Thank you for uploading

Wow, thanks for uploading!

Man Fred’s banjo is so loud and distinct, it’s mesmerizing. I’m so happy to have found this video. Thank you!

Lovely woman. I always enjoyed visiting with Neola when I went to the shop. She gave me seeds from one of the plants in front of the shop which I grew in my garden in North Carolina. I have pieces made by Neola, Celia, Kenneth and even A.R. Good memories.❤

I bet a few Foxfire books were written on the porch.

This you so much for this work of art. 😄😁😃🎻🪕❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

This is my favorite video I've ever seen on KZfaq up to this point. I've been using KZfaq since it's birth in 2006, for perspective.

May we never forget!

Where's John Dee?

Only guy i know that says "Wish i was nine hundred more" What a savage 😂

Great Tommy that’s the best version of John browns dream I ever heard him do

I wish more black old time musicians were recorded before the folk revival. I read somewhere when those earliest records were cut in the 20's and 30's many old time musicians were indeed black, but typically gospel and that early Dixie jazz was recorded and sold for white folks and blues recorded and sold to black audiences. I think there was a departure from the perception of, "hill billy" music too, especially for blacks, as I would imagine many of whom strove to break association with the plantation lifestyle of a slave many of their parents would've still remembered vividly at the time. Unfortunately I reckon this included musical traditions and the baby was thrown out with the bath water. In spite of many songs of the old time cannon being written and performed primarily by black musicians of the late 1800s, as a whole it seems black musicians moved onto more progressive musical pursuits of blues and jazz. Perhaps this was already underway shortly after the Civil War ended, and may explain the black-face minstrel acts. Perhaps black performers before this significant cultural shift simply weren't performing the music as much, and for some reason I don't understand whites, who genuinely enjoyed the music, found hearing historically black music more palatable if it were played by a white performer with shoe polish all over their face. Folks are strange. At that point, I can only imagine seeing a white performer pretend to be black and perform this, "old time" music would turn any apprehension a black musician felt about performing music written by slaves into outright aversion. It is unfortunate though, that there's so few black musicians these days playing traditionally black songs with fiddle and banjo.

I keep finding myself back here. Gold.

Excellent.

And the lady by the sink is my great great grandma

Jimmy smith is my great uncle

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What an amazing video. I'll be lucky man if this is how I spend my twilight years.

Love it! Two of my favs!

Amazing

Tommy and Fred were masters of their craft. What made them great musicians is that they enjoyed playing it.

At 3:08, [F. Cockerham, indistinct] is Fred saying, "Old Bunch of Keys, I believe he said."

what genre would this be?

I hadn't seen this one before until now, thank you so much for sharing it!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could watch several hours of this!

This is wonderful, I felt like I was hanging on the porch with them! It made me happy and sad to see two of my favorites in these forgotten days!

This is my favorite thing on the internet.

they don't do this anymore. thank God for Tommy Jerrell.

Thank you for posting this! I found a piece of Neolia’s work in a Habitat for Humanity resale shop yesterday all the way down in Corpus Christi, TX. I can’t say how grateful I am to have found this video to better appreciate this beautiful piece of pottery.

Mebane Community Park has a great statue dedicated to them.

I really wish they showed all the songs they played. They really didn’t get cut off short. I only found this. But thank you for posting.

Why is there *always* one person who’ll dislike excellent things? It depresses me. Anyway, that idiot guy aside, thanks very much for uploading this. I had no idea there was any extant footage of jarrell and cockerham playing together at all (and I’ve looked!), so stumbling upon this was pretty mind-blowing. Really fantastic.

Love it! ❤️🎵❤️

Wow! thanks so so very very much for uploading this Gem of a video. I am so pleased to of found this video which I’ve not seen before. Thanks so much once again from England

Love this song! These men are American treasures.

Gold

Though I was born a long long while after Tommy Jarrell and Fred Cockerham passed away, I still enjoy these fine tunes and will forever remember North Carolina Bluegrass’s great history.

Woa, was that Bubbles at 3:03??

Are those geared tuners on Tommy's fiddle?

It get no better than this what a great performance the Thompsons Legends of American Roots Music👏👏👏👏

What a cultural treasure.

The Bear Runned Over the Mountain @5:04

Once I heard a fiddle tune that DIDN'T sound like "Battle of New Orleans". Anyone know about this?

I was familiar with Fred's clawhammer, but he goes into some really fine two-finger picking around the 17 minute mark.

They make machine head tuners for Bowed instruments & Tommy Jarrell popularized them.

Tommy Harrell popularized these machine head tuners.

That was my Great Granddaddy and can remember watching him turn pottery. Celia was my grandmother and taught me to turn pottery in the early 80's. Now my daughter is picking it up with her own twist and seems to be a natural. I have the wheel my grandmother turned pottery on in her later years and will be setting it up for my daughter. I hope Granddaddy Cole is watching and I know he would be proud. Thank you for sharing this video.

I remember back in the 70's every Saturday someone was alway playing music on the porch some place these days are almost gone I been out playing fiddle music and banjo for the store workers in Our town scene this COVID thing started to get there mind off it and put a smile on some souls face I thank GOD for My talent He give Me

I heard that wood screen door close. That brought back memories of my youth of the kids running in and out. Even the cat could open the door and go in and out.

Who’s here in 2020? Old time forever!

America 🇺🇸Roots music should never be forgotten thanks for posting