THIS is country music! What in the world happened to genuine, honest, sincere music? Man, I miss it.

You could see Lester and Earl really putting on a "Show" for Maybelle! The respect and love they had for her! Love it!

@mavjimbo

7 ай бұрын

He and Maybelle smile at each other because he played the solo part flawlessly. He couldn't get it right when they were recording it on an album and they had to use Maybelle to play it instead.

@davidtipsword894

7 ай бұрын

@@mavjimbo wow, great info! Such a cool sidenote

That lick is such a beautiful lick, not fast, nor especially complex, just beautiful in it's structure and sound.

That is true country bluegrass music. Awesome!

Very sweet of Earl, he was happy that Mama approved. That's what's missing in music today...sweetness.

@pegcage

9 жыл бұрын

Drew Howard They were good friends.

@mandoist

8 жыл бұрын

+Drew Howard ...and RESPECT for the pioneers.

@tropicalco2339

5 жыл бұрын

They're just the best.

There is no one like Mother Maybelle Carter.💗✨💫

@MimiJoys

11 ай бұрын

Amen!

One of the most beautiful songs!

Earl was the greatest picker ever, and this is my favorite song. I found it by accident back in the '70s on an old 8 track bought in a gas station!

Thank goodness we have youtube so we can all get to see this great music Thank you Earl your the best

That is the sweetest thing....How interesting that they were neighbors. Two of the most revolutionary players ever.

I give a hell ya, plus a number 10 for dancing with mama on the kitchen floor.

You are my flower that's blooming there for me! Still the happiest song ever.

Earl was the greatest banjo player ever but I also loved it when he played the guitar!! So talented!!

When this music is gone - - - it will all be over. I've listened to this all my life as a boy growing up in Georgia and it means as much to me now as it did then. Before TV,I would sit in front of the radio and listen to Flatt & Scruggs,George Morgan,Eddie Arnold,Roy Acuff and all of them before I went off to school and when I returned home. I would rather listen to this than go out and play.

This is a very pleasant smooth version but Mother Maybelle KILLED that song!!! Her guitar skills simply cannot be duplicated.

Nice to revisit this every 3 years or so and see it still here.

I love that song because it is so easy listening and smooth.

The Flatt And Scruggs are my favorite bluegrass band.

Beautiful, pure music. It was a gift to grow up with this music.❤️

@tropicalco2339

5 жыл бұрын

It is.

thank you flatts and scruggs. you made the nitty gritty dirt band for who they are love em. thanks a million.

It doesn't get any better than this. Ken, Toronto

I love this music and it still lives on in my heart and soul. This was real American music.

The music and vocal is so sweet and special. Love it immensely. What a marvelous job of imitating Mother Maybelle's style on guitar. Exquisite !

Love the music and the huge pick guard martins they were playing. Groups like them keeps our heritage alive.

Perfect country music made by a band of great performers and musicians. Everyone in that band knew of country people and played straight to their hearts.

such a beautiful song

Thank you, Mr Scruggs. It's been a pleasure.

So pure and beautiful.

My whole life consisted of this music, whatever happened this awesome music is no longer a glowing factor on one's life? Computers, the fast age are bowling reality under. Ahh, reality will set in soon !

We been pickin this song and the crowds love it! Soooo coooool!

Now thats what I call really country music

Superb! Sounds just like Maybelle!

@mavjimbo

7 ай бұрын

He worked hard to get the solo part to sound flawless

The music of my childhood. ♥

Gary Monday in Rockwood TN was a master at playing this; his heart shone through....he should be recognized

I love this music, it's so simple and peaceful.

@mavjimbo

2 жыл бұрын

Doesn't get any better than this

These Guys hands down one of the most important acts ever..Television Stars, Writers Great players a LOT of bluegrass styles came from Flatt and Scruggs Banjo players... what else can be said?

Beautiful..

Can’t lie, after _seeing_ Earl pickin’ that guitar...I’m a little bit in love. The lead is simple but sooo sweet, and Earl had some charisma goin’

Pure gold, marvelous to behold; we're all gonna die before it ever gets old.

always loved this song,right to faves....blu65

Wonderfull bluegrass song.

RIP Earl. Had to watch some of your videos today. March 28, 2012.

wow this song takes back to my childhood as my dad used to sing it to me when I was only 6 years old

Such a pure delight.

I have listened to this song since I was a kid and I still love it I'm trying to learn it now

These old videos of Lester and Earl on Martha White's Grand Ole Opry Show can be purchased. There are about 6 of them. I have the first 3. I love them.

What a terrific video! Thank you so much for posting it!

Exquisite guitar playing, esp. for a TV show...

Beautiful.

Well, Lester's singing and playing rhythm guitar, but Earl is playing that mean lead. I learned to play this song by listening to Earl play it on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken album. RIP, Earl.

How could anyone, much less 14 folks not like this?? The best of the best! I've been working on this song for well over a year, and while I can play the tune, I come nowhere close to how Earl and Lester made it sound.

@packingten

8 жыл бұрын

Why do 14 not like this?? it isn't screaming or drums banging,cursing ,you can understand the words,today's punks are brainwashed by jungle so called music which many years ago a preacher correctly predicted to be the ruination of America...He was right!!

@bassdewd

7 жыл бұрын

Stop complaining when less than 0.1% of the people who have watched this, dislike it....

@alfredboudreau3626

7 жыл бұрын

packingten

Earls guitar playing is awesome

This showed up in a country music playlist by KZread algorithm. All the other videos are classic 1940s-1950s Country Western

maybelle was legendary for NEVER missing a note. man i would kill for that mantle.

Just love that song ❤❤

WOW! 💗GREAT BLUEGRASS

I used to try to have a go at this tune when I was young picker. not with much success. now after seing the master at work, I will have another go at it.

This only makes me think about the woman I love

Been said before, but Earl and Maybelle were neighbors and good friends. He said that he learned his guitar style from her.

@mandoist

8 жыл бұрын

+Mary Cage Earl didn't learn it "from" her. What he meant was he tried to copy her picking style as best he could with fingerpicks. Maybelle mostly used her thumb and index finger.

@bluegrassmovie12

5 жыл бұрын

He learned this song from her. Earls guitar style is a combination of his banjo picking and Merle Travis type thumbpicking.

@stringbean9521

3 жыл бұрын

@@bluegrassmovie12 not really hitting the low bass enough to be like Merle, it's closer to Carter style.

@carlmally6292

2 жыл бұрын

@@stringbean9521 Listen to Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb or Paul and Silas or Who Will Sing for Me. On those and a couple of others Earl plays real Travis style picking. This song is closer to banjo picking

@stringbean9521

2 жыл бұрын

@@carlmally6292 haha I’ve listened to them play those songs so much that I can almost hear every note in my head. Seared in my memory. But you are right

@peppersvnv I agree! This is traditional BLUEGRASS music at its best.

God bless them all ❤️

I love when they look at eachother and laugh! 2:40

I absolutely love that song ❤️ I'm trying to learn how to pick it

Love this!

Priceless.

Awesome Joe , thank you !

Authentic culture here.

The best Bluegrass singer all time

AMEN!!!!!!!! LR.

Good question! I agree 100%!

GREAT !!! Who the hell hit dislike !!!

@carollizc

9 жыл бұрын

Obviously someone who needs new glasses, because they couldn't see the "like" button clearly enough. There's certainly nothing to dislike here.

@asokanponnusamy

9 жыл бұрын

Please don't, they are already suffering in hell without your having to chide them.

@WoutervanTiel

8 жыл бұрын

+Humpy Old folks who actually love this but they have shaky hands!

@randalmcmurphy1893

6 жыл бұрын

the grinches dont like anything and like to piss everyone else of to boot.

@lapboard340

6 жыл бұрын

Mad Maxine waters...?

When roasting *Hatch chili's, throw this one *on the playlist.

its when he plays that that desending mother maybelle lick that kinda freaks her out for a second and they all share a glace over it,chet atkins played that lick all over the place for about fifty years. then at the end some one says "thats a great lick"

Agree 1000 % !

Lester had a great singing voice

I agree with you entirely!!

Earl does great but on this song Mother Maybelle plays it just a cut above and Earl said that himself.

@bluegrassmovie12

5 жыл бұрын

He's being modest.

This was one of the songs that Maybelle used a flat pick to play. Maybelle played 3 different styles on guitar (the Carter Scratch - thumb picking melody and one to 2 fingers plying rythm, her flat pick style as on "You are my Flowr", and up pick using her fore finger to pick upward on the higher strings while picking down with thumb as in "The Cannonball Blues". I think that Earl does so well because part of Maybelle's playing came from the fact she also played banjo.

@kathrynwebster6307

10 ай бұрын

She was an amazing musician, and of course self-taught. Her guitar playing style has influenced many of the big-name country music stars. A friend named an autoharp "Maybelle" in her honor.

Take me back.. Please..

It stinks that a lot of the episodes from this show are lost and not on dvd.

you know when you think about ii with all the doc watsons and tony rices, travis, atkins, tommy emanuell,all these new kids who are slapin and popin the strings like micheal hedges or these "drifting" guys it all just boils down to a little old mountain woman with an autoharp and a archtop shes te one who it all sits on

@Elijah-ki8vo

4 жыл бұрын

I know, nobody could pick like Mama Maybelle, Ol Jerry Reed, Mr Chet Atkins, and Earl Scruggs.

@cross_fire935

3 жыл бұрын

She wasn't old when she started playing😉

This is beautiful. So is the dobro-player in the background :: the very handsome Josh Graves :: also the finest dobro player of all time. Always will be.

@jwills8606

3 жыл бұрын

Just a quick plug for Jerry Douglas and Mike Auldridge, too. I don't want to get into who's the best, but all of them - Josh, Jerry, Mike just set me free....

Great work on this, but Maybelle should have been given a little more front and center.

@tropicalco2339

5 жыл бұрын

That was Lester Flatt singing.

I thought i could play this song fine til i saw this video

@EmotionalResQ It's like getting verification from the master that you're doing it right. She looks as proud as she can be.

ブルークラスが好きでここの所はKZreadでそんな動画を見まくってるよ。 日本じゃ今までブルーグラスが聞けるメディアとか皆無だったよ。 半世紀近く経っていろいろKZreadで聞けるよ。 そんな動画をアップしてくありがとさんです。

@jerryv.815

7 жыл бұрын

We speak English here Pardner.

@blackholeentry3489

6 жыл бұрын

That's alright....let him have his say.

Beautiful moment at about 2:38. Earl looks at Maybelle as if to apologize for what he just did to her beautiful guitar solo, and she graciously forgives him. ;)

@johnj7965

8 жыл бұрын

+Sabrina Bonus Yeah--no kidding. I agree with mirage island. That was neat.

@mavjimbo

6 ай бұрын

Actually he was smiling because he got it right. He couldn't get it right when they were recording the song for an album so they used Maybelle playing the solo part .

At 1:22:40 when Earl looks at Maybelle….priceless

Whats wrong with the cameraman? Mother maybelle keeps getting cut out of the shot, its only towards the end he gets her in ( for a few seconds)

@cheryltrozelle4855

5 жыл бұрын

Well boys, it's not like they can go back and redo it..

@rasonjason4066

5 жыл бұрын

I'll see if they can redo it 😂

@tropicalco2339

5 жыл бұрын

Did you hear Lester singing?

That is Lester's style, with the picks, but he was a rhythm player, a very good one, too. Play the bass note with the thumb, strum up with index finger, sprinkle liberally with the Flatt G-run and a few other single notes. Looks kinda like Carter-style, but lots more forearm movement. He developed the style on his own, while Earl was taught by Mother Maybelle herself. Look up some of the LF-style guitar lessons online and study his style and you'll see the difference. Cheers

Too bad no one thought to give Maybelle a break to play a little autoharp solo. She is also a fine autoharp player and legendary in the autoharp community.

cool

Music royalty.

Lester's palying his Martin D-28, Earl is playing a modified- someone gave it an adjustable truss rod- D-18

they put the martin t-bar. but that wasnt realy a truss rod because it wasnt adjustible. actualy i just noticed a martin logo on the headstock. dont know where the truss rod cover came from

Hi. You can see Flatt playing Carter style scratch, with finger picks. What you hear corresponds to what you see. I'm not a good finger picker, but I've worked on the Carter scratch and what I see and hear all fits together - Les is NOT playing a rhythm part.

I once borrowed a D-28 from a friend so my wife could sing You Are My Flower at an open mic. After we finished he said,"I've had that guitar for thirty years and that's the first time the capo's ever been at the 7th fret." Anyone know the story behind Earl's truss rod cover?

@UAL320

2 жыл бұрын

It’s a Martin, correct? Should there even be a truss rod cover there?

they do not show much of mother carter except at 2:39

Today is the day I learn Earl can play guitar pretty fine

I don't know who did the work, but apparently Earl had an adjustable truss rod installed on his Martin (D18?) Martins of course, did have a truss rod, but the earlier ones weren't adjustable. Tough if you wanted to use a different guage of string. Even back then, Nashville had master guitar techs that could tear one down to glue and sawdust, and rebuild it.