The Wildwood Flower by Keith Whitley & Ricky Skaggs

An instrumental from the boys this time as they give their rendition of the old American Country song made famous by the Carter family

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Whitley
• skaggs
• bluegrass
• wilwood
• flower
• Carter
• family

[jerlan23]

Some mighty fine pickin'.

[lettermen1]

@jerlan23 b'lieve it!!

[monizzle22]

Did Mother Mabel proud!  What a great rendition.

[lettermen1]

@monizzle22 They sure did - brilliant for such youngsters.

[Master100Mind]

This is really good but it sounds like earl scruggs

[lettermen1]

@Master100Mind Quite a compliment to the young boys who did this all those years ago!

[wmckinley2002]

I think that country music needs a good shot of this today. I've stopped watching CMT because they don't play real classics. The "classics" they play are songs that are no more than 20 years old. What happened to the old Hee-Haw videos of Conway Twitty and Charlie Pride? How about some old Hank? Merle Haggard? Keith Whitley? Don Williams? King George I (Mr. Jones)? Early George Strait? They don't even play old rock (or any music for that matter) on MTV. It's called Music Television for a reason.

[MAMsMom97]

To think--2 16-year-olds picking this out. You just knew they were heading for bigger and better things. This sounds like it was ripped directly from the vinyl record! I have this album on vinyl and CD.

[jerlan23]

@Master100Mind Yep. If it sounds like Earl Scruggs, it's good. Mighty good. :)

[jerlan23]

@Master100Mind Conversely, if it sounds like Earl Scruggs, then it is really good. :-)

[jerlan23]

@lettermen1 I am a b'liever. This is an excellent instrumental rendition of one of the greatest songs of all time. Thanks for the post.

[beckarootn]

not bashin The Carter Family by no means, but this has to be the very best version of Wildwood Flower ever performed, the banjo pickin is amazing. i love it, could listen to this over and over and never get tired of it. RIP Keith Whitley

[05Mandolin]

Who picks the banjo on this?