I grew up in Texas on a mix of traditional country an what bluegrass was on the Opry. In the 70s/80s I wasn’t as aware of this group or the NewGrass of JD Crow an the New South. Internet helped spread the popularity of bluegrass and opened up a new musical world for me that I was missing. I love many of the new bluegrass bands/ artists but am glad I am able to “play catch-up “ on this group and others as far as seeing them in action when they were happening. Couldn’t go to festivals much because of distance, time an $ - but it sure makes for good entertainment now in my retirement years😊
Thanks for your comment, Gene. I wish more high quality videos existed of bluegrass groups from this timeframe. This one was obtained from the archives of the Library of Congress.
I have to agree they are a fine bluegrass group and I have listened to a lot of fine bluegrass in 55years but I wouldn't t say they are the finest If we could only get back to this happy and enjoyable nonpolitical music I believe the whole country would be in a better state
I love these guys too.im all the time finding great bands after they have stopped working. The computer has brought out so many we would never knew about without it.
Wow. Is that in print? Interesting DMB/JMB fact, both Ronnie and David started on the same day, same festival on mandolin in each band. 1981 I believe.
This "Bluegrass Band" sound's really Good Big Time ,Thank You "RedAkumaSan" for sharing this Awesome Bluegrass big time , this brighten's Monday up a lot lol.
Just imagine how great this group would sound with the modern sound equipment of today . Let that thought roll over the mind for a second . Eddie Srubb and all were as great as it gets
i always liked the jmb. they stayed true to the traditional bgm sound which i love. the seldom scene, the country gentleman, the johnson mt boys, del mccoury and all the great groups that played this venue sure blessed the folks around the DC area with some mighty fine bluegrass music. jerry grey (a fantastic, knowledge, wonderful DJ) played a lot of their music during drive time on wamu npr radio. those were good years, i knew it then, i know it now and i'm thankful. it makes me sad to think of the ones who have pass on but their legacy lives on and i never tire of their music. thanks to all and to you RedAkumaSan for this posting. kt
These guys were the best Bluegrass band to come out in the late 70s and early 80s. I discovered them about 1982-83 and I still all their vinyl albums along with their CDs.
+Chris Leatherman So true, Chris! I've got many of their LPs and especially like "Walls of Time" and "Favorites," as well as their double album called "At the Old School House" of their last show in 1988.
Saw them all over Northern Virginia, but most notably on the courthouse steps in Leesburg one summer evening. Kids running around, people sitting on blankets, fireflies, a wonderful night.
I still listen to them and many others on utube and on cds in my suv,great music,takes me away from all the crap happening at this time.I hope you re enjoying these old groups
As Bill Monroe once said, ""Bluegrass is heartfelt music." Besides its emotion, I also fell in love with its energy and drive. Glad you enjoyed the videos.
@@RedAkumaSan I surely have been enjoying them. I never got to see the JMB live, to my sorrow. A friend of mine saw them back east not too long before they hung it up and he was in awe. Thank you again for sharing these with fellow music lovers.
According to the National Archives, this was recorded in 1985, AFTER the African tour. Richard Underwood had a vague recollection that the video may have been made to be shown in Spain, for reasons he couldn't remember.
Thanks for the additional research and updated info, Ira. Nice talking with you recently about the video and the book that you are working on. I'm glad you were able to connect with an archivist at NARA. Best wishes, Joe Ross
Have greatly enjoyed the JMB since the 1980's as well. There is a certain "pluck" and "drive" to great bluegrass bands' playing and delivery (Country Gentlemen, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Stanley Bros, etc.) that sets it apart and gets you "involved"! Love to listen along while I am jogging or working on computer.
Richard and Dudley do more than sing together or harmonize. They 'create a sound.' I saw this group live 12 or 15 times. A shame that they didn't persevere.
The JMB had their own T.V. show?? Wow!! As much as I followed them at most all of their local Carnival and Festival Shows around the Frederick, MD. area, and jammed with Eddie Stubbs @ Boe's Strings Music Store; and was even Richard and Jackie Underwood's "Frederick Post" Paper Boy for a while - you'd think I'd have known if they'd had their own T.V. Show!! But I swear, I never knew of this until now!!! This is a GREAT SURPRISE!!! :-)
This was a special prepared for the U.S. Information Agency. It's in the public domain, and I obtained it from the Natl. Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. Enjoy!
Aways a thrill to hear JMB heard them last in Lancaster Pa. they came out of retirement for one last tour. There is a mixed group out of Nashville currently doing the old stuff quite well making some folks say they're the modern day JMB.
Eddie was a real busy guy! He moved to Nashville in 1995 where he fiddled with Johnny Wright and Kitty Wells. He also became a DJ and Grand Ole Opry announcer on WSM-AM. He won the CMA award for Broadcast Personality of the Year in 2002 ... and also won that award twice from the IBMA (1996, 2002).
@秀隆海野 Thanks a lot for your comment. Richard Underwood left the Johnson Mountain Boys to pursue a 9-to-5 job. He composed a few instrumentals: Newton Grove, Five Speed, and Johnson Mountain Chimes. Bluegrass Today writer Richard Thompson reported more about Underwood in 2013. bluegrasstoday.com/on-this-day-15-richard-underwood/ "While with the Johnson Mountain Boys, Underwood helped out on the recording of Hazel Dickens’ A Few Old Memories and By The Sweat of My Brow; Del McCoury’s High Lonesome and Blue; The McCoury Brothers’ LP (Del McCoury and Jerry McCoury); Delia Bell and Bill Grant’s Dreaming and Gloria Belle’s The Love of the Mountains. In recent years Underwood has worked with several bands including Bob Paisley’s Southern Grass, the Lynn Morris Band, the Seth Sawyer Band, the Scott Brannon Band, Seneca Rocks, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based Zion Mountain Boys, and the Reunion Band, based in Boston. He plays a Gibson arch-top banjo that used to belong to Donnie Bryant."
Nice to know this was used to represent the best of American culture overseas. But there is an error in the description -- this is not Tom Adams on banjo, he came later, this is Richard Underwood.
Most of these guys are born in Maryland but I never see people wearing cowboy hats or listening to bluegrass. These guys look and sound like they are from some southern state. I am in the wrong part of Maryland apparently.
I would never guess they were from Maryland (and I know a few people from there)! If they're putting on the accents, they're darn good actors! Definitely sounds authentic Southern/Appalachian.
@@lindseywalker6925 Molly Tuttle grew up hearing them and mentions it in her intro to her excellent rendition of "Let the whole world talk" here on yt. Btw, JMB guitar player can't come close to Molly's picking.
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Very tight band. I love that they pay respect to the traditions, including matching suits. Del McCoury did the same.
My left ear enjoyed this
Tell your right one to go fk itself! 😂
1 of my all time #HighLonesome Groups...🎙🎼🎶🎵🎙👈👊😎
Now in the Bluegrass Hall of Fame 2020.
Amen ❤
One of the very best live bluegrass performances I ever heard! What a blessing for these recordings to be preserved for all to enjoy.
The only rock stars of REAL Bluegrass music.
The Johnson mountain boys picked that hot fire
Best bluegrass band of our time. Just like a train,; drive, great high lonesome vocals and raw!!
I grew up in Texas on a mix of traditional country an what bluegrass was on the Opry. In the 70s/80s I wasn’t as aware of this group or the NewGrass of JD Crow an the New South.
Internet helped spread the popularity of bluegrass and opened up a new musical world for me that I was missing. I love many of the new bluegrass bands/ artists but am glad I am able to “play catch-up “ on this group and others as far as seeing them in action when they were happening. Couldn’t go to festivals much because of distance, time an $ - but it sure makes for good entertainment now in
my retirement years😊
Thanks for your comment, Gene. I wish more high quality videos existed of bluegrass groups from this timeframe. This one was obtained from the archives of the Library of Congress.
This is the real deal. Bluegrass at its finest.
What was the clincher for ya, Columbo? Lol!
The finest Bluegrass band to ever gather around a microphone.
I agree.. the BEST
Yep
Seldom Scene
Lol
@@keithclark486 yes. You are right
I have to agree they are a fine bluegrass group and I have listened to a lot of fine bluegrass in 55years but I wouldn't t say they are the finest
If we could only get back to this happy and enjoyable nonpolitical music I believe the whole country would be in a better state
You wrote this comment 4yrs ago, my god how things have changed for the worse.
As soon as the music begins smiles cant stop!😊👍👍👍👍🎼🎼
Beautiful, very tight, smartly dressed and classy indeed.
I love these guys too.im all the time finding great bands after they have stopped working. The computer has brought out so many we would never knew about without it.
Thank you, Sue. Glad you enjoyed it!
Del McCoury has been been quoted as to say that: "This is the best bluegrass band of all time." ( Yes he did )
I agree ! !
Lol
I agree
Wow. Is that in print? Interesting DMB/JMB fact, both Ronnie and David started on the same day, same festival on mandolin in each band. 1981 I believe.
Just the best bluegrass group ever, Eddie Stubbs. The best fiddle player ever in my mind, why did they have to quit?
This "Bluegrass Band" sound's really Good Big Time ,Thank You "RedAkumaSan" for sharing this Awesome Bluegrass big time , this brighten's Monday up a lot lol.
So glad you enjoyed it and that it brightened your day!
My favorite bluegrass group - and Dudley sounds exactly the same in 2017!
That banjo sounds bright and crispy and snotty at the same time wow perfect note separation good sustain that's that archtop AKA raised head talking
YOUR'RE bright and crispy dave! 😂
Saw this band in Denton, NC in the '80s ......sharp looking and wonderful bluegrass sound..
Just outstanding
Par excellence. Another assemblage of fine musicians that were in their own league. 6 stars out of a possible 5. 👍
Just imagine how great this group would sound with the modern sound equipment of today . Let that thought roll over the mind for a second . Eddie Srubb and all were as great as it gets
i always liked the jmb. they stayed true to the traditional bgm sound which i love. the seldom scene, the country gentleman, the johnson mt boys, del mccoury and all the great groups that played this venue sure blessed the folks around the DC area with some mighty fine bluegrass music. jerry grey (a fantastic, knowledge, wonderful DJ) played a lot of their music during drive time on wamu npr radio. those were good years, i knew it then, i know it now and i'm thankful. it makes me sad to think of the ones who have pass on but their legacy lives on and i never tire of their music. thanks to all and to you
RedAkumaSan for this posting. kt
Ken T, thank you for your nice comment.
SUCH FINE FELLOWS AND BLEND TOGETHER EVERYTHING SO PURELY!✌👍👍👍🎼
@@RedAkumaSantruly appreciate you sharing all this magic!🎼🎼🎼🎼👍😊🙏
I just want to listen to this a million times.
YESS INDEEDY I AM WITH YOU!👍👍👍👍👍🎼🎼🎼😊🌹✌💞
Those boys have some fire in them!
Attended a bluegrass festival in Riverside Park in NJ around late seventies, and they gave a great show! Bought one of their tapes!!
for my money this was the finest of the jmb lineups by far
These guys were the best Bluegrass band to come out in the late 70s and early 80s. I discovered them about 1982-83 and I still all their vinyl albums along with their CDs.
+Chris Leatherman So true, Chris! I've got many of their LPs and especially like "Walls of Time" and "Favorites," as well as their double album called "At the Old School House" of their last show in 1988.
Would be AWESOME to see them do a reunion show!
Saw them all over Northern Virginia, but most notably on the courthouse steps in Leesburg one summer evening. Kids running around, people sitting on blankets, fireflies, a wonderful night.
Great lead singer, great harmony, nice picking all around. Can't ask for more
I still listen to them and many others on utube and on cds in my suv,great music,takes me away from all the crap happening at this time.I hope you re enjoying these old groups
Great stuff. Dudley is about my favorite bluegrass singer.
Who asked ya? Just jokin'. Nah but seriously...? 😂
@@dionst.michael1482 Connell is just a great singer. That's all.
@@sammomoose I’m a fan of his as well! Been listening to him/them for almost 40 yrs.
Reminds me why I fell in love with bluegrass music in the first place; thank you for posting these videos.
As Bill Monroe once said, ""Bluegrass is heartfelt music." Besides its emotion, I also fell in love with its energy and drive. Glad you enjoyed the videos.
@@RedAkumaSan I surely have been enjoying them. I never got to see the JMB live, to my sorrow. A friend of mine saw them back east not too long before they hung it up and he was in awe. Thank you again for sharing these with fellow music lovers.
Man.! This is the real deal!!
Great to see Eddie Stubbs on the fiddle..
Beautiful to experience this. Thank you for posting.
How beautiful?
Great Bluegrass band one of the best, saw them at the Birchmere in Alexandria, VA
Simply the best Bluegrass band ever assembled. All of the current Bluegrass greats will mention the JMB as one of their favorites.
Haha.
JUST AWESOME
Just plain awesome!!!!👍👍👍👍👍
So very good. I would love to see them again. What joy that would be.
I love bluegrass music
No you dont
I see 17 didn't like this. That shows even the martians are watching it. Great harmony at 5:37with :Richard and Dudley.
I just love them.
Man !! This is better then good !!!!!!
+Alle Hamstra You betcha!
saw the "boys" summer of 1984 at Earl's drive-in, Chaffee NY. What a show!
These guys are awesome!! Eddie stubs Killin it!!
I was a believer in the JMB after hearing them perform (for the first time) in Dudley's home during a Christmas party many years ago.
Thanks very much for the upload. David McLaughlin is one of my absolute heroes. Great being able to see him play!
Appreciate your feedback, KW. Thanks.
I'm gonna get that banjo part i love it never heard that lick
Great job boys.
Wickedly good.
Great Bluegrass! Thanks for sharing the video!
Great sound
The BEST ever
According to the National Archives, this was recorded in 1985, AFTER the African tour. Richard Underwood had a vague recollection that the video may have been made to be shown in Spain, for reasons he couldn't remember.
Thanks for the additional research and updated info, Ira. Nice talking with you recently about the video and the book that you are working on. I'm glad you were able to connect with an archivist at NARA. Best wishes, Joe Ross
....and now i listen to this everyday
Great talent all around, solid bluegrass at it's best!!!!!
Have greatly enjoyed the JMB since the 1980's as well. There is a certain "pluck" and "drive" to great bluegrass bands' playing and delivery (Country Gentlemen, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Stanley Bros, etc.) that sets it apart and gets you "involved"! Love to listen along while I am jogging or working on computer.
You've got that right, for sure!
Great stuff!!! Lotta B
Great sound, guys! This is terrific!
Thanks for posting this. 👍
Richard and Dudley do more than sing together or harmonize. They 'create a sound.' I saw this group live 12 or 15 times. A shame that they didn't persevere.
One of the three best duet blends I ever heard: Bill Monroe and Jimmy Martin, Tim O'Brien and Nick Forster, and Dudley Connell and Richard Underwood.
Love them
How much tho. It doesn't count if you don't say
The JMB had their own T.V. show?? Wow!!
As much as I followed them at most all of their local Carnival and Festival Shows around the Frederick, MD. area, and jammed with Eddie Stubbs @ Boe's Strings Music Store; and was even Richard and Jackie Underwood's "Frederick Post" Paper Boy for a while - you'd think I'd have known if they'd had their own T.V. Show!!
But I swear, I never knew of this until now!!! This is a GREAT SURPRISE!!! :-)
This was a special prepared for the U.S. Information Agency. It's in the public domain, and I obtained it from the Natl. Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C. Enjoy!
Aways a thrill to hear JMB heard them last in Lancaster Pa. they came out of retirement for one last tour.
There is a mixed group out of Nashville currently doing the old stuff quite well making
some folks say they're the modern day JMB.
This is bluegrass heaven on stage!🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼👍👍😊💟
The whole band is incredible and music isn’t about ‘who’s best’, but holy shit the fiddle player!!!!
LOVE the JMB!
No you dont
And Eddie Stubbs parlayed his musical expertise into a gig with WSM. Yee Haw!
This is fantastic. Love these guys. Thanks for sharing this.
+originalformulamusic Glad you enjoyed it.
Never knew Eddie could tear a fiddle up like that , Don't see why he wasn't featured on the Marty Stewart show playing as a regular ???
Eddie was a real busy guy! He moved to Nashville in 1995 where he fiddled with Johnny Wright and Kitty Wells. He also became a DJ and Grand Ole Opry announcer on WSM-AM. He won the CMA award for Broadcast Personality of the Year in 2002 ... and also won that award twice from the IBMA (1996, 2002).
Sounds great
This right here is Bluegrass one of the only ways to explain it if you want to know what bluegrass is listen to jmb !
That fiddle, Holy Cow.
Eddie Stubbs. Best fiddle player ever. Especially playing the orange blossom special
This particular aggregation formed the definitive sound of the JMB.
Awesome
18:08 how smooth...
Richard, great harmonies. I’m very impressed with your performance. I’m so happy I’ve got to pick with you!
Terrific.
this is tough to fallow ,, great songs by great group
awesome
saw them in 81 or 82 when I was a kid at Susquehanna campground in Cecil co md.
no doubt dudley connell sings bluegrass the way it should be sung
I Wanna pick like Richard Underwood , Please Lord .
5 Speed... wow!
Listen to Tom Adams play it with them
beauthful song of ernest tube u doing a lovely job friend I love this song t hanks kept up the beauthfull blue grass thank u ruben king nl Canada
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@秀隆海野 Thanks a lot for your comment. Richard Underwood left the Johnson Mountain Boys to pursue a 9-to-5 job. He composed a few instrumentals: Newton Grove, Five Speed, and Johnson Mountain Chimes. Bluegrass Today writer Richard Thompson reported more about Underwood in 2013.
bluegrasstoday.com/on-this-day-15-richard-underwood/
"While with the Johnson Mountain Boys, Underwood helped out on the recording of Hazel Dickens’ A Few Old Memories and By The Sweat of My Brow; Del McCoury’s High Lonesome and Blue; The McCoury Brothers’ LP (Del McCoury and Jerry McCoury); Delia Bell and Bill Grant’s Dreaming and Gloria Belle’s The Love of the Mountains.
In recent years Underwood has worked with several bands including Bob Paisley’s Southern Grass, the Lynn Morris Band, the Seth Sawyer Band, the Scott Brannon Band, Seneca Rocks, the Silver Spring, Maryland-based Zion Mountain Boys, and the Reunion Band, based in Boston.
He plays a Gibson arch-top banjo that used to belong to Donnie Bryant."
Nice to know this was used to represent the best of American culture overseas. But there is an error in the description -- this is not Tom Adams on banjo, he came later, this is Richard Underwood.
Description has been corrected.
Oh, this is good! The JMB's in their prime. -Jim
+jarchitect Mighty mighty fine music!
.....Great tight sound though I’m only hearing the left channel.....thanks for post.
Eddy looks so young
Most of these guys are born in Maryland but I never see people wearing cowboy hats or listening to bluegrass. These guys look and sound like they are from some southern state. I am in the wrong part of Maryland apparently.
I would never guess they were from Maryland (and I know a few people from there)! If they're putting on the accents, they're darn good actors! Definitely sounds authentic Southern/Appalachian.
Waltz across Texas 19:00
I saw them st edale in the 80s
I love a Snoty banjo
Young pickers should be forced to watch this.
+duckfoot75 Absolutely!
Molly Tuttle 1st in line...........
@@lindseywalker6925
The idiot Billy strings
@@lindseywalker6925 Molly Tuttle grew up hearing them and mentions it in her intro to her excellent rendition of "Let the whole world talk" here on yt. Btw, JMB guitar player can't come close to Molly's picking.
eddy-stubbs is on marty stuart show excellant viddle player.
Steady Eddy stubbs on the fiddle 🎻
Can someone tell me the name of the tune starting at, 12:18?
That is "Walls of Time" All the lyrics can be found here: www.bluegrasslyrics.com/song/walls-of-time/
"Walls of Time" was written by Bill Monroe and Peter Rowan
Thank you!!
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