to the instrument is the only way you can hear a box guitar without an amp when there are other instruments playing.

[Ebeneezerable]

@pekoe67 He and that guitar are one.

[whorewrangler]

@pekoe67 Or he's making sure it's still in tune. Either way, he is awesome.

[CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

@Pegcage : What do you think of their T.V Show d.v.d.s ? Aren't they awesome?

[airborneassasin]

Earl had the biggest pickguard I have ever seen, covered the top 3/4 of the guitar.

he said it gave it the sound he wanted , by limiting the vibration of the top. amazing.

[taterj68]

this is real music.imo.

[pekoe67]

Earl...

[williebrown01]

Sounds like Maybelle Carter's "Mountain Flower"

[jasondukebaird]

The first version I ever heard was flatt and scruggs but it was a little different than this one. I figured this song out on guitar completely different than he plays it, i don't capo it and i play it in G. Totally wrong, but it sounds okay that way.

[docsavage98]

Not totally wrong....if you like it and enjoy it...not wrong...my way of playing it would be considered wrong...I do it in C with a capo on 3 so there is room for everybody :)

[jasondukebaird]

That's true, I like your way.

[CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

@jasondukebaird . Your way isn't wrong. I'm sure you know, for songs that are purely instrumental, you should play it in it's proper key, especially when jamming. Like "Ground Speed" in G. But since this song is a vocal, it is perfectly fine to play it in the key you can sing it in. I know a band who plays vocals too high for their voices, just 'cuz Bill Monroe sang it in that key. Great that you can play this song !!

[jasondukebaird]

Thanks, I love this one...I heard the song "Til the end of the world rolls around" on the movie "Dutch" by them. And went on iTunes and listened to an album, this song was also on there, the guitar part was what drew me to it. I was taking flat picking lessons at the time, so naturally wanted to learn it...have a good day, Jason.

[CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

I love "'Til The End of the World Goes 'Round". Keep up with your flat-picking lessons. They will pay off in more ways than one. Merry Christmas!

[BlueBassBoss]

I love this version along Mac Wiseman's and Norman Blake's... it's all good! Thank you Martha White!

[46r11]

I love the song, Iprefer Mac Wiseman's version.

[RandyHaddock]

Thank you so much for uploading this!

[docsavage98]

Earl learned a lot of his guitar style from a neighbor of his....Mother Maybelle Carter....not a bad place to learn.

[sweatshirt77]

nice!!

[mitoguitarman]

Thanks for posting this!

[OneSteppBeyond]

I met Lester Flatt at a bluegrass festival on top of Grandfather Mountain around 1977. He stuck his head out of his tour bus and said, "You boys got white liquor in that RC bottle?" Danged if he wasn't right!

[dcburg]

I used to go to Grandfather Mountain when I was a kid for the singing on the mountain and hear groups like this one. That was almost 50 years ago, don't remember if they were there, just remember going. After the white liquor, do you?

LOL

[alwayssme]

awesome singing, great memories from decades ago.......ty for posting

[greenskeeper3000]

When i was 4-6 years old i remember that me and my cousin Misty would make by poor Grandpa play 2 song OVER AND OVER ! The songs ? Jimmy Brown the Newsboy , which was one of his favorite songs and Devos Whip It ! Being an adult now i can appreciate how much he HAD to love us , as an old Kentucky boy , to force himself through Whip-it a thousand times because WE liked it.

[bsinbreed]

thats a great story, lester makes me think of my grandpa, and i cant remember a time in my life when i didnt LOVE this song

[bentoast99]

Nice!

[koryj1]

My great-grandma used to sing this to me. It really brings back fond memories! Thank You

[eldiederik]

ah I love earl scruggs and lester flatt, it might not be my generation's music but it sertainly is mine :D