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The rhythm guitarist is Earl White, who also played fiddle for them at times. He still plays fiddle each Saturday night for the Grand Ole Opry Square Dancers--the last Opry performer who was a member of the Crook Brothers, the last surviving original members.

Oh, wow! This is the REAL deal, from the Ryman, and, as ArkRed said, as it was supposed to be played.

Pedalsteelpicker, IF I am correct, both times, it was the banjo--Buck Trent had plugged in his banjo to get a guitar-type sound out of it.

@Chubbyfan100 Thank YOU. And thanks for posting such great stuff.

Bill Anderson also wrote "I've Enjoyed As Much of This As I Can Stand" for Porter. What a songwriter. What songs. What a singer to sing them!

I want to send my sympathies to his family and friends. He was truly a great.

Thanks! Great stuff as always, and how can you go wrong with Lester Flatt and the Nashville Grass, right?

Great stuff as always! And nice to see Uncle Josh showing he's a wizard on something other than the dobro.

He recorded a guitar album and did a lot of instrumentals, so be on the lookout for them! There WAS a You Tube video where he played the fiddle, and he was great at that, too.

Now we just have to solve the remaining mystery!

They did this for Mr. Snow, who as Tompall said was their idol, and they backed him up beautifully on several of his songs, including "From A Beggar to a King." I watched it live on TV that night and it was special. Thanks for posting this.

Thank you. Bluegrass at its finest.

Wonderful! A group for the ages.

I hadn't heard that account. I knew he was unhappy with the musical direction that Earl wanted to pursue and wasn't too pleased with Earl's sons, who struck him as a little too much of the 1960s.

As usual from you, terrific stuff! I recognize Paul Warren, of course, on fiddle. Do you know who else is in the Nashville Grass?

I think "Blue Velvet Band" may have been his first big hit, or at least a bigger one. Great stuff! Thanks for posting. Hank Snow is one of my all-time favorites.

By Dale, do you mean Dale Potter on fiddle? I know that's Tater Tater Tater Tate, as Mr. Monroe sometimes called him, on bass, with Wayne Lewis on guitar and Blake Williams on banjo, so it would be somewhere around 1984-86, in there.

Thanks, Chubbyfan--it's great to see Hank Snow again on here. I am pretty sure that was in the early 1990s. The announcer in the background introducing him was Charlie Douglas and, if I am correct, it came from an Opry show taped for PBS and shown in edited form. Charlie announced the second s...

Oswald is on the dobro, of course. The harmonica player is Onie Wheeler, who was with Acuff on and off for years and eventually died on the Opry stage, performing during the Rev. Jimmy Snow's Grand Ole Gospel show. Jimmy Riddle is on the piano and Shot Jackson on the Sho-Bud steel guitar.

They were great, and after the loss of Guy and Skeeter, Vic carried on beautifully with his trio and they obviously were characters--and incredible talents.

I've read that when he started, he was incredibly shy. Think of what an incredible pro he was as an entertainer, and not just a brilliant singer and songwriter.

Chubbyfan, any friend of Chubby Wise is a friend of mine! How many fiddlers have been so highly regarded in both bluegrass and country? Hank Snow's autobiography has some hilarious stuff about Chubby, too.

It's good to see him looking good and still kicking in his early 90s.

I knew he was a great banjo player, and he did a great job on harmonica working with Roy Acuff. But this is enough to make me give up completely on learning the guitar. Tremendous--and the two guys he's with aren't too bad, either!

Fred Allen suffered from high blood pressure that kept him off of his radio show for a few weeks at one point, so he was conscious of his health and was careful about it. What a brilliant man he was.