Pike County Breakdown

Everyone having a great time at Bill Monroe's boyhood home place in Rosine, Kentucky. Frank Wakefield is jamming with some old friends he ran into who were playing there. Frank on mandolin, Wayne Lewis who played with Bill Monroe for many years on guitar, Campbell Mercer on mandolin, Skip Gorman on mandolin and Joe Isaacs on guitar (next to Frank). Josh Jonston on guitar, Mike Fulkerson on banjo and Mark Hargis on bass. Frank was teaching at the Monroe Style mandolin camp held by the International Bluegrass Music Museum in Owensboro, Kentucky September 7- 9, 2007. All the students and teachers went to visit Bill Monroe's homeplace on September 8th as part of the weekend camp activities.

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Music

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• Frank
• Wakefield
• Mandolin
• Bluegrass
• Bill
• Monroe
• Wayne
• Lewis
• Joe
• Isaacs
• Skip
• Gorman
• Doc
• Mercer
• Monroe-style

[MistyMountaineers]

The guy in the ight blue shirt chewing gum is Skip Gorman and he is a hoss at playing Monroe style mandolin!

[ms5strings1]

Now thats gooood pickin.....some of my Buddies......

[Pickinbuddy]

Makes the hills and valleys come alive...

like flowers blooming wild!

[csason]

Yeah.. it's nice to have one of those.. ;)

[csason]

Wow.. wonderful piece.. My Daddy saw Bill Monroe

in Valdosta for a nickel way back when..HA HA !

[hillbillyradicalrick]

Man this is great. A bunch of guys havin a good time. On a side note, FDRW = Franklin Delano Roosevelt Wakefield? enjoyed this.

[BruceWeeks]

Hey is that Frank Wakefield, it looks like him.  He is without a doubt the greatest mandolin player I've ever seen. Bruce Weeks

[chirfu]

Is that wayne lewis?

[chirfu]

Nice Mandolin stuff there but that guy on rhythm guitar is knockin it out. Great job to all!