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Friday Videos Like Bluegrass
by SB Sarah | by SB Sarah | September 04, 2009 | Friday at 11:32 am | 26 CommentsThis video makes me absurdly happy: if there’s a string instrument on stage, it is PWND. By Steve Martin, Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill, and everyone on stage (except David Letterman. He doesn’t play anything).
Foggy Mountain Breakdown is some badass music. Even Wrath digs it, I hear.
Filed: Friday Videos, General Bitching
Tagged: video, steve martin, music
KatherineB said on 09.04.09 at 01:09 PM • [link]
Color me happy! Haven’t seen Steve Martin in a long while, and had no idea he could pick a banjo so well!
Tina C. said on 09.04.09 at 01:52 PM • [link]
Even though there are only a few Bluegrass singers that I like, I absolutely love the instrumental pieces. That was fabulous.
Laura (in PA) said on 09.04.09 at 02:39 PM • [link]
That is awesome! I woke up very grumpy, but that perked me up considerably. Steve Martin, Earl Scruggs, Vince Gill, plus Marty Stuart, the amazing Jerry Douglas, and Dave’s own Paul Shaffer on the ivories! So cool!
Mary G said on 09.04.09 at 02:43 PM • [link]
Seeing a bunch of folks having fun together and doing something insanely well always makes me happy too :)
earthgirl said on 09.04.09 at 02:46 PM • [link]
I’m picturing the BDB guys square dancing to this, and it’s making me ridiculously happy.
Elizabeth Jules Mason (MsMoonlight) said on 09.04.09 at 03:03 PM • [link]
Makes me think of country fairs in the autumn.
:o)
Beki said on 09.04.09 at 03:13 PM • [link]
Makes me miss my hometown in WV… and makes me smile. Banjo playing is a skill and a sound like none other.
And what is it about bluegrass that’s so much more appealing than flat-out country music? I love bluegrass but country? Oh, not so much.
Anne Calhoun said on 09.04.09 at 03:27 PM • [link]
That was ten thousand kinds of awesome. Thanks for sharing!
Marilyn said on 09.04.09 at 03:34 PM • [link]
What a great way to start the day! A cuppa coffee and some awetastic blue grass. Takes me home!
Sarah W said on 09.04.09 at 03:52 PM • [link]
Steve Martin was on Prairie Home Companion a month or two ago. I went back to the NPR website to listen to his performance again. And also found him on YouTube playing for the Muppet Show.
As he said to the Muppet audience after a neat litle riff, “Hey! This guy is good!”
azteclady said on 09.04.09 at 05:36 PM • [link]
That was delicious, just delicious. Thank you!
Tracy said on 09.04.09 at 06:00 PM • [link]
That was mega-awesome! I’m going to have to buy some more Jerry Douglas now.
Bev Stephans said on 09.04.09 at 06:13 PM • [link]
It’s so nice to see and hear a bunch of uber-talented musicians playing well and having fun.
Carrie Lofty said on 09.04.09 at 07:02 PM • [link]
Love that they smile at each other’s solos, celebrating what they all do so well. And it’s good to see that Marty Stuart still has his big, big hair. Long live 1990!
Madd said on 09.04.09 at 07:31 PM • [link]
For someone who’s loved the banjo for so long Steve Martin had to have been so stoked to be playing on stage with Earl Scruggs. He was also on Steve’s album, The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo.
Darlene Marshall said on 09.04.09 at 07:55 PM • [link]
Thanks for sharing! My son plays banjo, and my next novel’s hero plays banjo also. There’s nothing like a banjo to get your feet tapping!
Kim said on 09.04.09 at 09:02 PM • [link]
Very cool!
I know who a lot of them are, but does anyone know the names of all the musicians? Cause some of them I didn’t recognize.
kinseyholley said on 09.05.09 at 12:32 AM • [link]
Loved it, but I’m wondering - who’s the white haired dude on the red and white guitar?
I love Marty Stuart, and not just for his fabulous hair.
Librariahn said on 09.05.09 at 12:40 AM • [link]
Wrath lurvs him some FMB because those boys are wearing the Original Shitkickers…aka Cowboy Bootz.
*Happy Feet!!!*
daisy said on 09.05.09 at 01:52 AM • [link]
His name is Albert Lee.
Great video - I am not much of a bluegrass fan, but that was fantastic.
kinseyholley said on 09.05.09 at 02:18 AM • [link]
Daisy - thanks! I haven’t seen a picture of him in years and years and years.
that’s a bad ass group of musicians right there.
simply79 - I don’t think Albert Lee is close to 79, but he’s gotta be in his 60s.
Melissandre said on 09.05.09 at 03:37 AM • [link]
The string instruments were not the only thing that got PWNED. Serious pwnage on the piano and harmonica too.
micki said on 09.05.09 at 02:35 PM • [link]
I’m so happy to see this *here*! I think I can trace my love of bluegrass to those Sesame Street snips with the little magnetic filing dude . . . does anyone else remember that?
Amazon recommended some Steve Martin to me, I got it, and it was good. But the Tony Trishka CD that they also recommended? OMG! Best commuting music ever . . . and Steve Martin also kicks ass on that album with a song he composed himself.
(-: Year of the Banjo. Or of Steve Martin. Either way, I’m happy.
Suze said on 09.05.09 at 06:28 PM • [link]
Those were AWESOME! There were a bunch of Film Board vignettes on tv (CBC, of course, because we didn’t have cable) when I was growing up that had the same kind of animation with sand, set to music. I wonder if it was the same people?
Star Opal said on 09.05.09 at 08:32 PM • [link]
That was great! I had forgotten that Steve Martin played the banjo, “Oh yeah, he does!”
The piano is a stringed instrument.
CAt said on 09.08.09 at 05:00 AM • [link]
Nothing makes me hotter than a bunch of guys plucking stringed instruments and making music - I just close my eyes and become a banjo. Yo Steve, crackers under the bed and all that!!
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