Don Reno and The Tennessee Cut-Ups- May 26, 1978

Don Reno and The Tennessee Cut-Ups- May 26, 1978
Don Reno- banjo/guitar
Don Wayne Reno- banjo
Dale Reno- mandolin
Bonny Beverly- fiddle
Steve Wilson- dobro/bass

[@jeanneannvalfre9581]

Good music always stands tall……..Mr.Reno had a way with all music. We are lucky to share time together……☮️🔛🌎

[@JimmyDeLocke]

Don Reno was HOT !! The first bluegrass album I ever bought was Reno and Smiley Bluegrass Instrumentals. Changed my life.

[@boblackey1]

I probably have that album too. It's got a different twist on Cripple Creek on it if it's the same one.

[@poisonwater7241]

Man this was good! Just down to earth picking and grinning and on this one Don't boys were showing that they are just Renos and a chip off the block!

[@keeganbluegrass]

could flatpick better than anyone, even on something like Freight Train Boogie, he spices it up.

[@Cj12sings]

Fantastic.. Thanks for posting this ... brings back so many memories..!!!!

[@RodneyGuitarsplat]

Fantastic family band Bluegrass !!!

[@JoeBanjo88]

that is one sparkly banjo!

[@johnluttrell5305]

Shame there's no fiddler in this ensemble, but Don Reno almost makes up for it. In his heyday, he was the only banjo talent who could match Earl Scruggs for virtuosity. This video is nearly priceless, in my estimation.

[@renoman]

Don explains that Buck Ryan is sick in the beginning. Don switches to guitar and Bonny Beverly plays the fiddle at the very end.

[@paulgamble8364]

Earl Scruggs couldn't tune Don Reno's banjo

[@leaddispenser9]

@@paulgamble8364 lol I personally think don was better myself! Just think if he never went in the army

[@boblackey1]

@@leaddispenser9 I think Bill Monroe tried to hire Don before he hired Earl but he went into the army. Don and Earl use to hang around the Morris Brothers of Salty Dog fame long before either became famous. Don said he and Earl would be at some of the same shows and Don thought both of them were playing like Snuffy Jenkins back then. When Don got out of the Army people began telling him he sounded like Earl Scruggs. Don said he heard Earl on the radio with Bill Monroe and he played Cumberland Gap and Earl did sound really good. Don said he and Earl both liked Snuffy Jenkins and Earl had refined that 3 finger roll and got there first so Don wanted to have his own style so he came up with the Reno technique with single string runs and two finger runs incorporated with the 3 finger roll. Don came up with runs on the banjo nobody but Don was doing. Also Don was an excellent flat top guitar picker. Don use to play 5 days a week in my hometown and he was a fine man too and a real nice man. Earl and Ralph Stanley also appeared at some of the festivals we attended back in the late 50s and 60s and there was no jealousy I knew about. Don, Earl and Ralph and several other banjo pickers seem to be real good friends. I've got some old pictures of Don and Ralph together, Don standing next to Lester and Earl, Don with Sonny Osborne. Oh Don and Arthur Smith. I lived in Bristol in the 1960s and knew a barber who played fiddle and he was at WCYB radio in the late 40's when Don talked Earl into swapping banjos. That banjo Earl played on all those Flatt and Scruggs Martha White TV shows used to be Don Reno's banjo.

[@renoman]

I wrote about Don and Earl in one of my Reno Workshop articles for Banjo Newsletter. banjonews.com/2010-08/licks_and_letters.html

[@joshuaevans7614]

Don Reno, Dale Reno, Don Wayne Reno.

[@charlesvogler7341]

Good Bluegrass music...

[@davycrokett3862]

Thanks jason

[@martincpeterson]

wonderful

[@gatorslayer]

Interesting, both Don and Don Wayne are playing Stelling banjos.

[@banjodummy2248]

Thanks Jason but Bonny Beverly plays Guitar or is it a big Fiddle? 🙃 - Okay Guitar & Fiddle