Gabriel Nemirovsky true!

Absolutely awesome and powerful.

This is the High Lonesome sound.

Yes, but bill only alwayse does that every time. Right on........I'm commin up behind ya. Peace friend.

there are several other just as thrilling but different version he as done, This song belongs to Monroe

Yes He is resting in peace :)

:( my feelings...

Gustavo Branco *internet hug* =)

:)

He sings it better than I’ve ever heard before.

​@@sherrypotoczny8273das sehe ich genauso,sehr authentisch besser geht es nicht!!schöne grüße aus Deutschland von der brüder grimm Stadt kassel

It sounds more like the original roots of the Scotch/Irish Appalachian sound.

and some of us do

This is what they call the high lonesome sound from the Blue ridge mountains of North Carolina very folk and very authentic Bill Monroe was referred to as the godfather of bluegrass music.. God bless this man

The stylings of the Appalachian music can be hauntingly beautiful. Bill gives us a taste of this in this outstanding performance! My father sang appalacian songs and used beautiful stylings developed by our ancestors, the Scots-Irish who settled in appalachia. Than you for this beautiful gift.

@@windifitzgerald8252 You're welcome.

Bluegrass will tear your heart out and stomp on it. Bluegrass can be the most beautiful thing you ever or saddest.

truth! this is the real country music!

It definitely has a lot of soul, but some of it was super off-key, especially at the beginning.

"Bluegrass is out for blood." Bob Dylan

@@rjmoney9 I don't think that Bluegrass has a key, it's more of a feeling you grab and hang on to, that is part of your soul.

And may Bill himself Rest in Peace.

Hello Becky, How are you doing?

Hello becki, how are you doing?

I am surprised that the balloon didn’t perish as the helium molecules slowly escaped through the fibre of their latex prison rendering monroe’s signature hieroglyphics scrawled across a shrivelled unrecognisable memento

rodsreel your comment gave me chills.

....my last name is Forbes. Myself and my son are the everlasting echo of the Ulster-Scots who came to the mountains of East Tennessee looking for a better life two centuries ago. This should be our ballad.

I want to hear sung from Irish or Scottish

@@ChristineJonah88 please do some research into the origins of this hymn and the hell the Scots-Irish immigrants went through before settling in the hills/mountains of the Appalachians, specifically blue-grass Civil War era.

@@danewikinger6256 pretty sure it is. Did they immigrate and immediately fight in the Civil War? Than this hymn was written by them.

Lord that gives you cold chills! Haunting.

So sad how no one mentions Arnold Shultz who played with Uncle Pen and later taught Bill Monroe. More whitewashing black men out of American History. If you get tired of hearing this, perhaps stopping the lies to continue.

Amen

I've literally sat at his feet, and Ralph Stanley's, at the Berryville (VA) Bluegrass Festival, a very small place called Watermelon Park. And I will happily carry those experiences to my grave in a few short years. Berryville is across the Potomac River from Harper's Ferry, WV. Bless all.

Father of bluegrass

@@carolina7938 Bill and Dr. Ralph Stanley are singing together in Heaven; can you imagine?

Amen!

Jeffery Baker Are you serious? He sings flat a lot, and some people probably don't like thon high-pitched voice anyway, and would prefer more of a baritone sound like Doc Watson or, more modern, Trace Adkins. And there are also great female versions - Eva Cassidy, EmmyLou Harris, Hayde Bluegrass Orchestra, Dolly Parton. All of these are better than this poor version by Bill Monroe

This is so beautifully written. May God bless you

Christopher Stith I really like Bill Monroe’s music.

I’ve played this song for many years, when I do I feel Christ welcoming me in the door....

Allison Brisbois that's how I found my way to this video I love bluegrass music my stepdad's family knew Ralph Stanley I use to live in Breathitt Co. Ky and this sounds like home

My great grandpa and bill were really good friends

Wow, nice. As a native Nashvillian, that is truly impressive.

@@ryand.5857 thank you

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Hey there I’m Charles and I’m from Jennings, Louisiana USA 🇺🇸

😍😍

i have tears in my eyes....that's all

+PsychosisFire This music came from Northern England, Scotland and Ireland. It is as close as it gets. The peoples of Appalachia and the South, the poor whites, have been isolated to some degree up until the last generation or two, so the sound will please our cousins from the Isles.

Are we just going to ignore the African origins now?

No African origins in original mountain music from Appalachia. The settlers of those mountains were overwhelmingly from Ireland and Scotland and the influences in their music and accompanying dances were and are blatantly evident. This is historical fact.

LMAO seriously?! Yeah I guess we are.

Karioti's mostly right. If you go far back enough, the music is very English/Irish in Appalachian music, however, the banjo's origins are from West Africa. Before Lester Flatts, Earl Scruggs, and Arnold Schultz popularized the common 3 finger style of banjo playing in bluegrass, banjo playing was done via claw hammer style, which (with its syncopated rhythms) originates from West Africa via slaves in America. Take the Akonting for example, an instrument akin to the banjo both in playin style and shape. This became part of popular music in the South and Appalachia via menstrel shoes. This is also historical fact. Back to what Karioti said though, there are several Appalachian folk songs that were originally folk songs from Ireland, England, and Scotland, with the Irish predominantly being the bigger influence of the 3.

:-) yep :-)

+Sean Rumney I couldn't agree more. If you look back in history the majority of music out there come from this very beginning. I was raised listening to this music and even learned to play guitar mandolin and bass because of it .

AMEN

Sean Rumney you don't have to go to church to go to heaven. The more important thing is to believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died for you and he rise again. That you will forever live with Him in heaven someday.

true. No Bill Monroe? then no Elvis. Also no Everly Brothers, so then no Beatles, then no anything. Everything comes from him combining African roots blues and European folk tradition

It reminds me of a old train whistle. Gives me chills every time

Veronica Smith It ain't Irish. It's American music! The majority of Southerners didn't have a thing to do with Ireland ancestry. The whole "Scotch-Irish" myth is based on very thin ice. The native Southern dialects, religious preferences, and culture are almost entirely the result of Anglo-Saxon culture as practiced by English peasants of the 17th century being modified and enhanced by the American climate, Indian tribes, and African slaves. What little Irish ancestry there was that affected the South came largely from Irish indentured servants, many of whom had spent a generation in the Caribbean first! And even these "Irish" were largely ANGLOS--much of what you and others now imagine to be Celtic Ireland was really full of the descendents of English-speaking Anglo immigrants who moved to Ireland hundreds of years before the colonization of America.

neutung true

I guess all those Scotch-Irish Presbyterians just hadn't read the right books to know what their ancestral line really was. So glad we have folks like Neutung to set us straight. Sheesh! Indians, Africans, the Caribbean - my God.

@@neutung it's Irish, pal

So much of our Bluegrass/Appalachian mountain music comes from Scotch, Irish. It's deep in many bloods

I sang this song myself when I was younger....until I heard Bill Monroe do it. Won't ever touch that song again- it would be sacrilege.