Bill Monroe -Blue Grass Breakdown (1965)

[@marcellasierra3367]

I volunteered at a bluegrass festival here in Colorado. Since then I've taken a liking to this great music. 🙂

[@MikeJones-do1xv]

Love it when the crowd claps for Bill and he gives a quick bow while in the middle of playing. Now that class…

[@Stanleytone-04]

Bluegrass is a gift from above.

[@AMLCOrey]

Bluegrass seems to be for Country and Western Music what Heavy Metal is for Rock Music.

[@melissaliljeqvist2601]

This is real music. Who can ask for more.

[@MuddyBubby]

Me, I want more of this and all I can get.

[@BlindMellowJelly]

So sad how no one mentions Arnold Shultz who played with Uncle Pen and later taught Bill Monroe. More whitewashing black men out of American History. If you get tired of hearing this, perhaps stopping the lies to continue.

[@ThunderBroomPilot]

This always stays fresh and relevant. True classics and great musicians.

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

Bill Monroe = Legend

[@jimmyinglish2669]

Absolutely beautiful!!!!!

[@DEATHVIPER1777]

The legendary and Iconic Bill Monroe!!💯💯🙏🙏

[@flowerchildsmile]

Love Bluegrass! Met Bill Monroe in the 70's in Nashville. Met so many wonderful performers now gone to that Great Beyond. Such a blessing still in my heart! Met Roy Acuff, Minnie Pearl, Ernest Tubb, Marty Robbins and so many more Opry stars. G-d bless their memory forever ! xoxoxoxo

[@jesserussell2895]

Bill Monroe, the best ever. talked to Bill a lot of times, always very nice to me

[@lorenebrock2049]

Il. I listened to Bill Monroe on radio whe n I was young he was 👍

[@keeganbluegrass]

peter rowan wasnt trying to take a lead, he was adding the G-run at the end of each break. That goes back to the 40s version of the song with Lester flatt and Bill

[@dodge93city]

Finally one that’s got it...thanks

[@jamesbowen8960]

Peter Rowan is a true bluegrass purist!👍

[@joelwhite6035]

Such honest and great music. They could only afford one mic-stand and not even one mic, but they still played on.

[@went1180]

+Joel White I don't think penury was the reason for one microphone. Bill Monroe was already a legend by the time of this recording and could afford as many mics as he wanted. The one microphone technique is popular because it allows the musicians to "mix" the sound as they go by adjusting their distance to the microphone, and also simplifies setup. I'm sure the savings do play a part in many groups' decision to go this way, it's just not the primary reason.

[@joelwhite6035]

I was joking....

[@went1180]

Oh i see. Delivery could use a little fine-tuning XD.

[@ConsensusReality]

For me, it's a joy to watch those guys work a single mic --- magic.

[@buckmurphy1257]

Joel White lmao

[@hwearrow]

Simply amazing!!! String quintet incredible as they were a classic music quintet. You can touch the sky with them. The start is powerfull with banjo, and then all goes fast as lightning.

[@juliantorresrubio4637]

listening 2020!!

[@timcallaghan41]

Incredible! Absolutely amazing twiddling of them finger tips! I bet they can also tie their shoe-laces really really quick.

[@joycebenefield3833]

still love to hear there music was raised listening to them

[@fiddlergene]

That’s ME on fiddle,

[@BlueBassBoss]

Some fine Yankee Jewgrass fiddlin' there sir! :) How old were you then? I was privileged to do sound for the Great Monroe in Thomasville, Ga... 1984 or so. Just before Kenny Baker left the Boys.

[@LewisSkeeter]

Gene, You are a fabulous fiddler. I love your playing on Uncle Pen with Bill Monroe. Greetings from England.

[@jrgrossman1227]

Great performance

[@PolarFist]

Nice

[@peterhorsam8970]

Nicely done too, sir.

[@starboydc]

Great b&w clip: Bill with his Boys: PETE ROWAN, gtr; DON LINEBURGER (left-handed!), Gibson RB-250 "bowtie" Mastertone banjo; GENE LOWINGER, fiddle and JAMES MONROE, bass. Bill "Brad" Keith had left the group a while before, but Don had taken on alot of those "Keith-style" licks and the only left-handed banjo player Monroe ever had or, maybe, any of the major bluegrass groups ever had. Can't think of alot of "lefties" in bluegrass - fiddle Bobby Slone was one, but, boy, I dunno.... Anyway, I enjoyed this one!

[@barbarakaminski1695]

Thanks was wondering who this great musician was on fiddle.

[@sidmillson]

Don bought me my first guitar.

[@adamjacobrogers9155]

One of the best versions of this song that I've ever heard.

[@Chris-yy2ds]

0:50 Grew up in West Virginia, people always played thus music.

[@skylarmonroe777]

Yassss that’s my great grandfather

[@heartbreakkid5757]

He was amazing country shreding banjo picker, 22 YO here living in thirld world far away from away from US but i love Bluegrass, Bakerfield Country, Outlaw Country & Nashville country music..

[@musclepunched]

What really

[@jacksonelkin7460]

Is he really

[@skylarmonroe777]

JohnDeere Garden tractors yes lol.

[@skylarmonroe777]

El Bee yes

[@lethayle3388]

bluegrass. Biggest influence on rock and roll as we know it.

[@tonylangley2610]

I had the pleasure of shaking Bill's hand and he had such large hands, to play that little mandoline, miss him greatly !

[@sidgriffin813]

One of my all-time fave songs and my very favourite bluegrass instrumental. Wonder why Bill shifted it to more of a banjo tune in the early 1960s? It was his mandolin showpiece as much as anything beforehand.

[@keeganbluegrass]

he made it the signature banjo tune competing with Flatt And Scruggs hit Foggy Mountain Breakdown. His signature mandolin tune switched to Rawhide in the 50s

[@wholehog8735]

Not Bill Keith on banjo. His name is Don Lineberger. The fact he is a lefty is the give away, and that it is 1965.

[@martinbeckman2636]

Don was a good friend of Louis Osteen and I. Shortly after this Don was was replaced by Lamar Grier and played at Whispering Pines, music park near Clayton Georgia. To a about 15 pleople. It rained and we all were on the small stage to stay out of the rain. Louis, Al Osteen and I did go to Nashville to visit Don, picked some and went to the Opra. I think Don was the only left handed banjo player Bill had and he was really good, and was a real good one for Monroe's Band.

[@thomasfoss9963]

I wish I was one of the 15 people there!!!! Lineburger is great!!! Bill had many different players in the Bluegrass Boys over the years...... Isn't that a young Peter Rowan on guitar???

[@martinbeckman2636]

@@thomasfoss9963 yes it is. We talked to Peter, about Don and when he left the band. Al, Louis and I had just visited Don in Nashville, and we expect to see him at the show. Louis new a lot of music people. In High School Al and I played as a band with Louis on base, Lance Leroy on fiddle, Larry Jefferson or Ansel Guthrie played mandolin.

[@thomasfoss9963]

@@martinbeckman2636 Wow---Thanks for the background story, playing with Bill and the Boys definitely launched their music careers----

[@alanhusband9422]

That's Bluegrass technical excellence at its very best.

[@ZIPPENHAFT]

Pure joy for my ears!

[@kakhak]

That is masterpiece

[@LPFreeBackingTracks]

Love this! Thanks

[@katiegoodface8074]

LP Free Backing Tracks john tomlin

[@warrior2on566]

Epic🎉

[@CeeLiberty]

Such happy music!!!❤️

[@bighungry4727]

My cousins in sons of ralph played with him. Rip ralph Lewis

[@fuggedaboudit223]

Does my heart good to know there a great left handed banjo players out there

[@enkimerlin3209]

man what is it about Blue grass that just grabs me man, love this stuff.

[@RonsVideoKeepers]

P E R F E C T !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Baked_Beans301]

Wooooow awesome jam!

[@エンドウアゴニ]

マイクがひとつしか配置されてなくて変わりばんこに場所移動してソロ魅せるってのもなかなか面白いし味があっていいな… 全てがカッコよすぎる……イケメンや……

[@ryand.5857]

Bill Monroe was a wise musician. He surrounded himself with good musicians who could make his playing sound acceptable.

[@kelleymorris6712]

I gotta hear it again.

[@bananaman9634]

good job at your work

[@alexdesslin]

une équipe de pros qui envoie du lourd ! pas des mickeys, ils sont au top !!

[@737tinman]

My soul..

[@jalencollins5112]

My grandma met Bill Monroe in Indiana 1969.

[@TheMainSilverSultan]

Wooooohh! Coookin!

[@lucas_rocker]

So good

[@RCraig-ly7wx]

How they play this fast music so calm...

[@pickinvidders]

Gotta have inner calm to do it well. They're not grumpy; they're concentrating.

[@tylerbrandon460]

Thumb, index, middle, thumb,middle, index, thumb,middle. Repeat

[@bluegrassman3040]

Practice…

[@joseeduardo2417]

Excelente.

[@larryhatfield7372]

I wish someone would put some credits on this , totally professional

[@andrewgillespie8537]

1965, all crowding around that one little microphone!

[@lgomez222]

The guitar player is a young Peter Rowan!

[@DAVIDMILLER-nc9vo]

What's missing? The names of the performers! They deserve to be credited.

[@karenstickney9699]

Happy birthday, Bill.

[@chalked3]

love

[@Wafflecat09]

Classic get'away music

[@jcedwards8363]

The STUFF!!!

[@FBIVIBER]

God dang it joe you left the truck in reverse!!!!

[@KharaGravelyDreams]

My daddy and I connected finally from the “best of bill monroe” age 10

[@lindseywalker6925]

Dang it!!!!! Young Peter Rowan!!!

[@marg6209]

My entire family on daddy's side are pickers still picking in Scott county TN ,ga and bama

[@bible-james4277]

My great great grandfather married Billy Monroe aunt ( vandiver))- they were Monroe's aunt and uncle My Grandpaw's Grandpa

[@chessfun]

guitar was waiting to jump in and never got there

[@soulmacao]

chessfun No. He was just doin the lick at the end of the bars.

[@jaysoper3974]

Mr.Bluegrass who started it all!

[@lindamon8]

Thanks Starboydc, I was wondering who the fellow lefty was.

[@gregorycampagna8138]

This is fucking amazing

[@DdD-pi8jw]

I wonder how hard it was to find a left handed banjo back then? 🤷‍♂️ Great players!!

[@maskcollector6949]

You almost assuredly had to make it yourself. I can barely find a left handed anything nowadays lol. They probably restrung it upside down and replaced the nut.

[@christophers2959]

Hicks love this

[@keeganbluegrass]

bro, you literally upload videos of shopping isles. Nobody likes that

[@mdavisgunter]

This is what they do on their off time.

[@potatortheomnipotentspud]

I can't help but to think of Earthworm Jim riding a rocket to this song.

[@DjVortex-w]

If this sound similar to Foggy Mountain Breakdown it's because that was based on this.

[@kelleymorris6712]

This is the shit I’m talking about. This gives me goose bumps. Bad ass

[@neil5568]

Scotch-Irish Pride!

[@pandaKrusher]

00:51 NOT YOUR TURN YET, PETE, move it

[@cbowenrb75vl]

Pete that's probably because this music is what happens when you mix a heavy amount of Scots Irish music or Celtic as its known now and mix some Southern blues with it and not to mention a lil Mountain style you got Bluegrass.

[@tylerbrandon460]

And African banjo.

[@elliotportner8020]

its wonderful to hear the bottom line--where Ricky got started-and a lot of class

[@uccellino9763]

i met bill monroe in 1962

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

+Uccellino Would like to hear the story , if you have time...

[@erika7674]

Until last night, I'd never heard of Bill Monroe. Reginald D. Hunter's Songs of the South (BBC 4) brought me here! What incredible 'stringmanship'! Interesting to learn that Bluegrass music descended from Irish/Scottish folk music, although the name came from Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys. Who said immigration/emigration is a bad thing?

[@kingjamesbiblebaptistmid-a8043]

Darn good picking son

[@jscottinj]

Bill comes in like hes landing a plane

[@justincabral2403]

YEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!

[@JohnSeattleMando]

AMERICAN MUSIC That is all I want to say.

[@larsfisher820]

YEEEEHHHAAHHH! Country Music On Steroids

[@Camelwrestler]

As energetic and belly-boiling as the fastest hardcore punk rock

[@alastairaardvark8213]

With roots in Ireland & Scotland!!!

[@pookz3067]

bluegrass is also heavily influenced by African American music, so it really is a blend of all that made America.

[@meredithwilliams4671]

@@pookz3067 Yeah, African-American history in the Appalachians seems to be overlooked and erased.

[@djwsam575]

🌹🌹🌹🌹💋💙

[@encyaustin7410]

Great video! However don't think thats the brilliant Bill Keith on banjo (not sure who it is). Gene Lowinger on fiddle, Peter Rowan on guitar.

[@Pickinbuddy]

+nancy austin It's Don Lineberger on banjo--Mr. Monroe's only left handed banjo player on the Bluegrass Boys.

[@BruceGoodwinMI]

Is that Earl playin the 5 string?

[@dgrossiter8610]

No, Don Lineberger (left-handed and a lot younger than Earl). Peter Rowan on guitar, Gene Lowinger on fiddle. James Monroe on bass.

[@consul1957]

Never seen a left-handed Banjo picker before! Funny how this music is similar to Irish music, good stuff.

[@brucetucker4847]

It's no coincidence, many of the original settlers of the Appalachian Mountains were Scotch-Irish and of course they brought their musical traditions with them.

[@musclepunched]

@@brucetucker4847 and English who brought their ballads with them

[@36AccountsBlockedRIP]

Back when TV was bad as f... If this doesn't stir your soul you need urgent help.

[@harryf200]

Generally, I don't like C&W, with only a few exceptions. Some for me is truly cringe-worthy. But bluegrass ... that has me foot-stomping, and envious of the flat-pick guitar and banjo playing. I also like the slow folk ballads, as Doc Watson sang so well. But threaten me with having to sit through an hour of songs like Achee Breaky Heart (sic) or D.I.V.O.R.C.E. .... shoot me now.

[@tylerbrandon460]

Check out Jimmie Driftwood.

[@oldtimetinfoilhatwearer]

Wowwww pete looks young

[@Abc-qs8ir]

Is that Scruggs on banjo?

[@commontater9785]

If you checked around you'd find out pretty quick that Earl Scruggs did not play left handed.

[@CAROLUSPRIMA]

I do believe that’s Bill Yates on bass. Somebody help me out. On second look, no. Maybe James? Yeah. I think so.

[@thesumeriangod5421]

You gave light to ‘Greensky Bluegrass’ They are following y’all footsteps

[@FireypepperCP]

12/29/2018

[@jameswalton9155]

Father of blue grass

[@aw8897]

They all look pissed off

[@dr.know-it-all5148]

They didn't get paid yet.

[@deanhenderson8194]

Rowan's smiling... Grimacing?

[@tylerbrandon460]

@@paulgamble8364 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWHNlaJ4ebN6paM Watch this the look Scruggs gives to the camera is priceless. Such confidence, and charm.

[@krimskrams]

You should check out this, now that's a happy picker righ there kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2LVc2d9i8iFn80

[@whipsnade13]

Concentration.

[@hudsonsteele1674]

That boy with the guitar looked like he was waiting on his turn!

[@cloisterene]

Lefty 🎼

[@peterconklin6614]

Dang that's old

[@chrispickett9820]

Just let us know

[@jeffscott8323]

Makes you want to go out in the middle of the road and dance

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

Brad Keith on that banjo...

[@bluegrassmovie12]

+Patrick O'LAUGHLIN It's Don Lineberger on banjo.... the only lefthander to play for Bill Monroe. Monroe wrote this song, Bluegrass Breakdown, when Earl Scruggs was in the Bluegrass Boys to challenge Earl to keep pace with him. Earl was up to the task (obviously) and when he left Monroe with Lester Flatt, changed the song slightly and titled it Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

Thanks for the info , I appreciate it !

[@olehoundog1]

+Patrick O'LAUGHLIN Don died in a house fire a few years ago-electrical problems-he lived in Valdosta Georgia-I met him several times prior to that.

[@Pickinbuddy]

+Cliff Starr Wow--so sorry to learn of that!

[@TeeyoDoubleDee]

I have always heard Earl co-wrote write this song.