Flatt And Scruggs Play Cripple Creek.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
I really like this music and want to learn to play this music.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Feb 19
Earl Scruggs And Lester Flatt – Cripple Creek
Feb 19
Flatt And Scruggs Play Cripple Creek.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
I really like this music and want to learn to play this music.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
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TheGoblintrain
February 19, 2012 at 4:56 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
The more i listen to Earl Scruggs banjo, the way he plays backup to the lead, there is no comparison in my living memory. The saliva drips out my mouth while i listen! THE MAN!
Seniorpicker1
February 19, 2012 at 5:00 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@BR3WCI7YB4NG4 ur right, the banjer.
Seniorpicker1
February 19, 2012 at 5:35 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This is so…………… what can I say? God, I love these gents. Where would bluegrass be if these men never came into the picture?
autoteck1
February 19, 2012 at 6:16 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@little0kid0lover Can we include Obama too ??
casualchimera
February 19, 2012 at 6:47 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
man when I was a kid I fished small mouth out of Cripple Creek just off highway M
BR3WCI7YB4NG4
February 19, 2012 at 6:53 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@SoGnar88 clever
shenvalley25
February 19, 2012 at 7:32 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@little0kid0lover Earl’s still alive
the4toothbanjoplayer
February 19, 2012 at 7:46 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I wish I could play half as well as Scruggs.
The121Hammer
February 19, 2012 at 8:43 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@Thelonesniper101 If the ice cream truck played this I’d weigh 500lbs and drive the truck.
j7656y
February 19, 2012 at 8:44 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
im 13 i aint anywhere close to playin cripple creek like ol scruggs
Thelonesniper101
February 19, 2012 at 9:33 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
All ice cream trucks in the south should play this!!! Oh yeah…
Useless2112
February 19, 2012 at 10:03 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@rastashredder93 Actually, bluegrass comes from Scottish music.
viktorleboss
February 19, 2012 at 10:40 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@little0kid0lover
Scruggs ain’t dead you idiot
SoGnar88
February 19, 2012 at 11:10 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@BR3WCI7YB4NG4 the banjo is a descendant of shut the fuck up
rastashredder93
February 19, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@BR3WCI7YB4NG4 I was refering to bluegrass
BR3WCI7YB4NG4
February 19, 2012 at 11:59 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@rastashredder93 The banjo is a descendent of an African instrument
zacharylaneboudreaux
February 19, 2012 at 12:43 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I don’t think it does anything to help remember these fellas music and spread any joy with one of the related videos being a song.called n****r in a woodpile. I’m only hear to listen to the music, its not right people already associate the banjo with butt rape and now anyone young or ignorant or full of hate will see this and use it in some.negative way, and this ks the happiest song I think Ive ever heard.
countryified
February 19, 2012 at 1:01 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
i just love this music, it puts everyone in such a good and happy mood
TBOwi
February 19, 2012 at 1:59 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@little0kid0lover Trade for anything on the radio….
rastashredder93
February 19, 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@LMFAOASAP although this comes from irish music..
HPNomad
February 19, 2012 at 2:48 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@little0kid0lover Earl is still alive and playing, it’s Lester we need.
dmgeesey
February 19, 2012 at 3:39 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
There is nobody else who can play the fiddle, guitar and banjo like this.
snapstring
February 19, 2012 at 4:38 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Loved it.
360flips2010
February 19, 2012 at 5:02 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@360flips2010 danced *
360flips2010
February 19, 2012 at 5:54 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
is it wrong that i adnced stupidly to this? lol hasagood beat
ha xD
TheGoblintrain
February 19, 2012 at 6:52 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Friend, if you have the skill to post this on Youtube, you have the skill to play Foggy Mountain Breakdown. It is your typical 1/4/5 progression with the exception that you are doing an E minor where you would expect to find a C. What is a lot harder is making it sound as good as Earl Scruggs does, and all i can say about that, just love the music your playing. Also, that hammer on your low D, that is a really important part of the melody. Voicing that is an important nuance.
MISSIHEARTFRED
February 19, 2012 at 7:43 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@redleg56
and what would be wrong with a hillbilly high school? Id be proud of one!
LadyRoyce
February 19, 2012 at 8:36 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
When I was 9 years old and living in Dinuba, CA, there was a 66 year old man (He was born on Feb. 5th at the turn of the century in Texas.) that my Mum was friends with and this man could play anything that had strings on it and MAN! HE COULD MOVE HIS FINGERS! This man gave me a great love of Bluegrass and I could listen to him play all day and ask for more!
Thank you Perry Cutberth for the gift you gave me. I will NEVER forget you!
altareggo
February 19, 2012 at 9:35 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@TheBurgooKing Go for it!!!! Its challenging, rewarding and just plain FUN!!!!
er10b
February 19, 2012 at 10:02 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@redleg56 I can imagine that, one student carrying a boombox on their shoulder playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown while two others punch the hell out of each other. I’d pay good money to watch.
LainaRuss
February 19, 2012 at 10:47 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@redleg56 That comment was at the top & 1st one I seen …. cracked me up…LOLOL toooo funny
SumoSushiHAI
February 19, 2012 at 11:23 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@RodVantol “And I don’t care what the law says, they done right by me and when they get caught, I’m gonna bring me a mess of flowers to their funeral.”
karen0769
February 19, 2012 at 11:33 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@icepickmikey Bluegass isnthe roots of our music in Ky..My fiance’ and his family still play it….U should hear him play Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Dueling Banjos…Nobody can keep up with him on Dueling Banjos……
jillgivler
February 20, 2012 at 12:30 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@RodVantol It was. This music was in the movie “Bonnie and Clyde” and that’s the reason it came to mainstream attention when that movie came out.
TheBurgooKing
February 20, 2012 at 1:13 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
im seriously thinking about learning to play banjo now
Ethansgma36
February 20, 2012 at 2:07 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
AAAAYEEE!!!!!
357mrplayer
February 20, 2012 at 2:48 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I love this song, it one of the best of all time. I play guitar and a black man yeehaw.
bohemian46
February 20, 2012 at 3:26 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Not a Whyte Laydie.
RodVantol
February 20, 2012 at 3:28 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I thought it was Bonnie and Clyde gettin’ chased.
nicogizmo
February 20, 2012 at 4:20 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This man is the reason for my picking up the banjo recently. I was a guitar player all my life but I heard this song (for the nine thousanth time) and it just hit me I had to learn it. I am getting it under my fingers but not up to speed. I love the banjo now. Happy Birthday Earl! Thanks for all your hard work in your contribution to music.
GATEJUMPER1
February 20, 2012 at 4:24 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
IT,S A CLASSIC NO MATTER HOW YOU PUT IT ,IT REMINDS ME OF MY OLD “SHINE” RUNNING DAYS
MikieDaC
February 20, 2012 at 4:54 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Is that a “White Lady” at :25?
lauralee2414
February 20, 2012 at 5:34 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@georgiaDuckman Well, that would be appropriate, as this WAS the theme song for: ‘Bonnie & Clyde’. (Faye Dunaway & Warren Beaty)
Holiday88
February 20, 2012 at 5:46 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
picture revenuers chasing a 40 ford carrying moon.
fgleich
February 20, 2012 at 6:17 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
this guys fingers were pickin so fast, they never left his hand !!
He’s a true American hero, and a damn fine musician
tobeytucker
February 20, 2012 at 7:10 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Wishing
Brasov010cluj
February 20, 2012 at 8:04 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Three dislikes to this video.!!!!!! are you 3 nuts ???? What sick donkeys behind did you 3 fall out of.
xps2500
February 20, 2012 at 8:20 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
This makes me want to eat a plate of collard greens and then slap somebody
madfiddler93
February 20, 2012 at 8:40 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@redleg56 I salute you
mzollman12
February 20, 2012 at 8:44 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
@bobbyearl60 IF you like bluegrass Earl Park, IN has a very large Fall Festival on Labor Day weekend. And the bluegrass shows they put on are very good. They attract some rather large bands!