Ol Raymond just rips into it😂 no hesitation no expression just pure banjo power😂

This is a real treat. Live version of common ground!! Off me very favorite TR album. Thank you for posting.

"The Birchmere presents Bluegrass - The Greatest Show On Earth" (Released: 1987). The album is a live recording of a concert at Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington D.C. They performed two shows (4:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.) on Sunday, February 17, 1980.

Thanks for the video

Western Bop??? Just couldn't say Rhythm & Blues.

Is it just me or does Tony look like Dickey Betts?

By a landslide, Ralph Emery was the worst interviewer in the history of entertainment. Bar none. Never has someone been given so much limelight and power as a host and has been this devoid of charisma and staying power, perhaps even before or since.

John's the best!

I Wore 2 Mansanita Albums OUT 😱

I love watching Raymond he he can bare down on that banjo makes it look so easy

Fair enough question. Flat picking is a technique. Jimmy Page uses a flat pick, but he isn't a flat picker. Seemed like they both were rude to each other...of course, there is zero context to the original clip. Grabbing the pick out of his hand seemed wrong or rehearsed. I've seen the British rock groups Humble Pie and The Who act super rude to show hosts. perhaps it's an anti-establishment schtick.

I can't get enough of Elvis, Scotty and Bill in the VERY BEGINNING. . .when it was all getting "started" and kept changing the Elvis "style" NAME and ending up being called Rock N' Roll :) :) :)

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Never could stand Ralph. Smart ass!

Was blessed to have met and known Raymod Fairchild for a short time before he passed.

They are the greatest ever

My favorite

It was ver nice seeing Grandfather Jones singing.

Theres clearly all E majors and clearly no E minor anywhere in this tune,,.. Maybe confusion with Major n Minor ...Great tune..

"what is flatpicking? *grabs tortoise shell pick from his hand* "you know, all the picks I've ever seen were flat" "now Tony, where are you from" and that concludes this interview

It's kinda rare to hear Bill Black speaking

Big thanks, dear DiaboloDriver1171, for this musical "on stage souvenir" for us all, in France (and Europe), no possible in Europe with so many many bluegrass stars ...and hosted by Tom T. Hall ! Friezndly wishes from France. JO

Fantastic! RIP Tony your were so talented ❤️

What a right hand !

The Best One Ever To Be, 👏 In The World 🌏

Miss you, Raymond the best Banjo player in the world.

Ray was a legend and still is.......

Lord where has this been all my life

Majority of everyone up on that stage is now passed away 😞 just sad bc you’ll never see people like them again on this earth

Wow off the hook I knew Tony and Darrel when they play at straw hat I was 12 they were my inspiration to play and still I’m just now grasping what they were playing

A absolutely beautiful John Arnold guitar and the playing is fantastic, but the quality of the recording is very sub par as to the true sound of such a wonderful guitar. The microphones where over driven.

I'd damn sure like to see the proof of this.

Thoroughly enjoyed... What an incredible player he was...

An oldie but a goodie.

Damn good boys

Could hardly be better...

Who is on fiddle?

RIP Tom t hall🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Rest in peace, Tom. :(

Listen to that driving, big dog rhythm pulsating through that whole song!!! Man, this is what made me fall in love with this music. Thank you Tony, for showing us all how it is done!

Miss ya Raymond.

One of my favourite songs tony has ever cut....

Bill Black comes in with his sales pitch. lol

Raymond Fairchild was a heck of a guy loved the shit out him..

I always loved this family of which my brother, Cecil Roach, was part of. I have fond memories of

How is this not on Spotify

Yeah, Ralph. It's a reunion of things you cannot begin to understand....

DiabloDriver1171, this is not me playing the fiddle on this song. Could you please remove my name off the title? I don't know who the fiddler it is, and it is good, but it is definitely not me. Thanks, Mark O'Connor

Great tune, thanks Z

bravo messieurs pour cette bonne musique super jpr de la saintonge-maritime en aquitaine!!