This is 2023 and I just turned 71. Have love and played and buck danced to this music forever. Old time and the older bluegrass music is the real deal!!!!

It's 2AM and i'ma dancin' in the den. It's in my blood. Dad was born in 1920 and passed away in 2007.His pa taught him how to play the banjo and guitar.He was playing barn dances ,square dances and the like when he wasthirteen starting in the 1930's . He taught me the banjo and guitar in the 60's..Claw hammer rules. He was drafted into the navy during ww2. and bought his Kalamazoo banjo in 1942.Ihave it and still play it when my fingers work. I miss him and the fun times we had playing all the old songs and goofing around.love this old time music.

My Dad played the fiddle for square dances and other get togethers in south western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, I remember going to these events as a kid where everyone wanted to hear "Blackie" Lemley play the fiddle. The old Steiner fell silent in 2009. Not a day goes by when I don't miss my Dad and I still hear the echoes of those sweet tones. Thank you Woody and Ketch for continuing the tradition.

Love when that old dude gets up and starts stompin round

@jamesrhoades7488

3 жыл бұрын

“That old dude” ? Show some respect, that’s Woody Paul.

@margehealey3469

Жыл бұрын

That 'Old' guy has Ph.D in theoretical plasma physics. So as they say, " put that in your pipe and smoke it". Give the man some respect.

This music IS my soul! Wonderful video. I just bought my first violin and can't wait to learn me some fiddlin'!

Every time I watch this video it’s like the first time all over again. This time it actually brought some tears to my eyes. Just seeing two masters and legends in their own right playing together perfectly bridging decades and a couple of generations! Despite all that you see and hear nothing in that moment of the first pull of the bow it’s just two fellas playing the sound of that old time mountain, Appalachia, music! It just points out he we are America! Through the good and the bad, through the violence and the politicians who get rich by dividing us, right, left, it means nothing. When that fiddle gets a started we are Americans!!! Ketchum Secor, you are truely an American National treasure, a walking encyclopedia of American traditional culture, be it story telling, singn’ and pick’n/saw’n, explaining an origin, no matter what it is. If it’s Americana, you know it. And I’ll tell ya what Ol’ Son, you’ll never know how many lives the Old Crow Medicine Show have touched, even bringing people off the ledge, telling them their is hope. You save lives. I know you certainly saved mine. I had a rope and Caroline(the original version) came on the mix that was playing. All I could think about was my baby girl Clementine and her growing Up without her daddy. I’m a single father so me and her have a special bond and all those memories flood my brain, memories of her on my lap driving the tractor with a full wagon load of peaches or apples or whatever the workers were pick’n or pulling that day, thought about riding the four wheeler around our land checking my deer stands before bow season started then we’d stop in the meadow eat a sack lunch go pick off and apple for desert and just laugh and enjoy what God has blessed us with. I can’t even fathom her when people would try to comfort her as her thoughts go to why did daddy leave me , I want to see him! However I digress and I wanna say thank you again for saving my life and showing me it’s all beautiful and worth living so #ThankYouOldCrowMedicineShow🍑🍎🍒🍓🍉🎻🪕🧲🚬🍻☕️🌲🌲LandofthePines✌🏿✌🏻🏇🏻

@robinhood480

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story. I read all of it. Sure can be rough sometimes but good people and good music really makes a difference. God bless you. Take care now

I’ve always loved Woody’s love for the fiddle, and his gift to all of us of it and the dancing.... “THERE HE GOES!!!!” ❤️

This is feeding my heart and soul.

Absolutely beautiful!! God bless and live on!

Great video! I dearly love old time fiddlin'!

I should have seen you both when I took violin lessons when I was ten years old. Now, I have seen the light. I am picking up the violin again, but this time I am going to fiddle!....you guys are the real deal!

Woody Paul is a national treasure.

Look at all the rosin built up on them fiddles. Some folks would scoff at that, but to me - that's a thing of beauty. They're not just mantle pieces. We play our fiddles.

Worthy!

If Ketch Secor didn't go the route he took and did what he did with his life idk how long it wouldve been until I heard old time fiddle banjo tunes and idk if I'd be listening to so much of the music I love today :)

@johnwhitt

8 жыл бұрын

+C.M. Adams he caused me to pick up the fiddle! now i cant put the damn thing down.

@CMAdams-sd5ou

8 жыл бұрын

Hope you never do :)

Thanks for keeping this legacy a LIVE EXPERIENCE!

We all could use more music like that!

This is a sweet sweet video, esp the comment about it being a living tradition. Well done, y'all.

Good Stuff! Thanks for sharing!

That was just a plain delight. Thanks!!

Yes haw, my brothers... Very nice...

Awesome fella's just the kind of music that you can't help but click your heels and tap your toes. Great stuff, Cheers !

Really inspiring music; thanks for posting!

Ketch is awesome too!! 😂

What A Hoot And treat! many Thanks!

Wonderful! Love these two guys.

Great history lesson, and great to see the old style. Thanks for posting!

Good playing and singing!

Very enjoyable. Best wishes from the UK

Thanks Fiddle House for sharing. Such a treat hearing a legend and a future legend share their love of traditional handmade music. .....east nasty shuffle. IDOW

I'm learning violin and nearly every KZread lesson stresses the need to keep your left hand and wrist straight! I notice though that old time fiddlers bend their wrist. I tried this and found it much more comfortable!?

I love OCMS!! THEIR AWESOME!!!

Thank God that old man didn't wipe out slippin and slidin on that corn meal.

@jaminton92

10 жыл бұрын

That's Woody Paul we're talking about here. He doesn't do anything wrong with a fiddle in his hands.

@pktdbgnzwl

5 жыл бұрын

Corn starch.

@MikeGoodman-ut1dk

4 күн бұрын

That old man is a legend and slipping is not an option.

This is beyond great! thank you 🎶🎶🎶

Danced Contra for many years and yes it was great when the Band and the dance floor began interacting to gather

Dang! them boys can play.

Go git em' Woody Paul!

@nealholly530

10 жыл бұрын

Love Woody!

Awesome fiddlin and dancin by Woody...Ketch needs to ketch up with Woody..eh?

WOW! That was a real treat. Thanks for recording it.

Wierd how i just randomly got to this video and the first thing i hear is cumberland gap wich i live bearly 50 miles away from bcs im from WV

Dang, but this is great!

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If you aren't tapping your feet to this music, you might want to go see a doctor, you could be dead

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Awesome! BTW that tune they start at 4:35 is Forked Deer I believe.

@otryma

9 жыл бұрын

It's Fisher's Hornpipe, but a lot of old-time music follows the same phrasing and patterns so many sound the same.

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lol what if that guy just started hardstyle shuffling

Anyone know where I can find out how to play Cumberland Gap that way? I think I figured the melody but can't seem to harmonize the double stops.

@brandonrenfro8113

6 жыл бұрын

Did you ever find out? I've been looking as well, but haven't found this version.

@stevenkruger1335

5 жыл бұрын

@@brandonrenfro8113 Tommy Jarrell is the source of this version. Here's him doing with Fred Cockerham kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXefsNpuaausfbA.html

@stevenkruger1335

5 жыл бұрын

If you want to watch him do it here's another version : kzread.info/dash/bejne/m36N1o-iYrbLoco.html

What kinda bowing is he doing while he is singing! i must learn it!

@younglife99

2 жыл бұрын

my thoughts exactly

I am learning violin and the teachers stress that the instrument should be parallel with the ground. I notice that Ketch and Woody hold it slanting down on their chest rather than their shoulders?? Could you advise please

@Hexensohn

6 жыл бұрын

What your teacher is telling you is accurate, but it's the classical method. Many fiddlers aren't formally trained, so they tend to have techniques that deviate from those taught by most teachers. There's some pretty unusual methods. I've seen some fiddlers brace the violin against chest or even lower. You might find as you learn that you're more comfortable in a different position, but I would stick with what your teacher suggests for now. It's important to note that may fiddlers seldom move out of first position on the fingerboard. The classical method is more conducive to shifting than the fiddlers', generally speaking.

that wrist position tho............

anyone know. the tune @ 2:00?

@Lapislightning

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe a bit late, but its "boil them cabbage down"

4:35 Pirates of the Caribbean.

@twospiritbanjo

6 жыл бұрын

Giovanni Trivieri Fisher's Hornpipe. Old Irish fiddle tune

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Nobody’s cutting their teeth on any of the new OCMS stuff! The first few were great but not no more. Ain’t no second chances.

Great singing guys but could you go a little easier on the hard vowels, its upsetting my snake and now he's refusing to go to the afternoon prayer session. I'm old and I use music like this to get me motivated to do things I hate but the trouble is if the music is good before you know it your feet are tapping in one direction, your ass is going another direction, and the dishwasher isn't getting loaded.

Young guy is so cute! Wish he were gay, because I would so have him!

@adders45

7 жыл бұрын

you neva know

@5050TM

3 жыл бұрын

lol this is some comment 😂😁

Wish you wanted to play more than talk. Just saying!