Bill Monroe - Bluegrass Breakdown download song

P E R F E C T !!!!!!!!!!!!

How they play this fast music so calm...

Great b&w clip:  Bill with his Boys:  PETE ROWAN, gtr;  DON LINEBURGER (left-handed!), Gibson RB-250 "bowtie" Mastertone banjo;  GENE LOWINGER, fiddle and JAMES MONROE, bass.  Bill "Brad" Keith had left the group a while before, but Don had taken on alot of those "Keith-style" licks and the only left-handed banjo player Monroe ever had or, maybe, any of the major bluegrass groups ever had.  Can't think of alot of "lefties" in bluegrass - fiddle Bobby Slone was one, but, boy, I dunno....  Anyway, I enjoyed this one!

Thanks Starboydc, I was wondering who the fellow lefty was.

Such honest and great music. They could only afford one mic-stand and not even one mic, but they still played on.

Yassss that’s my great grandfather

Incredible! Absolutely amazing twiddling of them finger tips! I bet they can also tie their shoe-laces really really quick.

guitar was waiting to jump in and never got there

That’s ME on fiddle,

Since when did the comments become Wikipedia-

Bill Monroe, the best ever. talked to Bill a lot of times, always very nice to me

peter rowan wasnt trying to take a lead, he was adding the G-run at the end of each break. That goes back to the 40s version of the song with Lester flatt and Bill

bluegrass. Biggest influence on rock and roll as we know it.

The guitar player is a young Peter Rowan!

This is real music. Who can ask for more.

This is a classic version but many years later they got an all star group led by Ricky Skaggs together and they really tore it up on this tune. The newer arrangement can be seen here on You Tube on the Gaithers Bluegrass tape.

Not Bill Keith on banjo. His name is Don Lineberger. The fact he is a lefty is the give away, and that it is 1965.