Winter 1994 or 95 Flat Rock, Michigan at the Huron Valley Eagles Club. I can remember Bill singing Christmas Times A Comin’ ❤ to 5 year old me the place felt electric and I’m sure it was.

Love It! Bill Monroe All the Bluegrassers Ricky Scaggs

Thank you for this terrific documentary, truly!

George said that Bill broke the scroll off the peghead when he was unhappy with Gibson, but Bill told me that he had pushed the lid of the case down with strings and papers under the peghead and it broke the scroll loose, it was held on for a long time by those little strips of plastic. Finally it got to rattling and bothered me so I pulled it loose and put it in my pocket. There weren't many people who could work on instruments around town... maybe Ira Louvin or Benny Martin's brother Gene could put it back. I forgot and left it in my coat pocket and when it came back from the cleaners it was gone, and I just kind of forgot about it.

@collectiques1

2 жыл бұрын

right you are. Not sure why Gruhn got the broken headstock scroll mixed up with 1951 repair job. Lots of photos show it was broken off long before that. One thing for sure, the missing scroll did not effect the sound one bit.

@plainolamerican

2 жыл бұрын

@@collectiques1 George Gruhn can be full of shit as well as a swindler.

wow thanks for posting this, as a bluegrass picker Bill is an idol

Thanks for posting this portion of a great doc. I love the Jay and Silent Bob scene at 7:00. Long live grass and Monroe appreciation.

@jnholland006

2 жыл бұрын

@MandoMtn 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I always thought it was KY Head Hunters! That’s best comparison ever!!! Yes yes!!

What a gem of a video.

its such a trip seeing del mccoury so young

Bluegrass Never Let's you Go!!! But I do have a fine guitar!!! 🎵🎶🎵

George Gruhn is such a geeky guy….you gotta love it!!

@riceflatpicking4954

2 жыл бұрын

Occasionally I stop in his shop when I’m in town and he’s always there and I saw him a while back still the same guy there is something endearing about his oddness 😀

Jerry Garcia was just a natural funny man and I can totally see why Bob Dylan would love Jerry as Dylan is also a natural funny man

Bill was GREAT! GEORGE Gruhn is pure sick. But, that's life.

I build a d28 Martin guitar in 1991..it sounds good.

Don’t piss off a Bluegrass musician

There is plenty of evidence that Bessie Lee Mauldin was a string bass player at least on par, if not exceeding, her professional contemporaries. Her length of time in the band, twelve years in the band, is one primary indication of her own long-lasting professionalism. Monroe, with his high degree of professionalism and virtuosity played with exceptionally talented musicians, of the time, and Bessie was no exception. He is known to have demanded the best and must have found her playing to be rhythmically and stylistically solid for his hard driving and up-tempo bluegrass music. Her playing was more than just the straight ahead root-five and her ability to add bass runs as was evident on her recordings. Bessie Lee recorded with Monroe both vocally and instrumentally, which began on September 16, 1955. Unfortunate but understandable, little is known of Bessie Lee’s private life as she lived in the shadows as both a bass player, and Bill Monroe’s first “other women”. What is known of her private life mostly comes from Monroe’s biography, Can’t You Hear Me Callin’” by Richard D. Smith. These writings exposed potentially intimate facts concerning the impropriety of Bessie Lee and Bill’s relationship. During the time of their alleged intimate relationship Monroe was married to Carolyn Brown. Mauldin’s and Monroe’s partnered personal relationship seems to stand in contrast to their professional lives together and in contrasts to the deeply religious music they performed and created. Bessie Lee had a profound influence on Bill Monroe both on and off the stage. Their relationship of was an inspiration for Bill’s music and is evident by several of his songs. One of them being “How Do I Explain you?” as pointed out by Murphy Hicks Henry in her book “Pretty Good for a Girl”, and indeed, he never really did accurately explain their relationship.

@Barry101er

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting!

@plainolamerican

2 жыл бұрын

@@Barry101er My dad traveled with Bill and Bessie in the early 60's. The road stories were hilarious.

By all accounts Monroe was freakishly strong and I can imagine him being a really hard bloke. The stuff he did with Skaggs and Keith Whitley is incredible even though it started Keith Whitley’s affair with alcohol it’s very much part of America’s Bluegrass folklore now

@jaygatsby1

8 ай бұрын

He was a hard man.

...always heard ,...the scroll was accidently broken off, not deliberately !

@mandoist

2 жыл бұрын

Read Doug's factual account here...

Gibson just took the soul right out of it.

This is from a CMT documentary on Bill Monroe...1990ish.....does anyone know if the full documentary is available anywhere?

Could anyone tell me where the Hartford/Monroe convo footage is from? I'd love to see more.

Tracy mayberry.

Who is the woman starting at 19:05?

@ButchRobinsBanjo

2 жыл бұрын

Emmy Lou Harris

@davidmcilveen6085

2 жыл бұрын

You know who she is. The great EmmieLou Harris. She could go far, don't you think?

@IgnatiusCheese

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidmcilveen6085 some of us are young OG

@stargazersmith1895

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidmcilveen6085 Obviolusly

@richardmullins2850

2 жыл бұрын

Holy cow your kidding right that is Emmy Lou Harris