From Carnegie Hall in 1963, here are Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs performing an old folk tune called “Dig a Hole in the Meadow”. There are multiple versions of this song, some of them featuring different titles and lyrics. In the one presented here, the alarm is raised over highway robbers, in another version the threat comes from the revenue men.
Bonus video! Here's a fine bluegrass tune called "Indian on a Stump", featuring Amy and Brad Leftwich on the fiddles, and "Miss Moonshine" doing a little buck dancing.
Gotta love Earl Scruggs.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever heard Hayseed Dixie?
They started doing bluegrass covers of AC/DC and branched out to classic rock.
OT and unrelated, I saw my first "I did that!" FJB sticker in the wild tonight.
It woulda made me happier if I wasn't spending $4.50/gal (I need to use Chevron hi-test for a while).
No, never heard Hayseed Dixie; I'll have to check it out. I kind of liked Gangsta Grass - a mix of bluegrass and Hip Hop - which provided the musical intro to the tv series, Justified.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to keep my eyes open for those stickers.
Earl Scruggs inspired me to go out and buy a banjo, thinking I could be a banjo picker, too. That was a disaster. Who knew you need to have something else, called talent?
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ReplyDeleteI always thought buck dancing and clogging were two names for the same thing, but apparently there is a difference.
ReplyDeleteI thought the same. Wonder what the difference is?
DeleteI thought the same. What's the difference. Never heard of buck dancing before. The things ya learn here.
ReplyDeleteThe only difference I can see is that clogging usually involves more than one person, and is (somewhat) choreographed.
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