The pure musicianship in this song is off the frigin' chart! I grew up on the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene, both had Ricky Skaggs playing various instruments, at various times in the Northern Virginia area in the 70s. What a talented man, with an amazing band to boot.
Ricky Skaggs and Bill Monroe being a part of this awesome song are almost the everything that I want in country Music today, and that's saying something.
Ahhh how have I never seen this video??!!! Amazing. Bill Monroe getting up to dance with the b-boy kids on the subway is just beyond awesome. Love Ricky Skaggs and this mind-blowing vid!
For real! I don't even like country music but I heard this for the first time yesterday and it's probably one of the coolest songs I've ever heard. Incredible musicianship.
When I was kid I asked my dad why they didn't play this music on the radio....he simply said, in a harsh demeanor..."they don't play good music on the radio!"
LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. Ricky Scaggs singing any song that he sings. His voice is phenomenal and unique in every way possible. A FANTASTIC singer and entertainer who can certainly play many instruments. A true Classic and a Genius. ELIZABETH in SCOTLAND. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So cool they had New York Mayor Ed Koch leaning against the yellow cab in this video. At 4:18 I thought Ricky would say "well, that's all folks, see you next time." Awesome guitar lick!
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I have pictures of a very young Uncle Penn standing under an oak tree in my grandmothers front yard in TN playing his mandolin and picking out a tune with my grand daddy and great uncle. I miss all of them, they were wonderful people. Bill Monroe and others like him were just mountain folks to us.
I grew up in Kentucky, my Mom played guitar, her brother and sister played banjo! Grew up with fiddles, banjos and guitars all playing in the house! Had so much fun growing up!
@@seanmonroe442 I bought Ricky's book at a Mom and Pop bookstore recently to celebrate my 1st month of soberty. It's an excellent read.... even on company time. Ricky's music is inspiring and beautiful and always country with touches of bluegrass!!!
Ricky Skaggs has ALWAYS been my favorite Country Artist!. My Grandfather would sing every Ricky Skaggs song to me then after I learned the words he stopped singing to me until he learned of new music. That was our connection, and He was teaching me how to talk and sing. I was so little, that was years ago, but I still remember it!. RIP "Grandpa I love you!."
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As a picker, skaggs has to be a guitar god in some sort. This type of skill and picking is something equal to the magnitude of EVH and dare I say George lynch lol
There are a lot of Bluegrass/metalhead crossovers. When I toured the folks scene a lot of folkies were metal heads who didn't want to carry the marshall stack anymore....haha
@@SanderDavidNorris I've never felt a celebrity's death until now. I heard "dance the night away" and thought I was going to tear up. So horrible the world will never hear those strings move lively again.
This video was in regular rotation on VH1 when it first launched in 1985. I was a young man from rust belt Ohio, and both bluegrass and NYC were foreign to me. But I got a huge kick from the video.
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I have been hearing this song ever since Skaggs released it in the mid '80s. I always thought that he wrote it. Just found out today that it was actually written (co-written) by a Brit and Skaggs' version is a cover version.🤯
I did some work at Possum Point power station. One of the engineers told me Ricky used to work there. The story is his supervisor told him that "your going to work or music." He chose the music, Probably good choice. Im not sure if that is true or not, but sounds good.
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Saw Bill Monroe play at a local bar back in the 80's. Met him back in the kitchen while he was waiting to go out and play to about 25 people, I knew the owner. He was a great guy, let me hold and pick on his mandolin and I got his autograph of course !!
A lot of us city slickers who grew up in NYC really liked this stuff. Some of my earliest memories as a kid are of Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell playing in the house alongside Frank Sinatra and Tom Jones. That was before corporate radio turned us all into separate tribes who only listen to one genre of music.
like Tim McGraw said " i had my favorite stations, the ones that played them all, country soul and rock n roll, what happened to those times?" on another, more interesting note, i was watching another bluegrass song and a commenter from Japan said they are saddened by the fact bluegrass became an underground genre because they miss it in japan.
First 10yr a my life it was Southern Baptist hymns and Country Western with a smattering of Classical *BEETHOVEN 1812 OVERTURE BATTLE HYMN of The REPUBLIC. Don't get between me and MY MUSIC cuz I mean to defend myself.*
Great country music with comedy ! Do another one ! Go on tour one year without ur wife . You 2 need 6 months apart. Then u 2 will appreciate each other better!!
The Danglin' Brothers (yes that's D anglin' not the Anglin brothers) here in Australia did a version at their live shows...would blow your socks off !!!
The pure musicianship in this song is off the frigin' chart! I grew up on the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene, both had Ricky Skaggs playing various instruments, at various times in the Northern Virginia area in the 70s. What a talented man, with an amazing band to boot.
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I listen to Jazz, blues and R&B; but I am from Mississippi. The first time I heard this song it was being back at home 👍🏾 HERE'S TO RICKY SKAGGS
Was never much of a Country music fan, but THIS is my go-to for Country music. Respect to Ricky Scaggs and all the musicians in this song. 👏
I never get tired of watching Bill Monroe dance on the subway. I love watching him show 'em how it's really done. :)
Ricky Skaggs and Bill Monroe being a part of this awesome song are almost the everything that I want in country Music today, and that's saying something.
I met Bill Monroe and got his autograph when I was a teenager. Thank you DAD! Miss You Both!!!!!!!!!!!
Fun fact - the taxi driver in this video is a cameo by the then mayor of NYC Ed Koch. Fun video. Amazing musician.
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Ahhh how have I never seen this video??!!! Amazing. Bill Monroe getting up to dance with the b-boy kids on the subway is just beyond awesome. Love Ricky Skaggs and this mind-blowing vid!
An hour ago I had never heard that song and now I can't stop listening to it. Awesome.
Dale Lee Cooper you would love Albert lees version! He wrote this great song!
@@loganrameyproductions I've just listened to it and you were right, great version! Thx :)
For real! I don't even like country music but I heard this for the first time yesterday and it's probably one of the coolest songs I've ever heard. Incredible musicianship.
A year & an hour ago! Damn catchy isn't it!
@@nutster9000 A year, a month and an hour ago, it sure is catchy!
When I was kid I asked my dad why they didn't play this music on the radio....he simply said, in a harsh demeanor..."they don't play good music on the radio!"
GOTTA *KICK OUTTA THAT INDEED I DID.*
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Not sure where you’re from, but this was on the radio where I grew up
Lol
They still play this song on the radio on 106.3 The Wolf in Oklahoma Enid
LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. Ricky Scaggs singing any song that he sings. His voice is phenomenal and unique in every way possible. A FANTASTIC singer and entertainer who can certainly play many instruments. A true Classic and a Genius. ELIZABETH in SCOTLAND. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So cool they had New York Mayor Ed Koch leaning against the yellow cab in this video. At 4:18 I thought Ricky would say "well, that's all folks, see you next time." Awesome guitar lick!
I haven't heard that song from Ricky Skaggs in a long time. Go ahead Ricky Boy.
35 years ago
NO way.
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I have pictures of a very young Uncle Penn standing under an oak tree in my grandmothers front yard in TN playing his mandolin and picking out a tune with my grand daddy and great uncle. I miss all of them, they were wonderful people. Bill Monroe and others like him were just mountain folks to us.
Amazin😂
The choreography of this video is bananas!
My grandpa died when my Dad was 12, and this is the last song he showed him. I myself feel like a country boy at heart.
Bless your grandpa! ❤
Ken Burns' documentary on PBS brought me here...thanks, Ken!
I grew up in Kentucky, my Mom played guitar, her brother and sister played banjo! Grew up with fiddles, banjos and guitars all playing in the house! Had so much fun growing up!
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Rick Skaggs is the real deal and was a real nice guy.this was nashville.
Raymond Bowers was is the key word there
@@419buckeye7he's still a nice guy
I'm a big fan of Ricky Skaggs and love this song. I also really like how all the members of his band get highlighted.
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What a fun tribute to the great Bill Monroe! 💕
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Ricky is a MASTER MUSICIAN !!!!!
This video is hilarious! Ricky Skaggs is super-talented--and Bill Monroe was pretty spry, for a guy his age!😊💒
Bill passed in 96'
@@dennyshonda this was made in 85
Ricky is my Cousin and at family reunions he and the Whites will have a little awesome mini concert
@@seanmonroe442 I bought Ricky's book at a Mom and Pop bookstore recently to celebrate my 1st month of soberty. It's an excellent read.... even on company time. Ricky's music is inspiring and beautiful and always country with touches of bluegrass!!!
Bill was 74 here. He was born in 1911, and this came out in 1985. Do the math.
Ricky Skaggs has ALWAYS been my favorite Country Artist!. My Grandfather would sing every Ricky Skaggs song to me then after I learned the words he stopped singing to me until he learned of new music. That was our connection, and He was teaching me how to talk and sing. I was so little, that was years ago, but I still remember it!. RIP "Grandpa I love you!."
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As a picker, skaggs has to be a guitar god in some sort. This type of skill and picking is something equal to the magnitude of EVH and dare I say George lynch lol
There are a lot of Bluegrass/metalhead crossovers. When I toured the folks scene a lot of folkies were metal heads who didn't want to carry the marshall stack anymore....haha
@@luckymurphy5 I can relate. My playing has changed so much. I've went from tapping and sweep picking to more bends and finger picking.
RIP EVH
@@SanderDavidNorris I've never felt a celebrity's death until now. I heard "dance the night away" and thought I was going to tear up. So horrible the world will never hear those strings move lively again.
Steve Morse plays this stuff.
I use to listen to a ton of Danny Gatton as well RIP. A lot of these country guys are master shredders
The Cameo with Ed Koch mayor of New York, made me smile
This video was in regular rotation on VH1 when it first launched in 1985.
I was a young man from rust belt Ohio, and both bluegrass and NYC were foreign to me.
But I got a huge kick from the video.
Loved the dancing humor energy and of course awesome music!
Loved seeing Ricky and Friends do this on the 2018 CMA Awards!
Yes, Ricky was Outstanding!
The back round vocals sound the same here then on CMAs . So the kids doing it wasn't really singing it . It was fill in.
But love the song
I WOOD HAVE ENJOYED THE MUSICAL PORTION OF THAT.
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man I can be this metal as I want but I can't run from my roots. Ricky skaggs and his banjo player are metal as hell anyways 😂😂
I love this song and really like Ricky skaggs one of my favorite bluegrass singers 🙂🍻🍺🍺
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I have been hearing this song ever since Skaggs released it in the mid '80s. I always thought that he wrote it. Just found out today that it was actually written (co-written) by a Brit and Skaggs' version is a cover version.🤯
The "totally '80s" hair is killer
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Fun fact..my dad is Jim White. My dad knew Ricky in Ohio and Ricky also knew my grandpa Bob White. My dad and Ricky would be pick in’ and grinnin’
I love this video, it should be a musical scene in a movie!!!
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This is his best number! ❤️🎶🎶
I’ll always be a country boy no matter what!
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I did some work at Possum Point power station. One of the engineers told me Ricky used to work there. The story is his supervisor told him that "your going to work or music." He chose the music, Probably good choice. Im not sure if that is true or not, but sounds good.
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Probably one of the greatest country songs that features the most ridiculous shredding from all instruments.
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Actor David Keith at the end looking for Ricky Skaggs. (Great character actor you may remember from An Officer and a Gentleman.)
Thanks. Hubby knew a lot of the faces in the video, but he didn't know that man running in at the end.
Who is the guy with the cigarette and the newspaper?
@Paul Nunis Ha ha ha??!!
@@cockeyedoptimista Can you understand what he mumbles before going offscreen?
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Still love this song
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what unreal virtuosity...!! wow
I don't listen to a lot of Bluegrass, but I remember when VH1 played Country Boy a lot. I still love listening to this.
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bill monroe being in this video and his performance totally makes it!! god rest his soul
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I love Ricky Skaggs but this song is awesome
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The subway scene is like what it’s like listening to bluegrass in your Airpods…
Saw Bill Monroe play at a local bar back in the 80's. Met him back in the kitchen while he was waiting to go out and play to about 25 people, I knew the owner. He was a great guy, let me hold and pick on his mandolin and I got his autograph of course !!
This is so 80s
I do miss this time. IT WAS FUN!
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A lot of us city slickers who grew up in NYC really liked this stuff. Some of my earliest memories as a kid are of Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell playing in the house alongside Frank Sinatra and Tom Jones. That was before corporate radio turned us all into separate tribes who only listen to one genre of music.
Amen to that. Great music is great music no matter the genre
like Tim McGraw said " i had my favorite stations, the ones that played them all, country soul and rock n roll, what happened to those times?"
on another, more interesting note, i was watching another bluegrass song and a commenter from Japan said they are saddened by the fact bluegrass became an underground genre because they miss it in japan.
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@@davidkintzer1604 The Japanese are really hip! They know our music better than we do and every performer wants to play there!
best comment sir
One of the best that didn't get the opportunities as others.
This video is awesome on several levels
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This is a great song! And Ricky Scaggs is also great!
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Sounds just as Great as it Always has
I tried not to like bluegrass/country when i was a kid... this song didn't help ;)
It gets in your blood for sure...Us old hillbillies grew up on this
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Nothing beats a Hawaiian guitar!
I enjoyed this video, and I'm loving Ricky Skaggs's memoir, Kentucky Traveler: My Life in Music.
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oui merci pour ce moment!!!!! ça donne vraiment envie de bouger !!!!! : ))
........ *DE BOOGER??? BOOGERS ARE SALTY.*
I know nothing about this music but I love it. 👍
First time seeing this and seeing Bill Monroe gettin’ down on the subway 😂😂😂 country music has best characters I swear!
can you imagine having a boss that could play and sing like this and they just do it randomly in the office. I'd be in hog heaven
First 10yr a my life it was Southern Baptist hymns and Country Western with a smattering of Classical *BEETHOVEN 1812 OVERTURE BATTLE HYMN of The REPUBLIC. Don't get between me and MY MUSIC cuz I mean to defend myself.*
a beauty COWBOY and the big city call it MORNING COWBOY!
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Great country music with comedy ! Do another one ! Go on tour one year without ur wife . You 2 need 6 months apart. Then u 2 will appreciate each other better!!
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The Danglin' Brothers (yes that's D anglin' not the Anglin brothers) here in Australia did a version at their live shows...would blow your socks off !!!
If you're a metalhead and don't like this, I'm not sure what to say to you...
Maybe you're just bogus.
Totally!!!
On first read, I misread and thought you said methhead. I was LMAO then realized my mistake.
@@vontar1 - This just might be my favorite response ever.
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I agree with you.
completely agree man
this video was a trip
A defunct, country radio station, 570 KLAC
"Thee" Country music anthem! 👍😎
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I'm going to be seeing him next month. I like him and this song but I like Albert Lee mostly
Man I come back and watch this video a lot.
Such a catchy song I love it
Play this with distorted guitars and you have thrash metal
Monroe almost getting distracted by that lady at 1:13 was funny!
I Love His Hair Doo !!!
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a great video. and great music.. nyc in eighties yep remember well. just a fun video. Mr Skaggs music is worth a listen. love it. ;)
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Rember the days of trying to keep up with him on this song never did but had too much fun trying thank you Ricky
Ricky still picks and sings like this at 66 years of age. The only difference between now and then is his brown hair being snowy white.
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Never saw this it’s cool
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i LOVE the woman in the yellow scarf
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4:16 - cannot unhear!
Ricky Skaggs they can't keep up lol 😆alliance Ohio and all Ohio loves ❤you
Great song of country boy
3rd grade memories!
Is that Ed Kotch @ 1:46?!
Yup! (And it's Ed Koch, not Kotch)
Yes love it!
I think so
Koch was one of a kind. Can you imagine current NYC dope Mayor Bill DiBlasio doing something like this?
With family farms here in Iowa that's how it works come harvest office by day combine by night
I believe the fiddle player shown in the video was one that traveled around with Ricky, not sure about the piano player though.
My all time favorite bill is getting it
..was great seeing the guy reading the newspaper...vs a cell phone.
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Love it 😂
Former mayor of NYC Ed Koch Bill Monroe Ricky Skaggs and Patrick Swayze as a dancer
Where/ when was Swayze?
I'm just a country boy at heart attack
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4:16 th th th th th th that's all folks
Awesome
I had no idea that was Bill Monroe playing Uncle Pen!
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I'm literally family with him my name is Bethany Skaggs
Modern 2022 NYC the break dancers and the subway way scene would rob and beat them . haha
Bluegrass is proof there is a benevolent God.
Who is it that shows up late at the end? He looks familiar
Thank god ricky realized the moustache does not work.
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