Travelin’ that last mile to St. Peter’s gate
American music — not country music, not bluegrass music, but American music — lost a giant this week in the passing of banjo great Earl Scruggs. His style was as authentic as North Carolina moonshine, and it packed just as much wallop.
The video below gives you a nice peek at the three-fingered picking style that Scruggs made famous, but it also highlights the trait found in almost every song he plays. The man may crack just the barest hint of a smile, but his playing reveals a great sense of humor. He sets up the story beautifully, leading you to think you know what’s coming and then wham, here comes the punchline and he takes you in another direction entirely. It brings a smile to my face every time I hear it.
Rest in peace, Mr. Scruggs, and thank you.
– Jay Bookman
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JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 30th, 2012
3:47 pm
Have a good weekend Jay…. if you not here Monday, we know you won Mega Millions.
skipper
March 30th, 2012
3:57 pm
Wow! We agree on something! Earl Scruggs was an original, for sure, and his innovation affected many. I hope his family finds peace. Even though he made it to 88, it is tough to lose someone, especially a parent.
Logical Dude - Music Man
March 30th, 2012
3:57 pm
Don’t know much of his stuff off the top of my head, but I’m sure I’ve heard something of his.
josef
March 30th, 2012
3:57 pm
A modest fellow who played with just about anybody who was or was not somebody…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw
josef
March 30th, 2012
3:58 pm
Would that Hillbilly Deluxe were with us this p.m.
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
3:59 pm
Good choice Jay
Now Turn it UP………
Mr Roy Clark………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhiKgeJV3k0
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
4:04 pm
josef
righteous choice……… that was great
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
4:04 pm
Earl, I hope they bury you in the mountains, far away in your Blue Ridge mountain home. I’m sure you and Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe are jamming away like crazy in Heaven.
carlosgvv
March 30th, 2012
4:05 pm
He was the best. Have any of you ever seen Buck Trent play the electric banjo?
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
4:12 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_XAPku7SgE
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
4:12 pm
More notes than ants on a Tennessee anthill!
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
4:13 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nWzYfSKFLE&feature=related
Herman's Cane
March 30th, 2012
4:14 pm
The best thing about the Beverly Hillbillies was the theme song.
RIP Mr. Scruggs. Damn were you good.
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
4:14 pm
Clean as country water.
josef
March 30th, 2012
4:18 pm
BOTH
Thanks for that Roy Clark…I never saw that performance before…if I had to pick a single cut that I relate to beyond words, it would be Clark’s version of Malaguena…
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
4:20 pm
They BOTH: thanks for playing that wonderful Gospel song. I hadn’t heard that one before. WONDERFUL!
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
4:26 pm
josef
Roy can flat out play………. I always try to change it up a little after JB selects his tune, so I figured I had to step it up today……….
Sooth
No problem…… I’m not even Christian, however that song along with many other Gospel songs are great tunes
josef
March 30th, 2012
4:28 pm
like I said…any and everybody…second cut on this video is pretty good, too, for a view of just how wide his interests were…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWXulD-gxuw
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
4:29 pm
Sooth, I always liked that Lovin’ Spoonful song.
A buddy of mine was really into this Canadian band…
Wherever you are and whatever became of you, this one’s for you Tony…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc4F-XCLc78&feature=related
stands for decibels
March 30th, 2012
4:31 pm
As the country singer Porter Wagoner said at Scruggs’ 80th birthday party, “Earl was to the five-string banjo what Babe Ruth was to baseball.”
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
4:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJOIqmlI65Y&feature=related
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
4:36 pm
Can you tell which way to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice!
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
4:38 pm
jonix, that ‘the Paganini of the banjo’ with the Byrds was insanely cool…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=DUzVUNJKiDc
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
4:41 pm
Here’s the guy who started it all. Earl used to be in his band before LF & ES
Fred ™
March 30th, 2012
4:41 pm
Well let’s not forget Redneck convert and his family tonight………
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myhnAZFR1po
josef
March 30th, 2012
4:43 pm
BOTH
I’m not a Christian either, but when it comes to my “soul music,” it’s bluegrass gospel…
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
4:43 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxiligIJ-TU&feature=related
Wade Hampton
March 30th, 2012
5:06 pm
Earl Scruggs wasn’t an hypocritical Obama faux anti-war patriot.
.
You Obama-bots should look in the mirror…Try not to gag.
.
God bless the REAL principled Americans.
This took courage back in 1971.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGDp–0SbX8
josef
March 30th, 2012
5:10 pm
WADE
You beat me to it…there’s Charlie Daniels in there, too…
(and for the Obamabots…don’t let Wade’s snip turn you off to it…a good link…)
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
5:11 pm
“You Obama-bots should look in the mirror…Try not to gag.”
Try it yourself sometime without the rose colored glasses…….. Might not be as inviting as you have brainwashed yourself to believe
But have a great weekend
They BOTH suck
March 30th, 2012
5:16 pm
josef
It actually was a good link, but not really into simpletons calling others simpletons
I will switch gears and leave you with this great song……… Yes from one of my fav bands that I’ve only linked 100 or so clips of in the past
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmUfP37d8yU
Everyone have a great night and and even better weekend
Peace
Matti the Resistance Fighter in the War on Women
March 30th, 2012
5:19 pm
Wade Hampton,
Thanks for sharing that! Awesome. (Hint: You don’t have to be a d!*k to share a nice piece. FNM is about common ground.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlqQ1_vZVE
josef
March 30th, 2012
5:20 pm
when you have the time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A51yM6fjnAE
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
5:24 pm
And with none other than Alvin Lee.
http://youtu.be/0lU7XyqiSsA
MountainDawg
March 30th, 2012
5:26 pm
Jay, thanks for posting nod to the late, great Earl Scruggs…the best banjo picker of all time!
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
5:31 pm
For Mr. Scruggs, play a train song.
http://youtu.be/B90sCOd5IzI
Wade Hampton
March 30th, 2012
5:40 pm
I apologize for the snippets.
.
The R versus D mentality is gonna destroy us all.
The reality is Washington crooks versus decency.
.
One day ya’ll will understand.
Hopefully, it won’t be too late.
.
Peace……………….FreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeBird.
.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbUL4zC70Wo&feature=related
Tom Middleton
March 30th, 2012
5:41 pm
Growing up in the South was something, Jay, for among other things, we had the Wilborn Brothers (with Loretta Lynn), Porter Wagoner (with Dolly Parton), and, of course, Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys (with special guests), in back-to-back programs every Saturday afternoon. What a music education it was.
But here’s a video I’ve been watching off and on for several years now of Earl with the great Chieftains doing “Sally Goodin’.” Somehow it seems to get even better every time I watch it, especially now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByYSkRGrMqw
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
5:57 pm
Tom Middleton: That was a real toe-tapper. Thanks!
josef
March 30th, 2012
5:59 pm
My @ 5:20
Go toward the end…Earl Scruggs and Bob Dylan calling on Joan Baez…
WADE
@ 5:40
Now THAT’s some Friday Night redemption! Thanks for the link…
TOM
@ 5:41
Yep. American by birth and Southern by the Grace of G-d…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ows8tBIfiI
TaxPayer
March 30th, 2012
6:01 pm
Have a nice weekend.
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
6:01 pm
Tom: that tin whistle gave me goose bumps!
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
6:06 pm
This is so good, it ought to be illegal! You got to wait for it!
josef
March 30th, 2012
6:07 pm
and besides all that, the bajo’s just plain fun…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNEA4pamt0A
pogo
March 30th, 2012
6:07 pm
The Earl Scruggs Revue “Bold and New” album was excellent. Earl was a musician.
And goodbye Keith Oblerman and may we never see your bitter face again gracing our TV’s when we are changing channels. Even Gore’s struggling and unwatched Current TV ditched the liberal loser. I love the fact that these liberal networks like Oprah and Current are hemorrhaging money because nobody watches them.
josef
March 30th, 2012
6:18 pm
SOOTH
@ 6:01
Now, THAT’s not something you hear every day, is it! Great…I’m with one of the comments, “my love of bagpipes and banjoes has been vindicated!”
josef
March 30th, 2012
6:21 pm
pogo
Do you need a hug…? Cheer up, it’s Friday…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx8FdRMRKYs
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
6:24 pm
Both 4:43 Great choice!
josef
March 30th, 2012
3:57 pm
A modest fellow who played with just about anybody who was or was not somebody…
That’s not an uncommon trait amongst bluegrass players, one of the reasons I like it.
And nothing against singers and dancers but I’ve always gravitated to musicians who were exceptional at playing instruments.
One of my favorites, yea roll on buddy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u964a0f38s
Matti the Resistance Fighter in the War on Women
March 30th, 2012
6:32 pm
I’ve posted this before, and the regulars enjoyed it, so… if you’re in the mood for redundancy, or just want to see an awesome use of hairspray… heh…. Here y’all go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1omSJq06jJ8
josef
March 30th, 2012
6:40 pm
MATTI
In honor of your tonight’s tag,,,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGgaKTR8f5M
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
6:44 pm
Not exactly bluegrass but some amazing dueling fiddles, besides, she’s hot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8hBCzPTvB8
Paul
March 30th, 2012
6:44 pm
Jay
I like how you honor the greats when they pass. This is a very nice tribute.
Banjos… and harmonicas. Both say “American music” to me.
Hope AmVet makes it in. And Hillbilly Deluxe. He’s been too long gone.
josef
March 30th, 2012
6:49 pm
…not just an American phenominon…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozrDl3MJ6ME
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
6:57 pm
Well there never was a hoss like the Tennessee stud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5c1k949Zn4&feature=related
Matti the Resistance Fighter in the War on Women
March 30th, 2012
7:04 pm
josef,
That was really cool, thanks! I had heard of her, but it’s been a long time. I’ve always thought of myself as a lover, not a fighter, but resurgence of blatant misogyny in our government demands that someone take a stand. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4m9M6CYulM
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
7:11 pm
This is fiddling too !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNy8r-ZgKgQ
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
7:12 pm
Don’t Forget
March 30th, 2012
6:44 pm
Not exactly bluegrass but some amazing dueling fiddles, besides, she’s hot
Not this hot.
http://youtu.be/qHsxmjpkeFI
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
7:13 pm
To my conservative friends:
This would be funny if it weren’t so sickenly true !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Czo5Vf8KZs
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
7:14 pm
“The defining dramatic moment in the film occurs just after Morpheus invites Neo to choose between a red pill and a blue pill. The red pill promises ‘the truth and nothing more.’ Neo takes the red pill and awakes to reality – something utterly different from anything Neo, or the audience, could have expected. What Neo had assumed to be reality turned out to be only a collective illusion, fabricated by the Matrix and fed to a population that is asleep, cocooned in grotesque embryonic pods. In the Matrix world, true reality and perceived reality exist on entirely different planes.”
– Richard K. Moore, Escaping the Matrix
Aw shyte! I forgot it was Friday Night Music! Sorry!
josef
March 30th, 2012
7:14 pm
BOTH, Don’t forget
Hmmm… let’s see…bluegrass, Tennessee, master musicians and our Friday Night visit from…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k0uPCTChpg&feature=related
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
7:20 pm
Tennessee state song! How does he sing so high?
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
7:21 pm
“our Friday Night visit”
2 thumbs up!!
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
7:23 pm
Heathen, that was AWESOME! Not gonna concede though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_fwgkpghtM
josef
March 30th, 2012
7:24 pm
MATTI
“…you can’t afford to turn it down, cause now I’ve got…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcdONaKSQM
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
7:25 pm
Soothsayer:
Haven’t seen you on here for a couple of days. This is a follow up to your question from the other night.
Do you support this quote ?
“If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of GOOD (emphasis added), it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”
O.K. The quote is by George Washington and it basically means this:
There is a process to change the Constitution. It’s called an amendment.
To make the Constitution say something it doesn’t (even for a good purpose) is to
usurp it and by doing that you cheapen it and make it easier for despots to ignore it
in the future.
Soothsayer
March 30th, 2012
7:28 pm
Scout: if you are asking if I favor a Constitutional amendment as a means to change the Constitution, then I would have to agree.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
7:37 pm
Soothsayer:
Good ………. then you agree with Washington that to change it by usurpation is a danger to free governments.
“usurpation: “an act of usurping; wrongful or illegal encroachment, infringement, or seizure.”
Unfortunately, various Suprem Courts (conservative and liberal) have failed in this regard throughout our history and each time they do so the Constitution is weakened.
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
7:38 pm
Matti and Wade, nice. Just nice as can be.
Gonna go back and check out some earlier stuff.
From the Todd Rundgren channel on Pandora,
You won’t mind if I kiss you now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEu5PkGBHRc
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
7:38 pm
Josef, funny thing is I live in Knoxville. Love that song unless it’s played by a freakin marching band, that just aint right. Looks like I won’t be in Tennessee much longer though, in a few months I’ll probably be “goin to Carolina……..”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC5s3nzVzo
josef
March 30th, 2012
7:44 pm
Y’all didn’t think you’d get by without being reminded there’s a few of them still here and pickin the banjo…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMJgEPkEYl0&feature=related
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
7:50 pm
Banjo Band !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvOKbrYLM9M&feature=relmfu
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
7:52 pm
“I live in Knoxville”
Sweet, DF.
I love how this really is a regional forum. Miami to Texas to NC to Tennessee. And the ultra cool Popeye even blogged in from Portland.
And Blue Sky just proves how great this FNTM thing is. I have to wonder how many other organic things like this have appeared around the country on the Intertubes. (Not many, I suppose.) (Thank you, Al Gore!)
Saw this banjo player at Music Midtown…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q50xzhDO9lI
josef
March 30th, 2012
7:56 pm
Don’t Forget
“…and signs that might be omens…”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99RuZPCGQrg
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
7:57 pm
Stay With It For The Performance !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dhEgKOUubw
…………. and at the end the way “that song” should be played !!
josef
March 30th, 2012
8:04 pm
Matti
BTW…Boadicea was one helluva woman…I knew about her as a kid…it was one of my Grandfather’s “pet names” (ha!) for his mother in law…the one who well, let’s just say for sake of brevity here, had an axe to grind with the invaders of her generation!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i-wuQvc2FU
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
8:04 pm
From dueling banjos to dueling hot violin playing babes…….
Don’t Forget: I believe I’ll have to concede the Hotness crown to Ms. Calhoun but I’ll give a slight edge to Ms. Micarelli in violin sawing. But what do I know?
http://youtu.be/e_-7yfBrgeM
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
8:05 pm
josef:
I’m sure you’ve heard this one !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yeg1f-7-New
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
8:09 pm
godless heathen:
Beat this one ………….. Last of the Mohincans theme ………………..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVbu8bh7SWk&feature=related
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
8:14 pm
Jam,
“Béla Fleck and the Flecktones – Big Country” Thanks for introducing me to them. Going on my watch list. Any group that has a bassoon is cool. Love the winds.
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 30th, 2012
8:14 pm
Christi says he will be ready in 2016. Dude won’t be alive in 2016 if he don’t chill on the snacks.
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
8:14 pm
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG,
Some of the monikers here are pretty funny.
heathen, from Alvin Lee to that crazy violin heavy rock stuff. Sweet…
DF, also saw Widespread Panic at Music Midtown (different year). So much big talent in Georgia, huh?
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
8:15 pm
signs that may be omens …….. good line
those mountains should suit me well, just hope they’ve got some soulshine, I know they’ve got the moonshine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDIQ7Otf1mw
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 30th, 2012
8:16 pm
Last of the Mohicans? Have you been to Chimney Rock park in western NC? You get to walk right by where that fight and suicide were filmed. They have an elevator too, for you conservatives who don’t like to work.
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
0311: She can pull her bow over my strings anytime. More grog!
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
I think the Friday the 2nd week of November won’t be this communal. Let’s love it while we cann.
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
8:19 pm
Jamvet, you said it. Panic is about the best thing out there for my taste these days and Jimmy Herring, whoa that guy’s the real deal.
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
8:21 pm
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 30th, 2012
8:18 pm
I think the Friday the 2nd week of November won’t be this communal. Let’s love it while we cann.
We can work it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jlXnQEgbuw
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
8:25 pm
Finn, chimney rock is very cool. was there about 20 years ago but didn’t know that.
Ever heard of the Brown mountain lights, quite the mystery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gftfwM9_J0g
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
Banjo story. In the small country town that I grew up in, they would occasionally have a talent show at the grade school. This guy, Horace Green, would come with his very worn banjo. He could play one song, or about 8 measures of one song. He would sit up there and play and play and play. The same 8 measures until they came and got him. He wasn’t bad, but he needed some diversity in his act.
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
Have you been to Chimney Rock park in western NC?
Yessir, and this one, as well.
http://i1.trekearth.com/photos/25524/chimney_rock_ne.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCUxJFtTFNk&feature=related
Matti the Resistance Fighter in the War on Women
March 30th, 2012
8:26 pm
josef,
Looks like Loretta finally thwarted her invader as well! Hahaha!
josef
March 30th, 2012
8:29 pm
Scout
Yep…wanted to slit my wrists..,
********
And the multicultural banjo? Try this one on for size…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJMd2cFrHOY
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 30th, 2012
8:34 pm
Have you folks been to the newly released – FOR FREE – Alan Lomax songs?
OMG, there is soooooo much there. This dude was like the first NPR story. Amazing what he caught.
http://research.culturalequity.org/audio-guide.jsp
Listen to anything you can by Ledbelly, then go rent the movie about him!
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 30th, 2012
8:35 pm
The Mississippi prison recordings are really good!
TaxPayer
March 30th, 2012
8:36 pm
Y’all still sharing that mountain music.
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
8:37 pm
I’ll be heading to Savannah on Sunday to watch the submarine races.
http://youtu.be/M_PcyibEPao
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
8:37 pm
Godless, I’ll take that. Wish I’d learned to play the fiddle now, lol.
You mentioned bela fleck, this is probably my favorite of theirs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9XDUBDMNuk
back later
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
8:41 pm
josef:
You may slit your wrists over this one too !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfCFU3Mqww&feature=related
Finn McCool (Class Warfare === Stopping Rich People from TAKING MORE of OUR MONEY)
March 30th, 2012
8:47 pm
Dang, 1801, were you raised on the Abbot and costello movies too? Man I was. I sooooo want to see the whole oyster stew skit again – guess I should look for it on youtube.
godless heathen
March 30th, 2012
8:48 pm
CD recommendation is Chimes of Freedom -The Songs of Bob Dylan – Honoring 50 years of Amnesty International.
The aforementioned Lucia Micarelli and Steve Earle rendition of “One More Cup of Coffee” is exceptionally good.
josef
March 30th, 2012
8:48 pm
Matti
I learned real early on on my training as a Southern Gentleman of Culture and Breeding (Imam HATES that term! Wonder why?) that one thing you don’t mess with is the Steel Magnolia…if she’s got your back (i.e. gay male) you have nothing to fear and can conquer the world…if she’s got you in her gunsights, you’re a dead duck…but, truth be told, I does kinda feel sorry for Southern straight men.They know…but Yankee conservative men of the GOP War on Wimmen corps…? OOOOh, you better watch it, yo ass is grass and her name’s Yazoo…
josef
March 30th, 2012
8:58 pm
SCOUT
@ 8:41
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
8:58 pm
Way behind and just getting started.
josef @ 3:57 “A modest fellow who played with just about anybody who was or was not somebody…”
Reminded me of this jo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhvDvMV4_FY
This version rocks too:
Buck Owens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY2ONeCR5NI
Too bad Hillybilly D can’t break it out for one night.
Redneck Convert (R---and proud of it)
March 30th, 2012
9:02 pm
Well, I’m mighty proud of Bookman for paying tribute to Earl Scruggs. It’s kinda hard to beleive that before him, everybody played the banjo like they would play a rhythm guitar. Nobody even thought of picking the notes with their fingers. I hope when he gets to St. Peter’s gate he finds Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt waiting for him and all tuned up and they’re all ready to go perform for the Big Guy. And I’m pretty sure all the feuds they had here on earth will be just so much history. Nobody fights or hates in Heaven. Have a good night everybody. And pray for me so I can weave my way home from Billy Bob’s without getting pulled over.
Matti the Resistance Fighter in the War on Women
March 30th, 2012
9:04 pm
josef,
Oh, my… You know me too well! Now that “war has officially been declared,” well, you know & I know…, so I’ll resist the temptation to share the details and tip the enemy off. Heh…
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
9:05 pm
70 years ago today Rickenbacker Field became Dobbins ARB. It was named in honor of Captain Charles M. Dobbins, a World War II C-47 pilot who died near Sicily. It serves as the home station of the 94th Airlift Wing and its fleet of Hercules C-130 aircraft, and is the headquarters for Twenty-Second Air Force. It is also home to the Army Aviation Service Facility #2 (AASF#2), the Georgia Army National Guard and their fleet of UH-60 Blackhawks. Dobbins is also home to Marine and Navy Reserve units.
Aim high.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kaZUiO8zg
Mick
March 30th, 2012
9:12 pm
late to the show here, I’m sure someone teed this up but you could listen to this again and again- many thanks mr earl scruggs, that song is a monster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_XAPku7SgE
Mick
March 30th, 2012
9:17 pm
If I’m repeating, sorry but this kicks arse-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icMTVV5Lwaw
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
9:18 pm
heathen, that 7:20 Kashmir was incredible!
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
9:20 pm
Mick, absolutely on both counts.
I’m ready to go hear some LIVE music now!
josef
March 30th, 2012
9:23 pm
moonbat
Ruby don’t get a good rap, do she?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprfUdSAHgM
BTW Ruby is my mother in law! Took her about 15 years, but she finally did warm up to me… now me and her get together and bad mouthe the menfolk… I made her little boy happy, so she figures I must be all right after all…
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
9:25 pm
Raining like hell in Doraville.
But its not gonna be one of these…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uSGhQtA9jM
josef
March 30th, 2012
9:28 pm
matti
heh, heh! They don’t know…I’m a fifth columnist…I can “pass” and they ain’t got no better sense…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pB9zuS4Ay8
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
9:38 pm
josef, not too many Rubys anymore. My great aunt was Ruby. Glad y’all get along now.
Jamman – love the rain right now. bring it on.
Your song took me to this – that I haven’t heard in forever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j83xviHVmGg
josef
March 30th, 2012
9:38 pm
ZanVet
Gully washer here in Buckhead, too…speaking of rain, thinking of you with this one…your man and mine too…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF3-S5qagi4
Mick
March 30th, 2012
9:41 pm
moonbat
This one’s for you-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRffjwODp8&feature=related
josef
March 30th, 2012
9:46 pm
moonbat
She’s close to full blood and has that Cherokee elegant but VEEERRRY reserved froideur…never, ever said anything out of line, but you just knew!
My own Mama fell in love with the Unmentionable spot on and made it clear to me that she liked him a lot more than me and that he deserved better…
Matti the Resistance Fighter in the War on Women
March 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
josef @ 9:28,
Ausgezeichnet!
Mick
March 30th, 2012
9:48 pm
jamvet
Always there to fight the good fight, I’m running out of gas with some of these conned minds, it’s almost hopeless-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvA64O2LySc
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
9:49 pm
Thanks, Mick that was cool. Never heard that version before.
Good back country, dirt road drivin’ music.
chillin’
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
9:52 pm
Matti, streak Augusta National!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z7fV-wB2z8&ob=av2e
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
9:54 pm
Hey Guys ………… pray for “The Possum”. He’s in the hospital.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
9:55 pm
VERY TOUGH TO WATCH BUT ONE OF THE BEST I’VE SEEN TO HONOR A FALLEN WARRIOR.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3MX2ha8QAQ&feature=related
josef
March 30th, 2012
10:00 pm
ZamVet
I know how much you like a certain Canajun and you know what I think…so Unmentionable says to tell you let’s split the difference and I can post you one of my favs of his and still stay north of the 49th at the same time…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_9gZEMQ2No
josef
March 30th, 2012
10:01 pm
matti
@ 9:48
Gesundheit!
Mick
March 30th, 2012
10:06 pm
Hey scout
I’m glad that you keep vigil and remind us of the sacrifice that so many fine young americans have died. People like you keep the flame burning and no matter what, that sacrifice shall be honored!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXAqoZuYvyA&feature=related
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
10:08 pm
0311 – Hope George Jones is doing fine. It’s going to be sad as all these musical greats start passing.
Beautiful salute to the fallen warrior. It’s beyond words to witness in person.
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
10:10 pm
Scout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysKAVyXi0J4
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
10:13 pm
Mick, Betty, Don’t Forget:
Oooo Rah !
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
10:14 pm
For Bruno,
Box Scaggs and Sky Dog…
In 1970 at Queens College’s radio station WQMC in New York, Duane Allman talked about how he first picked up the slide. It was late 1967 and his group Hourglass was between albums: “I heard Ry Cooder playing some time ago and I said, man, that’s for me. I got me a bottle and went in the house for about three weeks and I said, ‘Hey man, we’ve got to learn some songs . . . I love this . . .’ So we started doing it and for awhile it was everybody looking at me and thinking, ‘Oh no! He’s getting ready to do it again!’ Everybody just lowered their heads . . . But then I got a little better at it and improved it . . .”
Improved it, he did. The fury that could be unleashed or the sweetness that could be set free when he slipped a Coricidin pill bottle on the ring finger of his right hand to slide along his guitar’s fret board defined an approach to playing whose influence has been keenly felt. From the basic “Dust My Broom” and accenting slides of Elmore James and Muddy Waters, to the inroads made by Earl Hooker, it was finally Allman who established the electric slide as a melodic force. It was his sense of melody, combined with western swing influenced dual guitar harmonies resting on ensemble-like modal jazz underpinnings that distinguished the Allman Brothers Band above the usual blues boogie outfits of the early ’70s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTFvAvsHC_Y
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
10:16 pm
Don’t Forget, that Bela Fleck at 8:37 was super cool.
thanks
Mick
March 30th, 2012
10:19 pm
jamvet
That overdun beatles tune just proved that not only were they great musicians but they definitely knew what to cut out for the final product-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olk8rZmlhY4
Nio need to say any more....
March 30th, 2012
10:26 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkRzJ3eTnRY
No need to say any more....
March 30th, 2012
10:26 pm
Sorry, “No” need…
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
10:29 pm
Nobody writes lyrics like this guy, nobody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5v8vntxsw&feature=related
Emmylou
March 30th, 2012
10:32 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG1qTFZSiAM
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
10:34 pm
“Message From Marine Snipers ………. Open Wide and Say Ahhhh – lah !”
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
10:40 pm
Hey again gang.
I’m missing all the tunes, but I’ll go back…
That Rhonda Vincent started out like this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYPTX12L5Uw
Don't Forget
March 30th, 2012
10:44 pm
Scout, about the elbows, had a 75lb karate bag as a teenager and found exactly what you were talking about on my own. Never had to use it but the force is amazing. Good to know just in case.
JamVet
March 30th, 2012
10:53 pm
American music — not country music, not bluegrass music, but American music — lost a giant this week in the passing of banjo great Earl Scruggs. His style was as authentic as North Carolina moonshine, and it packed just as much wallop.
What a tribute. I wish I could write like that.
This newspaper rocks. Always has.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CG0f94xlg8
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 30th, 2012
11:19 pm
Don’t Forget:
Exactly ! And don’t forget those knees if you can’t get your assailant pinned up against something !
I good knee kick in the side of a thigh can’t hit the nerve there and the leg is useless ……… they go right to the ground.
moonbat betty
March 30th, 2012
11:26 pm
Good night gentle souls.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03TgkCVDlrA
‘Cause Curtis Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues
Mick
March 30th, 2012
11:52 pm
I’m so tired…thanks all for the great tuneage…tomorrow is another day…seize it..nite-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgFSWtUnNk
Don't Forget
March 31st, 2012
12:04 am
Scout, thanks for the tip. Makes sense but I hadn’t thought of it.
Don't Forget
March 31st, 2012
12:16 am
Good night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwqXS20UAT4
carlosgvv
March 31st, 2012
8:31 am
TV news reported that demonstrations will continue in Florida for “justice for Trayvon”. This is good and proper. However, as Ervin Jefferson’s family grieves and plans his funeral, all you hear from the black community is thundering silence. A teenage black man, unarmed, is gunned down by a security guard. The guard is taken into custody and later released without being charged. The guard claims he “feared for his life”. So similar. No one else here seem to be bothered by this. Something is terribly wrong here.
JamVet
March 31st, 2012
8:38 am
Brother getalife, I’m sure you’ll get a chuckle out of this…
http://tinyurl.com/7fgf8uf
JamVet
March 31st, 2012
8:44 am
I know it is a rhetorical question, but why are there so damn many cowards and disgusting little men in the GOP like Cong. Joe Walsh of Illinois?
And why do so many of them treat combat veterans like crap?
Fortunately, the Democrats are running the very antidote against this disease…
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_R-AhPgfJIeo/SYngG060inI/AAAAAAAADTM/Iv8wl3azgek/s320/tammy-duckworth.jpg
JamVet
March 31st, 2012
8:46 am
Wow, what timing!
I post a link of a real woman immediately after an obsessed, petulant little brat pukes up her drivel.
Normal, plain and simple
March 31st, 2012
8:48 am
JamVet,
I think that God doesn’t like them either…To that “Church”, I offer…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EL67mjv1nM&feature=related
Recon 0311 2533
March 31st, 2012
8:54 am
Most people are awaiting the conclusion of the special investigation. Many are bothered by this lynch mob mentality to arrest and charge Zimmerman before the investigation’s concluded.
Orange12
March 31st, 2012
8:55 am
Reality Check.
Gas is going for $3.79 per at the Quik Trip.
Normal, plain and simple
March 31st, 2012
8:56 am
…or maybe that “Church” is just….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWcRMonvWA
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
March 31st, 2012
9:00 am
RECON:
Today’s AJC:
http://www.ajc.com/news/stand-your-ground-law-1403011.html
Normal, plain and simple
March 31st, 2012
9:04 am
Relax about the gas prices already. Ain’t a thing you can control. It’s just the free market at its best. Supply and demand. The USA is not the only customer in the market and besides we export more oil now than we import. Got a beef with oil? Complain to the oil companies for exporting oil for personal profit….or learn to adapt and drive less…
http://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=arlo%20guthrie%20motorcycle%20song&tnr=21&vid=4996907186061414&l=386&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fvideos%2Fthumbnail.aspx%3Fq%3D4996907186061414%26id%3D259213b1e63da0917cd7faba8cfb726b%26bid%3DNgYVYZTv6C2q8Q%26bn%3DThumb%26url%3Dhttp%253a%252f%252fwww.youtube.com%252fwatch%253fv%253dg266Uwp6ZnI&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dg266Uwp6ZnI&sigr=11asp1cnq&newfp=1&tit=Arlo+Guthrie%2FMotorcycle+Song
Recon 0311 2533
March 31st, 2012
9:08 am
0311/8541
I read that article. Many people don’t understand the basis for this law. Without it the onus of responsibility rests on the defender to prove that they couldn’t escape from the attacker and therefore had no choice but to use deadly force.
JamVet
March 31st, 2012
9:19 am
Is there any doubt where these self sidelined neocons get their collective chickenhawk claptrap from? Guys like this little fella…
Rep. Joe Walsh Calls Veterans Protesting Wall Street Un-American
At a November 19 town hall meeting in Gurnee, Illinois, Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) smeared Occupy Wall Street protesters as “generally spoiled, pampered, unfocused, clueless young people and a smattering of other people who don’t understand this country and are advocating anti-American solutions.” When asked by a subsequent questioner if his attack applied to “veterans who fought in foreign wars” who are part of the 99 Percent Movement, Walsh replied that they were advocating “socialist solutions” and that “they don’t understand this country.” Walsh later admitted that he’d never actually been to any of the protests.
Just one of innumerable reasons why this horrificly messed up GOP needs to be sent back to the Stone Age where they belong.
Normal,
Great Saturday morning jam! Here’s another with a similar title…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d7-KZvSE5E
Normal, plain and simple
March 31st, 2012
9:29 am
JamVet,
Great tune!
carlosgvv
March 31st, 2012
10:12 am
JamVet – 9:19
There are two possibilities:
1. Come November the people, realizing what a mistake it was to elect morons like this, will boot them all out.
2. America has dumbed down to the point where idiots like this will become the norm in the House and Senate and those of us with intelligence will just have to put up with it.
Of course, we could start a third party but I doubt it would do much good.
Oscar
March 31st, 2012
10:26 am
In Florida the way the law stands now if the defendant claims he acted in self defense, the prosecutor has to proof beyond a reasonable doubt that the dead man did not attack the killer.
Without that law, the defendant would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was attacked.
Either way with no witnesses it’s a pretty high standard to prove. Prosecutor, and if it goes to trial, basically have to decide what a resoable man would have done.
JamVet
March 31st, 2012
10:29 am
carlos, I’ve been reading up on this guy and before he got into politics, at least he had an uneven record and did some good stuff.
But as a Tea Party clown? The worst. He is just another ethically challenged, pandering, neanderthal, deadbeat dad in a lily white district that must be the Illinois version of Forsythe, Cobb, Cherokee, etc.
I will be shocked it Ms. Duckworth does not make him a one and done neocon.
Also of interest to me will be to watch if the pig farmers in Virginia put their racist posterboy back into office…
Oscar
March 31st, 2012
10:40 am
carlosgvv
March 31st, 2012
10:12 am
JamVet – 9:19
There are two possibilities:
1. Come November the people, realizing what a mistake it was to elect morons like this, will boot them all out.
2. America has dumbed down to the point where idiots like this will become the norm in the House and Senate and those of us with intelligence will just have to put up with it.
Of course, we could start a third party but I doubt it would do much good.
____________
Congressman represent the views of the majority of the voters in their districts. Unless the voter’s views change, they will keep re-electing the same person. That’s why there is so little turnover in Congress. If there were term limits, the same voters would just elect someone else with the same views.
Only way for change to occur is for the opinions and beliefs of the voters to change. That happens. When it does it generally happens quickly in one election. FDR in 1932. The GOP revolution in 1994. The south changed to GOP in 1964 with Goldwater. Other than that, changes occur slowly.
Doggone/GA
March 31st, 2012
10:40 am
Normal – if you come back and see this “besides we export more oil now than we import”
No, we don’t. We export excess gasoline above and beyond what we use.
Oscar
March 31st, 2012
11:08 am
It is correct that we are still a net importer of crude oil.
Here is a link to support that.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/why-is-the-us-exporting-so-much-petroleum-these-days/2012/02/13/gIQAdlivAR_blog.html
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
March 31st, 2012
11:44 am
Well, me and my buddy Jim Earl and my other buddy Joe Bill were going to play a round of golf this morning up at Countryland, but the rain has made the course kinda muddy. Joe Bill’s got a new pair of golf shoes he found in a bargain bin, and he don’t want to get that orange clay on them, so we called and cancelled.
Anyhow, it don’t look like there’s alot of action on this blog. I guess a whole bunch of people have a life or something. Or maybe the preverts know that it’s spring break and are headed to FL to ogle the school girls.
Have a good Saturday everybody.
getalife
March 31st, 2012
12:02 pm
Now that our country is back with competent leadership and things are running smoothly, our cons cut and ran.
Our President’s first term was the comeback.
Our President’s second term is peace and prosperity.
Game over for our cons.