Billy Strings w/Bela Fleck - Church Street Blues (Norman Blake) The Ainsworth
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- Billy Strings w/Bela Fleck - Church Street Blues (Norman Blake) The Ainsworth
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The Ainsworth - Nashville, TN 9.12.19
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Bela Fleck is one of the greatest living musicians of our lifetime. If you have never seen Bela Fleck live I highly recommend it.
In a previous life as a musician in NJ (and a Bela previous life) I saw him at the Stone Pony with the Flecktones. Victor Wooten is the best bass player I've ever seen live.
Great tribute to Blake and Tony Rice, who gave this song a new life.
Came to watch after learning Tony Rice passed, the cover does right by him
Truely great, but not Tony Rice
Billy is an elite player and he has a bluesy singing style unique to bluegrass. The young man has skills...
He has
These two are just on a completely different playing field than most musicians! A treat to watch and hear!
Billy Strings and Bella Fleck = awesome!
Two great musicians , they compliment each other very well❤️🎶🎼🎵🎸
That was beautiful!
Absolutely loooooove TR's version. Sooooooo glad I came across Billy's version. Absolute loooove it.
((Denmark) So beautiful. High technically played as Well as Billys song. Bela & Billy is i a leaque of their own 🌹🌹
Two geniuses
i love how much billy likes trading 4's. keeps people on their toes when they sit in with him
That level of player trades 4s like nothing. Few rock players can handle it.
aw the lads!
Tony Rice was a guitar master but Billy String is good also... From France.
Tony played a nice cover of Norman's song, yet nothing comes close to the original version on NB's WBB album.
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Nobody picks it like Norman
Perhaps but it would not have been a classic if TR had not covered it.
Both are great and they were good friends, but grew up playing Norman's version. Less bluegrass, more old timey. Always felt there was a hole or two in Tony's version.
Folks, that's music.
The songwriter is actually Norman Blake not Tony Rice.
Just saying someone’s gonna have to tab out Bela fleck’s playing for me lmao....
double like
I hope billy and norman blake can do something together
Not really related to the song but how have you been Music City Maven? I've noticed you've been off Facebook for awhile and just checking in 💙
Hi there! Thank you for asking! I’ve been doing well - just decided to break free from social media for the most part because it’s too toxic. I hope you’re hanging there as well.
Gang
Bela didnt even notice the banjo string comment
Tony Rice version, which is great, but prefer Norman's.
I’d never attempt to do this song , Tony owns it , there is just no way anyone can do it better than him ... it would be like trying to sing Crying Time after Ray Charles did it ...
Agree: this version is too fast and loses the poignancy of the song that is so sweet and textured in Rice's version. Appreciate this--but it's a rush job.
how did bela end up being the one with the 57 haha
Jonathan Townsend they both have 57s... on their instruments. Billy has a 58 on his voice because... he’s... the one singing
Do you mean it's an honor to get to play into an SM57??
Bela is obviously an absolute legend, but he has NO clue on this one 😂 Billy is trying to watch his changes so the recording isn't totally fucked, but it's just not happening. That being said; I dare anyone unfamiliar with this tune to pick a banjo part better than Bela did.
This is good but so sterile to me. I'm biased towards Tony Rice version. The strained and kinda rough unpolished voice is perfect. Not trying to be negative but the singing here is reminiscent of modern country. Take that as you will.
are you kidding me? have u seen this boy pick? Hes carrying TR's torch!
@@mragunathan1627 dude I didn't say anything about his picking.
@@ImDaCaptainNow45 oooo so edgy.
He's a fine singer, but I'm partial to the Norman version myself. No disrespect to Tony or this cat.
I'm also partial to Tony Rice's version. It's as close to perfection as anything ever gets. Love this one too though.
Billy....wtf....singing was great but the guitar? wtf? Dropped the ball on this one. Get that shit down better man. Will just pretend you were giving Bella a moment to shine........
I hate the Tony Rice version. "Picker friend"?! But great pickin'.
The Tony Rice version is a piece of guitaring history that is still practically unmatched today my friend.
@@andrewkeen3129 I guess you have never heard the Norman Blake original. Too bad friend.
@@TM1Alan Don't misjudge too quickly my friend. I utterly love the original Norman Blake version and always have. I have been a great fan of Norman for many many years as well.
@@andrewkeen3129 I just can't understand why Tony would change the words. "Picker friend" makes no sense. Maybe it's a copyright thing. But I wouldn't think his good friend Norman would care.🤔
@@TM1Alan I would highly doubt so too man. They were like best friends so I would really doubt that. I guess maybe that just resonated more with Tony and he wanted to change it up just a little bit? Why do you say it makes no sense though? These guys entire lives were all about flatpicking and crosspicking and 'picking' on the guitar was everything to them. I always assumed he just meant a fellow bluegrass player most likely.
I wonder if Bela is to deaf to listen or just too important? Out of tune and out of synch. I know he's used to being the hottest ish in the room, but not when he's sitting next to that guy.