Bela Fleck and The Flecktones & Casey Driessen - Big Country - Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival
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- Опубліковано 23 гру 2009
- Bela Fleck and The Flecktones with special guest Casey Driessen on the fiddle playing "Big Country" at the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Music Festival at The Congress Theater on 12/12/09
It's 2023 and this is still fucking amazing. This is so beautiful, it gives me goose bumps everytime I listen.
Check out his more recent My Bluegrass Heart 2022 version.. I think it's one of his best (and the recording is certainly better), such a beautiful rendition...
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Oh Yeah 😅
I cry every damn time I listen to Big Country
I want to cry with you Stephanie
Certainly one of the best things Béla Fleck ever wrote. There is an epic, Hollywood Western quality to it that always gets to me in every version he does and there are many.
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This song is one of those rare gems that is transcendent .I've never heard a version (and Belas done many ) where the word " Majestic" didn't come to mind .
Of course there's " Whitewater " ...
😢@@deanoverlie224
I've made it know that I want this (live at the quick version) played at my funeral at some point... absolute goose bumps... honest to God... it's beautiful
Just in case the Flecktones were not sick enough, let's throw some Driessen in there. True genius and magic, all the way around.
Victor quoting Jaco at 4:35 after that beautiful musical conversation, stunning.
VICTOR WOOTEN! GOAT!!!! Rip leroy moore, miss you!
This is the most EPIC thing I've watched in a good long while!!!!! Taking me back to why I love bluegrass!!!
This is not bluegrass... Just because there is a banjo doesn't mean it's bluegrass... Trust me. I know. I have been playing BG most of my musical life... And getting away from the style when having first begun as a BG musician is a damn good start
I was going to say - they take it to another (completely different) level :-))
A real GOOD fusion band
@@jenniferschrey4430 He played a full on bluegrass version of this last Labor Day Weekend and the Earl Scruggs Music Festival. It was epic!
Wow, just wow! Bella has taken the banjo and Bluegrass and mixed it with Jazz😁. Awesome
Absolutely stunning.
One of the greatest songs of all time.
And bela sang it into a voice recorder.
The product is what you hear here..lol
One of the best songs i've heard... ever
Jeff Coffin always amazes.
This song gives me the frisson every time.
Superb! I’m a jazz fan, but love BG and country music! Thanks Bela!!
Saw them in New Orleans late 90's....easily a top show all time. Also in Bellingham, WA 🙂
I love these dudes!! I saw them twice in the mid 90's at small outdoor things. The last two shows however have been incredible! A few years ago at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and last November in Birmingham, where they came out after the show, sat on the edge of the stage and shot the shit with their fans. I started with Futureman and worked my way to Bela, Victor, and Howard. I would've loved to have heard this song but it's more of a Jeff Coffin era song and of course, he's not in the band anymore. Anyway, the past two have been two of the best shows this ol' boy has ever witnessed! They did bring out Jeff and Casey at the Ryman show for the encore, Sinister Minister. Victor will be coming thru my neck of the woods in April and I'll be there, or I plan on it at least.
My passion - bluegrass!! total goose bumps head to toe with this Big Country piece.
Goose bumps all over!
i love this song sooo much.
El minuto 4:38 siempre nos recordara que existió un bajista que se llama Jaco Pastorius, que nos abrió una puerta tan tan grande para el bajo eléctrico. Nos mostró el camino a seguir. En 2023 JACO SIGUE VIVO!!!! Gracias Victor por mantenerlo siempre presente.
Amazing! Wanna see these cats one more time...
Incredible. Love it.
god it is so amazing to see them play
absolutely fantastic!!! one of the best youtube clips of all time. Thanks for posting. Must have been some concert! Great footage!
Great video quality- it does justice to a great performance! Thanks for posting.
The way Bela walks up to his bandmates and says, through his playing, "Hey, this is you. Not me. Do it.", and they get nervous as hell, and then "Do." That's why this is an incredible song in *any performance*.
Great piece of work indeed!
Casey, you da man, that was fantastic playing, really enjoyed that..... I'm off to check out your other stuff now,
So good to hear real musicians playing their instruments.
These guys go beyond "real" I'm afraid..
@@bassturbant Don't be afraid.
I like laptop generated, repetitive, mind numbing, techno garbage.
I wish I was there for this performance!
I hear those sleigh bells ringing and jing ting tingaling at @4:05
The Greatest Piece of Music Ever Recorded!
Allan Fifield , calm down.
Tranquilo Ellen
PERFECTION! SHEESH!
great performance of a great song :)
Masters!
anyone else catch the tune they hint starting in the sixth minute but explicitly 6:52 ? It's Down in the Swamp from Bela's 1988 album Drive. Big surprise to here than oldie thrown in!
YES! Another great Bela tune in E!
Wow, that Jaco quote totally suprised me! Awesome!!
I checked the comment section to see if anyone gave it a mention. Truly a perfect moment in the performance!
Jaco?? As in Jaco Pastorius?? That's Victor Wooten.
@@thomasromano9321 jaco quote
I cried
When they published this music, did the printer run out of ink????? Completely fantastic!
The solo of Wooten 👀 🫣
I now go to sleep listening to this.
I love the Future mann :-)
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! I went to HS with Casey! Karees Brown...
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@smurd24 I agree, especially about the tears part. My eyes leaked when I caught the Rialtp in Tucson. Last show of the winter tour, 19 December, 2010.
Nice transition to "Down in the Swamp" around 7:10
Man, not enough people give Jeff Coffin credit.
He is the best ever in my opinion. He is missed but loved in the Dave Mathews world as he should be.
Pure talent
Loch Lomond. The beautiful Scottish on the Bonnie Bonnie Banks of loch Lomond
⭐️💥💫🌟⚡️🌙
I wish they made out to Socal! at least the West Coast... I'd do what I must to attend!! I saw the one clip with the Asian dood who had two tones come forth out of his mouth, mindblowing!
the real long ago and far away...
I recognized it but I couldn't put my finger on what it was... Great addition and a great version of this song.
Vid quality on this is amazing too... I could see myself a few times, thanks for sharing it!!
bluegrass and country isnt my go-to genre, the closest I get to it is folk music but I dont know who can say no to this - a 100% spectacular experience
I've been coming back to this track for years now - but I remember there being a recording with an extended duel between Wooten and Coffin, I can't seem to find it now, it seems to have been taken down I think it had a black and white intro/interview
I know the clip you’re talking about. I’d LOVE to be able to find it too. One of my favorite musical experiences, watching that clip.
I’m looking for it too!
@cbtrules You're welcome. Thanks for commenting.
nice "Sleigh Ride" quote at 4:12
epic
Great! cliff in tokyo
I'd love to hear a direct mixer recording of this.
Is it just me or did Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride" make it in at around 4:12
Look at the date of the video. Yep. I heard it , too !
Victor and Jeff also trade a section of "Sleigh Ride" when they're trading fours.
@kingofkillings yes, iirc, victor doesnt play fretless very often and youll find he does more jaco type stuff with it out
mediatesilent He references Jaco’s Continuum at 4:45
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Thank you for sharing this
I don’t want to brag- but, I must- forgive me- when I heard you guys play this at the Ryman Auditorium many moons ago, you each entered the stage playing one by one. What an amazing concert it was 🌞
At 4:10 I hear the melody of that Christmas song. I can't think of the title.
+KPEC3arrival Sleigh Ride.
ok
It's "Sleigh Ride."
Future Man is still The Best.
Victor quote at 3:35?? Anyone?
never heard a clarinet bass convreration before.....NICE!
Victor is a tiny bit flat on a. middle string.
Peggy-O
They are the best, what can you say! Futureman sounds like he's playing a real accoustic kit. It doesn't even sound electronic.
Don't even know how he does it
@@nicolassmoak1240 I met Vic one time. He's a really nice guy.
@@kpec3 That is so awesome! I got the chance to see Vic play live once, amazing. Hope all is well John!
@@nicolassmoak1240 You too! The Wooten's usually play Rudy's in Nashville around x-mas or New Year's.
@@kpec3 Thank you! This is good to know.
Song is actually "the Banks of Loch Lomond"...hmmm !
Amazed that folks don't seem to hear it. "You take the high road, an I'll take the low"
I heard Victor Wooten can produce the sounds of all the other instruments with just a bass, but doesn't because he doesn't want to show anyone up.
This is why music is my personal answer to solipsism.
Okay... honestly agree.
I misread the comment the first time. YES!
this is evidence of God
Nice comment. Agree.
Whose on the clarinet? Oh sorry that's an alternative sax...geeez Alto sax
Jeff Coffin (Flecktones, Dave Matthews Band, Mu'tet)
I do believe that's a soprano sax.
I love the Flecktones and have watched at least 100 videos of them and Bela. NO DRUMMER. I never want to go to a concert and have piped music. My first thumbs down to one of my top 5 bands..
Steve Smith see the dude with the pirate hat on? He’s the percussionist. He’s playing a drum machine of his own invention.
wo w if you've really watched that much bela on here did you ever wonder what the guy with the guitar hero controller was doing??
Search Futureman and then come back and remove your comment. He might not get the screen time of the others but Futureman can sometimes be playing 2-3 different variations of drums or drum machines. His drumitar is his own creation! He is Victor’s brother and a special one.
😢 Everytime! So incredibly touching.