Kenny Baker - "The Old Mountaineer"

Rarely heard, this Bill Monroe tune was recorded live @ the Bean Blossom Blue Grass Festival in 1979 with Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys. Personnel:
Kenny Baker - fiddle
Bill Monroe - mandolin
Butch Robins- banjo
Wayne Lewis - guitar
Randy Davis - bass

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• Butch Robins
• Bean Blossom '79
• The Old Mountaineer

[MsPropinquity]

Heart and soul, note by note. No one else can do it but Kenny Baker.

[ArkRed1]

Probably would have sounded a lot better if Kenny Baker would have written it. Sounds like a lot of other songs MON-roe wrote.

[2rockyj]

Now thats some fine fiddlin and some of the bow work youll ever hear

[Mandolin1944]

Certainly a one of Bill's great tunes -- and not often played enough I think. I also have a feeling that this number would have been greatly improved with a mandolin or banjo break. Three complete times through on the same instrument gets a little tedious even with world class fiddler like old Kenny. Its kind of interesting though because Bill did not usually do that.

[AnnaGolly]

Now, that's some powerful fiddlin' by Kenneth Baker. That man could pull some tone.