There used to be a handful of videos of Walter Forbes and the Lonesome Travellers on youtube but they got taken down a while back. If you have more, will you please post them? Also is there any chance to be sent this video? Walter Forbes was my Grandad and it’d mean a lot to have access to these recordings. Thanks!
I only have the two clips. I never saw the others you mentioned, but would love to see them is someone else can re-post them. I got the two you see from my buddy Mike Armistead, who let me go through a bunch of his old Opry VHS tapes. As far as I can recall, those were the only two clips of Walter and the LT he had. The videos I posted were direct uploads of the clips I have.
@@piekielrl Thanks! I thought that was Norman & Bob, on Guitar & Banjo, as I knew that the two of them once had a band called "The Lonesome Travelers." However, the Irish sounding accents they were using in this video, rather fooled me!! Then, I went looking further, here on RUclips, and found a trio from Canada, also called "The Lonesome Travelers" who sang with similar accents, so I didn't know what to think!! 😊 My Dad has an album of this group, (w/Norman & Bob), on Wyncote Records, entitled "Ten Shades of Bluegrass" (released in 1964), which I think he bought at a Bluegrass Festival, either around the time I was born, (1966), or very shortly thereafter; as I can recall it being in his collection as early as 1969 or 1970. Dad had, (and still has), quite a record collection, & with all of his other records, (of artists that were more famous to me, while growing up), I never listened to that album, until sometime between 2010 and 2013, when "Bluegrass Unlimited" featured an article on "The Lonesome Travelers!" It wasn't until then, that I learned that Norman Blake was in the group, and learned of Bob Johnson, & the other member(s), & that Bob was/is either a cousin or nephew, of the late, great, Roy Acuff! They sure made some REALLY GOOD music! Incidentally, I just found a recording here on RUclips, of "Aud Lang Syne" by this group, which featured Bob on Banjo. He sure a GREAT JOB on it! I'm really surprised that I/We never heard MUCH MORE about Bob & his great Banjo playing through the years! Happy New Year To You & Yours!! Ron H. Abilene, TX.
That's David Johnston on the right, not Norman Blake. I knew David well in his later years. I have seen the full video of this show. Before their first song Walter introduced David Johnston (guitar) and Bob Johnson (banjo).
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That’s my Dad on the left
There used to be a handful of videos of Walter Forbes and the Lonesome Travellers on youtube but they got taken down a while back. If you have more, will you please post them? Also is there any chance to be sent this video? Walter Forbes was my Grandad and it’d mean a lot to have access to these recordings. Thanks!
I only have the two clips. I never saw the others you mentioned, but would love to see them is someone else can re-post them. I got the two you see from my buddy Mike Armistead, who let me go through a bunch of his old Opry VHS tapes. As far as I can recall, those were the only two clips of Walter and the LT he had. The videos I posted were direct uploads of the clips I have.
Ah well, these two are fantastic. It’s so cool to see him play again. Thanks!
Who were the members of this group?
That's Norman Blake on guitar and Bob Johnson on banjo.
@@piekielrl
Thanks!
I thought that was Norman & Bob, on Guitar & Banjo, as I knew that the two of them once had a band called "The Lonesome Travelers."
However, the Irish sounding accents they were using in this video, rather fooled me!! Then, I went looking further, here on RUclips, and found a trio from Canada, also called "The Lonesome Travelers" who sang with similar accents, so I didn't know what to think!! 😊
My Dad has an album of this group, (w/Norman & Bob), on Wyncote Records, entitled "Ten Shades of Bluegrass" (released in 1964), which I think he bought at a Bluegrass Festival, either around the time I was born, (1966), or very shortly thereafter; as I can recall it being in his collection as early as 1969 or 1970.
Dad had, (and still has), quite a record collection, & with all of his other records, (of artists that were more famous to me, while growing up), I never listened to that album, until sometime between 2010 and 2013, when "Bluegrass Unlimited" featured an article on "The Lonesome Travelers!"
It wasn't until then, that I learned that Norman Blake was in the group, and learned of Bob Johnson, & the other member(s), & that Bob was/is either a cousin or nephew, of the late, great, Roy Acuff!
They sure made some REALLY GOOD music!
Incidentally, I just found a recording here on RUclips, of "Aud Lang Syne" by this group, which featured Bob on Banjo.
He sure a GREAT JOB on it! I'm really surprised that I/We never heard MUCH MORE about Bob & his great Banjo playing through the years!
Happy New Year To You & Yours!!
Ron H.
Abilene, TX.
That's David Johnston on the right, not Norman Blake. I knew David well in his later years. I have seen the full video of this show. Before their first song Walter introduced David Johnston (guitar) and Bob Johnson (banjo).
@@ZenPH1960correction . . . David Johnston is on the LEFT, not the right.