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    May have been posted before, but worth a watch and listen. It's from TNN's American Music Shop, and Marty Stuart sits in on guitar with Bill and the Boys. Of particular interest is Bill's last break, dealing with the equiment mishap.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NcCgsAMxhs

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    Thanks Dave! That is my next tune to learn!! When I first started playing Mandolin, I really did not see what the big deal was with Monroe. But he was such an amazing figure in American music. The 100s of tunes he wrote, a consumate showman, wicked fast on the mandolin especially in his prime. His tunes are seemingly simple until you go to learn them. He was an aquired taste for me to be honest, but now like coffee, I get to enjoy him for the rest of my days!! Thanks again!
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    it's interesting you thought that was an equpiment mishap.

    I thought that he lowered the mic himself to signal that he was going to be playing quieter, weird.

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    Yeah That was not a mishap- That was just Monroe being Monroe.

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    Always the showman, I guess. I stand corrected. And here I thought he figured the mic slipped, so what the heck, why not just finish it up down there. Probably why Stuart doesn't really react, since it was done on purpose.

    Must have been not too long before his passing, huh? Marty says it's been 50 years since it all began, so that would make it 1996, no?

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    I love to pick that song "Southern Flavor" as well as many more of Big Mon's tunes. You could spend 2 lifetimes or more studying his stuff. It seems everytime I turn around I'm awaken by one of his tunes that I haven't heard before or tried to figure out. Sometimes successfully somes times not so much. I think he was a genious.
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    I thought he was looking for his pick!

    Thanks for that, great stuff. Was that Jimmy Campbell on the fiddle solo? RIP.

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    It was a standard gag onstage for Bill to "get down' while playing certain instrumental breaks. Blake would always say something like "Bill's getting down now".
    Here is another version of Bill playing Southern Flavor put up by some local WSM fan. There are a few more WSM tunes by that same character.




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    Local fan? Very local, apparently. I enjoyed your Ashland Breakdown with Tom I. a lot, and look forward to checking out some of the others.

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    that show was from late 1989. 50 years from the 1939 date Monroe joined the Opry with his first version of the Bluegrass Boys is when real diehards consider the birth of bluegrass started. Others say 1945 when Earl Scruggs jumped on. You would have to go over to BluegrassL to settle that debate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (evanreilly @ Jan. 16 2008, 18:03)
    It was a standard gag onstage for Bill to "get down' while playing certain instrumental breaks.
    That's what I've heard
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    On Bgrass-L, the motto is "What is Bluegrass Anyway"? WIBA!
    And sometimes it is thought or suggested that the blue grass music does not involve WSM! No wonder Monroe was a man of such few words!

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    Great video on of the best versions of Southern Flavor I've ever heard. #Marty really nails the guitar break!

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    At the opening sequence, Mark O'Conner and Jimmy Campbell are playing fiddle; Jimmy handles the fiddle break alone, tho.

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    Quote Originally Posted by (evanreilly @ Jan. 17 2008, 12:13)
    At the opening sequence, Mark O'Conner and Jimmy Campbell are playing fiddle; Jimmy handles the fiddle break alone, tho.
    speaking of Jimmy Campbell, anyone know where to track down his Pieces of Time album?
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    Speaking of Jimmy Campbell anybody know what happened to the Bluegrass Bus he died in?

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    Or, what he was really doing on that bus with whatzername....

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    What a Shame we don't have a show on anymore like the "American Music Shop" (previously on TNN) on CMT, PBS or any other TV network. The CMT that I get on cable can't hold a candle to the old TNN network which had more blugrass on it. The Grand Old Oprey Sat Ev broadcasts on CMT do have the latest bluegrass groups but there's not much old time Oprey flavor (or real country) in it anymore. The bluegrass people like Skaggs and Stuart help keep it alive when they're on. Are there more bluegrass shows on anywhere that I'm not aware of. I'm in the Chicago area. Thanks

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    The daughter of Johnny Cash, whatshername?

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    Quote Originally Posted by
    Speaking of Jimmy Campbell anybody know what happened to the Bluegrass Bus he died in?

    Or, what he was really doing on that bus with whatzername....

    The daughter of Johnny Cash, whatshername?

    Yeah, that one!
    All kinds of interesting information on the Mandolin Cafe this morning. #I think whatzhername is a fox!

    Southern Favor and Southern Comfort.

    But I do love to play that song. Typical Monroe tune you can do all kinds of variations on it.



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    That Southern Flavor in the key of E minor and E major!

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    Yeah, Bill really changed the flavor of the tune after the album won the first Grammie.
    On the original recording, it was played as a fiddle lead, in 'ABA' form. Then it became a mandolin tune, extending into 'AABA' format.
    Bill played it a real lot in later years.

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