You are seeing a part of history that will never be repeated. Bill Monroe was the father of Bluegrass music. He started this music style and was terrific at it until he passed. He must have been near 80 when this video was made and still sounded as good as when he began. I saw one of his last concerts at Ryman auditorium about a year before he passed away and Bill never missed a note. It was a great show and an unforgettable experience.
Im British (English) but my stepdad introduced me to this music and I have to say that you Americans have produced some truly beautiful music. No one in my area has heard of this but I can guarantee they have now after I have been playing it on full volume the past few nights. As I would say in my home country this is absolutely bloody brilliant!
+Sgt Beansprout. A lot of this music has evolved of course, but nonethe less can be traced directly back to where it came from. As you probably know, the very foundation of American "people" music came directly from the British Isles. It is a shame so many of your peers don't know the musical history of their own ancestors. ( most of mine in Detroit don't either) It seems as though nowadays if you want a diverse blend of good music, the radio and TV will not help you. Other ways must be found. Keep your ears open and good luck.
from a nation who has given us remarkable bands like pink floyd, led zep, and the Beatles this is a huge compliment! although its clear in many led zeppelin tunes they enjoyed bluegrass as well.
Some bugger living at the end of my street has been playing this tune at full blast every night for the last five years ... fortunately I like bluegrass
I've never heard an acoustic guitar sound as good as this Martin in my life. Marty Stuart sure has some gems in his collection, and knows how to play them.
I really like the guitarist/singer from Days of the New and think that one sounds a little bit better, personally. Martin's sound really clean but I like a little bit more bite to it. Pretty sure he plays a Taylor. If it wasn't for drugs he woulda been a lot more famous, might just be their playing cause the artist affects the sound of the instrument. Here's a decent example: ruclips.net/video/82eM5vB0ePY/видео.html The main recording probably sounds best, though. Travis Meeks definitely one of the best (and likely most underrated) acoustic performers the last 30 years or so.
We do! I’m 22, and bluegrass and other acoustic music has more purchase among us young people than you might think. The music will never die, and it’ll especially not die with my generation 😁💕🪕🎻
The tune is so simple, humble, pure, genuine and blue collared and energetic, some thing that will make your work, or put you back to work and you would not get tired listening to this music or working while listening to this music. This is what comes out when people do something with passion and sincerity.
Even at a well advanced age Bill didn't miss a note. He was probably close to 80 in this video. He was the father of the Bluegrass style and he played it well. Marty Stewart was his reliable self this song on guitar and did a great great job .
"Would you let me play one on the mandolin for the folks?" Don't you just LOVE his humility? It's almost like he was asking permission. What fabulous personality in his music too. He just knew all the right notes to play. A great musician knows that getting the RIGHT notes (not how MANY notes) in a bar is what makes memorable music and makes folks happy around them.
I could listen to this tune over and over. All the breaks were great, mandolin, fiddle, and guitar. Bill Monroe was a genius in his music. Truly the father of Bluegrass.
A magnificent, very dignified posting here. Just wonderful to see the Grand Old Master Mr Bill Monroe once again, in action here in this fine performance. Bill always did make sure to surround himself with first-class musicians - especially all those great fiddlers that we all know so well .. and this performance is no different. A real class act .. of the calibre we may well-likely never get to see emerge, ever again.
Bill Monroe is and has always been my all time favorite musician. I could listen to his music day and night. Heck there's only 24 hours in a day. Blue Moon Of Kentucky, Footprints in the snow, Southern Flavor well y'all name it I love it. If there's one style you could really get addicted to it's Bill Monroes Bluegrass !
Ulster Scots and the Irish ancestors in the Southern/Appalachian U.S. states is where Bluegrass comes from. It's influenced heavily by the old countries.
I played all over U.S. And Canada in the 70s through early 90s,One of the most fun periods was when were joined by an Irish fiddle player.Funny as heck,played great,about 5 ft.tall,and totally uninhibited.
My Great Grandfather (an O'Malley) came over in the early 1900s and settled in Minnesota. I never heard of bluegrass when growing up in the ethnic mix of Minnesota. Now that I live in New England we have Irish sessions at a local bar (pubish, but not really) and I some great bluegrass at a local Old Ways Days and other events, Love it all.
Bill Monroe played at the Edmonton Folk Fest back in the nineties and it was more than words can describe. He did a full gospel set under the moon and stars and it was bone chilling awsome. The Grandfather of Bluegrass is an understatement, I still feel the chills when I remember that night. After the show I rode back to the hotel on the same bus as Bill, he was the last one on and everyone stood and clapped as he sat down. If you didn't see Bill Monroe live your life can never be full.
i love blue grass ever since i heard it for the first time decades ago! a touch country music but better. I love the idea of the southern States of the US even I have never been there
Hello 👋 from Scotland bluegrass combined with country music...Bill Monroe music is truly the language of the soul and heart. this musical genre is real music that touches the spirit in the real sense of the world 🌍
Personally, I think this is one of Monroe's finest tunes. I love the beat. Many of the new generation do not realize the influence on the sixties Rock movement. Great tune Thanks for posting. ADDU31MFcommies.
Was raised on this kind of music. Always reminds me of home, and my family. Bill Monroe was the best there was. Miss that old man, he put out the best music!
I saw him live 4 times and consider it the 4 greatest shows I have ever seen. You cannot discribe to anyone who didn't see him what a force he was...W.C.
7 months onwards from my first comment on this video and I got my second mandolin yesterday. It replaced the cheap one I had to learn on - not as good as Bill's but it's a mighty good'n'. It's amazing to think that this man left us before I was even 1, and yet now he's inspired me, and no doubt many others, from beyond the grave.
This is a great tune, rarely heard but so typical of Monroe. Lightning fast. simple yet complex. Ah the Master of Great music! May Bluegrass music live forever.
I had the pleasure of seeing Bill MOnroe at the Ryman auditorium about two years before he passed away. Bill had to be in his 80's back then but still put on a marvelous show.
i'm jewish, was born and lived in mexico for 17 years, but i've loved bluegrass since i came across it. this piece was awsome and Bill Monroe is a name that i'll never forget.
i moved down from nyc, and im bout silly with this bluegrass, got a lot of heart in it.....dont matta were ya com from , ya always got a song or a tune from the soul to play
It feel you're going to the other side ..so back in time....... no me canso de decir que si muchas veces yo la escucho esta cancion me lleva a otro mundo y me hace llorar
One time a drove a friend to Bean Blossom, Indiana, where from Kent, Ohio where it really smells nice in the spring. We drove for 5 hours with his double bass between us squeezed into my little gray taurus. We slept in the car, and in the morning he played blue grass at the festival at the Bill Monroe Museum there. I love that memory.
@BulliedbyFather Yup. Same here. Have you ever gone to a festival or a banjo/fiddle contest ? The minute you walk thru the gates you hear it all live and unplugged...it just sweeps you away into another world.
When people say Bluegrass is boring compared to Rock and lacks the drive and intensity they haven't heard a rendition of Southern Flavor like this one, including that dynamite guitar solo by Marty.
Wow, great version! Southern Flavor and Jerusalem Ridge are probably my 2 favorite bluegrass instrumentals. (always hard to pick favorites, with so many good ones to choose from)
My dad was a conductor on the freight train and I keep picturing a train on the tracks hauling coal or grains when I hear this song. This definitely plays to the hard-working folks to a T!
You are seeing a part of history that will never be repeated. Bill Monroe was the father of Bluegrass music. He started this music style and was terrific at it until he passed. He must have been near 80 when this video was made and still sounded as good as when he began. I saw one of his last concerts at Ryman auditorium about a year before he passed away and Bill never missed a note. It was a great show and an unforgettable experience.
You were blessed
This song makes me damn proud of my Southern heritage! But I'm from Scandinavia and never even visited the United States ...
But you're from southern Scandinavia, right?
@@GranpaMike Hahaha
I'm from Scotland, and so is Bill Monroe's ancestors! 🙂
That's funny 😁
Im British (English) but my stepdad introduced me to this music and I have to say that you Americans have produced some truly beautiful music. No one in my area has heard of this but I can guarantee they have now after I have been playing it on full volume the past few nights. As I would say in my home country this is absolutely bloody brilliant!
Bloody brilliant is right! :-)
thank you for giving old-school bluegrass the exposure!
also, there is a short part in this song very reminiscent of the guitar part in bauhaus' bela lugosi's dead, no?
+Sgt Beansprout. A lot of this music has evolved of course, but nonethe less can be traced directly back to where it came from. As you probably know, the very foundation of American "people" music came directly from the British Isles. It is a shame so many of your peers don't know the musical history of their own ancestors. ( most of mine in Detroit don't either) It seems as though nowadays if you want a diverse blend of good music, the radio and TV will not help you. Other ways must be found. Keep your ears open and good luck.
from a nation who has given us remarkable bands like pink floyd, led zep, and the Beatles this is a huge compliment! although its clear in many led zeppelin tunes they enjoyed bluegrass as well.
A true AMERICAN legend........absolutely amazing!
Some bugger living at the end of my street has been playing this tune at full blast every night for the last five years ... fortunately I like bluegrass
GREATEST BLUEGRASS SINGER EVER, THE FATHER OF BLUEGRASS💕💕💕💕💕💕
I've never heard an acoustic guitar sound as good as this Martin in my life. Marty Stuart sure has some gems in his collection, and knows how to play them.
This D-45 was supposedly owned by Hank sr, Hank jr, Johnny Cash and now Marty.
I really like the guitarist/singer from Days of the New and think that one sounds a little bit better, personally. Martin's sound really clean but I like a little bit more bite to it. Pretty sure he plays a Taylor. If it wasn't for drugs he woulda been a lot more famous, might just be their playing cause the artist affects the sound of the instrument. Here's a decent example: ruclips.net/video/82eM5vB0ePY/видео.html The main recording probably sounds best, though. Travis Meeks definitely one of the best (and likely most underrated) acoustic performers the last 30 years or so.
When it comes to the mandolin, bill Monroe is the GOAT
You see that... 3 minutes an 44 seconds ole bill looking at marty, "you done?"
Could listen to Bluegrass all day long. Thank from UK.
I love bluegrass music..it gives relief and peace listening to it..
The Best of the Best! RIP Mr Monroe your music will live on forever
I can listen to this song over and over!! Awesome music wish they still played this kind of music!!
They do! Billy Strings does a rippin’ Southern Flavor
ruclips.net/video/WeOaLEc7zg0/видео.html
We do! I’m 22, and bluegrass and other acoustic music has more purchase among us young people than you might think. The music will never die, and it’ll especially not die with my generation 😁💕🪕🎻
This is bluegrass at its best and Bill shows it altogether
Amazing- Incredible- Marty Stuart's hair is almost as inspiring as his guitar licks.
Bill Monroe owns Bluegrass music ,,❤❤
The tune is so simple, humble, pure, genuine and blue collared and energetic, some thing that will make your work, or put you back to work and you would not get tired listening to this music or working while listening to this music. This is what comes out when people do something with passion and sincerity.
I love the way Bill looked at Marty at the 3:42....It was like he was saying to Marty, "Its MY turn....are you gonna quit?".......Truly a CLASSIC.....
Even at a well advanced age Bill didn't miss a note. He was probably close to 80 in this video. He was the father of the Bluegrass style and he played it well. Marty Stewart was his reliable self this song on guitar and did a great great job .
eaven here in france the neighbours like it ! ! !
thanks for sharing =)
The 24 who dislike this history lesson must not have any Southern Flavor.
This is simple amazing! A man of his years playing like that. Legend for sure!
Love The Fact That A real country star like Marty is also a real player
"Would you let me play one on the mandolin for the folks?" Don't you just LOVE his humility? It's almost like he was asking permission. What fabulous personality in his music too. He just knew all the right notes to play. A great musician knows that getting the RIGHT notes (not how MANY notes) in a bar is what makes memorable music and makes folks happy around them.
I could listen to this tune over and over. All the breaks were great, mandolin, fiddle, and guitar. Bill Monroe was a genius in his music. Truly the father of Bluegrass.
Hello 👋 I agree with you
A magnificent, very dignified posting here. Just wonderful to see the Grand Old Master Mr Bill Monroe once again, in action here in this fine performance. Bill always did make sure to surround himself with first-class musicians - especially all those great fiddlers that we all know so well .. and this performance is no different. A real class act .. of the calibre we may well-likely never get to see emerge, ever again.
Bill Monroe is and has always been my all time favorite musician. I could listen to his music day and night. Heck there's only 24 hours in a day. Blue Moon Of Kentucky, Footprints in the snow, Southern Flavor well y'all name it I love it. If there's one style you could really get addicted to it's Bill Monroes Bluegrass !
I love Bluegrass! I am Irish, and our folk music is pretty similar to Bluegrass in a lot of cases.
Ulster Scots and the Irish ancestors in the Southern/Appalachian U.S. states is where Bluegrass comes from. It's influenced heavily by the old countries.
But the Scots and the Irish just didn't have the white hats.
I played all over U.S. And Canada in the 70s through early 90s,One of the most fun periods was when were joined by an Irish fiddle player.Funny as heck,played great,about 5 ft.tall,and totally uninhibited.
jim loveless haha! I'm 6'4", but he still sounds like a legend!
My Great Grandfather (an O'Malley) came over in the early 1900s and settled in Minnesota. I never heard
of bluegrass when growing up in the ethnic mix of Minnesota. Now that I live in New England we have Irish sessions at a local bar (pubish, but not really) and I some great bluegrass at a local Old Ways Days and other events, Love it all.
Bill Monroe gave Birth to Bluegrass music,❤❤❤
The fiddle player is Jimmy Campbell who was in Monroe's band from '90 - '93. Passed away in '03 at the age of 40.
Yep, there is also a second fiddle player, you can see him for a second, at the beginning, to me looks like Mark O'Connor
Both are correct assumptions...the bass player is Tater Tate who is also a out standing fiddle player. He is also gone from us.
@@clawhammer704 great mandolin picker too.
Best mandolin I ever saw so far
No one worked at it harder and longer than Mr. Monroe he is the reason we have the music we love..Wilf Clark
RIP Jimmy. Too great to lose, too soon to lose him.
Great back mountain country tune...Martys pickin was on point!
Bill Monroe played at the Edmonton Folk Fest back in the nineties and it was more than words can describe. He did a full gospel set under the moon and stars and it was bone chilling awsome. The Grandfather of Bluegrass is an understatement, I still feel the chills when I remember that night. After the show I rode back to the hotel on the same bus as Bill, he was the last one on and everyone stood and clapped as he sat down. If you didn't see Bill Monroe live your life can never be full.
i love blue grass ever since i heard it for the first time decades ago! a touch country music but better. I love the idea of the southern States of the US even I have never been there
Hello 👋 from Scotland bluegrass combined with country music...Bill Monroe music is truly the language of the soul and heart. this musical genre is real music that touches the spirit in the real sense of the world 🌍
NO ONE can compare to Bill Monroe, what a legend....
What a great guitar solo.
Personally, I think this is one of Monroe's finest tunes. I love the beat. Many of the new generation do not realize the influence on the sixties Rock movement. Great tune
Thanks for posting.
ADDU31MFcommies.
me too
This is my favorite, this was very inspiring for me. It was the first Bill Monroe tune I ever learned to play on my mandolin !!!
What a great rockin tune. One of my favorite.
Mr. Monroe was truely cutting edge.
Was raised on this kind of music. Always reminds me of home, and my family. Bill Monroe was the best there was. Miss that old man, he put out the best music!
I saw him live 4 times and consider it the 4 greatest shows I have ever seen. You cannot discribe to anyone who didn't see him what a force he was...W.C.
This is bluegrass at it best :)
Bill Monroe is the best. I loved his music right from the moment I heard his live version of "Shady Grove." Great!
As an aspiring mandolinist: Ain't nobody ever did it like Bill
These guys are banging on the door! They want to be closer to the music, bless them : )
I cannot get enough of this song, from an American musical legend.
7 months onwards from my first comment on this video and I got my second mandolin yesterday. It replaced the cheap one I had to learn on - not as good as Bill's but it's a mighty good'n'. It's amazing to think that this man left us before I was even 1, and yet now he's inspired me, and no doubt many others, from beyond the grave.
That's awesome. Just keep beating the strings off it. Lol I Love Monroes style
It doesn't get any better than this.
This is a great tune, rarely heard but so typical of Monroe. Lightning fast. simple yet complex. Ah the Master of Great music! May Bluegrass music live forever.
i love blue grass music so much!
Bill monroe is the godfather of country music
One of the best things I ever heard in my life. Class.
I love bill. No messing around just right down to it!
I had the pleasure of seeing Bill MOnroe at the Ryman auditorium about two years before he passed away. Bill had to be in his 80's back then but still put on a marvelous show.
I saw Bill perform in person about a year before he passed away. If ever there was a legendary performer, he was it.
This is wonderful. I was lucky enough to see Bill Monroe perform live many years ago at the Chicago School of Folk Music.
Perfect.
i'm jewish, was born and lived in mexico for 17 years, but i've loved bluegrass since i came across it. this piece was awsome and Bill Monroe is a name that i'll never forget.
en plena pandemia escuchando esta maravillosa musica 2020 !!!
i moved down from nyc, and im bout silly with this bluegrass, got a lot of heart in it.....dont matta were ya com from , ya always got a song or a tune from the soul to play
The best of the best Mr. Bill Monroe!
over 80 and he's still ready to play first off without hesitation!
BIll Monroe always played fast but smooth. He was the originator and creator of bluegrass music. Here he is near 80 years old and still playing well.
My neighbours love it so much they rang the cops so they could listen as well.
Gorgeous!!!!! Elegantly joyful!!! I love it!!!
Wonderful,a truly magical moment in time.
It feel you're going to the other side ..so back in time....... no me canso de decir que si muchas veces yo la escucho esta cancion me lleva a otro mundo y me hace llorar
American music and the great Bill Monroe what more could you ask for?
Truly superb and a privilege to see/ hear, this glorious bluegrass.
Great, love it, and he sure knows how to play that mandolin.
One time a drove a friend to Bean Blossom, Indiana, where from Kent, Ohio where it really smells nice in the spring. We drove for 5 hours with his double bass between us squeezed into my little gray taurus. We slept in the car, and in the morning he played blue grass at the festival at the Bill Monroe Museum there. I love that memory.
Simply mesmerising!
God I can’t get enough of this
Bluegrass Legend at Large... RIP Mister Monroe
Bill Monroe - An American treasure
I love Bill Monroe.....straight old school.....no chatting....just playing.....no bs'ing......ha hahaha. Cracks me up. Just gets at it
@BulliedbyFather Yup. Same here. Have you ever gone to a festival or a banjo/fiddle contest ? The minute you walk thru the gates you hear it all live and unplugged...it just sweeps you away into another world.
GOAT playing the rest of the song after the mic drops.
I agree! Bill Monroe was an American treasure... and I'd say Marty Stuart is too. Boy those boys can sure play as all git out! - Judd Jugmonger
I absolutely love this!
wow, bill was the first artist i worked for when i came to nashville,tn. he had a office on dickerson rd.
Just having returned from Nashville Mr Bill Monroe is the man.
Yes, we should hope this music should never perish.
Best I’ve ever heard
Bill Monroe is one of the ALL time greats! I love this entire clip!
Thanks for the upload! Bluegrass is God's Own Music.
That fiddle break by J. Campbell - I'm tellin' you
I met Bill Monroe back in the late 80's at his club outside Nashville
what a great person he was and my idol since a young boy.
I recall the first time I ever herd bluegrass it was a church revial in texas and ive been been a fan since and always will be play it bill
Bet this will be some of the great music we get to hear in heaven too
The Legendary Bill Monroe and Marty Stuart (who is becoming a legend in his own right) together. AWESOME!
Bill Monroe is my hero.
Wow!! What a treat.
When people say Bluegrass is boring compared to Rock and lacks the drive and intensity they haven't heard a rendition of Southern Flavor like this one, including that dynamite guitar solo by Marty.
They loved it !! They were banging on the windows with their batons they were so happy : )
Heavy Metal Monroe 🤘😆🤘 totally owned that mic 💣💙
Dude just oozes cool.
my hero!!! bill monroe you are awsome, your mandolin pickin will live forever!!!!
love this guy.
Wow, great version! Southern Flavor and Jerusalem Ridge are probably my 2 favorite bluegrass instrumentals. (always hard to pick favorites, with so many good ones to choose from)
My dad was a conductor on the freight train and I keep picturing a train on the tracks hauling coal or grains when I hear this song. This definitely plays to the hard-working folks to a T!