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Hell yeah! I hope you're still picking that banjo 🪕! I started playing around the same time as you too!

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

83 years young.

Still kickin?

glad you're still with us !!!! Keep listening. By the way , I've got a great video I will link for you to enjoy from one the blue-grass's best Ralph Stanley HERE YOU GO!!!!!!! --->>> kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y7Rxq9t5lb6zqY0.html (WHAT A PERFORMANCE, Keith Whitley is in the band believe it or not !!!!)

Bless you, I was too still love to hear them.

They are 1000s of musicians twice as good as him he wasn't that great

@@jbrown1971 BET HE WAS A HELL OF A LOT BETTER THAN YOU!!!

@@davesiler4064 he's probably talking about Bieber or lizzo. Haha

1000’s copied him. What does that tell you?

Fun fact : Most folks don’t realise that Earl played banjo while having half of his fingers on one hand. The other half (5) of his fingers were on his other hand.

It definitely doesn’t get old!

The music has been in my blood my entire life. My kin were poor West Virginia coal miners. Simple God-fearing mountain folk. Still got untold number of 'em throughout them mountains. Related to the Hatfields, McCoys and Robert E Lee. I do know about some stompin. My great grandmother had a knee slappin' board doll that danced. Everytime I hear a banjo - I'm waiting for the fiddle!

you Can Say That Again, they will never be such upstanding Personalities that this band consisted of !

A mix of cultures. The banjo descended from an African instrument used by slaves. The 5th string was added by a Virginian which gave its distinctive droning, somewhat like a dulcimer (only 1 string played). It was melded into Scotch-Irish culture of the Appalachians, combined with clogging which came from Irish dance. The Dobra (resonator guitar) is played like Hawaiin guitar and bottle-neck (slide weight along strings). It became the pedal-steel in country music. Traditionally Bluegrass is all acoustic and clean-sounding, with each instrument playing lead for a time, as each player steps up to a single microphone (artifact of early radio stations).

@@sophiegrisom Thanks so much for the informative reply. I just learned something new.

We are many people here in Sweden with Bluegrass on our favorite list of music. These old guys are greatly big among us musicians. If people ask how I learned to play so fast I say Earl is to blame. :)

mike Bordeaux we will see this America again. xxoo

me too mike

mike Bordeaux yes you are so right, Mike! its sad to see how much things have changed not only in music, but everything over the past 50 years! i grew up watching the Grand ole Opry, Lawrence Welk among others. things will never be like that again!

Don't be sad because it's gone.....be thankful that it happened and you were there, my brother.

idk, doesn't that seem narrow minded? There's a lot of really good music in any style and any genre and there's a lot of talented artists working on neat new stuff every day. Human ambition and art demands novelty, human culture is always attracted to the new thing. that's how the whole darn human comedy keeps perpetuating itself over the sands of time until we... Aw look at me, I'm rambling again. Catch you later on down the trail, pardner. Go listen to some Beastie Boys, I didn't like rap either until I met them.

Don't get me wrong the music is great. But what I find most fascinating about this film is how they make it look so effortless. Amazing talent!!!

I shook hands with Billy Graham in Calgary around the year 1980- he had the firmest handshake I have ever shaked....

@@brianallossery7518 he is my hero what was he like

Hal Pearson what did he say to you? Thank you for sharing

u lucky dog

I grew up listening to Southern bluegrass, old time gospel, and Appalachian hillbilly.My mother owned all sorts of albums of Broadway shows and movie soundtracks. I just love music of all types. In 1974, I was privileged to meet and speak with Mr. Guy Lombardo, along with his brother Carmen, and most of their traveling orchestra. It was a memory I'll cherish forever.

Just went to the Grand Ole Opry House and surprised to see all those excellent performers and most of them are seniors. I appreciate their talent and I am grateful that they are not forgotten!!!

Hello Marcie Nice comment how are you doing ?

Hello Heather nice comment how are you doing 👋👋👋

Hang on I'm trying to cut the wool off a sheep have you seen my sheers

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Never heard autotune in bluegrass. Also, this is prerecorded, but not garbage.

@@widell78this isn’t prerecorded….they are clearly playing live if you’re a musician you’d know that.

Thanks for saying the same thingy I believe too ! They can't be beat for being a first class Band

Hello Laura

So now it is 2022, four years after your post and we both share 72 years!! Congrats.

He deserves a movie just like Johnny Cash.....No doubt...He and Don Reno were true Banjo Troubadours...The thing about Earls style was every single note he picked could be heard in perfect clarity where some other banjo pickers are speeding up and slowing down and not giving you the complete sound...Earl mastered that and to me that made him the greatest

And he was such a down to earth, humble nice guy.

banjer string Paul Warren on fiddle?

+Neal Pomea Paul Warren.

My Dad has one of Uncle Joshs' slides.

Hello Anita Nice comment how are you doing 👋👋👋👋

Yeah I love the licks on the guitar he does at the beginning of the songs that they infect the soul

Well this is certainly a shock!

Nice to see you here, love your remixes dude, looking forward to your next upload

hi

Is sounding like a “hillbilly” something to look down upon?

Not at all! Lester Had the best Bluegrass voice ever