Old Brown County Barn
Old Brown County Barn
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
When You're Lonely; features James Monroe on lead vocals
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Stay Away From Me
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Great thread! Yesterday I was searching for Monroe songs and this one showed up, ultimate cool performance of mr Monroe & his bluegrass Boys:
Love how abstract Monroe's solo is on "When You Are Lonely." Lots of arpeggios and to hell with the melody. And then there's that tone.
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Bill Monroe sitting in with Larry Sparks band at The Station Inn in the late 80s, performing a medley of songs.
Notice the mandolin Mr. Monroe is holding/playing...looks like a 60s vintage F5 maybe?
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Enjoying the Monroe Videos. I appreciate you digging them up and posting them.
Adam
Thanks, Nick, for keeping them coming. That mandolin should be the obscure wide-bodied 1941 F5 M, the one Grisman used on his Tone Poems II CD.
2010 Heiden A5, 2020 Pomeroy oval A, 2013 Kentucky KM1000 F5, 2012 Girouard A Mandola w ff holes, 2001 Old Wave A oval octave
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Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@hillbillychambermusic
Absolutely, David played with Larry Sparks ("Count Sparcula") from 1985 to around 87, if I'm not mistaken. Possibly it's that mandolin David plays on Sparks' "Silver Reflections" from 1987; highly recommended that one.
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Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Body And Soul
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Watson Blues with the whole band playing it on this version.
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Former Blue Grass Boy, Butch Robins, invited to play on stage at Bean Blossom in 1992 ~
https://youtu.be/tgim2rd8plM
My Rose Of Old Kentucky
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
DataNick, I enjoy the videos. Thanks for putting them up.
Adam
Another version of Uncle Pen from right after Butch Robbins left the band and Blake Williams replaced him.
Also prior to Kenny Baker leaving so the Loar is pre-fire poker decimation; that manlin' sounds great!
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Thanks Nick, I've been watching for a new one from you!
Nobody played fiddle like Kenny! A friend of mine and I used to bake cookies for Bill and the boys, for Jim and Jesse, Doyle et al, too
She has continued the tradition from her home in Florida. I have not had the time and drive to do it anymore. One night before she headed out to a festival with 200 cookies(I'm NOT kidding!) we were up until about five in the morning! "These are for Kenny, these are for Blake, these are for Wayne,......"
It was nuts!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Bluegrass Breakdown from the Austin City Limits show of 1981...Butch Robbins said he was "dueling" with Monroe on his breaks, trying to one-up him, and that Monroe put him in his place and winked at him on his mando break...classic!
1994 Gibson F5L - Weber signed
"Mandolin brands are a guide, not gospel! I don't drink koolaid and that Emperor is naked!"
"If you wanna get soul Baby, you gots to get the scroll..."
"I would rather play music anyday for the beggar, the thief, and the fool!"
"Perfection is not attainable; but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence" Vince Lombardi
Playing Style: RockMonRoll Desperado Bluegrass Desperado YT Channel
Now, that's what I think of as "playing" music. They clearly had a good time doing that show!
Good to be home and seeing a fresh one Nick!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
I always think that Bill Monroe 'sounds like Bill Monroe' regardless of the mandolin that he plays,& IMO,most times he does,but that Larry Sparks clip is the exception. It's no wonder that BM didn't really play it. Methinks he liked it 'not much' ?. I've never seen Bill Monroe simply hold a mandolin for so long without taking a break on it,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
Why did Kenny Baker never have a proper size hat ? they always look far too small.
Dave H
Eastman 615 mandola
2011 Weber Bitteroot A5
2012 Weber Bitteroot F5
Eastman MD 915V
Gibson F9
2016 Capek ' Bob ' standard scale tenor banjo
Ibanez Artist 5 string
2001 Paul Shippey oval hole
He liked the "jaunty, devil-may-care look" I never saw him adjust his hat come to think of it, they stayed where he put them! I miss Kenny!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Matinee performance at the Grand Ole Opry. Great version of "Come Hither to Go Yonder." Not sure if this has been already posted, but worth repeating.
2010 Heiden A5, 2020 Pomeroy oval A, 2013 Kentucky KM1000 F5, 2012 Girouard A Mandola w ff holes, 2001 Old Wave A oval octave
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Videos: https://www.youtube.com/@hillbillychambermusic
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