Thank you, Aaron! I hope so!

Thank you so much!

Thanks, Margaret! Hope you’re all doing well!!!

Thanks for listening!

Thank you! Learning this song and putting this video together was a great way to spend the early days of the pandemic.

Thank you! 😀

Hey, thanks so much!

🙏🏼

Thank you!!!

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️🎻🎻🎻

Thank you!!

Thank you, Jane!!!

Thank you, Ronald!

Thank you so much!!

Thanks, Mike! I tried to learn this song years ago and then gave up. Then the world shut down for Covid, and I finally had time to knuckle down and get after it. It’s a workout! Check out Drew’s website: drewdefour.com - he is brilliant! My site is: bradphillipsmusic.com - I’ve got a new single coming out this week! Be well! Good luck!

Thank you so much! It was a pandemic project. :)

Thank you! Much appreciated. :)

Well, thank you so much!

Me either. I’ve listened over and over. This is the most beautiful arrangement/ version I’ve found. Stunning. I even slowed it down to 50 and 75% to be able to learn it from him (minus his second break- whew don’t think I can get that one yet)

Thank you, Charles!

Yes, it’s an octave mandolin. I also play this in a different key than BVA. I think the original is in G-major. This one is in D.

I love a little controversy. Who is Bill?

@@BradPhillipsMusic hope you are kidding but in case not, Bill Monroe, generally recognized as the "Father of Bluegrass music".

@@bry8tiyze Ahh, I did not know that. What is "bluegrass music" and who is the mother?

@@BradPhillipsMusic Bluegrass is a genre of country music created pre- and during the WWII years by Bill Monroe in his band the Bluegrass Boys; bluegrass being a reference to his Kentucky roots. The first woman to play in a bluegrass band was Sally Ann Forester, wife of Monroe's fiddler Howdy Forrester. She is not really be credited as the "mother" of bluegrass since she appears to have had little influence on the particular sound that Monroe was evolving and only stayed in the band for a couple of years. The style blends Appalachian folk songs in a tightly arranged vocal style that evolved from gospel and shaker shape note singing as well as the brother duet harmonies. The old time string band/jug band style was elevated by Monroe into a less rag tag style combining the blues and swing, including western swing, old school jazz and big band, popular at the time. It also elevated the celtic fiddle tunes brought to the Appalachians by scots and irish immigrants. Monroe was going for what he described as a "high, lonesome sound" evocative of the folk ballads of the British isles, notably the 'murder ballad'. Monroe skillfully blended these influences which finally gelled into the distinctive sound of bluegrass when the driving sound of the fingerstyle banjo innovated by Earl Scruggs using metal finger picks was added to the group. Like the big band era soloists, bluegrass band members took turns soloing, egging each other on to greater and greater feats of virtuosic skill at often blisteringly fast tempos. The blues and jazz notes spiced in added an edgy excitement to the performances that dazzled crowds.