Hi ! ,I’m 15 and I live in France , my mom is French from the equivalent of Appalachia but to France : the bearnese south western mountains {where people are so kind to one another ! , in the big cities nobody says hi! :-( }. My dad is American from rural south eastern indiana and grand parents (an d so on) , from Appalachia (eastern Kentucky !) and I love bluegrass and old music in general (cause nowadays everybody has this auto tune crap!) and I don’t fit in . Also I play guitar , mandolin , bass ,drums , harmonica ( gonna start and try banjo,dobro and fiddle ! ) . So seeing things like this is awesome ! Thanks! :-)
This was filmed 10 minutes from where I grew up, Doc is not only a legend here in the mountains of NC but the world over. I grew up here and I'll never move away. I'm just in love with your work David, it makes me feel good to know where I come from.
Got family in Wilkes, grew up in Concord, and lived in Statesville for years before moving to the north Georgia mountains. Doc and Earl's music was what I grew up on and will never ever grow old.
Our, N.C. The boys are tight! David this is a huge presentation. Of several parts of History. I met Doc. And Earl back years ago. But I would truly be honored to meet You, Mr. David. I'm now disabled. I don't travel much. But a glass bottle of Coke and a bag of peanuts to share with you would top my highlights of life. My deep appreciation for your God-given talent. My love and prayers to you and those you hold dear to you. Your old smokey mountain friend Firekeeper Gary Justice🙏🇺🇸👏🫡🔥🛶
Oh, I get it, David. My father, a Jew from Brooklyn. My mother, a Methodist from Spruce Pine, NC. It made for an interesting childhood, but only in looking back on it as children simply live their childhood. And the mix of music....oh my. Yes, I can see why a kid from Long Island would find these musicians and thank goodness you did!
I had a cousin who played the saw, not the musical saw, a regular saw with a bow. It was a hauntingly beautiful sound. He couldn't play long, he had black lung. We had the largest Bluegrass Festival in the world in a place called Blue Knob, Pennsylvania. It was a yearly festival and it just stopped. Nobody heard why. There was a state park in Pavia where people could camp, there was a free swimming pool. It was beautiful there. It was founded by the Swiss- German and Scottish people, that came over during the Palatinate movement. Like the festival, everything is gone, soon to be forgotten.
I am sorry that this wonderful culture isfading in Pennsylvania. It is sure not gone in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia. You cannot believe how wide and rich the culture is with young people as magnificent songwriters, storytellers, and performers. David Hoffman-filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Bluegrass was the entertainment at night not so long ago. Mainly I came back to type about a wonderful music teacher. In our small school district we couldn't afford to have a music teacher after our music teacher retired. The marching band was often in the inaugural parade. The man that was our music teacher in our school district all of his adult life decided to donate his time to continue the music program after he retired and was our unpaid music teacher until he died. There was a legacy page created for him on Facebook. "Jack Shaffer Music Man" Another thing while I'm typing, my oldest son died in 2017 of an arrhythmia due to post-traumatic stress disorder but before he passed we would go to different music events including listening to Bluegrass and when either of my sons started getting interested in music they had guitars, keyboards, music is important. I might not have inherited what the rest of my family has but if I ever see a child that is interested in music I will get whatever fits in their hands, it will not be a toy, it will be a real musical instrument. I may not be wealthy but I can afford a guitar or keyboard. I can remember we had a zither. I can't tell you the last time I saw an instrument like that.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Just a hint to endear yourself to those living around that beautiful area, while we New Yorkers say AppalAchia with a long A, after being repeatedly reminded over my adult life I learned to say Appalachia with a short a. As many folk in the mountains say, "If you keep say'in AppalAchia, I'm a gonna throw an apple at 'cha!"
i am from the uk, i was over in the u.s in 2000, i drove a truck over the appalachian mountains, and stayed over at charlotte south carolina, i had the privilege to be invited to a shindig like that one, wasn't i just blessed, thank you for sharing.
Love old NC history. Doc is pretty important around us, we have a big bluegrass festival called Merlefest every year in honor of Doc's son (and Doc too now that he's gone)
@Keith Clark -- Google it. Big 4-day event each Spring on the campus of Wilkes Community College. Stars put on a great show every single year. This year's lineup will be announced November 12.
2:32 Anybody else see Earl get ready to come in with the vocals, and actually started the "Welllll" then Doc came in and he looked at him like "Oh you got this?"
I am 26 and from the suburbs of Chicago. I love Bluegrass and wish that we had a radio station out here. We don't even have a Country station, besides the Hip Hop crossovers. Yes, I'm very different than the usual youngster from the city/suburbs. I listen to Country and Bluegrass every day on TH-cam. I've never met another person my age who listens to George Strait, Dolly, and others. Hopefully one day though. :-)
I'm 61, live in Chicago my whole life, and new to this ch. Though not much a country fan, there's somethin about bluegrass music.. and J. Cash, P. Cline and others from the 50s, 60s. Like Rockabilly too, classic rock/punk. I loved being a teen in the 70s. We grew up on Glenn Miller and big band music, as my mom was a dancer/contortionist who toured w/ the USO late 30s/early 40s. I never liked rap or hip hop (but do like old Mowtown) You be you.... don't have to like what your peers like :)
Internet radio is your friend. This was just country music back when I was growing up the 60's and 70's. Now roots music that found some new highlands to call home is spreading out and morphing with brand new music to create something else altogether. Bluegrass hip-hop cross over might sound weird until you hear the theme song to Justified by Gangsta-grass, Long Hard Times to Come. Definitely some ass kicking good blue grass music, but from a completely new "holler" were they know good music when they hear it.
I have watched this clip at least 100 times. Earl Scruggs and doc watson are two legends! Thank you for the opportunity to relive this moment in Bluegrass History.
Beautiful! Thanks, Mr Hoffman. One mic! You captured the moment. A Musical moment in history. I appreciated every moment, but the one thing I would like to comment on is the family dog laying comfortably at Ms. Baez' feet. I believe it was there in the event she needed protection. Beautiful, simply beautiful. Yours truly, Reluctant Bluesman.
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That single shot on a single mic caught the mountain sound perfectly and getting a chance to watch Doc and Merle play together with the Scruggs clan is priceless. Thanks
I saw Doc Watson open for Gordon Lightfoot at Stanford Stadium in 1971. I will not forget his warmth and love he had for the music and his audience. Truly a highlight of my music life.
CLASSIC! SO glad you filmed these guys in their 'back yards". What I wouldn't give to flat pick like Doc!! And Merle is no slouch either. THANKS so much for posting. :)
Live these guys and your films. I've lived Doc and Merle for many years since I first saw them at Winfield Bluegrass festival in about 1976. Loved bluegrass music since then
5/19/23: I flung these links to family and friends in Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and more. They will all appreciate your efforts in capturing this priceless musical history! 🎻🪕
Think about the talent and hours of practice that go into being able to just pick up instruments and play and have it sound that good, without even a single run thru. It's mind boggling.
I just stumbled onto your TH-cam channel where you described how rude the Birds were to you when filming Earl Scruggs with them, and realized this and other Great beautiful Moments in American musical history, that you have captured, on great audio and video. God bless you!
The love of this music is still very alive in my home town. We gather the first Friday of every month and play our hearts out to the faithful crowd that attends!!!!
This is fantastic! As a flatpicker myself, (born in Ashland KY) Doc was one of my main influences learning bluegrass licks in the 60’s! Instead of back porch Bluegrass, I’d call this back lawn Bluegrass! Wow… a really rare historic get together.
brilliant,,,,great players ,,great footage that would otherwise be lost to history ,,I'm from oz , we have a lot great young players here influenced by these titans of bluegrass,,but alas like most other countries we have legends like these guys...went to see a great young American player Frank Fairfield years ago ,,carrying on the tradition. on the bit
Thanks Sir. I ❤ NC. Well made video and well spoken on your part. I been a few places in my life. I'm always nervous to leave NC. Lol. NYC is to fast for me. Hillbilly love 2 ya for your respect of my State. Thank you×10. ✌
Beautiful document. You can feel the genuine nobility. So refreshing from McGuinn, and that ilk of arrogant far lesser players. Your work is so important, many thanks
A little story from far away in New Zealand. When I grew up my mother would cook a Sunday roast and set the table with her best linen tablecloth, and I and my brother would sit to eat with my Mum and Dad while they had the radio on. They would talk about the music played, which I wasn't interested in because it was old WWII era brass, and I was hearing 50's Pop elsewhere. What I didn't realise they were teaching me was that Music is a subject worth talking about. Now I have four guitars, a life-long love of music of all kinds, and even searched the roots of Rock to find wonderful music like this. Thanks for this, and Thanks, Mum and Dad.
Ken Burns and John Ward sent me! I burned up a cassette of Hank's greatest hits way back in high school, much sooner than my AC/DC and Judas Priest cassettes. I have gone a distance from my country leanings, and am most happy to refresh them. THANK YOU DAVID HOFFMAN! You are a great man.
Such a wonderful tribute to a genuine friendship between Doc & Earl.....Both never forgot their roots and it obviously showed in their manners and how they treated others and how they themselves were respected. Thank you so very much Mr. Hoffman for sharing these authentic video slices of humanity! Cheers From Ohio
Dave this is the way bluegrass family treats each other. I love your films documenting our music. Two great men who were blessed to do what they love and loved sharing it with others. These films are golden, just like you!
That is the decency engendered in real Christians, not just Sunday Christians but everyday Christians. If you go deep enough into those mountains you can still hear that music.
i guess im asking randomly but does anybody know of a way to log back into an Instagram account..? I stupidly lost my password. I love any tips you can give me
@Kamryn Zahir I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm trying it out now. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
This is the antithesis of laid back Bluegrass at a GTG(get together) of friends and family. Devoid of recording studios and record producers. If you had a banjo and two pickers, you had a BAND....lol. Phenomenal capture, thank you once again!
I used to sit down on the floor every Saturday as a little kid in Kansas and watch two shows: Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw. I was transfixed by the smoldering genius and humility of these iconic American artists, arrangers and musicians!
Earl was the authority of bluegrass music, and country music at that time. He was more in his element picking that banjo than anything else on this planet.
Thank you David Hoffman for making these films! I live in NC, Ohio born, but I love the history of both states. Especially the music. I enjoy your films and I thank God for your insight and inspiration to document the greatness of life as it happens!
Thanks Mr H. I'm a banjo player myself and I respect how Earl was trying to expand. I have watched many of these with Earl you produced. Sure do enjoy them. You're a lucky man. #clickonthechicken
The sounds that Earl Scruggs produced on the banjo are so complicated. This is the first time that I got to watch as he played them with deliberate chords and lightning fast picking. He is totally calm as he goes along. It is like watching a masterful surgeon at work. Thank you for posting.
I would have loved to see Earl and Bella Fleck on the same stage engaged in dueling banjos and running through some of the classics together. I did see Doc Watson and the Stanley Brothers on the same stage Virtuoso times 2.
Brilliant. You have preserved an important moment in Americana. Apropos of nothing, I have that same Gallagher G-50 dreadnaught (the "G" on the French curve headstock is the giveaway) that Doc Watson is playing (most played Martin instruments at the time), which I bought in 1971 at Ace Music in Santa Monica, California out of the desire to connect with his cultural tradition. I still have that instrument after two refrets (and in need of another), a neck reset, and relocation of the bridge saddle done by Henry Besconson of Orange, California. (It took me two years, however, to get it back from him.)
The soundtrack to this music special was one of the first bluegrass albums I owned when I was a 13-year-old boy. I listened to it so often that my parents bought me a 5-string banjo and lessons. Within a few months, I was playing along. I still play. Thank you for your contribution to my life!
The stuff you share with us is so important for music lovers . I'm a rock + roll kid of the mid 70s but appreciate all this music ,thank-you for sharing your work with us.
WOW DAVID
THANK YOU SO VERY VERY MUCH
Earl Scruggs is my man.
This is so beautiful. This is what we had before vulgarity and autotune became a substitute for talent.
Never get's old! I can't count how many times I've watched and enjoyed these videos.
What a treasure!!!!!!!!!!
We need more Scruggs and Watson's in our world. Good channel. No, great channel. Thanks!
Hi ! ,I’m 15 and I live in France , my mom is French from the equivalent of Appalachia but to France : the bearnese south western mountains {where people are so kind to one another ! , in the big cities nobody says hi! :-( }. My dad is American from rural south eastern indiana and grand parents (an d so on) , from Appalachia (eastern Kentucky !) and I love bluegrass and old music in general (cause nowadays everybody has this auto tune crap!) and I don’t fit in . Also I play guitar , mandolin , bass ,drums , harmonica ( gonna start and try banjo,dobro and fiddle ! ) . So seeing things like this is awesome ! Thanks! :-)
Looks like early 70's? Wow! David Hoffman captures another magic moment.
You are correct Christopher. That was one magical moment for sure.
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This makes me smile!
Priceless.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 👍
Priceless.
You can't beat old time get to gathers no matter how much you may spend.
This was filmed 10 minutes from where I grew up, Doc is not only a legend here in the mountains of NC but the world over. I grew up here and I'll never move away. I'm just in love with your work David, it makes me feel good to know where I come from.
Got family in Wilkes, grew up in Concord, and lived in Statesville for years before moving to the north Georgia mountains. Doc and Earl's music was what I grew up on and will never ever grow old.
Our, N.C. The boys are tight! David this is a huge presentation. Of several parts of History. I met Doc. And Earl back years ago. But I would truly be honored to meet You, Mr. David. I'm now disabled. I don't travel much. But a glass bottle of Coke and a bag of peanuts to share with you would top my highlights of life. My deep appreciation for your God-given talent. My love and prayers to you and those you hold dear to you. Your old smokey mountain friend Firekeeper Gary Justice🙏🇺🇸👏🫡🔥🛶
@@Firekeeper61 "Glass bottle of coke and peanuts." Wow! I forgot how much I liked that combo.
Doesnt get any better than this.
What a treasure this footage is! Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you for sharing your great snippets of folk history.
Peace on earth.
Oh, I get it, David. My father, a Jew from Brooklyn. My mother, a Methodist from Spruce Pine, NC. It made for an interesting childhood, but only in looking back on it as children simply live their childhood. And the mix of music....oh my. Yes, I can see why a kid from Long Island would find these musicians and thank goodness you did!
Beautiful music and great people
I don’t understand how anyone can give this video a thumbs down
Bluegrass music is so neat. Thank you for sharing this!
Thankyou ,a moment in time and love
I had a cousin who played the saw, not the musical saw, a regular saw with a bow. It was a hauntingly beautiful sound. He couldn't play long, he had black lung. We had the largest Bluegrass Festival in the world in a place called Blue Knob, Pennsylvania. It was a yearly festival and it just stopped. Nobody heard why. There was a state park in Pavia where people could camp, there was a free swimming pool. It was beautiful there. It was founded by the Swiss- German and Scottish people, that came over during the Palatinate movement. Like the festival, everything is gone, soon to be forgotten.
I am sorry that this wonderful culture isfading in Pennsylvania. It is sure not gone in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia. You cannot believe how wide and rich the culture is with young people as magnificent songwriters, storytellers, and performers.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Bluegrass was the entertainment at night not so long ago. Mainly I came back to type about a wonderful music teacher. In our small school district we couldn't afford to have a music teacher after our music teacher retired. The marching band was often in the inaugural parade. The man that was our music teacher in our school district all of his adult life decided to donate his time to continue the music program after he retired and was our unpaid music teacher until he died. There was a legacy page created for him on Facebook. "Jack Shaffer Music Man" Another thing while I'm typing, my oldest son died in 2017 of an arrhythmia due to post-traumatic stress disorder but before he passed we would go to different music events including listening to Bluegrass and when either of my sons started getting interested in music they had guitars, keyboards, music is important. I might not have inherited what the rest of my family has but if I ever see a child that is interested in music I will get whatever fits in their hands, it will not be a toy, it will be a real musical instrument. I may not be wealthy but I can afford a guitar or keyboard. I can remember we had a zither. I can't tell you the last time I saw an instrument like that.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Just a hint to endear yourself to those living around that beautiful area, while we New Yorkers say AppalAchia with a long A, after being repeatedly reminded over my adult life I learned to say Appalachia with a short a. As many folk in the mountains say, "If you keep say'in AppalAchia, I'm a gonna throw an apple at 'cha!"
David,you are just great man,thanks.
Thank you posting and sharing this wonderful video of a special moment in time.
i am from the uk, i was over in the u.s in 2000, i drove a truck over the appalachian mountains, and stayed over at charlotte south carolina, i had the privilege to be invited to a shindig like that one, wasn't i just blessed, thank you for sharing.
5/19/23: Charlotte, North Carolina.
....another beautiful clip about AUTHENTIC music. your cinematic memories are a great pleasure. greetings from germany!
Talk about making magic wow!
Many years ago I saw Doc and Merle in concert in Chapel Hill, NC. I cherish that memory.
Priceless. They just don't make them like this anymore. No egos, just pure fun.
Love old NC history. Doc is pretty important around us, we have a big bluegrass festival called Merlefest every year in honor of Doc's son (and Doc too now that he's gone)
MerleFest is so incredible - music, moments, memories.
Keith Clark It is a large public event in Wilkesboro at the end of April every year.
@Keith Clark -- Google it. Big 4-day event each Spring on the campus of Wilkes Community College. Stars put on a great show every single year. This year's lineup will be announced November 12.
I live in Louisiana, Merlefest is on my bucketlist! Been wanting to go for a long time!
The tone of Doc's guitar is GLORIOUS!!
2:32 Anybody else see Earl get ready to come in with the vocals, and actually started the "Welllll" then Doc came in and he looked at him like "Oh you got this?"
Great music and nice insights from a film maker. Thanks for sharing both.
fantastic music
What a great video.
Doc Watson is my hero! Amazing you got to meet and record the legend.
A beautiful man inside and out and a magnificent musician.
David Hoffman filmmaker
I am 26 and from the suburbs of Chicago. I love Bluegrass and wish that we had a radio station out here. We don't even have a Country station, besides the Hip Hop crossovers. Yes, I'm very different than the usual youngster from the city/suburbs. I listen to Country and Bluegrass every day on TH-cam. I've never met another person my age who listens to George Strait, Dolly, and others. Hopefully one day though. :-)
I'm 61, live in Chicago my whole life, and new to this ch. Though not much a country fan, there's somethin about bluegrass music.. and J. Cash, P. Cline and others from the 50s, 60s. Like Rockabilly too, classic rock/punk. I loved being a teen in the 70s. We grew up on Glenn Miller and big band music, as my mom was a dancer/contortionist who toured w/ the USO late 30s/early 40s. I never liked rap or hip hop (but do like old Mowtown) You be you.... don't have to like what your peers like :)
Dude......Move..... take a wander and find a place that you fit in. If you work hard along the way you will get in where you fit in. Not kidding
@@Littleton98 As soon as I get enough money saved up, I'm moving. I'm currently a dependent for one more year, looking for work. I can't wait. :-)
Internet radio is your friend. This was just country music back when I was growing up the 60's and 70's. Now roots music that found some new highlands to call home is spreading out and morphing with brand new music to create something else altogether. Bluegrass hip-hop cross over might sound weird until you hear the theme song to Justified by Gangsta-grass, Long Hard Times to Come. Definitely some ass kicking good blue grass music, but from a completely new "holler" were they know good music when they hear it.
When i was a little guy,it was shortwave radio..maybe someone has heard of it?😄
I was partly raised by the shortwave world.
I have watched this clip at least 100 times. Earl Scruggs and doc watson are two legends! Thank you for the opportunity to relive this moment in Bluegrass History.
Beautiful! Thanks, Mr Hoffman. One mic! You captured the moment. A Musical moment in history.
I appreciated every moment, but the one thing I would like to comment on is the family dog laying comfortably at Ms. Baez' feet. I believe it was there in the event she needed protection. Beautiful, simply beautiful.
Yours truly, Reluctant Bluesman.
You are awesome. Thanks for sharing these precious memories. God bless you.
Fabulous film! I also note that the tempo sped up ~~ OML! I’m enjoying your films, truly!
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Miigwech, memories never fade away.. Thank you again
Love it
That single shot on a single mic caught the mountain sound perfectly and getting a chance to watch Doc and Merle play together with the Scruggs clan is priceless. Thanks
Thanks for posting these American videos! Hope you have a lot more bluegrass-type videos.
Mike. Search the word bluegrass on my TH-cam channel and you will find many clips.
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I saw Doc Watson open for Gordon Lightfoot at Stanford Stadium in 1971. I will not forget his warmth and love he had for the music and his audience. Truly a highlight of my music life.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful joy of their playing and time with us all
CLASSIC! SO glad you filmed these guys in their 'back yards". What I wouldn't give to flat pick like Doc!! And Merle is no slouch either. THANKS so much for posting. :)
Watching and listening, again. Thank you David!
I was truly born in the wrong State and in the wrong time. Thank you for this video MLS 💖🍀 ✝️
Live these guys and your films. I've lived Doc and Merle for many years since I first saw them at Winfield Bluegrass festival in about 1976. Loved bluegrass music since then
5/19/23: I flung these links to family and friends in Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and more. They will all appreciate your efforts in capturing this priceless musical history!
🎻🪕
Thank you Mr. Hoffman for sharing this with us. Good stuff!
dude, this is legendary !
Heartwarming! Thank you!
Think about the talent and hours of practice that go into being able to just pick up instruments and play and have it sound that good, without even a single run thru. It's mind boggling.
I just stumbled onto your TH-cam channel where you described how rude the Birds were to you when filming Earl Scruggs with them, and realized this and other Great beautiful Moments in American musical history, that you have captured, on great audio and video. God bless you!
Thank you for capturing this moment and uploading it for the world to see. Doc is and always will be my guitar hero.
Beautiful!!! Thanks for sharing
The love of this music is still very alive in my home town. We gather the first Friday of every month and play our hearts out to the faithful crowd that attends!!!!
Awesome 👍👍👍
This is fantastic! As a flatpicker myself, (born in Ashland KY) Doc was one of my main influences learning bluegrass licks in the 60’s! Instead of back porch Bluegrass, I’d call this back lawn Bluegrass! Wow… a really rare historic get together.
Thank you David Hoffman for sharing this wonderful film and music with us. I'm enjoying watching all of these clips from your film.
brilliant,,,,great players ,,great footage that would otherwise be lost to history ,,I'm from oz , we have a lot great young players here influenced by these titans of bluegrass,,but alas like most other countries we have legends like these guys...went to see a great young American player Frank Fairfield years ago ,,carrying on the tradition.
on the bit
Thanks Sir. I ❤ NC. Well made video and well spoken on your part. I been a few places in my life. I'm always nervous to leave NC. Lol.
NYC is to fast for me. Hillbilly love 2 ya for your respect of my State. Thank you×10. ✌
Beautiful document. You can feel the genuine nobility. So refreshing from McGuinn, and that ilk of arrogant far lesser players.
Your work is so important, many thanks
thank you David Hoffman, another gem!!! My kind of music always.
❤️❤️❤️🪕🪕❤️❤️❤️David Hoffman you’re a star
A little story from far away in New Zealand.
When I grew up my mother would cook a Sunday roast and set the table with her best linen tablecloth, and I and my brother would sit to eat with my Mum and Dad while they had the radio on. They would talk about the music played, which I wasn't interested in because it was old WWII era brass, and I was hearing 50's Pop elsewhere.
What I didn't realise they were teaching me was that Music is a subject worth talking about.
Now I have four guitars, a life-long love of music of all kinds, and even searched the roots of Rock to find wonderful music like this.
Thanks for this, and Thanks, Mum and Dad.
And thank you too Dad, you've carried on our family love of music by raising me to be the same x This clip is a beautiful family moment!
@@kiwiartist2007 I don't do emojis, but if I did this comment would just be a Heart :-)
Kia ora
You were so lucky to grow up in the era of this music.
Ken Burns and John Ward sent me! I burned up a cassette of Hank's greatest hits way back in high school, much sooner than my AC/DC and Judas Priest cassettes. I have gone a distance from my country leanings, and am most happy to refresh them. THANK YOU DAVID HOFFMAN! You are a great man.
Amazing and sad and amazing. Life
Thanks for giving us a background to this. Let alone the video is amazing qnd i can add this to my archive of bluegras
Such a wonderful tribute to a genuine friendship between Doc & Earl.....Both never forgot their roots and it obviously showed in their manners and how they treated others and how they themselves were respected. Thank you so very much Mr. Hoffman for sharing these authentic video slices of humanity! Cheers From Ohio
Awesome thanks for your videos buddy....
Dave this is the way bluegrass family treats each other. I love your films documenting our music. Two great men who were blessed to do what they love and loved sharing it with others. These films are golden, just like you!
Thank you!
That is the decency engendered in real Christians, not just Sunday Christians but everyday Christians. If you go deep enough into those mountains you can still hear that music.
So pure...that's why l love it.
David, thanks for this superb treasure!!!
This is both awesome and sad at the same time, Thank you so much for sharing with us Mr David!!
Man this is the kind of stuff i subbed these god tier history moments that you can't get anywhere else thank you for all of your beautiful work
i guess im asking randomly but does anybody know of a way to log back into an Instagram account..?
I stupidly lost my password. I love any tips you can give me
@Juan Tate instablaster =)
@Kamryn Zahir I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site thru google and I'm trying it out now.
Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.
@Kamryn Zahir It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I'm so happy!
Thank you so much you saved my account!
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Really cool
Love these guys! I used to listen to a 2 to 3 hour bluegrass show on public radio on Saturday nights that was a highlight every week!
This is the antithesis of laid back Bluegrass at a GTG(get together) of friends and family. Devoid of recording studios and record producers. If you had a banjo and two pickers, you had a BAND....lol. Phenomenal capture, thank you once again!
I used to sit down on the floor every Saturday as a little kid in Kansas and watch two shows: Lawrence Welk and Hee Haw. I was transfixed by the smoldering genius and humility of these iconic American artists, arrangers and musicians!
I have been watching that video to play banjo along with for years and never knew you filmed it, that's amazing.
Gold.
cool. the lost art of human being
Earl was the authority of bluegrass music, and country music at that time. He was more in his element picking that banjo than anything else on this planet.
Thank you David Hoffman for making these films! I live in NC, Ohio born, but I love the history of both states. Especially the music. I enjoy your films and I thank God for your insight and inspiration to document the greatness of life as it happens!
Thanks Mr H. I'm a banjo player myself and I respect how Earl was trying to expand. I have watched many of these with Earl you produced. Sure do enjoy them. You're a lucky man. #clickonthechicken
I just love this type of music from Earl and Doc
Nice,didn't know you filmed this
The sounds that Earl Scruggs produced on the banjo are so complicated. This is the first time that I got to watch as he played them with deliberate chords and lightning fast picking.
He is totally calm as he goes along. It is like watching a masterful surgeon at work.
Thank you for posting.
I would have loved to see Earl and Bella Fleck on the same stage engaged in dueling banjos and running through some of the classics together. I did see Doc Watson and the Stanley Brothers on the same stage Virtuoso times 2.
Absolutely wonderful David! Happy Thanksgiving from Canada!
Brilliant. You have preserved an important moment in Americana. Apropos of nothing, I have that same Gallagher G-50 dreadnaught (the "G" on the French curve headstock is the giveaway) that Doc Watson is playing (most played Martin instruments at the time), which I bought in 1971 at Ace Music in Santa Monica, California out of the desire to connect with his cultural tradition. I still have that instrument after two refrets (and in need of another), a neck reset, and relocation of the bridge saddle done by Henry Besconson of Orange, California. (It took me two years, however, to get it back from him.)
The soundtrack to this music special was one of the first bluegrass albums I owned when I was a 13-year-old boy. I listened to it so often that my parents bought me a 5-string banjo and lessons. Within a few months, I was playing along. I still play. Thank you for your contribution to my life!
a beautiful story, Eric. Thank you for sharing it.
Great film! Two of the all-time greats!
Thanks, David, for preserving genuine national treasures that would otherwise very likely have been lost.
Outstanding, Mr. Hoffman. A treasure for history.
Cool the way Earl looks up and ponders John Hardy before he starts.
The stuff you share with us is so important for music lovers . I'm a rock + roll kid of the mid 70s but appreciate all this music ,thank-you for sharing your work with us.
Heck I was born in 66...still wish I could've been there 😢