I first heard this Carter Family Classic in 1959, and it was the only song that I learned to play on both guitar and harmonica. Chet's version still reigns!
Chet was Mr Guitar but Mother Mabel Carter was the Maestro of this Famous Song Wildwood Flower it was Mr Chet that worked for Mother Mabel for several years, Mother Mabel Carter Gibson sounded the best, Love these Oldies they were the Best, with Respect Best Wishes Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela 4715 Qld Australia.
This is the best version (Jerry Kennedy) : ua-cam.com/video/DQGPhLUM1Gs/v-deo.html *** Johnny Rivers has a good version on his third album "Meanwhile Back at the Whisky a Gogo". ( ua-cam.com/video/LTGGdUCuIg8/v-deo.html )
Never much liked country music but some of these legends - Chet Atkins, Roy Clark and more - have had an enormous impact far outside their usual genre. Lots of rock artists looked up to guys like this as they made the impossible, well, possible, and did it so sweet and clean. Just watching any of their videos is like a master class in quiet virtuosity and provides so much joy.
This recording was made in Oslo, Norway 1964. I myself saw Chet Atkins 1973 when he was in Sweden, Gothenberg together with Bobby Bare, Dottie West, Jim Ed. Brown and Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass. The date 23 of November 1973! Chet has been one of my heroes ever since. 😃😃
100% ... He had great respect for whatever tune he played. His improvisations never took prominent place. The tune always was first. But he could do the most amazing extra runs and make it look so easy.
He has to so SOMETHING to make this simple melody a little more challenging. BUT that melody shows how our simple scale can produce such beautiful sequences and feelings!
Chet Atkins one if not the greatest guitar picker that man could play!! The wild Wood flower is a very hard song to pick out.. my uncle Orville could do it I remember back when I was a boy 🤔
That was jim Reeves' blue boys band backing him up on this song.. that was pretty cool considering chet had a lot to do with recording and producing jim's music.
The song may be centuries old. The Bristol Sessions were the first time this and many other songs were recorded in any way. Before this they weren't even written down as lyrics or musical notes.
that guy can pluck a guitar he will be famous someday but nothing can ever top Sarahs haunting voice of the original. The true orginal of course dates back civil war era thats why the lyrics are so mixed and confusing. Maybelle said we arent ready so they just sang lyrics since Ralph Peer did not give a damn what they sang.
O.K., Chet HAD to start showing off @ around 1:25. I never could get the hang of fingerpicking .. I guess you have to be one of those people who are able to "split their brains" or some such and do two different things at the same time.. I imagine pianists are pretty much of the same ilk, having to have two different hands going simultaneously ..
I first heard this Carter Family Classic in 1959, and it was the only song that I learned to play on both guitar and harmonica. Chet's version still reigns!
Chet would have been one hundred years old in June. A very talented man, sadly missed .
Chet was Mr Guitar but Mother Mabel Carter was the Maestro of this Famous Song Wildwood Flower it was Mr Chet that worked for Mother Mabel for several years, Mother Mabel Carter Gibson sounded the best, Love these Oldies they were the Best, with Respect Best Wishes Trevor.W.Bacelli. Biloela 4715 Qld Australia.
This is the best version (Jerry Kennedy) : ua-cam.com/video/DQGPhLUM1Gs/v-deo.html
*** Johnny Rivers has a good version on his third album "Meanwhile Back at the Whisky a Gogo". ( ua-cam.com/video/LTGGdUCuIg8/v-deo.html )
Never much liked country music but some of these legends - Chet Atkins, Roy Clark and more - have had an enormous impact far outside their usual genre. Lots of rock artists looked up to guys like this as they made the impossible, well, possible, and did it so sweet and clean. Just watching any of their videos is like a master class in quiet virtuosity and provides so much joy.
Exactly. Just played it clean and smooth.
@@medvolts Masters with grace. Much respect.
This recording was made in Oslo, Norway 1964. I myself saw Chet Atkins 1973 when he was in Sweden, Gothenberg together with Bobby Bare, Dottie West, Jim Ed. Brown and Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass. The date 23 of November 1973!
Chet has been one of my heroes ever since. 😃😃
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My dad and I played that when was a teenager back in the 1960's. But nobody could play it as good as Ched Atkins.
Good ol Ched
First Chet-tune I learned after this show back in -64. Been a Chet-fan ever since, always will be.
This was from Norway 1963. Many artists where there, among them all, was the one and only: Jim Reeves.
I was there.
@@lauvang12 Lucky lucky you!!!
Wasn't it on April 15, 1964? This date appears both in Wikipedia and on Norwegian Broadcasting. They later played in Stockholm.
My brothers learned to play the main melody of this as their very first, starter song. Well done, Chet.
He dose those little extra runs he is incredible!!
100% ... He had great respect for whatever tune he played. His improvisations never took prominent place. The tune always was first. But he could do the most amazing extra runs and make it look so easy.
He has to so SOMETHING to make this simple melody a little more challenging.
BUT that melody shows how our simple scale can produce such beautiful sequences and feelings!
The Great Chet Atkins, ladies and gentlemen!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can listen to such a legend the whole day, the string speaks
Real talent.Have'd loved Chets playing from the very early 60s.
My mother loves that song. I can't play that
Good. But I'll keep trying. My grandpa had
Many of his records.
A maestro makes perfection look easy
Chet Atkins one if not the greatest guitar picker that man could play!! The wild Wood flower is a very hard song to pick out.. my uncle Orville could do it I remember back when I was a boy 🤔
The best ever no one will ever get as high as his boot straps
Yes i loved it chet. May you rest in peace.❤❤❤❤❤ your music will never be fogotten.
Amen!
Guitar genius, no doubt about it.
A golden oldie!
Most sure the amplifiers were faithful electronic,- tube fitted.
Wonderful!!!!
thanks for sharing
j adore. ca donne la pêche et de la joie pour toute une journée. YOUPIIII
It's from a famous concert in Oslo with Jim Reeves, Bobby Bare and the Anita Kerr Singers in 1964. Filmed by NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
Young Chet Atkins looks so gentle.
Country !!!Amen real!!!✝️🇺🇸
That was jim Reeves' blue boys band backing him up on this song.. that was pretty cool considering chet had a lot to do with recording and producing jim's music.
Chet was also there. Brilliant player!
My folks were friends with Doc and Merle Watson. This was my favorite as a kid listening in the living room.
This shit still bussin' in 2023. I love you chet
Wonderful sound from that Gretsch G-6122 Country Gentleman. Chet helped develop it. I own one like that.
Once again, Amazing! Phenomenal skill and performance from beginning to end!
Amazing.. beautiful
Man had magic fingers on a guitar..
Nunca vi um bordado tão bonito com a guitarra.
Awesome thanks for this I love it. My great uncle Gene used to play this.
Hey my uncles name is gene too. Gene watson
The one and only Chet Atkins.
those harmonics he does at the end are wild
He knew a lot of jazz so it definitely helped!
Lenny Breau mightve been watching and taking notes... LOL
Just two comments:
1] Good Lord...
2] What kind of dweezle gives this a thumbs-down?
Njårdhallen in Oslo, Norway in -64.
Jim Reeves and Bobby Bare were there, too.
Woof! Beautiful and awesome!
Well done Chet, so Beautifully played by all love this song/tune. Thank you ✨👋
Very pleasing to the ear !!
the first Chet song I ever heard
So beautiful!!!
Heard, now i have this and the bill frisell cover to listen to back to back
Chet was the Best!
Legend.
Preciosa melodía.
Fantastic!
Excellent.... J adore... ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great Video! Love it!
Chet was a pro
The King of the Guitar Players no doubt.
Oh my God, meraviglioso
Excellent classic playing
Always Great!
This is the version I really want to learn, but I’m terrible at listening and playing lmao
Practice makes perfect, man. You got this.
lots of pull-ofs and hammer-ons
Amazing
Ah yes, the anthem of every country boy and girls father in America
never heard a single wrong note from Chet.
Also known in the 60s as the "Reuben James" in the folk music crowd. (See Kingston Trio)
F* AWESOME!!!!!! Go Chet!!!!! ; )
The opening reminds me of zred River Valley
I was there.
Excellent
Yes !
We all just sat there smiling , and waved good bye as they left, sitting there on great big old sack of seeds.
The Chet Atkins gentleman...
Class
Excellant
Chester was the G. O. A. T.
Pretty fancy
Weird that this doesn’t come up first when you type wildwood flower
Why would it? This is Mother Maybelles song.
The song may be centuries old. The Bristol Sessions were the first time this and many other songs were recorded in any way. Before this they weren't even written down as lyrics or musical notes.
@@johnallison7358 anon mouse beat me to it.
''I'll Twine 'Mid the Ringlets" is the closest to original title we have, from 1860
It should come up first when you type "guitar" too
Very pleasant
Anything he plays.
The GOAT of guitarist regardless of genre’s.
❤❤
That sure is a good looking audience.
Nice
that guy can pluck a guitar he will be famous someday
but nothing can ever top Sarahs haunting voice of the original. The true orginal of course dates back civil war era thats why the lyrics are so mixed and confusing. Maybelle said we arent ready so they just sang lyrics since Ralph Peer did not give a damn what they sang.
beautiful I love it
O.K., Chet HAD to start showing off @ around 1:25. I never could get the hang of fingerpicking .. I guess you have to be one of those people who are able to "split their brains" or some such and do two different things at the same time.. I imagine pianists are pretty much of the same ilk, having to have two different hands going simultaneously ..
"Mr. Guitar"
The song
Clint Eastwood at 2.00
Chet Atkins
where was this filmed at?
Norway, 1963. Jim Reeves was there too, it's his backing group, the Blue Boys, accompanying Chet.
@@aakevy10 thank you so much
One of Jim reeves final tours if not the last one.
1964, about four months before Jim Reeves was killed.
@@jimcrawford5039 thanks
1:35 Is this where Cliffs of Dover came from?
Another great version by another great guitarist: ua-cam.com/video/PzUiWn1Ap2A/v-deo.html
I don’t know about those youngans and their wild electricfied music…
Um, Do You think George Harrison Was Influenced by Chet ?
You can be sure of it. Anyone of George 's era who loved the guitar knew Chrt Atkins and imitated him.
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He don’t play like Maybelle.
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