I prefer this over Foggy Mountain breakdown.

that 2nd banjo break is fking fire.

The GREAT Kenny Baker on fiddle from Letcher County, Kentucky!💖👍🎶🎵

Golden age.

Great to see Jackie hicks picking like that. I like his style and he played with drive and a light touch around the banjo finger board. The Baldwin Banjo sounds damn good too !

You better be good to play in this band.

Same as sweet heart I beg you to come home tonight

@pickinvidders

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't that song go to C after the F? And then spend more time yet in C? Been a few years since I have heard it, but I think it's quite different.

Nice clip. Jack Hicks, banjo, and emulating "Keith- style" on his second break, which Bill might have wanted, since Keith blew folks away when he first did that and Bill liked it so he wanted his banjo players after Keith to continue to do it. Of course, Kenny Baker on fiddle and Joe Stuart on guitar. Not sure of the bass man.

@RedRoosterParty

3 жыл бұрын

Monroe Fields

@dannyc1174

3 жыл бұрын

@@RedRoosterParty Gotcha - another good sideman and not just on bass.

Denise, instead of BB having (3) parts, just suppose it to have (2),...-a 'double' A part, and a B part,...not an A, B, and C !

yeeeeeeehaw

God bless the United States Of America-- I guess He likes banjo picking too!!

@dennisraymond542

Жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right.... Good afternoon how are you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day, it's a lovely day that the lord has made.

Who is the bass man?

Is that Jack Hicks on Banjo?

Right, but Bluegrass Breakdown has an A, B, and a C part, much like many of Bill's instrumentals. You're right about BB going into F instead of Em, but in the C part it goes from G to C.

@swingmaster02

3 жыл бұрын

It's an AAB pattern.

Jack Hicks is the young man picking that Baldwin banjo.

Bill's first recording was somewhat faster, wasn't it ?

@JohnnysCoolStuff

9 жыл бұрын

He slowed down over the years. His early music was blistering fast.

@1930Granada

6 жыл бұрын

Back then he had Earl.

hardly much difference from foggy mountain breakdown

@beefusthemighty

3 жыл бұрын

@@RustyMadd My understanding is that Earl Scruggs wrote the song, or at least everything that made the song recognizable, but Monroe's musicians were contractually required to give Monroe credit for anything they wrote. When Earl split, he took his song and changed a chord (to a more effective one, IMO). I can't see how Monroe would have come up with with that iconic banjo riff, anyhow. I wasn' t there of course, so that version could be pro-Earl propaganda! :-D

@Trad.Music.

2 жыл бұрын

@@beefusthemighty how many other Mandolin tunes did Scruggs compose?

@beefusthemighty

2 жыл бұрын

@@Trad.Music. song was written to showcase the banjo, even though it has a mando break, I wouldn't call it a "mandolin tune."

@Trad.Music.

2 жыл бұрын

@@beefusthemighty listened to the original recording?

@beefusthemighty

2 жыл бұрын

@@Trad.Music. Original recording is by Beulah "Watertown" Garfinkel from 1922 - titled "Baby Put Beans In My Bucket" it was written for ukulele-banjo and sousaphone. Bill Monroe changed the key from C#dim, retitled it, and engaged in a fifteen-year legal tussle with the "Oh-Kay Wax Cylinder Company" over alleged plagiarism. It's all documented in a 1966 article in "Melody Maker" titled "Monroe's Musical Makeaway Muddle."

The song sounds very similar to foggy mountain break down.

@charlestompkins1090

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, I believe he wrote it while Earl was in the band and after Earl & Lester left Earl rewrote it, adding the minor, to make Foggy Mtn Breakdown

@WildwoodvalleyBoy

Жыл бұрын

@@ed2956 ...all wrong !,...BB came first,...then Foggy Mt. Breakdown came later !

@eddiemoore8468

Жыл бұрын

@@charlestompkins1090 You are correct!

“An old timer that I wrote” OK Bill