Tommy Jarrell: Let Me Fall (1983)

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14 жыл бұрын

"Let Me Fall," performed by Tommy Jarrell (fiddle and vocal); Chester McMillian (guitar); Frank Bodie (guitar); Ray Chatfield (five-string banjo) at the Edwards-Franklin House in Mount Airy, North Carolina, during the Surry County Historical Society's annual Sonker Festival. Shot by Alan Lomax and crew, July 1983. For more videos from the American Patchwork fieldwork and information about Alan Lomax and his collections, visit: research.culturalequity.org. [03.23.05]

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@maggottdude 12 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful. Tradition equals civilization and it needs to be preserved. Greetings from Greece to everyone that agrees. Here we know all about tradition and we fighting really hard to preserve it and keep it safe from the new world that wants it to be gone for ever and to make us all the same. ALL human we are beautiful because we are different.

@dennisvuse9529 Жыл бұрын

Na sai kala agele tin xanoume tin maxi vevaia

@maggottdude Жыл бұрын

@@dennisvuse9529 πάνε 11 χρόνια από όταν έκανα αυτό το σχόλιο.. τότε 27.. τώρα 38 δίκιο έχεις την χάνουμε την μάχη.. αλλά παρ όλ αυτά πρέπει να την συνεχίσουμε.. ο κάθε ένας μας ας κάνει από λίγο.. να είσαι κι εσύ καλά φίλε μου

@caralinewright5098 10 жыл бұрын

I hope to play half as well as him one day, I use to play the viola - and now i am picking up the violin/fiddle. I wish he was still around to teach me, but i know he will be proud watching his great great niece from heaven aha! :)

@anthonywest5089 3 жыл бұрын

Are you really. ? I have a great grand father who played the hell out of a fiddle like nothing else, he loved tommy I just started this year I think of him wish he was here to teach me as well..

@k1lay 5 жыл бұрын

The greatest thing I've ever seen or heard in my entire 33 years of life.

@samjarrell4383 7 ай бұрын

Love it the best music

@smokedogg989 12 жыл бұрын

Listen to this while ridin through the appalachian mountains.... you'll love it

@joannehack7588 9 ай бұрын

Thank you

@joannehack7588 9 ай бұрын

When the world is at war with its neighbors, I listen to this and know that everything will be OK

@lee2tre 12 жыл бұрын

He is darn good, wish I was over they dancing with those ladies, I would have a blast!

@ORIGINALJURISDICTION 13 жыл бұрын

i have listened to this maybe 30 times today,i know i know! there is nothing better than this for me right now.there is a reality in him that shines...and his friends are great too.the banjo player is tops...all of them together,magic from god. the ladies dancing too...reminds me of my Mom. i love this! i swear when i cranked it today here in Montreal,with the windows open,i am sure it made some people smile,and lifted their hearts. thanks for the post.

@stevenbrechter9452 7 ай бұрын

I have lived for having heard this.

@robertlovetaylor 11 жыл бұрын

Tommy Jarrell's always great, but, hey, how about that great banjo picking by Ray Chatfield!

@steinsteel 12 жыл бұрын

TOMMY IS MY HERO. WE STILL HAVE A LOT TO LEARN FROM HIS COMPLEX RHYTHM.

@jujujuiop4150 2 жыл бұрын

Hello from Paris, France; amazing musician !!

@unknownhinsonrowks 11 жыл бұрын

while i see how you feel, it puts a smile on my face. seeing that much rosin on the fiddle, tells me he plays the hell out of thing and often, i also feel the same way about banjo heads, a dirty and worn banjo head equals bragging rights. lol

@chinnmusic 11 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic.Thank you for sharing it

@withthewaste 12 жыл бұрын

that old guy is just so awesome.

@rtclark222 14 жыл бұрын

Great! Ray Chatfield is an awesome picker!

@leokadja 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful music. Thank you for sharing.

@krumble104 12 жыл бұрын

Wow Tommy Jarrel in the flesh, thank you!

@Nfinch1992 12 жыл бұрын

oh he's such a joyful fella :) he plays so beautifully

@TimLahey 13 жыл бұрын

That was just great!

@woods8099 4 жыл бұрын

I love..............

@arpiruk 12 жыл бұрын

Eyes opener!

@waynerjson 11 жыл бұрын

Tommy Jarrell, Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs, Andy Griffith...all reasons I'm proud to be a Tar Heel!

@bloopityboop 12 жыл бұрын

Omg he's so adorable

@elpanchoxxx 12 жыл бұрын

What talent

@Zhoomification 12 жыл бұрын

Who says Arthritis can stop old people in their tracks? All jokes aside, this is absolutely beautiful. Much better music than what the general public listens to on the radio. Classical and traditional music combined to make something that isn't at all the a typical "hill billy" music that people judge it as.

@CyrusinFayettenam 12 жыл бұрын

I saw this on the KZfaq homepage. I never thought this kind of music was a secret or something that needed to be "discovered". I thought the focus of the project would be to educate Americans about traditional music from other cultures. Apparently, though, America itself has culture and traditions that people from other countries, like @maggottdude, can discover for themselves. In the interest of full disclosure, I married a woman from Surry County, worked in Mt. Airy and will move back there

@huniety12 12 жыл бұрын

AWW! he's so cute!

@citizncain 12 жыл бұрын

Nice.

@jodyboyd4918 4 жыл бұрын

If you thumbs downed this.. Take a music history class

@Slingin_Bait 12 жыл бұрын

YEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

@Ryyper 12 жыл бұрын

@1032974b In Bluegrass music, the bridge on a violin is "filed down", and the violin becomes a "fiddle". It allows the player to be able to play all 4 strings at the same time, if need be. :-)

@annlise563 12 жыл бұрын

good player

@fryBASS 12 жыл бұрын

@maggottdude we can all still be different yet not held down by tradition.

@RocksRevenge 12 жыл бұрын

I'm not really into country or southern music, but this must take quite a bit of talent.

@MrSensei1231 12 жыл бұрын

That old man is moving quicker than I ever will.

@skunktheshrink 12 жыл бұрын

oh Ellen you gotta have him on your show and get the lady with the hat too while you're at it.

@AnthonyPoschet 6 жыл бұрын

Half these views are mine. You don't have more pure than this.

@PLURTHEMUSIC 12 жыл бұрын

I want to clean the rosin off his violin... but wow.... i would never be able to play like that in... EVER O.O

@sharqi666 13 жыл бұрын

ahh, sounds like home!

@chinnmusic 11 жыл бұрын

An american hero.

@JohnSmith-vp3wn 2 жыл бұрын

I'll drink to that

@ricaard 12 жыл бұрын

@1032974b I noticed that too...Makes it easier for some players to play two and three note chords...

@tomapopaly 12 жыл бұрын

He looks like the 90 year old version of that one Guy who played the in Flubber. The one who made flubber.

@benjahminerakabuckshotbrot2919 7 жыл бұрын

just let me fall just let me fall if you like Tommy ck out John specker from ithaca ny long live grassyROOTs

@bnlang898 2 жыл бұрын

If I get drunk, let me fall to the ground goddammit

@clawhammer704 4 жыл бұрын

That's a flat bridge on that fiddle. The neck has pulled down very low. The bridge top is close to the center heart hole.

@waynerjson 12 жыл бұрын

Wow, imagine if Tommy, Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs got together for a pick-along.

@boobsnexplosions 12 жыл бұрын

@maggottdude We are all the same in being different.

@Midwest_Redneck 3 жыл бұрын

I think maybe it was Charlie Poole who had a popular record of this?

@k1lay 5 жыл бұрын

Don't tell Ma about my 17 year old Appalachian cousin I was a 'eyeing @ 2.24

@k1lay 5 жыл бұрын

Or was it Ma I was a 'eyein ? xD

@Blkbanjoman 11 жыл бұрын

Europe was never this funky. Much is rightly owed to the contributions of our early European settlers, but this music here reflects (perhaps) an even deeper truth about the uniqueness of the American experience - the blending of seemingly different cultures to create something new. This here owes as much to the African presence as it does to any European offerings. What is amazing is how history continues to hide the "other stories" that often remind us of the unpleasant aspects of our past. MTC

@banjotramp1 5 жыл бұрын

Agree 100% about how much unacknowledged African influence there is in this music! But I would beg to disagree about there being nothing as funky to compare from the old world. I play old time and Klezmer and some Roma music. Done right there is all ~ the same vibe. It is all about the feeling, which is universal. It was so strong in Tommy that it helped save his music from disappearing. There is a common theme of oppression. Africans here and Jews and Roma in Europe all suffered. And that is where the best musics have come from. Here is one example (of many) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/prpkfNiXssvdiXU.html

@FinalBoy666 12 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a country song

@1032974b 12 жыл бұрын

That bridge on the violin is soooo flat, I've never seen that before. I wonder why that is.

@blaketheawesomedude 12 жыл бұрын

@PLURTHEMUSIC Lol "Clean the rosin off his violin" sounds dirty.

@MultiRensky 12 жыл бұрын

hararaukkkkkkkkk.......

@PLURTHEMUSIC 11 жыл бұрын

I don't know whether you are trying to be comically rude or if you are agreeing with me. Either way, I stand by my opinion.

@maggottdude 12 жыл бұрын

@fryBASS Last and most important is that you have to understand the REAL meaning of uniting Human race. IT MEANS TO LEARN TO ACCEPT AND LOVE AND LIVE IN HARMONY WITH ALL NATIONS PEOPLE DESPITE OF OUR DIFFERENCES. NOT TO TRY AND CHANGE EVERYONE WHO IS DIFFERENT SO THAT ALL ARE LIKE YOU. Damn... thats so messed up... and it has been used throughout history as an excuse for creating Empires, Colonies, World Wars... How can you not realize that? Its so simple.

@WornGlobe 11 жыл бұрын

Why does the cameraman feel the need to constantly zoom and out :)

@eyestepback 12 жыл бұрын

@arpiruk eye can be plural like fish

@FinalBoy666 12 жыл бұрын

"sounds like a country song"

@fakemadereal 12 жыл бұрын

Now play Dixie!

@maggottdude 12 жыл бұрын

@fryBASS o.O what you mean "held down by tradition"? If a new way of living, entertaining, dressing, eating, etc is not better than the old way of life then by all means it is not considered progress. In this case we are talking about brutal alienation-change. Anyone can tell this is the case in most of the world's nations There's tremendous difference bewtween progress and alienation-change. So, preserving traditions and cultures is the most progressive option and the least "helding down" one.

@starrynight13579 12 жыл бұрын

Is this an original song?

@TheCheeseBaron 11 жыл бұрын

You couldn't even hold his fiddle to clean it. If he wants rosin, he gets rosin.

@fryBASS 12 жыл бұрын

@maggottdude If we just follow traditions, how can we ever evolve and move forward? There are many ignorances that traditions hold on to for purposes that are superficial. If we can disconnect ourselves from learned cultures, we can view each other and the world as brethren, kinfolk, all members of the same tribe; the beings of earth. Tradition and culture give us reason to keep ourselves apart. That is not what the future of the human race needs. Perhaps at one time it was useful; not now.

@maggottdude 12 жыл бұрын

@lulaann100 heh :)

@steviebkhall 10 жыл бұрын

The red coats are coming,or the mash is cooked.take your choice.Peace

@maggottdude 12 жыл бұрын

@fryBASS Oh dear friend.. i have so many things to say to you.. First of all, when was the last time you checked the definition of evolving/moving forward? How you define evolving/moving forward from the aspect of culture? Do you believe that if kids here in Greece for example stopped dancing/singing beautiful traditional Greek songs, and started dancing European RnB/tecnho then this is progress? This is pure cultural change-alienation. Smells like foreign occupation, doesnt it? (continue)

@mac227booms 6 жыл бұрын

maggottdude get the fuck out of here with than communist bullshit

@phononut 4 жыл бұрын

There must be 29 absolutely miserable people.

@federico1616 12 жыл бұрын

Clasic lol

@marycruzqr 12 жыл бұрын

@huniety12 yeah! its what i think. i wanna HUUUUUG him a lot

@maggottdude 12 жыл бұрын

@fryBASS Secondly, if you really need everyone else to become just like you in the ways of tradition, culture, way of life, etc..so that you can view the human race as one.. then my friend Im sorry but its you who has the problem ... not the others. If you can not repsect and accept other nations traditions-civilizations that evolved through the centuries then my friend again its you who has the problem. If you think wars happen because we dance Tsamiko instead of RnB then you have to be joking