Billy Strings w/Bela Fleck - Church Street Blues (Norman Blake) The Ainsworth

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  • Billy Strings w/Bela Fleck - Church Street Blues (Norman Blake) The Ainsworth
    billystrings.com
    www.belafleck.com
    The Ainsworth - Nashville, TN 9.12.19
    #billystrings #belafleck #tonyrice

Комментарии • 69

  • @alexpowers4388
    @alexpowers4388 2 года назад +29

    Bela Fleck is one of the greatest living musicians of our lifetime. If you have never seen Bela Fleck live I highly recommend it.

    • @mf5202
      @mf5202 Год назад +2

      In a previous life as a musician in NJ (and a Bela previous life) I saw him at the Stone Pony with the Flecktones. Victor Wooten is the best bass player I've ever seen live.

  • @mf5202
    @mf5202 2 года назад +4

    Great tribute to Blake and Tony Rice, who gave this song a new life.

  • @jeffv3647
    @jeffv3647 3 года назад +6

    These two are just on a completely different playing field than most musicians! A treat to watch and hear!

  • @chasedouglas611
    @chasedouglas611 3 года назад +19

    Came to watch after learning Tony Rice passed, the cover does right by him

    • @blue4948
      @blue4948 3 года назад +3

      Truely great, but not Tony Rice

  • @WilliamsonRidge
    @WilliamsonRidge 4 года назад +6

    Billy Strings and Bella Fleck = awesome!

  • @guymartin8167
    @guymartin8167 Год назад +1

    Two great musicians , they compliment each other very well❤️🎶🎼🎵🎸

  • @JLDB1987
    @JLDB1987 4 года назад +13

    Billy is an elite player and he has a bluesy singing style unique to bluegrass. The young man has skills...

  • @coryCuc
    @coryCuc 3 года назад +1

    Absolutely loooooove TR's version. Sooooooo glad I came across Billy's version. Absolute loooove it.

  • @Claudiahochow
    @Claudiahochow 3 года назад

    ((Denmark) So beautiful. High technically played as Well as Billys song. Bela & Billy is i a leaque of their own 🌹🌹

  • @flapjackson6077
    @flapjackson6077 3 года назад +1

    That was beautiful!

  • @Benry1
    @Benry1 3 года назад +1

    i love how much billy likes trading 4's. keeps people on their toes when they sit in with him

    • @mf5202
      @mf5202 Год назад

      That level of player trades 4s like nothing. Few rock players can handle it.

  • @clausgroh5392
    @clausgroh5392 Год назад

    Two geniuses

  • @ruukasu71
    @ruukasu71 3 года назад +5

    Nobody picks it like Norman

    • @mf5202
      @mf5202 Год назад +1

      Perhaps but it would not have been a classic if TR had not covered it.

  • @jmdbb
    @jmdbb 5 лет назад +9

    The songwriter is actually Norman Blake not Tony Rice.

  • @benwrong6855
    @benwrong6855 2 года назад

    aw the lads!

  • @Charlie-fx9dp
    @Charlie-fx9dp 3 года назад +3

    Tony Rice was a guitar master but Billy String is good also... From France.

    • @keithhunter3910
      @keithhunter3910 Год назад

      Tony played a nice cover of Norman's song, yet nothing comes close to the original version on NB's WBB album.

    • @keithhunter3910
      @keithhunter3910 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/HLxWaWknMZQ/видео.html

  • @ArkRed1
    @ArkRed1 2 года назад

    Folks, that's music.

  • @isaiah7317
    @isaiah7317 4 года назад +4

    Just saying someone’s gonna have to tab out Bela fleck’s playing for me lmao....

  • @alanh7247
    @alanh7247 6 месяцев назад

    I hope billy and norman blake can do something together

  • @nathanielbass1315
    @nathanielbass1315 2 года назад

    double like

  • @hottimeinnj53
    @hottimeinnj53 Год назад

    Gang

  • @Toolhead420x
    @Toolhead420x 3 года назад

    Not really related to the song but how have you been Music City Maven? I've noticed you've been off Facebook for awhile and just checking in 💙

    • @MusicCityMaven
      @MusicCityMaven  3 года назад

      Hi there! Thank you for asking! I’ve been doing well - just decided to break free from social media for the most part because it’s too toxic. I hope you’re hanging there as well.

  • @ballencafe
    @ballencafe Год назад

    Bela didnt even notice the banjo string comment

  • @damirzanne
    @damirzanne 3 года назад +1

    I’d never attempt to do this song , Tony owns it , there is just no way anyone can do it better than him ... it would be like trying to sing Crying Time after Ray Charles did it ...

    • @richardernsberger5692
      @richardernsberger5692 3 года назад

      Agree: this version is too fast and loses the poignancy of the song that is so sweet and textured in Rice's version. Appreciate this--but it's a rush job.

  • @jonpopelka
    @jonpopelka 8 месяцев назад

    Bela is obviously an absolute legend, but he has NO clue on this one 😂 Billy is trying to watch his changes so the recording isn't totally fucked, but it's just not happening. That being said; I dare anyone unfamiliar with this tune to pick a banjo part better than Bela did.

  • @beingjono
    @beingjono 4 года назад

    how did bela end up being the one with the 57 haha

    • @jfed8047
      @jfed8047 4 года назад +1

      Jonathan Townsend they both have 57s... on their instruments. Billy has a 58 on his voice because... he’s... the one singing

    • @8tomtoms8
      @8tomtoms8 3 года назад

      Do you mean it's an honor to get to play into an SM57??

  • @jeffdillenbeck1278
    @jeffdillenbeck1278 4 года назад +6

    This is good but so sterile to me. I'm biased towards Tony Rice version. The strained and kinda rough unpolished voice is perfect. Not trying to be negative but the singing here is reminiscent of modern country. Take that as you will.

    • @mragunathan1627
      @mragunathan1627 4 года назад +5

      are you kidding me? have u seen this boy pick? Hes carrying TR's torch!

    • @jeffdillenbeck1278
      @jeffdillenbeck1278 4 года назад +2

      @@mragunathan1627 dude I didn't say anything about his picking.

    • @jeffdillenbeck1278
      @jeffdillenbeck1278 4 года назад

      @@ImDaCaptainNow45 oooo so edgy.

    • @llinkenhoker
      @llinkenhoker 4 года назад +6

      He's a fine singer, but I'm partial to the Norman version myself. No disrespect to Tony or this cat.

    • @lyndamiller453
      @lyndamiller453 4 года назад +1

      I'm also partial to Tony Rice's version. It's as close to perfection as anything ever gets. Love this one too though.

  • @TM1Alan
    @TM1Alan 3 года назад

    I hate the Tony Rice version. "Picker friend"?! But great pickin'.

    • @andrewkeen3129
      @andrewkeen3129 2 года назад

      The Tony Rice version is a piece of guitaring history that is still practically unmatched today my friend.

    • @TM1Alan
      @TM1Alan 2 года назад

      @@andrewkeen3129 I guess you have never heard the Norman Blake original. Too bad friend.

    • @andrewkeen3129
      @andrewkeen3129 2 года назад

      @@TM1Alan Don't misjudge too quickly my friend. I utterly love the original Norman Blake version and always have. I have been a great fan of Norman for many many years as well.

    • @TM1Alan
      @TM1Alan 2 года назад

      @@andrewkeen3129 I just can't understand why Tony would change the words. "Picker friend" makes no sense. Maybe it's a copyright thing. But I wouldn't think his good friend Norman would care.🤔

    • @andrewkeen3129
      @andrewkeen3129 2 года назад

      @@TM1Alan I would highly doubt so too man. They were like best friends so I would really doubt that. I guess maybe that just resonated more with Tony and he wanted to change it up just a little bit? Why do you say it makes no sense though? These guys entire lives were all about flatpicking and crosspicking and 'picking' on the guitar was everything to them. I always assumed he just meant a fellow bluegrass player most likely.

  • @dinkaboutit4228
    @dinkaboutit4228 Год назад

    I wonder if Bela is to deaf to listen or just too important? Out of tune and out of synch. I know he's used to being the hottest ish in the room, but not when he's sitting next to that guy.

  • @mikebastiat
    @mikebastiat 3 года назад +1

    Tony Rice's version was better. And this Bela guy just has a weird presence to me...from the first few times seeing him around.

    • @oldtimetinfoilhatwearer
      @oldtimetinfoilhatwearer 3 года назад +4

      Lol

    • @Pinrod93
      @Pinrod93 3 года назад +2

      That Bela guy has been around a long time and played with Tony Rice countless times. Nothing weird about him, he just has a playing style all his own!

    • @andrewkeen3129
      @andrewkeen3129 2 года назад

      Bela Fleck is a legendary virtuoso and amazing musician from another planet. What you have said here makes you look like an ignorant idiot. On another note of course Tony Rice's version is better lol, that is some of the best guitaring ever known to man and beyond special, you're right there man.

    • @gilbillypuckett5676
      @gilbillypuckett5676 Год назад

      He tried to stump him but Bela is the master musician.

    • @brandonswitzer9938
      @brandonswitzer9938 Год назад

      ​@@Pinrod93 I think he was being tongue in cheek.