Stringbean 20 cent cotton 90 cent meat

[@NemoNepersonne]

Watch how Stringbean waves his left hand around and extends it to the audience like a 19th century orator seeking agreement. Hilarious, and deliberate. I want to learn to do that.

[@tommyo8967]

The big hand

[@JohnSims3]

I loved it when he would take off his hat and fan his banjo cuz' it's smokin' hot playin'!

[@corymacneil3206]

@@tommyo8967😂

[@djaltbaculalay]

I love how Earl looks at Stringbean, Earl really looked up to String and how he played Banjo.

[@johnostaszweski2189]

That’s a look of admiration for sure!!

[@SirCoughsalot]

Earl certainly admired String, but I doubt he looked up to him, especially not his banjo playing.

[@02hreblue30]

@@SirCoughsalot actually he did. Bean a legend

[@charlesbryant9995]

Yeah, I saw Earl on a show with Doc Watson and Ricky Skaggs and he told Skaggs that he admired his clawhammer banjo playing and wished that he could play like him. So (unless he was joking) apparently Earl didn't (or couldn't) play clawhammer like Stringbean could either. And probably really did admire him.

[@robertbiggs1702]

And Earl is just playing a very basic backup picking pattern to what Stringbean is playing.

[@donnawheeler1716]

String was just awesome. He is still terribly missed. One of the great ones. A real class act.

[@casonbrown9678]

String summed up the economy better than anyone. They'll never another like him.RIP Brother String.

[@Purpledawg-d9s]

He’s “sagging” his britches lol! Great talent!

[@jacobalexander7192]

the kentucky wonder. it was awesome to see earl let him shine and just played perfect backup.

[@steveweiss2081]

Stringbean at his very best. He was mainly known for his comedy, but he was one hell of a musician too. This clip is especially cool because String plays his banjo in two finger style instead of his usual frailing/clawhammer style. Earl Scruggs plays a basic accompaniment behind String and seems to enjoy every second of it.

[@MikeBlitzMag]

Genius of the highest order. We still are not worthy.

[@MissAmazanda]

String bean had a great persona....great musician with a touch of humor made him unforgettable ...

[@walterlane99]

He was playing fingerstyle instead of clawhammer. I don't recall seeing Stringbean do that before. He did well with it, too.

[@Purpledawg-d9s]

Plain and simple…he was a banjo player! Finger. Claw. He played banjo

[@donnawheeler1716]

This is classic! Such talent you don't see anymore.

[@pselden2103]

Easy to listen to, and these days easier to relate to. Thanks for sharing this gem!

[@williambrewer6346]

This song is relevant in to days world, 58 cent cotton and 20 dollar meat, How are todays farmers supposed to eat?

[@user-cv6lx5hs4t]

It's always been relevant. Before that song. After that song. The need for profit, raises prices yearly.

[@triangle_transparency]

Who knew Stringbean started the pants below your butt fashion statement?

[@juleswins3]

String was a solid banjo picker and singer!

[@JohnSims3]

I loved it when he would take off his hat and fan his banjo cuz' it's smokin' hot playin'!

[@ricktempleton3415]

Country folk can survive gotta love stringbean.

[@dirtygirlof76]

Just discoverin' String as I am Canadian and grew up on 70s music but this is great. There r lots of bluegrass up here in Nova Scotia too all along the Appalachians from here on down to Kentucky. Jack White has roots here in Cape Breton and has done shows up here. I got family who play bluegrass down along the south shore area of NS too so yeah I can dig Stringbean.

[@rwh2559]

I still remember when he died(I was 9, and was not told he was murdered),probably the first celebrity, whose passing I felt, cause I watched Hee Haw for his bits.

[@zane762]

String muh fn bean ! , A great man and helluva banjo picker ! RIP.

[@bhkidd]

He was playing Scruggs style here, as opposed to his usual claw hammer style. This is pretty rare.

[@jeffhardin6411]

It's two finger style, don't use middle finger.... Just thumb and index finger...

[@bluegrassman3040]

@Antoine Brosseau similar to Wade Mainer.

[@robertbiggs1702]

Yup, that's old time two finger thumb lead actually. A lot of old timers that played clawhammer could also play two finger. Actually, clawhammer is also two finger, but down picking instead of up picking.

[@WarrenFloyd-xr2js]

I absolutely loved String Bean, may he rest in peace and hear my music,hope it sounds as good to him as.his does to me❤

[@tammyhollandsworth6783]

Wow! What a great song to listen to. Especially today at the high prices of everything.

[@tffrick67ca]

Earl very rarely take back seat to anyone, awesome respect

[@randysummerhays4168]

1969 and 70 Saturday night my Dad pulled up in front of the Riemann Auditorium. pouring down rain got tickets we went in we saw about a 13 year old Tanya Tucker Grandpa Jones Minnie Pearl String Bean Ernest Tubb the whole bunch .afterward we went down to Ernest Tubb's music shop where they was broadcasting from I was about 10 years old🎉

[@paulcook7888]

I always enjoy Stringbean and his banjo

[@t4texastom587]

WoW. MANY legends on stage here. R.I.P. All you hands.

[@impassable]

Yep Jake and Josh too

[@tammyhollandsworth6783]

Such a classic performance!

[@phononut]

Pure gold!!!!

[@pibble3962]

String bean may have invented “Sagging.”

[@kishdogg1594]

HIS KILLERS WALKED FREE AFTER YEARS IN PRISON...Justice for the Bean!

[@tiedyedkarma]

One died in prison, but the other walked. No way he should have. No justice!

[@denniswarren]

Vengeance belongs to the Lord justice has been served

[@joshgachette7728]

@@denniswarren A a solemn "amen" to that, sir

[@MrJRW1]

Only one of them… the other one died in prison

[@jeannieanderst2031]

Stringbean had a Voice!!!! Plus the banjo ...I only discovered him a few months ago!!!@

[@danpatterson6937]

Lots of gems in his repertoire, look for the Flatt and Scruggs performances as well.

[@robertc2204]

He had such a cool style, and love the accent style the way he talked and sung. My favorite one by him is Run little rabbit run. First time I heard that id be singing to it when I'm at work and I'm whistling away!!!

[@danpatterson6937]

@@robertc2204 It's such a gentle lyric hidden in there. "...get away rabbit, get away please".

[@bluegrasscountryradio8806]

hi stranger, if you’re reading this. i just wanna tell you that you matter and you’re important ❤ i know you are tired,, but please never give up. okay? i believe you can do it :) and i’m proud of you!! even though i dont know you. always think positive and ignore the negativity that surrounds you. focus on positive side and the things that makes you happy. you are doing great hun. 😙 let’s keep going. we can get through this together. you are worth it. sending virtual hugs to everyone 🥰🤗have a good sleep tonight. tell your loved ones that you love them. sweet dreams my dear~ always smile 😊

[@twospiritbanjo]

I haven't seen this performance yet! I love his use of the "chord"!

[@ZachVance108]

Drunk On Banjo Yeah this one is pretty rare to see..

[@carlrussell9257]

@@ZachVance108 3#4

[@carlrussell9257]

Mm u buy

[@carlrussell9257]

@@ZachVance108 by

[@ZachVance108]

Carl Russell ????

[@user-ok9ft1iv4x]

What a man ! The world's first social activist! String Beans

[@hschaldach7603]

no picking fingers amazing intonation my heart breaks listen to the master

[@rabokarabekian409]

HAH, from the "good old days" that people pretend existed. The more I listen to Stringbean, the more I appreciate him. I love his line, "Looord, I feel so unnecessary.".

[@castercamber]

That's not his usual clawhammer style. A true master.

[@tablature6121]

Correct, he's playing 2 finger here. On several videos on the Tube, you can see him reach into his shirt pocket to get a finger and thumb pick when he's gonna do a 2 finger picking number. 'Bean played banjo for Bill Monroe's early Bluegrass Boys but only for a short time and probably used this 2 finger style then. I think he is playing on one early recording only. Must not have impressed Monroe all that much because he was quickly replaced by none other than Earl Scruggs who played and popularized the 3 finger style. That move was great for both Scruggs and 'Bean's career, without a doubt.

[@keeganbluegrass]

@@tablature6121 He played 2 finger with Monroe, recorded breaks on a couple songs (True Life Blues, Bluegrass Special, , but he left the band on his own choice, and Earl came around two years later... You can hear some similarities with the two finger style string plays and Earls 3 finger style, folks like Charlie Poole and Dave Macon really pioneered that style which in turn influenced Snuffy Jenkins who himself was the first practitioner of "scruggs style"

[@tablature6121]

@@keeganbluegrass Thanks for the corrections/added info. Jenkins was not the first practitioner of three finger style, however, which only later became known as "Scruggs Style." Apparently, there were several pickers in the surrounding Flint Hill community where Scruggs was raised that practiced the 3-finger style of picking, Jenkins being amongst them. Earl Scruggs said in his autobiographical banjo book that "...the player who inspired the most people at that time was probably Seth Hammett...born in 1887 in Gaffney, South Carolina and died in 1930 when I was 6 years old....As far as I can trace it back, he was the first banjo player I know of to pick with 3 fingers." He goes on to say he was kin to him on his mother's side, by marriage (Hammett's wife and she were cousins), and any visits would always include some picking. Also, that Hammett not only influenced his brother, Junie, to pick up the banjo, but that he, Hammett, was a big influence on him as well.

[@fullshark09]

That Vega #9 sounds heavenly. Wonder why no more tubaphones these days.

[@troynov1965]

The best of the best !

[@amywhite9972]

I read somewhere that Stringbean hated beef. He couldn't even stand to smell it cooking. So when String and Grandpa went camping, Estelle would cook herself a steak.

[@hueman1574]

"Heres a song been baffling the world." Right at the start, another poster commented this, Makes sense and sounds like it. Real question is what does he say at 1:51.

[@edsonmorais5025]

Foi bom artista Exímio no banjo

[@jacobcarmack5303]

I was told by my father that my grandpa actually met Stringbean while he was out fishing on the Tennessee River.. he recognized him as he was coming in off the water and my grandpa was putting his boat out.. said that he was the nicest guy you could meet but said he'd never seen someone with fingers as long lol

[@brianfergus839]

The pants were certainly unique, but I think the strangest thing about his get up is the false eyebrows. 1:20

[@carltonparrott6124]

String was one of a kind.

[@tylermullins8609]

When music was actually worth listening too

[@sherryhannah9262]

Tyler Mullins music is still worth listening to

[@brianfergus839]

@@sherryhannah9262 ikr this whole “modern music isn’t any good anymore” claptrap is very played out. I miss Stringbean though

[@CamdenIrwin]

Look at young earl!

[@NicanderatBOTB]

First time I see earl smile.

[@BILLYMORGAN1971]

He feeds his banjo at least $20 worth of meat into every song he picks

[@michaeldowning1046]

Great music!

[@acruru]

Somebody mention the Dobro picker please.....LOL These people were a big part of my childhood and dad had the honor of pickin with most. Oswald had that raspy laugh, scared me...took his big pocket watch to get me to come over to him for pictures...I was probably 3. I have the polaroid and a big clock on the wall that looks like his pocket watch. Stringbeans costume was an easy halloween get-up...but it was really hard to walk fast and keep up..nobody knew who I was and I got knocked over a few times...

[@MrPhantooz]

Dobro player is the legendary Josh Graves

[@acruru]

@@MrPhantooz Sorry, I wasnt implying this was Oswald, Just one of many memories. Here's one about Josh. He and my dad would stay up picking until all ungodly hours of the night. Dad built a dozen or so resonator guitars and had a press made to press resonators. Josh liked the sound and traded dobro for dobro. I gave two of dads guitars to Brent Burke a few years back, an old Dobro and a Regal. I know he was extremely excited to have them as they had made rounds in bluegrass circles.

[@ColonelNickSteel]

Earl really dressed sharp.

[@markrush5013]

back when legends walked the Earth...

[@jarirseghir6052]

If sir Stringbean is specialized in rock music, rock stars will be beggars.

[@ericnixon3616]

Drove past his property and went to the cemetery to pay my respects, hurts my heart.

[@craigmiller1870]

I come from the land of pears. Pearadise, some might say. I say paradise is in Muhlenberg County. I've never seen a pear in the old town site.

[@keithkimmeysr953]

Thanks for sharing this great mans music,Cheers,Keith

[@joannehack7588]

💟

[@rosssoutherland8118]

String was a Fabulous Talent!

[@KittyCatComa]

2022 ain't shit changed

[@fredteaman8142]

Grew up listening to this in my family's basements

[@jamescastle1287]

Best I’ve ever heard

[@spoonful1018]

I just love that Kentucky music

[@thelastjohnwayne]

String using the 2 Finger style while Earl is using 3 finger style

[@twilliamsusmc]

Keep that up, “fire” you’ll be heading to Broadway.

[@rogermarin2757]

Hi.i.like.this.guy.bery.much.how.play.the.banjo.and.how.sing.maybe.is.all.school.but.i.like.ir.

[@joannehack7588]

Stringbean’s the man

[@joannehack7588]

Long and lean like Doc Watson’s Tennessee Stud. They’s good horses

[@backwoods6089]

Feller could burn a banjo down

[@eddieboggs8306]

Once had an old 78rpm of this song by someone else. Can't remember name. It was called,20 Cent Cotton Fourty Cent Meat. Must be variation.

[@piekielrl]

Pete Seeger did a very similar song

[@eddieboggs8306]

@@piekielrl This was from I think the 30's.

[@MichaelPitner-jv5qy]

That treat is expensive but I love it with barbecue sauce and little Coca-Cola

[@user-hi2nj5qy7w]

String busting a sag waiting to see a glictch in the MTrix where string got skinny jeans own❤😂😂😂😂

[@MultiShredder12]

1:46 ooo yeah

[@user-ok8lt3zm4p]

Now I know where the blacks got the idea of wearing their pants down. Ole String Bean. ❤

[@raymontgomery3880]

A Great Man StringBean

[@deepwater2652]

Miss ole' String!

[@pzoe3808]

Hank 3 got me here

[@kevinlaughery1076]

I HAVE NEW OUTAKE ON BANJO PICKERS.!!! AND I AM A ROCKER ROLLER.!!! JAMES EAGLE.

[@tim3588]

Thank God for David!

[@richardkelley3644]

AWESOME!!

[@jeanpresley1220]

i sing this song everyday

[@williampalchak7574]

Perfect metaphor for todays economy.

[@chrisbrowne4669]

Lord Have Mercy, $9.00 cotton $20.00 meat. Spring 2024

[@JCRobbinsGuitar]

school of country. ill sit in the back and take notes.

[@xunnmann67]

Who knew he would have predicted 2023

[@gerb7821]

Good music

[@whitlong4486]

Look how long his hands were!

[@donclark8673]

Goodness gracious that's good

[@williamthurmond4940]

String & Earl…double claw hammer ac!

[@Ray-ym5jd]

Who would have thought back then he would be singing about today 😢

[@jamestusing7154]

String is the best there ever was !

[@samuelm.hodnettii.2768]

1.45 to spend what say early to make it meet

[@zedmadeamps]

Now we know where modern day hip hop got there dress style and names. 20 cent; 99 cent; 50 cent; sagging pants; dressed like a piece of candy cane. 😂😂😂😂

[@RoryVanucchi]

that's how you do it. String was the best

[@goldenbergconstruction1656]

What did he say at the beginning to crack them up?

[@davidmcdonald1600]

Uncle Dave Macon willed him his banjo

[@shopsolutions2142]

Could someone post the lyrics please?!? Can’t find them anymore. There’s a few parts I can’t make out

[@joannehack7588]

😄

[@briscoedarling3237]

What is that he says at the beginning? “Here’s a song”….what?

[@briscoedarling3237]

I think it’s “here’s a song been baffling the world….”

[@777gitarist]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@gonestacmac]

What show was this from?

[@michaelhayes1340]

Stringbean awesome and flat and scruggs