Dad would be proud of this set. Dad, Norman Blake, is resting quietly in Rising Fawn. Plays everyday for several hours. Last week his doctor said he healthier now than 20 years ago and could live for years. Dad also had a new album drop it is on U-Tube and produced by John Carter Cash.
I was taking my boy fishing to the Davidson river and ran into billy in walmart getting a copy of my fishing license printed out. He is so nice, i was so stunned forgot to ask for his autograph and wished id thought of something better to say all week. I have two favorite guitar players Randy Rhoads and Billy Strings!
To me, this is Norman's most definitive guitar. It's not the D-18, but that tone is so distinctive, reminds me of all the best albums. Honestly never even considered this or any of his other guitars would be in somebody else's hands one day, crazy. Love you Norm!
One day in the early 1980’s I was chatting with a friend at Elderly Instruments when he said, “Hey, that’s Norman Blake.” Norman let us play the guitar Billy is playing. It was astounding. Amazingly responsive. So much came out at the slightest touch.
Billy is a great guitar player along with trey hensley no doubt and I like most of their music but in my opinion and it's just an opinion I think they have a very heavy hand and to be honest I don't think anyone will ever play as delicate and precise and still get out a loud beautiful or soft mellow sound as Tony rice. Like I said billy is a phenomenal guitarist but if we're honest I think Bryan Sutton and Jake Norman are the masters and legends right now and will hold that until they pass then it will be billy, trey, and we can't forget Sierra hull, she has a great hand for picking mandolin amd guitar and her hand is not heavy and she sounds amazing....just my opinion. Heck I've been pickin guitar for 20 years and I am no where near as good as any of these people.lol
Call me crazy, (you wouldn't be the first 😂) but I really can see why us humans connect so heavily to certain objects, because some objects, aren't just objects, are they? Those guitars were made to resonate like that, to hear lungs singing simultaneously. There's an energy we leave behind in something like that... from the trees grown in the forest, to the craftmanship of making it, to the stories written and unfurled, plucked and strummed over the decades... humans innately evolved to be musicians, all of us, that's why we all FEEL it, even if we never got the chance to learn an instrument or find our voice, but it's there, and it's one of the few human experiences we still have that has the power to sustain some positive energy... what a privilege to play and be in the presence of. Thanks for uploading!!
Bryon is playing probably one of the only modern guitars that can hang with a ‘30s 12 fret, a Gibson Advanced Jumbo. I’ve played a half dozen, and every one was incredibly sensitive and powerful.
WOW You know what they say about guys with big feet???? They have long fingers to play Bluegrass... LOL Billy is playing 'lightly' on this ol piece o wood. Sounds excellent PRICELESS Thanks for sharing the music Matt Hudson Valley, NY
There is a company that makes an exact copy of that 12 fret. Pre-War Guitars is the name of the company. There is a documentary on U-Tube with them presenting a copy to Dad, Norman Blake.
you could have bought that guitar, 1933 D28-12 fret, shade top-one of kind-Dying Breed Music-$3,000,000 last I checked. but no listed in the current inventory.
@@leeblake3989 Very cool. Way too much guitar for my abilities, just have to be content my early 80's D16M and my mid 60s Harmony H165 Baxendale conversion. Love your Dad's pickin', he one of my favorites. Saw him and Nancy in the Chapel on N. campus at UGA in the early 80's. Is the video of the entire concert with the Rising Fawn String Ensemble, that the "Flat Picker" video is from available to purchase?
@@mitchguthrie7016 Not that I know of. Dad doesn't have any promotional products. He didn't even know a new album dropped on the 2nd of August until I called him. Dad doesn't have internet, Hell he still listens to albums on a wind up Victrolia that his Father gave him.
Recognize Norm's old Martin from him playing "Nashville Blues"on the old Johnny Cash show. He tore it up with his version of that tune Billy and Bryon are tearing it up again. Norm's performance is floating around on TH-cam,
OMG you two man. Yalls dynamic is something different than when you normally see two legends play guitar legends guitars..?..hmm yeah i said that right.
I cant stop jamming this. Its like watching two deadly wild animals. An angry Bear and a hungry Snow lion scratching each others tummy and rolling abound in the dirt like house animals.
Awesome video but your title should be 1933 12 fret and not 1934. Not a huge deal but for correctness sake might be cool to edit it. Again, thanks for the video! That guitar is one of a kind. The only 12 fret D28 made that year I believe and uniquely the only shade top Martin made at all I believe in a 12 fret D28.
The guitar in this video is the 1933 D-28 Norman Blake played. The one that was converted from Hawaiian is a 1934 D-18H. The "H" indicated Hawaiian. I've read in a couple of places that it is now owned by a collector in Japan, but maybe @leeblake3989 can clarify.
@ thank you for this clarification. Norman was a pretty close friend of mine. I’m a violin maker. I just remember he told me about the Hawaiian guitar. I appreciate your knowledge
That D-18H is my favorite sounding guitar ever. Of course, a lot of that is due to who was playing it, but of all the guitars I ever heard Norman play, I like that one best. And when he and Tony Rice played together on the two Blake & Rice albums, it was just magical.
The guitar which Billy Strings is playing is from 1933, not 1934. This I know because I used to own the instrument, and sold it to my old friend Norman Blake back in 1979. I loved that guitar; so did Norman, and after some years of listening to his requests to buy it, I decided that it should be in his hands. I found out later that it was the ONLY 12-fret, shaded-top, slotted-head, pre-war D-28 which Martin ever produced. Ah, the foolish mistakes of my youth....
If it makes you feel better, while it is the only shade top 12-fret D-28 produced, it would’ve never had the provenance that it currently does being Norman’s #1 for so long. In a way you helped along the path to make that guitar what it is.
@@tylermanharth9110 Good point; but it's analogous to James Edward Dougherty taking solace in the fact that, had he not divorced his wife, she wouldn't have gone on to become Marilyn Monroe. I still miss that guitar....
Love Billy Strings! 💯 along w/ Tommy Emmanual, and my preferred choice of a 12 fret guitar, can’t get any batter them Billy playing an old 12 fret Martin
Dad would be proud of this set. Dad, Norman Blake, is resting quietly in Rising Fawn. Plays everyday for several hours. Last week his doctor said he healthier now than 20 years ago and could live for years. Dad also had a new album drop it is on U-Tube and produced by John Carter Cash.
Tell Dad we said thanks for the tunes.
@@modelcitizen1977 I will. I will be talking to him later today.
Norman is one of the best there’s ever been.
Hearing your dad’s music got me to set down the bottle and pick up the guitar. I will forever be grateful for that. His new album is fantastic!
@@rickchaffin5210Norman Blake is the greatest.
Bryan Sutton is an absolute monster player.
Is he fucking ever. Wow. They both kill and they sound amazing together.
Great Combination here. Only us serious listeners know nhow good Bryan Sutton is!
He’s leagues beyond Billy Strings, who’s a great player in his own right, but the solos are not remotely comparable.
@@andycross5558 I absolutely agree!
I was taking my boy fishing to the Davidson river and ran into billy in walmart getting a copy of my fishing license printed out. He is so nice, i was so stunned forgot to ask for his autograph and wished id thought of something better to say all week. I have two favorite guitar players Randy Rhoads and Billy Strings!
Lucky man. Id of been giddy too.
@@spencertherren6806 bro i still cant believe it i for got to show him my posters and everything
If yer in cackalacky thas a dam lie, cuz you can only buy licenses online now 😂
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To me, this is Norman's most definitive guitar. It's not the D-18, but that tone is so distinctive, reminds me of all the best albums. Honestly never even considered this or any of his other guitars would be in somebody else's hands one day, crazy. Love you Norm!
Long live Norman Blake
One day in the early 1980’s I was chatting with a friend at Elderly Instruments when he said, “Hey, that’s Norman Blake.” Norman let us play the guitar Billy is playing. It was astounding. Amazingly responsive. So much came out at the slightest touch.
WOW!!!! 2 of the best players in tge world!!
Incredible!!!
Billy is a great guitar player along with trey hensley no doubt and I like most of their music but in my opinion and it's just an opinion I think they have a very heavy hand and to be honest I don't think anyone will ever play as delicate and precise and still get out a loud beautiful or soft mellow sound as Tony rice. Like I said billy is a phenomenal guitarist but if we're honest I think Bryan Sutton and Jake Norman are the masters and legends right now and will hold that until they pass then it will be billy, trey, and we can't forget Sierra hull, she has a great hand for picking mandolin amd guitar and her hand is not heavy and she sounds amazing....just my opinion. Heck I've been pickin guitar for 20 years and I am no where near as good as any of these people.lol
Call me crazy, (you wouldn't be the first 😂) but I really can see why us humans connect so heavily to certain objects, because some objects, aren't just objects, are they? Those guitars were made to resonate like that, to hear lungs singing simultaneously. There's an energy we leave behind in something like that... from the trees grown in the forest, to the craftmanship of making it, to the stories written and unfurled, plucked and strummed over the decades... humans innately evolved to be musicians, all of us, that's why we all FEEL it, even if we never got the chance to learn an instrument or find our voice, but it's there, and it's one of the few human experiences we still have that has the power to sustain some positive energy... what a privilege to play and be in the presence of. Thanks for uploading!!
Hmmm....ok.😂
😂
What a cool comment. Hell yeah.
@@Jallatt Yes! You get it! x
100% true 🔥
Norman Blake defined a very tasteful version of old-time guitar. These gentlemen have picked up his torch and are adding their own ideas.
He's just the GOAT to me, can sniff out his studio work a mile away. Aereo-Plain lives rent free in my brain 24 hours a day.
I love Bryan's guitar, too. Thanks for sharing.
Two of the best pickers since the Doc left us here to figure it out.
Don’t forget Norman!!
And rice
Love the expressions on Billy’s face. You can just see the love and fun!
Billy & his band…is here, along w/ Molly, Sierra, etc to save (popularize) Bluegrass & acoustic (& plugged in) string band music!
Billy has definitely been the leader for some time, not part of. No offense.
Thank you so very very much. Made my morning.
Two of the best there is ✊🏼
would love to hear what the rest of the conversation between the two greats - thank for sharing -
Super harmony playing in the middle there. I've loved this song since the HOME IN SUPHUR SPRINGS LP came out.
Bryon is playing probably one of the only modern guitars that can hang with a ‘30s 12 fret, a Gibson Advanced Jumbo. I’ve played a half dozen, and every one was incredibly sensitive and powerful.
That's not a modern one--- it's a very clean 1935 AJ prototype!
They’re so loud. I love them
@@trebleclef169no way. Insane
@@trebleclef169 Wow--it looks brand new! And sounds great under Bryan's hands!
I’ve got one. It’s a 93’ love it so much. The color on this one in the video is amazing so much dark! I love it.
WOW
You know what they say about guys with big feet????
They have long fingers to play Bluegrass... LOL
Billy is playing 'lightly' on this ol piece o wood.
Sounds excellent
PRICELESS
Thanks for sharing the music
Matt
Hudson Valley, NY
amazing!!! respect!
Holy dawg! The next, next level.
Randall Collins I got to try.. my golly both these players are simply iconic together
holy shiat this is good! thanks for sharing!
I clicked on the video without reading randall collins in the title. I was hoping they would play it, and was pleasantly suprised
I was really interested in what Billy was saying about Tony's guitar and then the video abruptly ended. Thanks though, I really enjoyed it.
if I could even find a copy of that guitar....Whahoooooo!!!
There is a company that makes an exact copy of that 12 fret. Pre-War Guitars is the name of the company. There is a documentary on U-Tube with them presenting a copy to Dad, Norman Blake.
you could have bought that guitar, 1933 D28-12 fret, shade top-one of kind-Dying Breed Music-$3,000,000 last I checked. but no listed in the current inventory.
@@mitchguthrie7016 I could have had it when it was Dad's guitar in the 80's. I have played the guitar.
@@leeblake3989 Very cool. Way too much guitar for my abilities, just have to be content my early 80's D16M and my mid 60s Harmony H165 Baxendale conversion. Love your Dad's pickin', he one of my favorites. Saw him and Nancy in the Chapel on N. campus at UGA in the early 80's. Is the video of the entire concert with the Rising Fawn String Ensemble, that the "Flat Picker" video is from available to purchase?
@@mitchguthrie7016 Not that I know of. Dad doesn't have any promotional products. He didn't even know a new album dropped on the 2nd of August until I called him. Dad doesn't have internet, Hell he still listens to albums on a wind up Victrolia that his Father gave him.
Recognize Norm's old Martin from him playing "Nashville Blues"on the old Johnny Cash show. He tore it up with his version of that tune Billy and Bryon are tearing it up again. Norm's performance is floating around on TH-cam,
❤❤Sutton Sutton who’s got the Sutton
OMG you two man. Yalls dynamic is something different than when you normally see two legends play guitar legends guitars..?..hmm yeah i said that right.
Hey Kevin, do you happen to have the rest of that little excerpt at the end? That was great stuff coming from Billy and Bryan about the guitars.
I cant stop jamming this. Its like watching two deadly wild animals. An angry Bear and a hungry Snow lion scratching each others tummy and rolling abound in the dirt like house animals.
Curious if they practiced before video .
12 fret slope D’s speak to me. Got a Gallagher one in the works right now.
Santa Cruz makes a good one.
Good choice! Would love to hear how it comes out.
Right on man!!
Is this the same 12-fret from the famous randall collins performance? The one that was on sale for millions?
We're all being very polite about the video title
Awesome video but your title should be 1933 12 fret and not 1934. Not a huge deal but for correctness sake might be cool to edit it. Again, thanks for the video! That guitar is one of a kind. The only 12 fret D28 made that year I believe and uniquely the only shade top Martin made at all I believe in a 12 fret D28.
Not to mention it should say Billy Strings, not Stings... but enough folks are watching it already, don't want the Internet to blow up.
pretty good
I know Norman Blake. That guitar was originally a Hawaiian guitar. I wonder if Billy bought it from Norman ?
The guitar in this video is the 1933 D-28 Norman Blake played. The one that was converted from Hawaiian is a 1934 D-18H. The "H" indicated Hawaiian. I've read in a couple of places that it is now owned by a collector in Japan, but maybe @leeblake3989 can clarify.
@ thank you for this clarification. Norman was a pretty close friend of mine. I’m a violin maker. I just remember he told me about the Hawaiian guitar. I appreciate your knowledge
That D-18H is my favorite sounding guitar ever. Of course, a lot of that is due to who was playing it, but of all the guitars I ever heard Norman play, I like that one best. And when he and Tony Rice played together on the two Blake & Rice albums, it was just magical.
@ you are correct. Ha ha. Norman said that was his favorite guitar. Lots of people try to copy him but they can’t.
Randall Collins + Done Gone
Thank you. Much better angle on yours
Give me Norman ANYTIME !!
Norman had his time, these boys would pick circles around Norman at his advanced age. He was definitely a pioneer in the flatpicking genre.
The guitar which Billy Strings is playing is from 1933, not 1934. This I know because I used to own the instrument, and sold it to my old friend Norman Blake back in 1979. I loved that guitar; so did Norman, and after some years of listening to his requests to buy it, I decided that it should be in his hands. I found out later that it was the ONLY 12-fret, shaded-top, slotted-head, pre-war D-28 which Martin ever produced. Ah, the foolish mistakes of my youth....
If it makes you feel better, while it is the only shade top 12-fret D-28 produced, it would’ve never had the provenance that it currently does being Norman’s #1 for so long. In a way you helped along the path to make that guitar what it is.
@@tylermanharth9110 Good point; but it's analogous to James Edward Dougherty taking solace in the fact that, had he not divorced his wife, she wouldn't have gone on to become Marilyn Monroe. I still miss that guitar....
How fine!
I believe that’s the only shade top d28 from the era
Wow!!!!!!
Bryan Sutton is the Boss Boys
😊👍😊👍😊👍😊👍✌️❤️
Keep practicing, Billy.
The synchronized playing seems almost too easy but in real it's incredibly hard to do ( I think)
Dude, holy crap. That’s just a modeling demo…
Love Billy Strings! 💯 along w/ Tommy Emmanual, and my preferred choice of a 12 fret guitar, can’t get any batter them Billy playing an old 12 fret Martin
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick
Billy’s guitar sounds great but you can’t hear it as well as Bryan’s.
The guy with the mustache in the background seems very unhappy,his girlfriend had it he had time to shave it but won't he got the axe.
Don't forget tommy Emmanuel too!!!
He's good, really good, but imagine if Billy StRings had been playing it.......oops.
"Billy Stings" lol spelling is hard....
You'll get more traffic if you spell his name right in the title!
Idk…Billy / Sting crossover fans?
Let’s not make it easy for the normies please
Uhhhhh
so sick of fckin billy strings
I swear Billy can’t hang even close to Sutton
Well they are 2 different styles of players. Billy looks up to Sutton.
That's just your opinion. And it sucks.
@@RandalPyrtle yes I know Billy tries to be like Sutton but he just can’t