Beautiful! A museum piece. It’s so great that Billy Strings and a whole new fine set of young pickers are keeping this tradition alive! It’s also great that thanks to KZread, we can all stroll through the museum any time we choose and see our heroes, Live and Pickin’!

Have been very fortunate in my life to have seen all these great pickers at one time or another w/e of "Deacon" Dan Crary. Doc and Jack multiple times (Jack was his accompaniment for many years) and even got to see and hear Doc's son Merle back in '73 who was also an excellent flat picker. I've been truly blessed.

Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Dan Crary, Steve Kaufman and Jack Lawrence if Norman Blake was there picking as well I would have thought I died and gone to heaven and we were all just hanging around waiting for Clarence to show us around great pickers great post thanks Paul

Five guitarists together should be chaotic, but they sound like a cool clear mountain stream. I think respect for the Master must be a part of it.

@davec7759

6 жыл бұрын

It's like cool running water on a hot day. Refreshing.

@duckmcdonald2492

10 ай бұрын

Yes, many jams I've attended end up sounding link a giant out of tune auto harp.

Man this is just so good. The solos on Blue Ridge Mountain Blues are just incredible. I especially love how much respect Doc has for Tony Rice and how much he loves to hear him play. Good stuff.

RIP Mr. Watson and Mr. Rice.

There are 5 flattop pickers here, yet if you listen carefully, each has their own distinct style! Amazing.....This is the best guitar pickin on KZread.

Fantastic! Never dreamed that these 5 gentlemen picked together. No crowding, hogging the mic, nothing but incredible picking. Especially rewarding is listening to Doc when really pushed by his peers; he hits some licks on unfamiliar tunes that shows what a master of the instrument he really was. Nothing here bur superlative music from everyone.

Peace, love and Harmony abound in this smile creation.

The way that they could ace something that unrehearsed is amazing

@scray00

3 жыл бұрын

It’s because there is no ego up on the stage. They aren’t trying to out do each other. They all respect each other’s talents and how they are all just there to play for the sheer joy of it. It’s a quality that you only see in the bluegrass/folk community. I use the word community instead of genre, because that’s what they are is a community of like minded people. This could be someone’s front porch and they wouldn’t care, it’d sound the same.

"I appreciate them good warm lights - turn em up a little hotter. That feels pretty good. It may blind Jack, and Tony, and Dan, and Steve, but it won't bother me a bit." -Doc

THIS IS PURE GOLD!!!!

Absolutely fantastic what a great heap of talent on stage at the same time

We are headin tomorrow for our 10th Merlefest in a row. So many good memories from Merlefest. Thanks for the great video. Tim from Greenville Ohio

Doc the godfather and Tony the stone cold killer. What legends.

This is fantastic! The best pickers ever!

I can't stop watching these amazing guys....just fantastic!!!

It don't get much better than this .. thanks for sharing it with us ..

I don't care who you are...you gotta love this! Thanks for putting this out there..awesome!!

After watching this vid over and over I am really impressed by Steve Kaufman playing. he may be the lesser of the guitar giants, but he surely holds his own. with Doc and the gang. This is sure an awesome flatop pickin tune never before duplicated!

@daveleslie4396

Жыл бұрын

Steve is the only 3 time winner as a flat picker World Champ.

A stage full of amazing talent,

Dream team of guitar flat-top pickers .....no other way to describe this b/g outburst of pickin!

Superb...no other word!

I think I'll just leave my guitar in the case for a while. In absolute awe

thank you for posting this fantastic viedeo

legends of blue grass hell yeah

I would love to see this exact same stage but with billy strings, trey hensley, Molly tuttle, jake workman, presley barker and maybe carl miner.

folks, week after week I keep coming back to this vid..it is so amazing of guitar pickin that I must pinch myself to ensure this is for real! anyone learning flat-top pickin must watch this vid over and over to see how it is done!

@daveleslie4396

3 жыл бұрын

Steve only won the guitar picking champion award 3 times 10 yrs apart

@mosrite60

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveleslie4396 oh, not bad considering the talent thats out there. Tough competition certainly.

@scray00

3 жыл бұрын

@@daveleslie4396 awards they never cared about when they were playing. Don’t get me wrong they deserved them, but it was never about ego when they were playing. Just joy and having a good time.

Thank you for posting. This is so good!

So awesome!

❤❤❤

It breaks my heart that Docs gone, but , he,s still playing somewhere, pls let me go to the same place.

@scray00

3 жыл бұрын

He’s definitely in good company upstairs, that’s for sure. I can’t imagine what it was like the first time he was able to see his sons face. I don’t even know the guy and that chokes me up. He spent his time down here playing and spreading the word of god. Now he just gets to play all day and night if he wants.

Legends

When Steve says "is E all right with you guys," I can imagine Doc saying " No, F flat would be better".

Folks, I canot gt enuf of this amazing guitar pickin'...superber cannot describe this

Chapeau!

4 grands guitaristes de bluegrass réunis,j'adore!!

Brilliant. Flat top picking great player/artists and hes 100% correct in what he says bet you dont get this in modern music ? I wonder why ! Manufactured !!!!

You will have to listen for another 100 years to hear flatop pickin as this. Genuine as it gets. mos60

Flatpickers from this era are really just built different.

Kinda like a 70 yard touchdown pass, they make it look it so easy.

Just sitting around the living room :-)

@iceaxe56 Agreed !!!

That tony rice guy is aaight dammmmm

Wonderful picking. The pickups give a hollow buzzy sound though. The warmth of the strings is missing.

is it ok to play electric to this?

Steve is the stud for both songs. I love doc but Steve stole this part of the show. Overall, this is at good as it will ever get!

one more swing now

Another accidental find. Filled my underpants again!!

gordon bennett that is tremendous

I got wood

Can it get better than this??

this is what merlefest should be--doobie bros. i think not