Flatt and Scruggs with Maybelle Carter - You are my flower

[@peppersvnv]

THIS is country music! What in the world happened to genuine, honest, sincere music? Man, I miss it.

[@davidtipsword894]

You could see Lester and Earl really putting on a "Show" for Maybelle! The respect and love they had for her! Love it!

[@mavjimbo]

He and Maybelle smile at each other because he played the solo part flawlessly. He couldn't get it right when they were recording it on an album and they had to use Maybelle to play it instead.

[@davidtipsword894]

@@mavjimbo wow, great info! Such a cool sidenote

[@lcs1956]

@@mavjimbo He misses a note at 1:18 and you can see his reaction.

[@jeanpettry-husk1370]

There is no one like Mother Maybelle Carter.💗✨💫

[@MimiJoys]

Amen!

[@alan4sure]

That lick is such a beautiful lick, not fast, nor especially complex, just beautiful in it's structure and sound.

[@chinnmusic]

Thank goodness we have youtube so we can all get to see this great music Thank you Earl your the best

[@Vikefan7549]

Earl was the greatest picker ever, and this is my favorite song. I found it by accident back in the '70s on an old 8 track bought in a gas station!

[@spricre42]

I give a hell ya, plus a number 10 for dancing with mama on the kitchen floor.

[@frankseabolt9519]

One of the most beautiful songs!

[@TalesfromtheGreenway]

You are my flower that's blooming there for me! Still the happiest song ever.

[@jeanpettry-husk1370]

Beautiful, pure music. It was a gift to grow up with this music.❤️

[@tropicalco2339]

It is.

[@mOYNTdnbzso]

Nice to revisit this every 3 years or so and see it still here.

[@steve7500]

When this music is gone - - - it will all be over. I've listened to this all my life as a boy growing up in Georgia and it means as much to me now as it did then. Before TV,I would sit in front of the radio and listen to Flatt & Scruggs,George Morgan,Eddie Arnold,Roy Acuff and all of them before I went off to school and when I returned home. I would rather listen to this than go out and play.

[@beniceorbegone]

Very sweet of Earl, he was happy that Mama approved. That's what's missing in music today...sweetness.

[@pegcage]

Drew Howard They were good friends.

[@mandoist]

+Drew Howard ...and RESPECT for the pioneers.

[@tropicalco2339]

They're just the best.

[@bobwitkowski6410]

I love that song because it is so easy listening and smooth.

[@tennisbumojai]

That is the sweetest thing....How interesting that they were neighbors. Two of the most revolutionary players ever.

[@eddohman5285]

thank you flatts and scruggs. you made the nitty gritty dirt band for who they are love em. thanks a million.

[@stevelezan4341]

I love this music and it still lives on in my heart and soul. This was real American music.

[@JustAThought155]

This is a very pleasant smooth version but Mother Maybelle KILLED that song!!! Her guitar skills simply cannot be duplicated.

[@bigsarge]

Earl was the greatest banjo player ever but I also loved it when he played the guitar!! So talented!!

[@sponyge]

The Flatt And Scruggs are my favorite bluegrass band.

[@dreadnought45]

It doesn't get any better than this. Ken, Toronto

[@Jm01394]

Perfect country music made by a band of great performers and musicians. Everyone in that band knew of country people and played straight to their hearts.

[@jimmycollette9209]

Love the music and the huge pick guard martins they were playing. Groups like them keeps our heritage alive.

[@Chucker973]

I love this music, it's so simple and peaceful.

[@mavjimbo]

Doesn't get any better than this

[@sawmilljim01]

The music and vocal is so sweet and special. Love it immensely. What a marvelous job of imitating Mother Maybelle's style on guitar. Exquisite !

[@sallykopf]

Thank you, Mr Scruggs. It's been a pleasure.

[@rlb3255]

How could anyone, much less 14 folks not like this?? The best of the best! I've been working on this song for well over a year, and while I can play the tune, I come nowhere close to how Earl and Lester made it sound.

[@packingten]

Why do 14 not like this?? it isn't screaming or drums banging,cursing ,you can understand the words,today's punks are brainwashed by jungle so called music which many years ago a preacher correctly predicted to be the ruination of America...He was right!!

[@bassdewd]

Stop complaining when less than 0.1% of the people who have watched this, dislike it....

[@alfredboudreau3626]

packingten

[@417Dobro]

We been pickin this song and the crowds love it! Soooo coooool!

[@richardmansfield9933]

Superb! Sounds just like Maybelle!

[@mavjimbo]

He worked hard to get the solo part to sound flawless

[@anthonytudino7701]

Now thats what I call really country music

[@BonnieStoner]

So pure and beautiful.

[@georgephillips8050]

That is true country bluegrass music. Awesome!

[@crystalturner192]

such a beautiful song

[@douggillock]

I have listened to this song since I was a kid and I still love it I'm trying to learn it now

[@nancyperin8456]

The music of my childhood. ♥

[@sawmilljim01]

My whole life consisted of this music, whatever happened this awesome music is no longer a glowing factor on one's life? Computers, the fast age are bowling reality under. Ahh, reality will set in soon !

[@PHJimY]

RIP Earl. Had to watch some of your videos today. March 28, 2012.

[@karenkjtigger1204]

wow this song takes back to my childhood as my dad used to sing it to me when I was only 6 years old

[@blu65gibson]

always loved this song,right to faves....blu65

[@pegcage]

These old videos of Lester and Earl on Martha White's Grand Ole Opry Show can be purchased. There are about 6 of them. I have the first 3. I love them.

[@marilynvance2710]

Gary Monday in Rockwood TN was a master at playing this; his heart shone through....he should be recognized

[@santhawhite4755]

Love this!

[@jameslachance8159]

Beautiful..

[@johnhennery8820]

Just love that song ❤❤

[@packingten]

These Guys hands down one of the most important acts ever..Television Stars, Writers Great players a LOT of bluegrass styles came from Flatt and Scruggs Banjo players... what else can be said?

[@frankstecker5675]

Wonderfull bluegrass song.

[@thesjkexperience]

This showed up in a country music playlist by KZbin algorithm. All the other videos are classic 1940s-1950s Country Western

[@OldDogNewTrick]

Such a pure delight.

[@pegcage]

Been said before, but Earl and Maybelle were neighbors and good friends. He said that he learned his guitar style from her.

[@mandoist]

+Mary Cage Earl didn't learn it "from" her. What he meant was he tried to copy her picking style as best he could with fingerpicks. Maybelle mostly used her thumb and index finger.

[@bluegrassmovie12]

He learned this song from her. Earls guitar style is a combination of his banjo picking and Merle Travis type thumbpicking.

[@stringbean9521]

@@bluegrassmovie12 not really hitting the low bass enough to be like Merle, it's closer to Carter style.

[@carlmally6292]

@@stringbean9521 Listen to Are You Washed in the Blood of the Lamb or Paul and Silas or Who Will Sing for Me. On those and a couple of others Earl plays real Travis style picking. This song is closer to banjo picking

[@stringbean9521]

@@carlmally6292 haha I’ve listened to them play those songs so much that I can almost hear every note in my head. Seared in my memory. But you are right

[@moragmacgregor6792]

Can’t lie, after _seeing_ Earl pickin’ that guitar...I’m a little bit in love. The lead is simple but sooo sweet, and Earl had some charisma goin’

[@flautalee3090]

What a terrific video! Thank you so much for posting it!

[@zymelin21]

I used to try to have a go at this tune when I was young picker. not with much success. now after seing the master at work, I will have another go at it.

[@douggillock]

I absolutely love that song ❤️ I'm trying to learn how to pick it

[@Banjobailey98]

God bless them all ❤️

[@ilikefoxesm817]

This only makes me think about the woman I love

[@banjoboy77a]

Exquisite guitar playing, esp. for a TV show...

[@steveb1746]

WOW! 💗GREAT BLUEGRASS

[@kathrynwebster6307]

Too bad no one thought to give Maybelle a break to play a little autoharp solo. She is also a fine autoharp player and legendary in the autoharp community.

[@direfranchement]

I know that she Maybelle made an effort to try to use the autoharp as a soloing instrument after arthritis made guitar playing difficult for her, but the autoharp is NOT suited to soloing.

[@patrickolaughlin6027]

Awesome Joe , thank you !

[@TheAzmountaineer]

Well, Lester's singing and playing rhythm guitar, but Earl is playing that mean lead. I learned to play this song by listening to Earl play it on the Will The Circle Be Unbroken album. RIP, Earl.

[@nickywood3573]

Priceless.

[@BluesHonkey]

maybelle was legendary for NEVER missing a note. man i would kill for that mantle.

[@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

@peppersvnv I agree! This is traditional BLUEGRASS music at its best.

[@MrJasdog107]

Earls guitar playing is awesome

[@baasting]

I love when they look at eachother and laugh! 2:40

[@eteko5335]

ブルークラスが好きでここの所はKZbinでそんな動画を見まくってるよ。 日本じゃ今までブルーグラスが聞けるメディアとか皆無だったよ。 半世紀近く経っていろいろKZbinで聞けるよ。 そんな動画をアップしてくありがとさんです。

[@jerryv.815]

We speak English here Pardner.

[@blackholeentry3489]

That's alright....let him have his say.

[@frankstecker3198]

The best Bluegrass singer all time

[@novocain13]

Good question! I agree 100%!

[@MartinD28V1]

AMEN!!!!!!!! LR.

[@wmoday]

This was one of the songs that Maybelle used a flat pick to play. Maybelle played 3 different styles on guitar (the Carter Scratch - thumb picking melody and one to 2 fingers plying rythm, her flat pick style as on "You are my Flowr", and up pick using her fore finger to pick upward on the higher strings while picking down with thumb as in "The Cannonball Blues". I think that Earl does so well because part of Maybelle's playing came from the fact she also played banjo.

[@kathrynwebster6307]

She was an amazing musician, and of course self-taught. Her guitar playing style has influenced many of the big-name country music stars. A friend named an autoharp "Maybelle" in her honor.

[@humpy936]

GREAT !!! Who the hell hit dislike !!!

[@carollizc]

Obviously someone who needs new glasses, because they couldn't see the "like" button clearly enough. There's certainly nothing to dislike here.

[@asokanponnusamy]

Please don't, they are already suffering in hell without your having to chide them.

[@WoutervanTiel]

+Humpy Old folks who actually love this but they have shaky hands!

[@randalmcmurphy1893]

the grinches dont like anything and like to piss everyone else of to boot.

[@lapboard340]

Mad Maxine waters...?

[@hohopelli]

Take me back.. Please..

[@waynebrown616]

Authentic culture here.

[@rockhard2654]

its when he plays that that desending mother maybelle lick that kinda freaks her out for a second and they all share a glace over it,chet atkins played that lick all over the place for about fifty years. then at the end some one says "thats a great lick"

[@Chyennemarie0813]

Earl does great but on this song Mother Maybelle plays it just a cut above and Earl said that himself.

[@bluegrassmovie12]

He's being modest.

[@zdime]

Agree 1000 % !

[@Alanoffer]

Lester had a great singing voice

[@uopuop]

Beautiful moment at about 2:38. Earl looks at Maybelle as if to apologize for what he just did to her beautiful guitar solo, and she graciously forgives him. ;)

[@johnj7965]

+Sabrina Bonus Yeah--no kidding. I agree with mirage island. That was neat.

[@mavjimbo]

Actually he was smiling because he got it right. He couldn't get it right when they were recording the song for an album so they used Maybelle playing the solo part .

[@rockinredneck57]

@EmotionalResQ It's like getting verification from the master that you're doing it right. She looks as proud as she can be.

[@sponyge]

It stinks that a lot of the episodes from this show are lost and not on dvd.

[@mevisface]

When roasting *Hatch chili's, throw this one *on the playlist.

[@rockhard2654]

you know when you think about ii with all the doc watsons and tony rices, travis, atkins, tommy emanuell,all these new kids who are slapin and popin the strings like micheal hedges or these "drifting" guys it all just boils down to a little old mountain woman with an autoharp and a archtop shes te one who it all sits on

[@Elijah-ki8vo]

I know, nobody could pick like Mama Maybelle, Ol Jerry Reed, Mr Chet Atkins, and Earl Scruggs.

[@cross_fire935]

She wasn't old when she started playing😉

[@loverofcountry506070]

I agree with you entirely!!

[@TheAzmountaineer]

That is Lester's style, with the picks, but he was a rhythm player, a very good one, too. Play the bass note with the thumb, strum up with index finger, sprinkle liberally with the Flatt G-run and a few other single notes. Looks kinda like Carter-style, but lots more forearm movement. He developed the style on his own, while Earl was taught by Mother Maybelle herself. Look up some of the LF-style guitar lessons online and study his style and you'll see the difference. Cheers

[@karlpiepenburg3157]

I thought i could play this song fine til i saw this video

[@wesbellmore6664]

At 1:22:40 when Earl looks at Maybelle….priceless

[@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

This is beautiful. So is the dobro-player in the background :: the very handsome Josh Graves :: also the finest dobro player of all time. Always will be.

[@jwills8606]

Just a quick plug for Jerry Douglas and Mike Auldridge, too. I don't want to get into who's the best, but all of them - Josh, Jerry, Mike just set me free....

[@flatpikinguitar]

they put the martin t-bar. but that wasnt realy a truss rod because it wasnt adjustible. actualy i just noticed a martin logo on the headstock. dont know where the truss rod cover came from

[@burnsvillefiredepartment8014]

cool

[@paullanyi516]

Great work on this, but Maybelle should have been given a little more front and center.

[@tropicalco2339]

That was Lester Flatt singing.

[@TheAzmountaineer]

OK, here's my evidence, prove me wrong. at about:10, the announcer says it's gonna be Earl, taught by Mother Maybelle, who (off camera) apparently agrees. At about :25, you can see fingers PICKING. at about :49, the camera pans out and you see it is Earl. At :50, you see Lester STRUMMING a totally different guitar and singing. Your turn...

[@rockinredneck57]

It's the same guitar. Same pickguard. It's the angle at about 27 seconds that makes it look different.

[@PHJimY]

I once borrowed a D-28 from a friend so my wife could sing You Are My Flower at an open mic. After we finished he said,"I've had that guitar for thirty years and that's the first time the capo's ever been at the 7th fret." Anyone know the story behind Earl's truss rod cover?

[@UAL320]

It’s a Martin, correct? Should there even be a truss rod cover there?

[@larkstreet]

Lester's palying his Martin D-28, Earl is playing a modified- someone gave it an adjustable truss rod- D-18

[@recon4786]

Today is the day I learn Earl can play guitar pretty fine

[@beatapt5]

I don't know who did the work, but apparently Earl had an adjustable truss rod installed on his Martin (D18?) Martins of course, did have a truss rod, but the earlier ones weren't adjustable. Tough if you wanted to use a different guage of string. Even back then, Nashville had master guitar techs that could tear one down to glue and sawdust, and rebuild it.

[@poolpoolification]

they do not show much of mother carter except at 2:39

[@ratherknotty]

Whats wrong with the cameraman? Mother maybelle keeps getting cut out of the shot, its only towards the end he gets her in ( for a few seconds)

[@cheryltrozelle4855]

Well boys, it's not like they can go back and redo it..

[@rasonjason4066]

I'll see if they can redo it 😂

[@tropicalco2339]

Did you hear Lester singing?

[@haanashim]

Hi. You can see Flatt playing Carter style scratch, with finger picks. What you hear corresponds to what you see. I'm not a good finger picker, but I've worked on the Carter scratch and what I see and hear all fits together - Les is NOT playing a rhythm part.

[@warpath58]

Music royalty.

[@youngc570]

Titans.