Dim Lights, Thick Smoke - Foggy Mountain Boys

[@joycepittman4501]

This is what real country music sounds like.

[@williamwright]

Actually, this is Bluegrass

[@beastinthesky6774]

@@williamwright I'd argue that this song is both, with bluegrass being a sub-genre of country and this song in particular having a more country structure and flavor than most of the material that the FMB (and their fellow bluegrass contemporaries) played

[@joannehack7588]

😁

[@nickeldime309]

Amen!!

[@dawsondavis8802]

The best ❤

[@rijden-nu]

Razor sharp harmony... Back when country singers didn't depend 99% on autotune.

[@jensjesfjeld6238]

They couldn't. There was no such thing as autotune. Autotune was a pitch pipe or guitar note. They had to have the ability to actually DO it (which is talent) on request.

[@rijden-nu]

@@jensjesfjeld6238 that was kind of my point as well :)

[@tedpeterson1156]

They sure liked the Reverb though! They recorded this pretty well. The sound of these guys over a big console radio must have been great. On clear nights you could hear Grand Old Opry 6 states away

[@larryteager6382]

Its special when real people make wonderful music!

[@Johnny-xw7mf]

Real Country Music 🎶🎶🎶 wooooooo 🎶🎶🎶 wooooooo Johnny from Alabama 🎶🎶🎶

[@petermcculloch4933]

Country music has such a rich history.

[@steveng1624]

Now that's some good country music... 😊

[@Jonathan-wm1cu]

What a great song and sound. I love it.

[@CowboySpaceHermit]

Based⚔️. Even more relevant in today’s time; sonically and lyrically.

[@1coopjsn]

I could listen to Curly play those fiddle breaks all night. So good.

[@fullshark09]

Curly playing fiddle breaks? where?

[@1coopjsn]

@@fullshark09 Who is that playing - Paul Warren? Tears a good one 2 minutes in.

[@fullshark09]

@@1coopjsn that's it hehe, he sure takes the whole thing up one notch with his breaks. Fun fact: apparently, his skills on the fiddle earned him a better treatment as a prisoner for the germans in Africa.

[@rachelmiller9019]

Great love Lester Flatt

[@johnthetrekker]

These guys are the best.

[@clintwalls5217]

Lester & Earl!!..Jed Clampett & Daisy Moses Approved👍👍🙏😊

[@rachelmiller9019]

Great music, the best

[@johnnyvaldez7413]

What a group!!! What a group,,,come on again,,, barn dance music of yesteryear...😘🍒☺

[@andreao5804]

Thank you so much for posting this! I have a 14YO daughter who appreciates this so much.

[@alan4sure]

How about at 18 now?

[@Allen2]

The original hand written sheet music is on display at the Country music hall of fame.

[@raymontgomery3880]

Great Blue Grass Guys..........

[@briscoedarling3237]

I love how ol’ Lester feels the need to remind the audience what the title of the song is once it ends.

[@beastinthesky6774]

You've got to admire his over-the-top, military-grade professionalism.

[@Ggreg1962]

That's a mighty fine, a mighty fine!

[@cathys949]

I love the acoustic steel guitar!

[@jessebfly]

Preach it Foggy Mtn Boys!

[@jjkcharlie]

My grandpas daily routine. Fiddle Bible Hotcakes.

[@ronjohnson3695]

The country music community owes a great deal of thanks to the Carter family that made an all day trek from clinch mountain in Virginia to Bristal Tennessee to record that first country song on a record " bury me under the weeping willow tree. Sadly country has seen a murder on music row.

[@lemmykilmister9979]

God I love Lester Flatt

[@bavlen]

Great performance. I especially like Earl's trademark vamping.

[@williamwright]

Vamping? Explain?

[@esa6321]

@@williamwright Did you ever find it out?

[@briscoedarling3237]

Alls they need is my good juggin’ on this tune…

[@richardpatureau3980]

I have sang this song a thousand times but never as good as Lester.

[@iragitlin7549]

No shame in that. I mean, who ever has, eh?

[@davidshirley712]

You obviously haven't heard Daryle Singletary.🤔

[@barbarakaminski1695]

That HIGH LONESOME

[@scottfleming2166]

Lester really knew how to sing a song

[@tedpeterson1156]

This was recorded pretty well, I can hear it blasting over WSM in my mind, it probably was.

[@hiccup17mark84]

I live Vern Gosdin version

[@davidgottlieb531]

Written by Joe Maphis recalling his attendance at a small club in Bakersfield where he saw a group that featured a guy named Buck Owens.

[@goldsmithstudent]

Joe was a badass!!! What a talent

[@jameshepburn4631]

Joe always said he wrote it in his head on the way back to LA. from Bakersfield. In the early 1950’s there was no I-5 Freeway. The old “grapevine” road through the hills to the L.A. basin would have taken about two hours, obviously enough time for Joe to come up with a classic.

[@gitterplayr]

Never knew that Lester used a thumb and finger pick. Big guitar sound on this track.

[@raymondcomeau8780]

C'est beau!

[@tedellis2000]

Uncle Josh Graves on Dobro, another instrumentalist trail-breaker.

[@bjohnson1489]

They were in their thirtys tough living

[@ncbloom]

we wont see their like again

[@wesgoforth5644]

Curly Steckler on mandolin 🤗

[@joannehack7588]

💟

[@gwenjose8008]

More more

[@tedellis2000]

I learned to play Dobro from the terrific Mike Auldridge, who was greatly influenced by Josh Graves, as am I.

[@davehostetter6036]

Good old boys

[@jameshepburn4631]

It’s a little before my time but I’m about 90% sure Flatt & Scruggs were the first to record this classic written by Joe Maphis, the all time great guitarist famous for awesome picking on his double neck Mosrite. Joe & Rose Lee, his wife and singing partner, didn’t record it themselves until about two years later in 1954. Their version and the F&S version are both head and shoulders better than any others including the cuts by Gosdin, Wagoner, & Twitty.

[@GoldenbanjoDJ]

cool AF

[@lindseywalker6925]

Seriously, did Curly ever make a noise outta that gourd?

[@banjosforbreakfast6086]

Jake laying down the law on that bass❤️

[@Asscobra916]

I love his playing. Simple but creative. He’s one of my favorite bassists.

[@lindseywalker6925]

Paul Warren spent 3 year's as a POW in Germany. Who knew that?

[@carvinlambert6899]

Raised on Pet Milk and Bluegrass music!!!

[@jameshepburn4631]

And Martha White flour.

[@danausmus9807]

Lester let the g-run rest on this song.

[@RoderickEmanuel-m7d]

Fuggy mountain boys

[@countryboy-bu4ek]

What kinda ties are them

[@ElNinoDeLaFrontera]

Colonel ties.

[@keithmcintyre2918]

String tie

[@ericholt5954]

Hell fire boys. Girls are sweet. Don't you know nothin'?

[@stevenchandler3409]

And there not covered in tattoos either

[@wiscgaloot]

AKA Flatt and Scruggs, bluegrass legends! I'm surprised to see Lester playing in open E without a capo, that isn't very common in bluegrass.

[@iragitlin7549]

He did that a lot. Check out video of F&S playing "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down". They played it in F, so the chords are D-G-C-F. Pretty straightforward, right? But Lester capo'd at fret 1 and played C#7-F#-B7-E!

[@valeriespivey8051]

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[@hiccup17mark84]

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