And JD to. JD has been my biggest inspiration since I stared playing banjo 20 years ago. Rock salt and nails was also the first song I learned on guitar.
So many great bluegrass bands to listen to....and none any better than this one. I get chills everytime I listen to this video...and tears knowing two of em are gone. How I miss the old days...😪
You are absolutely correct!!! I must agree. Tony's hair today is as messed up as any time in his or my life, and if I could play like he does, I'd be happy with that hair. Brilliant!
burrencrawler it was 1975 !! I saw Scaggs many times around the Bay Area of California in the '70's. He use to play/ harmonize with Emmylou & The Hot Band. Today he has grey hair like Emmy does today. We were all young. Our hair & clothing style changed; especially for women.
00:09 Rock Salt and Nails 3:05 Band chatting 4:08 Old Home Place 6:48 Band chatting 7:28 Nine Pound Hammer 10:08 Band chatting 11:12 Ten Degrees and Getting Colder 13:29 Band chatting 15:19 Sin City 17:58 Band chatting 18:38 Train 45
Damn. I had Rounder 0044 and always thought it was the best ever, dunno why I'm only NOW realizing it was a "supergroup" rivaling Strength in Numbers for sheer genius/instrumental virtuosity. And now understand why people have written what a bluegrass tragedy it was when Tony Rice lost his voice. Wonderful group!
Well, I'll be damned. I loved this band, but had forgotten their names and had no idea how their individual careers progressed. It's so funny that I have been listening to each of them in recent years (except JD) without realizing that I knew them when! They performed at The Factory (or was it Studio 54?) in NYC that same summer, and the after party in the East Village was such a shock to these boys that we escaped to their Winnebago to recover with some proper bourbon and branchwater. The band was perfect dynamite, each one was a brilliant musician -- and they were delightful gentlemen, too!
Well this video takes me back to 1975, 19. I have followed every one of these guys since. Each will be in the bluegrass hall of fame. I'd say NYC did blow their minds. Devil tried to get a hold of a couple of them but like we say down here in the south, back off devil! ;-)
I thought it was the 2nd best line up ever, and 2nd best album ever. But I cannot sit here and tell you for a fact that you believing it is the best is wrong. lol
Thank you so much for posting these videos. Bobby Slone was my great uncle, and I used to visit him in Renfro Valley and Elkhorn a lot growing up to see him play (I especially loved watching him play fiddle, but I have yet to find any videos of him with one). It's really comforting to have these videos of him to watch whenever I think about him, and I'm playing them right now for my one-year old son who never got to know him. He was hands down one of the most sweetest, genuine, and humble people I've ever known, and I still miss him so much... (I also just noticed my cousin's comment below as I was typing this, lol - the small world of bluegrass. But it's funny I wasn't expecting a reminder to reconnect with her and others in more distant parts of my family just by playing this song for my son. So in a way, thanks for that, too! :) )
Thanks for sharing this. My great-uncle was Bobby Slone and it is great to see him talking in this video since most he's only playing. I'll share this with my grandmother! We miss him terribly.
I used to sit backstage at Renfro Valley & talk to Bobby while the band was on break during the comedy acts. He was a great musician & a really great guy to go along with it!!!!!!! I only got to pick with him a couple times, but he would always leave our sides hurting from laughing at his jokes & stories. Jerry Isaacs (The Chicken Man) had this video of him acting out this character they had made up called Burford Belcher. It was hilarious!!!!!!! Bobby knew a lot of bluegrass history & how some of the now iconic tunes came to be. I was only 18 at the time & I later learned just how many great influential bands he had been a part of.
There was a gospel group that came to a singing we did in Castlewood, Va. Several Slone's in the group. I'm almost certain Bobby came with them a few times. Did he have brothers that played? These guys were kin, but I can't remember the connection. Research and search time for a cassette.
Bobby came to the Breaks one evening when we were having a family reunion and played with some of our friends and family for us. We had a bean and cornbread supper that evening.
Most of them were young in in this, but Jerry Douglas was just 18 years old - pretty incredible. It is really neat to see him perform before he was the polished dobro machine everybody's familiar with.
It would be awfully easy to proclaim this line-up as the greatest Bluegrass band of all time, both in fame, playing ability, and wide-ranging influence of its individual players.
Too many great acts to proclaim something like this. Many phenomenal artists who've contributed and evolved the ethos. Excellent brotherhood and musicianship. But this line-up was definitely brilliant
Definitive - particularly the first track -this haunts bits inside me that I don't fully understand - it shivers 70 year old parts in ways I don't yet fully understand - but there's the power of it.
Oh, this music is in touch with parts of life we all share; love and loss, hard times and celebration, work and rest...that's why criticisms of musicians based on "authenticity" are such poser bullshit. If you can make the music, if, as a human being and a musician, you're in touch with those things that the music touches...you're authentic as need be.
Spoken like a true bluegrass fan right there, pursheatin’ the wood and the catgut part of the equation. oh yeah and then there’s the cats playing those works of art
I do not believe I have seen a bridge on a 1922-24 F5 as high as that one is...the string action doesn't look too high...must have a helluva neck angle
In 1975 these talented young men drew a bluegrass line in the musical sand, and here in 2019 no tsunami has ever been able to erase it. That’s what I call a statement!
Incredible lineup, super influential band, great setlist, amazing hair - this video has everything! Ten Degrees is a particularly powerful song and a bit overlooked these days
This band and these songs are really something special. Such soulful harmonies and virtuosic playing, it makes your heart swell. A kind of warm, wistful purity that brings a tear to the eye.
I would agree this is one of the best. The only one better in my opinion was Ralph Stanley's All Star band that included Skaggs, Roy Lee Centers, and Keith Whitley. What a book Ricky Skaggs could write about what he has seen and who he has played with.
I was with a band in 1980 called "Gospel-Grass Band" and we played at the bluegrass festival in Warren Ohio put on by Jerry Douglas dad John Douglas I remember all these guys.
Awesome video! That 1924 Gibson F5 Ricky is discussing is now worth a couple hundred thousand dollars! The rest of this is of course, priceless. www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201104A33.html
Check Martha White Flour Hour vids. These guys were, and still are to a large degree, the cream of the 2nd and 3rd generation bluegrass players but I'd be hard pressed to say these guys surpassed the 1st generation of Innovators that defined the genre.
I listened to this full video many years ago - I can still watch it over and over. Superb musicians. Vocals -top class, not to speak of the picking - these guys can pick!!! Thanks for sharing this. From South Africa - we don't get to hear Bluegrass here except on UA-cam. SO that's where I go.
Don't smile boys, this is bluegrass. LOL, love the serious mugs on these guys while they're playing. Very old school in their stage presentation. BUT: Sensational pickers, all. I once worked with a banjo player and pretty much ALL he did was J.D. Crowe licks, had him down note-for-note, really he did. Kent Dowell was his name, wound up working with the Country Gentlemen for a while.
Thx so much for uploading this amazing archive of one of the most influential bluegrass bands ever. How much bluegrass wouldn't exist if this band never happened?
J.D. Crowe, a pioneering banjo player with his progressive bluegrass group the New South, died Friday morning, according to a post on the musician’s Facebook page. He was 84.August 27, 1937 - December 24, 2021) “This morning at around 3 a.m. our dad, JD Crowe, went home,” Crowe’s family wrote. “Prayers needed for all during this difficult time.”
one of the best bg bands ever. they weren't together long but they left a lasting impression on me. outstanding, each and everyone. what i'd give to see a live 1975 concert. thanks, from he bottom of my heart. kt
What an unbelievable group! i have liostened to thousands of hours of these guys over the years.Sadly weve lost Tony Rice,and now JD.They will never be forgotten.
Thanks for posting this ... remember seeing this J.D. Crowe and New South group at Festival of the Bluegrass. Although there have been many different members, this is one of the best!
One of the best of the New Grass/Progressive Bluegrass bands of the 1970's. Along with the New Grass Revival, these folks infused the traditional art form with a whole new modern and youthful sensibility. And they were as technically crack as musicians as any of the old Bluegrass masters. Thanks so much for posting.
Funny how today they would be classified as traditional. I remember when Tony came on the scene and all the old hard core traditionalists didnt like him cause he didnt sound like Roy Lee Centers or Larry. Most of those folks finally came around.
I was listening to this and I thought; Well,,, that ain't no Jerry Douglas, but he's good. Oh wait, that is Jerry Douglas, ha ha,,, he sure mastered that instrument over the years.
I've always known who Ricky Skaggs was... but I only recently started listening to JD Crowe and the New South, and I can't believe I went my whole life without even knowing about talents like Crowe, Tony, etc. These guys absolutely blow me away.
The story I heard was the Tony decided take on the persona of black bluse-man. Talking gruffly he ruined his voice. I'm sure smokes didnt' help either.
This is my “Roman Empire.” The thing that I think about everyday. The fact that KET recorded this at the perfect time for the lineup just as Rounder 0044 was cut and getting ready to be released and the greatest bluegrass album ever… the fact that Jerry Douglas literally joined the band a few days prior… That Tony Rice just bought 58597 a few weeks earlier… that Sin City didn’t make the album even though it’s the best cut on this video… that the shirts are polyester magic… that Jerry Douglas and Steve Howe from Yes are in a death match for 1970s virtuosos on their instrument but not for looks…. that the band broke up a few weeks later when Tony hooked up with Grisman to make the DGQ classic album… that Tony tragically lost his voice in the 90s… that Gordon Lightfoot was Tony’s songwriting muse… when Ricky says that “Bluegrass is a feeling music, like Jazz or the Blues…” that if I see this on my UA-cam on a Friday or Saturday night bourbon magically appears and I can sing bluegrass to anyone that will listen willingly or not…. If you’re *tuned in* the right way, this is the greatest thing that exists on UA-cam…
I think the first song is ‘Rock, Salt, and Nails’, the second is ‘Old Home Place’, the third is ‘Nine Pound Hammer’, the fourth is ‘Ten Degrees and Getting Colder’ by Lightfoot and the last song is ‘Sin City’.
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Who else binge watching anything with Tony Rice in it?
I've been binge watching since I heard the news of his death. There will never be another like him.
😞
Every day since Christmas
Tony lived 2 miles down the road from me in Reidsville. What a talent! This was an All-Star group!
Oh, of course.
But I have been for the last 30 years, too.
This is why i love youtube. RIP Tony Rice.
And now JD too
@@Spacecowboy42 Its sad to see all the greats leaving us
And JD to. JD has been my biggest inspiration since I stared playing banjo 20 years ago. Rock salt and nails was also the first song I learned on guitar.
So many great bluegrass bands to listen to....and none any better than this one. I get chills everytime I listen to this video...and tears knowing two of em are gone. How I miss the old days...😪
Can’t agree more
Im prepared to fuck up my hair to be able to play my instrument like these guys.....
You are absolutely correct!!! I must agree. Tony's hair today is as messed up as any time in his or my life, and if I could play like he does, I'd be happy with that hair. Brilliant!
What am I saying? I'm bald. I'd be happy with ANY hair.
hahahahahahahahah
burrencrawler it was 1975 !! I saw Scaggs many times around the Bay Area of California in the '70's. He use to play/ harmonize with Emmylou & The Hot Band. Today he has grey hair like Emmy does today. We were all young. Our hair & clothing style changed; especially for women.
This is the best comment on youtube. Hold my hairspray, I'm going' in.
The talent in this band is crazy. Each one of these guys is a legend now.
...and each of these guy's haircuts is super dated now.
So true.
@@janrom4153 na it's coming back. the hair and those shirts. give it a year, all the zoomers will look like this.
00:09 Rock Salt and Nails
3:05 Band chatting
4:08 Old Home Place
6:48 Band chatting
7:28 Nine Pound Hammer
10:08 Band chatting
11:12 Ten Degrees and Getting Colder
13:29 Band chatting
15:19 Sin City
17:58 Band chatting
18:38 Train 45
Get
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Top ; )
... there was JD Crowe 38,Tony Rice 24, Ricky Skaggs 21, Jerry Douglas 19 and Bobby Slone 39. Today (2016) a Graet Bluegrass Legends!
they are all still going strong save Tony Rice
Jerry Douglas was a BABY
One of the best ever lineups in bluegrass music. These guys were fantastic together!!
Damn. I had Rounder 0044 and always thought it was the best ever, dunno why I'm only NOW realizing it was a "supergroup" rivaling Strength in Numbers for sheer genius/instrumental virtuosity. And now understand why people have written what a bluegrass tragedy it was when Tony Rice lost his voice. Wonderful group!
Well, I'll be damned. I loved this band, but had forgotten their names and had no idea how their individual careers progressed. It's so funny that I have been listening to each of them in recent years (except JD) without realizing that I knew them when! They performed at The Factory (or was it Studio 54?) in NYC that same summer, and the after party in the East Village was such a shock to these boys that we escaped to their Winnebago to recover with some proper bourbon and branchwater. The band was perfect dynamite, each one was a brilliant musician -- and they were delightful gentlemen, too!
Well this video takes me back to 1975, 19. I have followed every one of these guys since. Each will be in the bluegrass hall of fame. I'd say NYC did blow their minds. Devil tried to get a hold of a couple of them but like we say down here in the south, back off devil! ;-)
What year is the mandolin?
I thought it was the 2nd best line up ever, and 2nd best album ever. But I cannot sit here and tell you for a fact that you believing it is the best is wrong. lol
Thank you so much for posting these videos. Bobby Slone was my great uncle, and I used to visit him in Renfro Valley and Elkhorn a lot growing up to see him play (I especially loved watching him play fiddle, but I have yet to find any videos of him with one). It's really comforting to have these videos of him to watch whenever I think about him, and I'm playing them right now for my one-year old son who never got to know him. He was hands down one of the most sweetest, genuine, and humble people I've ever known, and I still miss him so much...
(I also just noticed my cousin's comment below as I was typing this, lol - the small world of bluegrass. But it's funny I wasn't expecting a reminder to reconnect with her and others in more distant parts of my family just by playing this song for my son. So in a way, thanks for that, too! :) )
Tony, Ricky and J.D.'s harmony is awesome!
Correct.
Godspeed Tony Rice. Thankyou for sharing your talent with us!
Thanks for sharing this. My great-uncle was Bobby Slone and it is great to see him talking in this video since most he's only playing. I'll share this with my grandmother! We miss him terribly.
Bobby was a great left-handed fiddle player too!
I used to sit backstage at Renfro Valley & talk to Bobby while the band was on break during the comedy acts. He was a great musician & a really great guy to go along with it!!!!!!! I only got to pick with him a couple times, but he would always leave our sides hurting from laughing at his jokes & stories. Jerry Isaacs (The Chicken Man) had this video of him acting out this character they had made up called Burford Belcher. It was hilarious!!!!!!! Bobby knew a lot of bluegrass history & how some of the now iconic tunes came to be. I was only 18 at the time & I later learned just how many great influential bands he had been a part of.
There was a gospel group that came to a singing we did in Castlewood, Va. Several Slone's in the group. I'm almost certain Bobby came with them a few times. Did he have brothers that played? These guys were kin, but I can't remember the connection. Research and search time for a cassette.
I wondered if he may have been from southeast Kentucky and looked him up and saw that he was born in Pike county. I’m from Letcher county.
Bobby came to the Breaks one evening when we were having a family reunion and played with some of our friends and family for us. We had a bean and cornbread supper that evening.
Oh Man, memories. JD, Tony, Larry, Bobby, and not sure who else at Holiday Inn North, Lexington KY 1975. Many nights per week.
Most of them were young in in this, but Jerry Douglas was just 18 years old - pretty incredible. It is really neat to see him perform before he was the polished dobro machine everybody's familiar with.
It would be awfully easy to proclaim this line-up as the greatest Bluegrass band of all time, both in fame, playing ability, and wide-ranging influence of its individual players.
Too many great acts to proclaim something like this. Many phenomenal artists who've contributed and evolved the ethos. Excellent brotherhood and musicianship. But this line-up was definitely brilliant
Wish they had a fiddle to complete band. Maybe Vassar Clements at that time. O’Conner was a little too young at the time.
Old and in the way!
@@randalbladel2817 Mark was busy with guitar at this time- and there are already two great great fiddlers in this lineup
Definitive - particularly the first track -this haunts bits inside me that I don't fully understand - it shivers 70 year old parts in ways I don't yet fully understand - but there's the power of it.
Oh, this music is in touch with parts of life we all share; love and loss, hard times and celebration, work and rest...that's why criticisms of musicians based on "authenticity" are such poser bullshit. If you can make the music, if, as a human being and a musician, you're in touch with those things that the music touches...you're authentic as need be.
me too
Incredible band, all the legends. I can hear the influence they’ve had on Billy Strings. Billy has covered most of these songs.
RIP J. D. Crowe and Tony Rice. Two sad Christmas days for us fans.
Indeed. JD will be missed.
Raised up mason jar of homemade wine🍻
The best band J D ever put together. 🏆🥇
That harmony at 12:35 is as good as bluegrass ever was
Maybe the best lineup of my time. My goodness what gifts from God.
Wow , look at Jerry Douglas . They are all so young , but he has always been one of my favorites . A great talent
Rare that you get to hear someone who is considered the greatest on his instrument EVER. Chris Thile, too, maybe.
@@megatrollificus Jerry Douglas probably. Chris thile not even top 10
Jerry would have been 19 when this was taped, and Tony Rice 24. Alison Krauss was four and a year away from getting her first violin.
RIP Tony Rice.
Jerry Douglas' Dobro playing is beautiful!
Incredible music. Ricky Skaggs's 1924 Gibson F5 mandolin and Tony's 1935 Martin D-28 are priceless! R.I.P. Tony you were the greatest that ever lived!
True that!
Spoken like a true bluegrass fan right there, pursheatin’ the wood and the catgut part of the equation. oh yeah and then there’s the cats playing those works of art
I do not believe I have seen a bridge on a 1922-24 F5 as high as that one is...the string action doesn't look too high...must have a helluva neck angle
RIP TONY
LEGEND
In 1975 these talented young men drew a bluegrass line in the musical sand, and here in 2019 no tsunami has ever been able to erase it. That’s what I call a statement!
This was the best ever band imho.....All of them were flat burning it up....!
Incredible lineup, super influential band, great setlist, amazing hair - this video has everything!
Ten Degrees is a particularly powerful song and a bit overlooked these days
I was hopin' they'd do "Summer Wages" off the 0044 album. I used to do that one with considerable 16-year-old feelin'...
@@megatrollificus I haven't seen that one on a New South setlist. One of the best tunes for sure
perhaps the best version of the Old Home Place ever..................
Great blue grass love it
The best no doubt
I thought it was "rock, salt & nails" by Utah Phillps.
I like Ricky’s solo on this better than the one on 0044
I thought it was sourdough batter!
Another great musician gone but his music will play on. RIP Tony.
I miss him already. :(
This band and these songs are really something special. Such soulful harmonies and virtuosic playing, it makes your heart swell. A kind of warm, wistful purity that brings a tear to the eye.
incredible harmony!!!!!!!!!! the south (where im from) has a huge history of excellent musicians this is just a drop in the bucket
Thank you for uploading a valuable and wonderful video. I am grateful.感謝‼️🎶
Such talent. And the hair styles of my High School life. ;-P
Those were the days, my friend!
So young! Tony, Ricky and Jerry. So much talent on that stage.
Arguably the finest bluegrass band ever assembled, thanks for posting !
I would agree this is one of the best. The only one better in my opinion was Ralph Stanley's All Star band that included Skaggs, Roy Lee Centers, and Keith Whitley. What a book Ricky Skaggs could write about what he has seen and who he has played with.
would have to say Ralph Stanley and the Clinch mountain boys in 1977 w Keith Whitley and Skaggs
I would usually agree but can’t beat Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs, and chubby wise!
@@jesuschrist4321
Skaggs wasn't with Ralph in '77.
1 of the best... So many great ones out there that have come before and after...
Sure, it's great music and great playing. But how about the hair on these people!! My gosh!
Please, don’t gay it up…
I NEVER get tired of hearing these guys-so much talent!!!!Thanks for the post!!
More deaf people down-voting audio clips..
Poor Ricky never could quite figure the hair out could he
Bluegrass legends and kings....masters of bluegrass universe....
all great players,picking, singing and educating. what a distinct pleasure.
My next concert will be in heaven, JESUS paid for my ticket and transportation left the date open, but I'm ready to go. EPH 2:8-9
I was with a band in 1980 called "Gospel-Grass Band" and we played at the bluegrass festival in Warren Ohio put on by Jerry Douglas dad John Douglas I remember all these guys.
I'm envious. I wish I could have seen these guys live back then.
Great bluegrass! And anyone besides me think JD looks like Elvis in opening segment?
Tony Rice is my absolute favorite musician.
More people in this world should hear this music
What a great band , just super
Awesome video! That 1924 Gibson F5 Ricky is discussing is now worth a couple hundred thousand dollars! The rest of this is of course, priceless.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/201104A33.html
What a group of heroes! 60-70es gave birth to most of the best music performances we have. Nowadays it's almost the desert in comparison.
Check Martha White Flour Hour vids. These guys were, and still are to a large degree, the cream of the 2nd and 3rd generation bluegrass players but I'd be hard pressed to say these guys surpassed the 1st generation of Innovators that defined the genre.
I listened to this full video many years ago - I can still watch it over and over. Superb musicians. Vocals -top class, not to speak of the picking - these guys can pick!!! Thanks for sharing this. From South Africa - we don't get to hear Bluegrass here except on UA-cam. SO that's where I go.
Don't smile boys, this is bluegrass.
LOL, love the serious mugs on these guys while they're playing. Very old school in their stage presentation.
BUT: Sensational pickers, all.
I once worked with a banjo player and pretty much ALL he did was J.D. Crowe licks, had him down note-for-note, really he did. Kent Dowell was his name, wound up working with the Country Gentlemen for a while.
Thx so much for uploading this amazing archive of one of the most influential bluegrass bands ever. How much bluegrass wouldn't exist if this band never happened?
Holy crap I always thought I was trying to copy Tony on the first song but it's JD's guitar work!!!! ALL SUCH LEGENDS!!!!!!!
What a great post. I learned how to play bluegrass in my twenties listening to these guys. Thanks so much.
Amazing what a voice and lead playing talent he had. Tony Rice is the greatest ever.
Fantastic! Thank you! It's great to actually see the musicians sing & pick the tunes I've been listening to for a long time!
John M. Boy, no kidding!! I've had the album for over 30 years and it's real nice to see and hear the songs with the guys on stage!
wow, such a nice step back in time and to see where they are all today
おおー、みんな若いなあ。
トニー・ライスはイケメンだなあ。
こんな動画を見られて嬉しいよ。
動画のアップに感謝、感謝です。
静止画だぞww
This was one heck of a band. They're all so young in this clip they look like they're playing hooky from school.
JD Crowe please will me your right hand ... lol
J.D. Crowe, a pioneering banjo player with his progressive bluegrass group the New South, died Friday morning, according to a post on the musician’s Facebook page. He was 84.August 27, 1937 - December 24, 2021)
“This morning at around 3 a.m. our dad, JD Crowe, went home,” Crowe’s family wrote. “Prayers needed for all during this difficult time.”
one of the best bg bands ever. they weren't together long but they left a lasting impression on me. outstanding, each and everyone. what i'd give to see a live 1975 concert. thanks, from he bottom of my heart. kt
for me a italian man today, but before when I'have a teenager I listen that music (not Lp, impossible) this music was a dream.
Feels is feels man. Enjoy.
It's really endearing to hear them noodling between songs. Bless your heart, Tony
This is a true gem! Is Molly Tuttle Tony Rice's love child? Female Doppelganger!!
These guys were insane.
Sure do miss JD and Jerry Douglas still gets that same expression of his face!!!! Thanks for the great music!!!~
One of my all time favorite band. Big influence for me and many others.
Yes me too Bob.
RIP Tony Rice one of my favorites , JD Crowe and NS was a great group alot of talent.
8:33 Every note is a scientific fact.
no shit
A lineup that's as unbeatable as the '27 Yankees . WOW !
What an unbelievable group! i have liostened to thousands of hours of these guys over the years.Sadly weve lost Tony Rice,and now JD.They will never be forgotten.
Thanks for posting this ... remember seeing this J.D. Crowe and New South group at Festival of the Bluegrass. Although there have been many different members, this is one of the best!
One of the best of the New Grass/Progressive Bluegrass bands of the 1970's. Along with the New Grass Revival, these folks infused the traditional art form with a whole new modern and youthful sensibility. And they were as technically crack as musicians as any of the old Bluegrass masters. Thanks so much for posting.
Funny how today they would be classified as traditional. I remember when Tony came on the scene and all the old hard core traditionalists didnt like him cause he didnt sound like Roy Lee Centers or Larry. Most of those folks finally came around.
@@johhnyreb7619 I would be in that group ... 😬Maybe I need to update my perspective
Wow! Jerry looks like a nerdy little kid back in the day.
Tony Rice will be sorely missed by this ole boy.
Great video! WOW, they sound awesome!!!!!!!!!!
God bless you Tony RIP
I noticed at 6:45, Tony has his belt buckle at his side, most likely to avoid marking up the back of his Clarence White Martin.
Noticed the same thing!
Man, oh man, what a legend Tony Rice is.
I was listening to this and I thought; Well,,, that ain't no
Jerry Douglas, but he's good.
Oh wait, that is Jerry Douglas, ha ha,,, he sure mastered that
instrument over the years.
Sounds pretty damn good here and he's barely 19
I've always known who Ricky Skaggs was... but I only recently started listening to JD Crowe and the New South, and I can't believe I went my whole life without even knowing about talents like Crowe, Tony, etc. These guys absolutely blow me away.
Wow was Tony's voice incredible.... So unfair he hasn't been able to sing in so long.....
Connor Salley he’ll not ever sing again. Shame. Too much cocain messed him up.
Mark Jamison was it not smoking that ruined his voice?
He has Muscle Tension Dysphonia. Likely from chain smoking cigarettes for decades.
Tony might sing again if his health will stay intact
The story I heard was the Tony decided take on the persona of black bluse-man. Talking gruffly he ruined his voice. I'm sure smokes didnt' help either.
This Was The Best Bluegrass Bands Ever,
They're fantastic and their hair is fabulous.
tony is damn monster
All these musicians are individual legends and a big part of why the music lives on. Keep picking boys.
Wonderful. Thank you. Gracias
This is my “Roman Empire.” The thing that I think about everyday. The fact that KET recorded this at the perfect time for the lineup just as Rounder 0044 was cut and getting ready to be released and the greatest bluegrass album ever… the fact that Jerry Douglas literally joined the band a few days prior… That Tony Rice just bought 58597 a few weeks earlier… that Sin City didn’t make the album even though it’s the best cut on this video… that the shirts are polyester magic… that Jerry Douglas and Steve Howe from Yes are in a death match for 1970s virtuosos on their instrument but not for looks…. that the band broke up a few weeks later when Tony hooked up with Grisman to make the DGQ classic album… that Tony tragically lost his voice in the 90s… that Gordon Lightfoot was Tony’s songwriting muse… when Ricky says that “Bluegrass is a feeling music, like Jazz or the Blues…” that if I see this on my UA-cam on a Friday or Saturday night bourbon magically appears and I can sing bluegrass to anyone that will listen willingly or not…. If you’re *tuned in* the right way, this is the greatest thing that exists on UA-cam…
RIP Tony Rice
it just doesnt get any better than this... superb
Just thank jesus for there fine abilities makes your heart fill good GOD bless the music
Great. Some look better now than back then. Beautiful singing by Tony Rice.
Girly haircuts but great pickin'.
Is there anyone who knows the titles of these songs??
I think the first song is ‘Rock, Salt, and Nails’, the second is ‘Old Home Place’, the third is ‘Nine Pound Hammer’, the fourth is ‘Ten Degrees and Getting Colder’ by Lightfoot and the last song is ‘Sin City’.
Interesting to hear several tunes that became part of the Tony Rice canon, including his loving treatment of Gordon Lightfoot’s work.
Great music... barbers were strugglin' in the 70's
Barbers may have been struggling, but ears weren’t.
Best bluegrass hair band next to Del McCoury!
+Jason Burton i agree
Well, in their day, Jim and Jesse had some bouffed up hair, too.
+Mike Schmidt- YES They Did😀😀 & They Were Awesome!! Maybe Thats What My Problem Is, Hummmmm Maybe That Would Add To My Skill Level!! Maybe It's Sorta Like Sampson In Ths Bible😀😁 Since My Da Would Never Let Me Grow My Hair Out When I Was Young, Too Bad I Didnt Have Ur Insight Before My Hair Started Falling Out Before I Was Even 30, Now Its Too Late😀😁😉!!
I’ve never thought Del was a good singer. Shoot me but I never did get it.
Hard to beat Del! :)
1. Rock salt and nails 2. What have they done to the old home place. Nine pound hammer. 10 degrees and getting colder
RIP Tony ❤️