Masters Of Bluegrass - Fireball

The Masters: Josh Graves - dobro, Jesse McReynolds - mandolin, Kenny Baker - fiddle, Eddie Adcock - banjo, Martha Adcock - guitar, Billy Troy - guitar, Jeff Teague - drums, Missy Raines - bass

[@chadmashburn1248]

Josh was and always be my favorite.

[@maverickdallas100]

Back in the late 80's I had the privilege of backing up Josh and Kenny with my banjo at a couple of the festivals that we hosted in PA. That was an experience I'll never forget! The Flatt & Scruggs recordings with Josh Graves inspired me to learn the banjo and Dobro. Kenny is also one of my favorite fiddlers. I dearly miss them both!

[@carpediemus]

Fantastic banjo picking by Eddie Adcock

[@unclejosh1955]

I got to play bass for him and Kenny off and on when they were in ohio and indiana.They were two fun fellers to work with and Josh was my dobro teacher to boot.A good man and wonderful teacher!

[@deweybowser796]

This band does not miss beat ,, way go, sounds great

[@dlagrua]

Some real excellent bluegrass there. All first class instrumentalists and one as good as the next. Must say that Missy Raines keeping perfect time with these guys at hyper speed on an upright bass fiddle is an achievement. While there are many good bluegrass players few can match Missy Raines on Bass

[@RonjaGM]

Great bluegrass :)

[@kimsings]

Great video! One of my favorite tunes of his and brings back memories for sure. I worked for Josh Graves playing guitar and singing for about a year and a half after he first went solo. He was a great guy and certainly the greatest bluegrass dobro player as well as an original. Wish he was alive and well and still playing.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

Great.... love dobro

[@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

@brotherhamlet ::: Thanks for posting. I love Josh Graves - so thanks again !!!

[@moonstruck40]

Oh dear ... Michael Finch, I believe you may not really be very familiar with Eddie Adcock's playing (of which, at this writing, there are more than 60 years of recordings to have heard, not to mention thousands of live shows) or you would realize that Eddie's playing is much more encompassing than what you have decided upon as being "characteristic" of him. But Eddie's music is indeed "home-grown", as you call it, in that it arises from within. And while direct exterior influences never penetrate, only inspiration may filter in. He has continually evolved musically, growing and expanding while not leaving anything of his behind. I can tell you that his creativity never seems to stop; and in fishing in his personal 'river of music' he has landed an enormous wealth of ideas to express on his banjo and guitar. Even while waiting for his brain surgery to take effect, he was writing new tunes, telling me that he couldn't wait to hear how they were "supposed to sound"! By the way, to shortchange Bluegrass music itself by denigrating "that 'melodic banjo' stuff that was so in fashion in the '80s" and downplaying its place in the music's history is akin to trying to amend the family tree to your own liking. That, and claiming that "[the] '80s were just kind of an aberrant time for traditional music in a lot of ways" has you and your fellow poster/ideologue Jonathan Rigsby short-sightedly barking up the wrong tree, I'm afraid. The perspective on Bluegrass from the vantage point of a couple hundred years hence will be interesting, no doubt. We're all entitled to our opinions, and the desire to disseminate them seems to be nearly universal; but rewriting history at any point is ill-advised, and distasteful at best.

[@dged492]

You nailed it Martha. The commentator is not conversant with the range of Eddie’s playing. He is among the exalted pantheon of banjo players in terms of uniqueness and innovation: Scruggs, Reno, Keith/Thompson, and Eddie. I tried writing about this for the Wikipedia entry, and the sage editors in their pajamas edited it all out. Twice. Gave up. Very much enjoyed chatting with you and my banjo idol several years ago at a house show in Naples, Florida. You and Eddie were surprised that there was someone still around who attended the Country Gentlemen Carnegie Hall concert in 1961. Best to you both.

[@Pickinbuddy]

Everybody on this band was at the top of their game when this was recorded. PS: This was on Austin City Limits

[@olivetg1]

@pyrofella In Oct 1985 I went to Madison TN. to drive for Josh and Kenny for about a month. What a fantastic couple of guys...funny too...I heard alot of experinces with Flatt & Scruggs and Bill Monroe. It wasn't all fun...Sitting in Josh's kitchen drinking coffee when Earl Scruggs wife Louise called to tell us that Merle Watson had been killed...Will never forget that.

[@Pickernik]

THAT's how it's done, son.

[@1banjrpkr]

Well, I just gotta humbly say that, my Dad's dobro playin cousin put me in my place one Saturday afternoon with this very song. ( about 1998-9) In Livingston,TN

[@dufus2273]

the finest in the world.

[@moonstruck40]

The date of 1987 seems wrong... not sure where that came from. I believe the Masters debuted on Austin City Limits on March 2, 1991.

[@ThompsonSmith0044]

Hello Martha How are you doing today?

[@CARROLLCTYDOBROGIRL]

Uncle Josh LOOKS as great as he picks !

[@PLINKER]

Wow talk about masters! All!

[@garoglen]

I saw the whole show on Austin City Limits on two different occasions , A GREAT Show , Eddy Adcock played the guitar on one , he was great, they did one called Louisiana fish fry that I haven't been able to find words to or any other recording .

[@garoglen]

I found it ! I found it ! This video is only the end of the original performance , here it is , kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKfPdqp3qJynmtE

[@nasty5oh]

Great video !

[@donrumsey4744]

Josh Graves tearing up the Dobro on "Fireball" and you are complaining about drums? By the way, what instrument do you play? I play guitar and mandolin in a Bluegrass band and I am not offended in the least by the drums in this cut. It's all good!

[@timgraves1600]

Bluegrass had drums on this one Jonathan.

[@joluttringer4450]

I discover this video only today, december 31, 2018 Great !!! Happy New Year and God bless you, brotherhamlet. From France : Jo Luttringer

[@brotherhamlet]

Thank you for finding this one. A Happy New Year to you.

[@stevenhearrell1564]

Josh has a machine of a right hand.

[@sonyasutton6200]

Awesome!!!!

[@ThompsonSmith0044]

Hello Sonya How are you doing today?

[@hoteisan1317]

シェアさせて戴きます。

[@stevem3048]

Super

[@davediamond7228]

nice

[@AungusMacgyver]

This would be NEWgrass NOT BLUEGRASS, if Bill Monroe had drums in The Bluegrass Boys, I would say this was Bluegrass, BUT HE DIDN'T!

[@cbdaniels48]

Jonathan Rigsby Bill Monroe had at one time and accordion an organ and various other non-bluegrass instruments. Is that not Bluegrass?

[@jackiewilburn3063]

Hey are you the same Rigsby who plays for Ralph II?

[@AungusMacgyver]

REAL bluegrass music doesn't have DRUMS!!!

[@TheGoblintrain]

Always loved that tune, but i wish Eddie Adcock had done something more characteristic of his own home-grown style instead of that "melodic banjo" stuff that was so in fashion in the '80s. '80s were just kind of an aberrant time for traditional music in a lot of ways.

[@dged492]

He’s playing a mixture of styles, and his melodic riffs have that Adcock unique spin. What is “characteristic” about his playing is that it can’t be characterized.

[@HighrockTendales]

I disagree

[@anjetgrinding1668]

nice