Ive had been to Willards house many times & ate meals with them. My dad built acoustic instruments & would often trade out lumber with him. And after i was married & had children of my own i often took them up there & they still have the toys he made them. He & his wife were both a treasure & are missed dearly!!
Neat video, and I sure miss old fashioned people like this. Notice his style of Banjo playing, he is frailing instead of 3 finger. Frailing is how a banjo was played for a long time before Scruggs style 3 finger came about.
Ahh----Ol' CJ Underwood. He was a true gentleman. I once had a rare chance of running into "Mr. CJ and his Wife in Lenoir N.C. at the Hardees (When it was still on E. Harper Ave.). They both invited me to have a seat beside them while we all enjoyed our Hardee Huskey.What Memories!
Sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong. How many of those "plentyyyyy of people like him..." have their work included in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute? It was a way of life that cannot be replicated in today's times. His skills were developed out of the need to survive during the hardest times this country has ever seen. Anyone living this way today does it by choice. It is a way of life that cannot be replicated today.
Ok this wasnt exactly tha video i was expecting, but i gotta ask, i watched tha movie wrong turn at tha beginning it was showing newspapers saying "mountain men legend endures" what exactly is that? i cannot seem to find what it is anywhere, and tha movie was based out of virginia
@thatcrazychick7 well i promise you there aint people like my great grandpa anymore i dont care who they are trust me it aint the liquor that made him the last mountain man you need to watch the video again and pay attention
Ive had been to Willards house many times & ate meals with them. My dad built acoustic instruments & would often trade out lumber with him. And after i was married & had children of my own i often took them up there & they still have the toys he made them. He & his wife were both a treasure & are missed dearly!!
Neat video, and I sure miss old fashioned people like this.
Notice his style of Banjo playing, he is frailing instead of 3 finger. Frailing is how a banjo was played for a long time before Scruggs style 3 finger came about.
I met and enjoyed Willard. His grandson, Willard Watson III, is now an outstanding student at Appalachian State in Boone.
Met Mr. Watson at the Wagon Train held at the Darby community center as a kid.. That meal I'm sure was cooked on a wood stove. Yum yum!
IT is true Nothing like clean garden grown food, Homemade whiskey, and good old fashion music. Great video, Ed
Ole cousin Willard- surely missed.
Ahh----Ol' CJ Underwood. He was a true gentleman. I once had a rare chance of running into "Mr. CJ and his Wife in Lenoir N.C. at the Hardees (When it was still on E. Harper Ave.). They both invited me to have a seat beside them while we all enjoyed our Hardee Huskey.What Memories!
I remember that Hardees just across from Cracker Barrell
Someone please do a flat foot dance, crip walkin mashup.
This is how America should be.
Sorry, but you couldn't be more wrong. How many of those "plentyyyyy of people like him..." have their work included in the collection of the Smithsonian Institute? It was a way of life that cannot be replicated in today's times. His skills were developed out of the need to survive during the hardest times this country has ever seen. Anyone living this way today does it by choice. It is a way of life that cannot be replicated today.
I remember old Willard Watson. I thought he looked like Charlie Chaplin when he danced, like a wooden marionette, very lanky, but smooth too.
Did anybody pay attention to the fact that he is the cousin of the great Doc Watson?
Ok this wasnt exactly tha video i was expecting, but i gotta ask, i watched tha movie wrong turn at tha beginning it was showing newspapers saying "mountain men legend endures" what exactly is that? i cannot seem to find what it is anywhere, and tha movie was based out of virginia
I'm a fixin' to become a shiner...
@thatcrazychick7 well i promise you there aint people like my great grandpa anymore i dont care who they are trust me it aint the liquor that made him the last mountain man you need to watch the video again and pay attention
@thatcrazychick7 your so completely wrong....