Back in 1983 I was at the Marietta, Georgia Bluegrass I first met Randy Howard. While walking around the parking lot listening to different groups and carrying my fiddle case around, Randy approached me and introduced himself. He asked me how long I had been playing and asked me to play something. I think it was Arkansas Traveler that played go him. He said it sounded great and was very complimentary. He too had his fiddle and I asked him to play something. He played the wild fiddlers rag. As he played my mouth dropped as I thought that was the best fiddle playing I had ever heard. Even though he had a very nice sounding fiddle he played a couple of tunes on my instrument and he liked it so much he wanted to buy it but no thanks I wasn’t interested in selling it. To this day I think If Randy every time I play it. I recall Seeing him ca few times after that a different festivals and he always made a special effort to say hello to me. I was a year younger than him and he was much better if a musician than myself. He was so nice and down to earth and I will never forget that.
I got to play one gig with him, back in 1998, less than a year before he died. Imagine what you hear in this video--but improvised, and with no rehearsal. He was THAT good.
Randy was not only a great musician, he was also a wonderful person and would give you the shirt off his back. He was the kind friend you could call if you were broke down at 3 am. I miss him.
How appropriate that Randy's last cd was titled I Rest My Case. He has got to be one of the top 10 bluegrass fiddlers of all time. What a talent....such a great loss.
His popularity has long since been in Canada. I so appreciate this video! This has become our households favourite waltz. Even folks who are not fond of folk music love this tune. Thank you Randy Howard...
Not the Countrysinger that got shot and killed by the bounty hunter .. a great violinist who lost a 4 year battle with cancer and died at only 38 in 1999 .. Randy was raised in Georgia and in his life managed to win pretty much every fiddle competition there is (including some multiple times). His mastery on many different types of stringed instruments has been well documented among the session musician fraternity, and by the time he was done he had played with George Jones, Garth Brooks, Steve Wariner, Faith Hill, Rhonda Vincent and Ricky Skaggs.
We met Randy in Athens Alabama, my son was a young fiddle player, after the show Randy and my son jammed for hours, Randy took up so much time teaching my son. We sure miss him.
My son, Daniel Carwile, competed with Randy on several occasions. What competitors. They both won the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention fiddle king championship a combined 15 times! Hasn't happened again in 56 years! RIP RANDY!
I remember being at a competition and shooting the breeze' with Randy.. Asked him..What you gonna play..He said.. ah..I'll just make something up..He did..and beat us ..all.. Pure genius.. Get his 'I rest my case' album.. phenomenal musician and humble guy..We lost way to soon.. RIP Randy
Thank you so much for posting this video! I've been watching this on repeat for almost a year now. This song always make me so happy, and he plays it so beautifully. I just started taking fiddle lessons in October, and this song is always an inspiration to keep going. Thanks again!
Robert Shaffer really loved this man, and according to him this was his hero. When I heard these two play together the hair stood up on my arms and tears came down my face. What a team
At the very least, Randy is/was one of the best fiddle players to ever walk this earth, saw him at his fairwell performance in Dublin, GA, and he was still incredible despite being so very ill. LOVE his clean, clear and exact playing, a fantastic waltz.
MY CUZ..........BRO FROM ANOTHER MAMA LOL HE AND MY MOTHER WERE EXTREMELY CLOSE! HE WAS THE CLOSEST THING TO A SIBLING I WILL EVER HAVE! LOVE U MUCH AND MISS U MUCH , MUCH MORE RANDY DALE HOWARD! P.S. HE DID MAKE A FIDDLE FOR ME TO USE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND IT CAN GO TO MY GRAVE! LOVE MY BUDDY!
I heard him play live at the Athens, Alabama bluegrass festival in October of each year. He played so beautifully that it was hard to believe it was real. He was studio-perfect every time! So sorry I can't hear him play again.
I listen to Randy several times a week, this waltz & his style of playing it is like a magnet to me. I Love it , RIP Randy. I also love Kenny Blairs Roxanna Waltz & Chubby Wise playing A Maidens Prayer. Jay Ungar & Molly Mason playing Ashokan Farewell is riveting. Great musician to listen to.
Great tune...wonderfully played by Randy. Thanks a million for posting it. From the right hand and playing style, it looks like Dennis Crouch on the bass.
Probably is Dennis Crouch. I played in Randy's living room jam session with my Dad Tommy Harrelson on guitar, me on alto sax, Randy on fiddle and Dennis Crouch on Bass Fiddle. It was sunday night April 11, 1999. Randy's Mom was also present and another Bluegrass couple from Kentucky or Virginia. Randy died less than three months after that night.
Incredible! It doesn't get any better than this. Thanks for posting! Randy Howard was the best I have ever heard. Very few even come close to playing as well as he did. He wrote other great waltzes, as well as this one.
+Don Discher That's me on guitar and Dennis Crouch on bass. Randy was very sick at the time and still played like the master he was. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him.
Great rendition of a beautiful waltz. The sound brings to mind this would have been something Chubby Wise would have enjoyed hearing you play. Thanks for taking the time to put this on TH-cam.
Back in 1983 I was at the Marietta, Georgia
Bluegrass I first met Randy Howard. While
walking around the parking lot listening to different groups and carrying my fiddle case around, Randy approached me and introduced himself. He asked me how
long I had been playing and asked me
to play something. I think it was
Arkansas Traveler that played
go him. He said it sounded great and was
very complimentary. He too had his
fiddle and I asked him to play something.
He played the wild fiddlers rag. As he
played my mouth dropped as I thought
that was the best fiddle playing I had
ever heard. Even though he had a very nice sounding fiddle he played a couple of tunes on my instrument and he liked it so much he wanted to buy it but no thanks I wasn’t interested in selling it. To this day I think
If Randy every time I play it. I recall
Seeing him ca few times after that a different festivals and he always made a special effort to say hello to me. I was a year younger than
him and he was much better if a musician than myself. He was so nice and down to earth and I will never forget that.
I got to play one gig with him, back in 1998, less than a year before he died. Imagine what you hear in this video--but improvised, and with no rehearsal. He was THAT good.
You're so lucky to have gotten to play with him! Wow, such amazing music. Thanks for sharing :) x
this is about as good as Fiddle Waltz's can get. Randy was one of our Fiddling National Treasures.
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Randy was not only a great musician, he was also a wonderful person and would give you the shirt off his back. He was the kind friend you could call if you were broke down at 3 am. I miss him.
I wish I would've stumbled upon this sooner, but I'm glad to have found it now than later. Absolutely beautiful.
I miss Randy. The best.
King of the double and triple stops! Rest easy my brother.
As fine a gentleman as he was a musician.
Remembered for allways. Enjoy in Golden Fiddle Heaven. Thank you for your music.
This is the essence of beautiful music on fiddle.
He was the best fiddler I've ever known... And one of my best US friends... I miss you, Randy... R.I.P.
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He was such a smooth player! Wish I could’ve had the chance to meet him.
Randy played guitar,mandolin, banjo with the same expertise.
i love the expressions on his face...he really feels the music...sorry to hear he is gone.
How appropriate that Randy's last cd was titled I Rest My Case. He has got to be one of the top 10 bluegrass fiddlers of all time. What a talent....such a great loss.
Every one who plays this gets close, but, this is the standard, ant no one ever comes close……period…..Smooth as silk….without equal….!
Can't get enough of Randy, this is a wonderful tune & I listen to it often. RIP Randy.
Can't get enough of Randy.
RIP Randy you were one of the best, if not the best.
His popularity has long since been in Canada. I so appreciate this video! This has become our households favourite waltz. Even folks who are not fond of folk music love this tune. Thank you Randy Howard...
This song is so beautiful 😍
This was absolute perfection.I haven't witnessed any better.
Not the Countrysinger that got shot and killed by the bounty hunter .. a great violinist who lost a 4 year battle with cancer and died at only 38 in 1999 .. Randy was raised in Georgia and in his life managed to win pretty much every fiddle competition there is (including some multiple times). His mastery on many different types of stringed instruments has been well documented among the session musician fraternity, and by the time he was done he had played with George Jones, Garth Brooks, Steve Wariner, Faith Hill, Rhonda Vincent and Ricky Skaggs.
Johnnralph This guys awsome..its to bad talented ppl like him seem to go to fast...
Randy is among the best to ever play a fiddle. He even plays both notes in his double stops in tune! I miss him.
I thoroughly enjoy watching his bow. So smooth. There just aren't words for it. He was an unbelievably amazing talent!
I,m so glad to have stumbled unto page.It is a beautifully played piece and I will remember you in my prayers.
Wish I could drop everything and waltz all day. What a beautiful piece of music, performed flawlessly.
first met him when he was about 12 and already killer fiddle player glad I crossed his path as sweet a man as his fiddle playin ..RIP Randy
As good as it gets. Wonderful player.
This is just beautiful!! So talented!
This is surely one of the most beautiful fiddle waltzes ever composed... Thanks for posting.
We met Randy in Athens Alabama, my son was a young fiddle player, after the show Randy and my son jammed for hours, Randy took up so much time teaching my son. We sure miss him.
My son, Daniel Carwile, competed with Randy on several occasions. What competitors. They both won the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention fiddle king championship a combined 15 times! Hasn't happened again in 56 years! RIP RANDY!
I remember being at a competition and shooting the breeze' with Randy.. Asked him..What you gonna play..He said.. ah..I'll just make something up..He did..and beat us ..all.. Pure genius.. Get his 'I rest my case' album.. phenomenal musician and humble guy..We lost way to soon.. RIP Randy
Beautiful...I'm sure that old fiddle misses him too...
Randy Played at my Music Store in Milledgeville, Ga. with Mike Cross, in1978 for my Grand Open
This wa s about one month before Randy passed,I was with Randy when he passed
Absolutely beautiful, it's one of those tunes that tug at your heart, I just love it
Thank you so much for posting this video! I've been watching this on repeat for almost a year now. This song always make me so happy, and he plays it so beautifully. I just started taking fiddle lessons in October, and this song is always an inspiration to keep going. Thanks again!
Too sad for a wonderful, talented musician to die so young of a horrific disease. I hope to meet him in heaven one day, God rest his soul.
RIP ...MY ACTUAL COUSIN.THANKS FOR POSTING.
Robert Shaffer really loved this man, and according to him this was his hero. When I heard these two play together the hair stood up on my arms and tears came down my face. What a team
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At the very least, Randy is/was one of the best fiddle players to ever walk this earth, saw him at his fairwell performance in Dublin, GA, and he was still incredible despite being so very ill. LOVE his clean, clear and exact playing, a fantastic waltz.
Wow! So beautiful!
Man, that was sweet.
MY CUZ..........BRO FROM ANOTHER MAMA LOL HE AND MY MOTHER WERE EXTREMELY CLOSE! HE WAS THE CLOSEST THING TO A SIBLING I WILL EVER HAVE! LOVE U MUCH AND MISS U MUCH , MUCH MORE RANDY DALE HOWARD! P.S. HE DID MAKE A FIDDLE FOR ME TO USE WHEN I WAS YOUNGER AND IT CAN GO TO MY GRAVE! LOVE MY BUDDY!
I heard him play live at the Athens, Alabama bluegrass festival in October of each year. He played so beautifully that it was hard to believe it was real. He was studio-perfect every time!
So sorry I can't hear him play again.
I listen to Randy several times a week, this waltz & his style of playing it is like a magnet to me. I Love it , RIP Randy.
I also love Kenny Blairs Roxanna Waltz & Chubby Wise playing A Maidens Prayer. Jay Ungar & Molly Mason playing Ashokan Farewell is riveting.
Great musician to listen to.
Great tune...wonderfully played by Randy.
Thanks a million for posting it.
From the right hand and playing style, it looks like Dennis Crouch on the bass.
Probably is Dennis Crouch. I played in Randy's living room jam session with my Dad Tommy Harrelson on guitar, me on alto sax, Randy on fiddle and Dennis Crouch on Bass Fiddle. It was sunday night April 11, 1999. Randy's Mom was also present and another Bluegrass couple from Kentucky or Virginia. Randy died less than three months after that night.
Gone but not forgotten. Awesome fiddle player!
WOWSER !! SO MANY GEMS...! THANKS, MARSHALL, FOR SENDING TO ME !
Incredible! It doesn't get any better than this. Thanks for posting! Randy Howard was the best I have ever heard. Very few even come close to playing as well as he did. He wrote other great waltzes, as well as this one.
Well done Randy. Probably the most skill ive ever seen
Oh I love this so much!
Excellent .... just sublime. Thanks for posting it.
R.I.P. Randy Howard, such a tragic loss, condolences to family and friends
Windyhair Different guy, this is not the Randy Howard that was shot.
Thought he must have shaved...that's good, amazing talent right here
Windyhair This Randy Howard passed away in 1999.
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Simply beautiful !!
wonderful I wish that I could have met him.
That is so beautiful and that stand up bass just makes it perfect.
+Don Discher That's me on guitar and Dennis Crouch on bass. Randy was very sick at the time and still played like the master he was. Not a day goes by that I don't think of him.
I listen to this and just dream about being able to play 1/3 as good as that.
I am totally speechless...You are awesome! Thanks so much for posting this.
Stupendous rendition. omg
I just gave a standing ovation. Glad I stopped by. Flawless performance with harmonies. Performs like a violinist with a steel guitar.
Double and triple stop king
most beautiful waltz...played just the best
Simply Beautiful
this tune is so beautiful! i've got to learn it.
I hope Kenny and Bill, et al. are looking down and can hear this man play this waltz
Perfection.
amazing performance, thnxxx for posting :))))
greatest waltz i've ever heard beautifully executed bravo
Great rendition of a beautiful waltz. The sound brings to mind this would have been something Chubby Wise would have enjoyed hearing you play. Thanks for taking the time to put this on TH-cam.
oh my, so perfectly perfectly lovely
he was one of my dads best friends.. and you uploaded it on my bday.. yay.. :)
Awesome playing..
Wonderful playing!
Nicely done indeed.
Wow
Very nice recording...!
I didn''t know he has passed...I guess he and Kenny, Bill, et al have a semi-circle heaven-style....D
How can anyone dislike this video?
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that's pretty very pretty
I went to school with Randy. wow that was a long time ago. Are there any more videos ?
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Gone too soon
xoxo
Geez, I LOVE this piece! Anyone know how I can get the sheet music? Can only find the dvd.
Goods don't buy cabbage kids cuz korn kids are pops.
@great miilenko a gangster that plays fiddle lmao
scary larry heard him at winfield
He shouldent have been taken from us for a ... DUI.
Not the same Randy Howard. The one you're thinking about is the Country singer from the Outlaw Movement.
This Randy died from cancer. Different person.
Different guy, this is not the Randy Howard that was shot.
He wasn't going to be taken alive....for a DUI.
Tom Butchen Different guy, this is not the Randy Howard that was shot.
Tom Butchenmidnight waltzing is iu
maria1156 Did you know my cousin Randy Howard? I appreciate you!
He was my cousin too!
please give your weapons to scrap
Beata Borowski Different guy, this is not the Randy Howard that was shot.
Dead over a DUI?
***** The killing was justified.
BigDawg86 Well, probably, maybe... there were no witnesses.
***** Different guy, this is not the Randy Howard that was shot.
I'll have to check it out... abcn.ws/1IcP5Gg
Yep, you're right! Thanks!