Johnson Mountain Boys - Duncan and Brady

[@LoneWolfPete]

Always loved the Johnson Mountain Boys. In my opinion they were one of the best bluegrass bands ever. As for the tune "Duncan and Brady" I give them two thumbs up!

[@ChetSmithChannel]

one of the best traditional bluegrass bands of all time seen them many times

[@kennethhaley451]

I used to watch them 30 yrs ago in Rockville Md

[@johnnyvannoy7180]

Love me some Johnson Mountain Boys !

[@eightapeach2861]

Hand's down, my favorite bluegrass band of all time

[@MarleneThompson-h8c]

Luv this song. Oh such a great song and great singers❤️Wonderful harmony

[@carley743]

Love these guys and their singing..❤

[@tonehunter]

One of my favorite groups that ever played!

[@RosyB9]

Great GREAT band!!! Especially love Dudley's voice, Eddy's fiddle and Dave McLaughlin's mandolin. Local boys too (DC/Nova).

[@border1000]

It don't get no better than this. Love It!!!!!! Damn

[@5strRJB]

JMB was the most exciting group I ever saw !! Power in everything they did.

[@timscruggs3631]

One of the very best

[@wiidlbeetle3857]

I had this song on a bluegrass compilation cd 15 years ago and just found this song again today.I love this song! Thanks for making it available!

[@brucetoo3294]

Dave van Ronk recorded it too.

[@OutdoorsygalO]

I always have loved this song!

[@josephbrosk4384]

And now members of the IBMA Hall of Fame!

[@michaelelliott1212]

Love it. It's a throwback. Thank you J.M.B.

[@ronmercer6880]

Seen these guys live in the seventies at Pineridge Bluegrass Association, in Oshawa Ontario, Canada...

[@bazthehandyman]

They are awesome....first saw them in UK must be 25 years ago.

[@LordFaulkin]

Awesome! This had to be a blast!

[@2quattro8]

awesome...thanks for posting

[@TierodMcslush]

sounds so good...

[@jennycarney1217]

King Brady is our great grandfather... My bother just sent all of us this tune.

[@whipsnade13]

Wow, what a great band! "Blue Diamond" is my favorite release by the JMB. Great stuff.

[@grege9019]

Eddy Stubbs about to saw that fiddle in two!

[@CarlDRocco]

I was about 15 yrs old (a guitar/banjo player) when me and my friend (mandolin/guitar player) got to see them in a bar/restaurant environment rather than the normal bluegrass festivals. Eddy Stubbs walked up to us and said "It's great to see young people like you guys having an interest in the music". We were speechless at first, but then chatted for awhile with him while they were on intermission. What a great band!

[@AlexColberg]

Once long ago I went to an outdoor Bluegrass concert featuring the JMB. I looked like a scruffy hippie, and got some flack about that from a few Bluegrass fans. After the JMB's performance I worked up the nerve to go up to them and say HI, and a few of the Boys had their guard up, which I was used to. But Eddy could not have been more friendly. He treated me like I was a normal person, which of course I was inside. He was not fazed one bit by my outward appearance.

[@tubemagpie]

First heard this song on my first LP....Leadbelly

[@sav1028]

Tom continues to make his home in Adams County, Pennsylvania (Gettysburg area). Unfortunately his banjo playing has suffered due to his struggle with focal hand dystonia, a neurological disease for which there is currently no cure. I've met Tom and jammed with him several times during my time in Gettysburg, he's a class act.

[@tomraw4893]

loved it...fantastic

[@FoxRunMan]

Fantastic!

[@letwinke]

Love Tom and his Goldstar GF-100W!!!

[@debbyharrison9198]

Fantastic

[@jeffbc]

Awesome!!!

[@arthurogle7581]

Nobody can accuse Bg bands of only recording new tunes. This was written in 1923. Adams (the banjo playet) only uses his thumb and Mr Pointer finger to play. Still nails tunes.

[@billeverett429]

Tom Adams was using the normal three finger style at this point. It wasn't until later he started using the two finger style because of pain in his hand.

[@redlinemando]

@@billeverett429 He has focal dystonia. It's a neurological disease that many great musicians have struggled with. From what little I know about it, there are certain receptors in the brain that misfire signals to the muscles. In banjo players, it most commonly seems to go after the index or middle finger in the right hand. Couple these symptoms with the onset of arthritis in older years & it can stop a great musician's career. I would imagine that it causes some pretty nasty depression as well. They make special gloves designed to lessen the severity, but currently, there is no cure. Although he was never diagnosed, to my knowledge, I believe that Tony Rice may have suffered from this as well.

[@border1000]

you got that right. He's a very nice man also.

[@tunderbomber]

I shouldn't be watching this. I play the mandolin and face reality after watching this guy. Thanx fr posting still.

[@grassshadow1]

Epic mustache for the win !

[@iragitlin7549]

LOL!

[@81kentboy]

cleaner than glass

[@Mar10Guitar]

Yes, that is a hard one to argue! Dudley is absolutely one of the best! On their version of the Blue Yodel #3, he sings the breaks off that, better than Monroe ever thought of sounding, with all respect to the Father of Bluegrass.

[@redfoley9608]

Shame on you. Repent.

[@JanJohanssonmusic]

Now , that is some stout bluegrass

[@nasty5oh]

Nice

[@SpiiderOK]

Dave Van Ronk does a good version too

[@Mar10Guitar]

boo-yow! Dudley is the man

[@6412mars]

McLaughlin...Look at me!😂

[@riverbelle81]

They were definitely one of the better "newer" Bluegrass acts. I flippin' LOVE Eddie Stubbs.

[@paulhaas1355]

Is Eddie Stubbs gone by the time this song come out? Daniel Prayed is my all time favorite by this group.

[@iragitlin7549]

They issued this on the album "Blue Diamond" in 1993. Eddie continued to play the occasional show with them for about two years after that.

[@redlinemando]

@@iragitlin7549 It's rumored within bluegrass road musician circles, that Eddie & Dudley had a major disagreement at some point & it finally reached a boiling point. I never heard any hints as to what is was all about, but I've heard some live sets where they dig at each other pretty hard over the mic.

[@VesaGuardian]

Real honest to god bluegrass!

[@rmckenna6828]

Along came elon in his electric car, love these gentlemen👍👍

[@brownie134]

the banjo rift at 1:30 is siiickkkk. no tabs for it ANYWHERE!!!

[@redlinemando]

Tom Addams has some banjo videos on YT. His channel name is banjothink.

[@pbkahuna1]

I wonder if anyone has the banjo tab for this ? If so I would love to have it. Peter

[@redlinemando]

Tom Addams has some banjo videos on YT. His channel name is banjothink. If anyone has done the tabs for it, I would start there first.

[@brownie134]

Dave Van Ronk

[@Cookecap]

just curious as to what you mean....the whole break? the break starts a second or two after 1:30.......Mr. Adams is a fine banjo player indeed!!!

[@TruegrassBoy]

Would have been better with Richard Ynderwood standing there, but still 5 star. FYI, if you liked this video, check out: "The Out Of Town Boys"!

[@iragitlin7549]

Richard was great. Tom was great.

[@torsch69]

Thank you WAMU for introducing me to this band (back in the day).

[@dannyseal5777]

I c don't want nothing but your love

[@benwitt1]

@derby45 well maybe.....next to Bill Monroe

[@KarenHlly]

I would comment...but my feet aren't on the ground...and they won't be for quite awhile.

[@TheAssholebullshit]

and carter

[@TaylorLabreche]

What a moustache.

[@ExiledPiasa]

Bust into the wrong rec room, see what happens. St Louis don’t fool around

[@rickkeogh1163]

Great version - but Tom Rush does the best one

[@redfoley9608]

❤❤❤❤❤Fack. Dudley used to be good.

[@johnnyvannoy7180]

Love me some Johnson Mountain Boys !