The History Of Country Music 03 Bill Monroe

This third part deals mainly with the bluegrass sound of Bill Monroe. Due to copyright issues, there are chunks of great footage missing. However, if you are living outside the U.K. you may be able to access the fuller version at sergeantritzig This would be version 03a

[@alexpetro271]

I cannot stop watching the part with Mabele and Sarah Carter over and over again. notice how hard the wind is blowing in the background. Is really beautiful.

[@JohnnyBananas0]

These are so interesting! Its amazing that there isn't even a comment on this and under 100 views! This is such a insight into american music. Thanks for the share!

[@flautalee3090]

Earl Scruggs ~ what an astonishing banjo picker.

[@flautalee3090]

By adding his middle finger to his to his 2 (thumb and pointer) finger picking style to become a 3 finger style, Earl Scruggs made an extraordinarily fast tempo possible in banjo playing. Thus the banjo became a lead instrument, along with fiddle, guitar as played by Mother Maybelle Carter," and the mandolin. And gifted musicians such as Earl Carter and Maybelle Carter found these sounds out themselves, and then other players imitated them.

[@waltwilliams7063]

watching scruggs' fingers is almost hypnotic.

[@rogeralsop3479]

Wonderful American music!

[@gaylegreene]

Went to Bluegrass Festivals in the 70s it was a great time

[@elsenorgatito]

I subscribed to you and hope that all of your hundreds of videos are this great. I'll definitely bring the changing of country music against those annoying people who always say that today's music (country or otherwise) sucks.

[@derbalawson4721]

very smart ppl here finally adults

[@jnholland006]

at 9:46 with Dr Raplh Stanley you'll see a young Keith Whitley

[@briartlaw]

This is great thanks again..

[@edejan]

Well, sorry Bill Monroe was a jerk, but I sure do love his music (and all bluegrass really). Thanks for this great historical vid!

[@jwardlow36]

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[@ustheserfs]

Geniuses often are

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

@@ustheserfsagreed👍👍

[@mathewhaynes3691]

I love a British narrator telling me about America. Weird

[@pitchforkpeasant6219]

😂. Couldn’t agree more. 👍👍

[@ratherknotty]

I am a fan of Bill Monroe's music, but I think Ricky Skaggs is wrong. I think Country music would be exactly where it is today even without Bill Monroe because the real New Sound was thanks to Earl Scruggs banjo style!!, thats when everybody sat up and took notice,and thats really the only way banjo is played to this day!!! At most, Bill Monroe gave the music its name, Bluegrass, though the same style of music goes way back without a name and without change.

[@YIproductions]

You're wrong. You should read Can't You Hear Me Callin'. Bill Monroe had a huge influence on a ton of different musicians including Elvis.

[@ratherknotty]

YIproductions Hello, yes Bill Monroe DID have a huge influence on many, I started my comment admitting I, too,am a fan of his. BUT, at the time, his music was not vastly different from, say, The Skillet Lickers, The step change was most certainly Earl Scruggs banjo style. Bill never went back to his previous line up did he? when Scruggs left the band Bill was quick to find another banjo player that had learned Scruggs' style!

[@YIproductions]

i never questioned your fandom of bill monroe. i wasnt slighting earl scruggs cause i am a huge fan of his and he also played a huge role in the invention of bluegrass. but you have to give bill monroe credit where credit is due. It was Bill Monroe who hired Scruggs and made the banjo style popular by performing with scruggs in his band on the opry. Bill monroe's contribution is way more than giving the music its name. If several big name artists cite Bill Monroe as their influence you can bet that their music would sound different if they had never heard him. its impossible to say that music would be exactly where it is today without any one person. let alone someone as giant as Bill Monroe

[@craiggleason8386]

Lester Flatt doesn't get his due here

[@Pentagonshark666]

IF you played Bill Monroe's band you'd expected to do farm work in offroad moments.He was jerk yes, but a great musician.

[@bobcrestwood740]

Bill Monroe was a jerk, and it's not him who made bluegrass, it was the banjo style of Earl Scruggs. But when Scruggs says he developed the style at age 10, that may not be true either. There were 3-finger banjo pickers like Snuffy Jenkins in the area where Scruggs grew up, that sounded similar. He may have taken that and tweaked it a little bit to get his particular sound.

[@highlonesomebluegrass8286]

Thank you, someone actually knows the truth