Sierra Hull & The Boxcars, Big Spike Hammer

[@michaelmullins1290]

This video has so much fun going on. I have to watch it every time it comes up.

[@userjones3399]

I love it when two monster banjo players work together and not step on each other. Wish more people in local jams would understand that concept.

[@oldwest517]

That's part of what is great about bluegrass music. It is a community thing, even up on a stage, and not a stiff performance. This is a jam session with incredibly talented players --- fun for them, fun for us. They would play the same way if thousands of people were there or no one were there.

[@MisterSchlomah]

I also wanted to comment on Clay's incredible musical ability. The first break after the second chorus, everyone just kinda stood there looking at each other for a second like "Ok, so who's going to take a break???" then after several seconds of silence go by Clay steps up, picks up where the break was supposed to be and doesn't miss a beat. Gotta love it! These guys are great!

[@strawman8]

Sierra Hull shows why she is a mandolin protégé and has awesome vocals as she shares the stage with Adam Steffey,Ron Block, Clay Hess Ron Stewart and John Bowman. Thanks for sharin.

[@paul45brewer]

I'm sure you really mean prodigy; a protégé is something quite different.

[@rtpjavaman]

And in fact she's not either one any more. She USED to be a prodigy, now she's a fully-realized world-class musician: mandolin, voice, song-writing, producing, and overall enhancing the world through music.

[@virginiatrailcameravideos]

I love watching Ron Block and the other banjo player (not sure of name) go back and forth on licks. I love that lick around the 2:51 mark from the player in the back. Cool!

[@userjones3399]

That banjo player in the back is not only one of the bluegrass foremost banjo players, he is a monster fiddle player too. His name is Ron Stewart.

[@tomegee55]

It just speaks to the selfless camaraderie and community which is American Bluegrass music.

[@housestringbandcharlietew5162]

Great sound and Sierra is just a treasure to hear on the mando. charlie tew, raleigh,nc

[@TheBanjoFlyBoy]

I was lucky to be there inside the Cumberland Caverns to hear these two bands live. Great Show!! They joined forces at the end.

[@rpgershelton199]

Sierra is amazing.I saw her at the Capital Theatre in Greeneville,Tn in December with Barry Bales and friends.Great concert

[@markwilliams8532]

i just don't know where to begin to say how much she blows me away. so young and up there with others that have been playing way longer

[@cHUCHo458]

I see Sierra play and I simply melt!

[@jamesbockenstette4332]

Clay killed the guitar blast. Love it. Ron Block is amazing.

[@marcthebeau]

Sierra’s break is just plain awesome!

[@FrOblivious]

Just saw both of these bands in Portland yesterday. Sooooo much talent between the two!

[@gunner16ga]

real music still is alive as is hopes for new talent , the best and luv the setting

[@yonderboogey]

oh my god!!!!!!!!!!! sierras voice is so beautiful!!! there is still hope for bluegrass

[@billdmusician]

Great session!

[@kent9311]

great musicians on this recording and well played. i enjoyed!

[@balerick48]

I sooooo wish I had been there to hear it live!

[@bobcole8516]

Adam Steffey gettin DOWN!! Lol literally and with a mandolin. It’s about a tossup which break sounded the best between his and Sierra’s....

[@joeseay2883]

Ron Block: legend.

[@grammymoody]

I have heard this song, "Big Spike Hammer' performed sooooo many ways, here it is a little different too.

[@teakbridge101]

God d**n, Ron Stewart lays the sh#$ down!!!!

[@JimAdams_banjo]

Wow! That's a lot of people on that stage...watch yer step folks!

[@alexanderleeart]

Wow is that actually a cave? That is really cool

[@1madeintheimage]

@rocmaven He's coming to Washinton in Dec. for wintergrass!

[@honeyman1964]

@theGisforGravy1 yeah,they are having a good time,they are funny things going on,enjoying theirselve's.

[@heinzfrei965]

Sensationell

[@Fiddlemama]

I agree with Julia...EPIC!!!

[@guitartec]

Just saw Sierra at Grand Ole Opry a few weeks ago. If I weren't fat, bald, old and poor, I'd ask her to marry me.

[@TheIndyspace]

guitartec That's fine...I'm asking Sarah Jarosz...I'm not fat or bald, so I think I've got a chance...LOL.

[@guitartec]

I still feel I have a chance, and my wife feels the same way.

[@kent9311]

shoot, don't let that stop you. you didn't mention ugly so i'm sure you're quite a catch. i have all your great qualities and have to add mentally challenged and ugly to my description. i guess it could be worse but i don't want to think about it.

[@jacksprat9052]

Underground. Some men spent most of their lives underground, for the sake of the wife and children. Suckers, yes. But the best kind. Bless 'em.

[@darmp64]

pickin bluegrass in a cave,i gotta see that,wheres that place at!?

[@vcp430]

@MegaBigdodge Collings D3, I believe.

[@redsonya11111]

sweet

[@tomegee55]

@hallmark498 - Lots of power in a petite little package!

[@MisterSchlomah]

I wonder if Keith meant to sing the second verse again... Even the pros make boo-boos sometimes! They were having a blast though, that's what I like to see.

[@flatpikinguitar]

@MegaBigdodge Its a Adi/Mahogany Rick Hayes dreadnaught.

[@shamoo58]

HAY DELLA GET THE PICTURE

[@tomegee55]

It would seem the boys are making good-natured fun of Sierra's vertically-challenged stature (3:16)!!

[@ocmsshow]

@darmp64 Cumberland Caverns.

[@bluegrass2007]

SUN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@danielcarlson5380]

um…Ron Block, though a great flat picker, is the banjo player on this vjd, 4 what it's worth

[@michaelkaplan3827]

it is not exactly an osborne classic. it is an older song than that. certainly flatt and scruggs did it before. i don't really know if it is even original to them.

[@philroettjer5558]

It is an Osborne classic. Bobby Osborne wrote it.

[@nasty5oh]

You can't find two better banjo players...

[@TheBibleWitness]

Are you trying to imply that they shouldn't have a good time?

[@markwilliams8532]

she can"t help stsnding out with what she doe

[@markwilliams8532]

she

[@USAbzdur]

fine musicians together on one stage -- but why the pedestrian tempo? too slow -- and solos lack inspiration and soul, including Hull's cautious overly-refined work. And why oh why is she guffawing on stage when the singers are trying to engage the audience with the song? I thought the audience comes first -- not the musicians and their egos. Maybe it's ok so long as you're a cute young thang....

[@alan4sure]

+USAbzdur If you don't enjoy it, go watch something else. The rest of us loved it!