David Grisman, Tiny Moore, Jethro Burns, and Johnny Gimble Mandolin Special 1980

major funding for austin city limits is provided by this station and other public television stations [Music] um [Music] [Music] um recorded live from austin texas it's austin city limits presenting a super session with the world's finest mandolins tiny moore the preeminent electric jazz mandolinist in the world jethro burns formerly of homer and jethro fame and the world's finest acoustic mandolin and johnny gimble award-winning fiddler and mandolin virtuoso plus one of today's most original and versatile acoustic groups the david grissman quintet [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] good [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] and now in the continuing series of dog music exploits dog titles here is dogma [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] we'd like to do a ballad for you right now a real beautiful tune written by the great john coltrane this is called [Applause] [Music] naima [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] uh there's a little opus i wrote my back porch years ago called dogs rag [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Applause] oh thank you very much it's really a thrill for me to be here tonight with such a multitude of great pickers it's really not much more i can add except that each one of these men is a living legend in american string music and they've helped inspire me and the people i work with to learn how to do this better so without any further ado i'd like to introduce mr eldon shamblin and his magic mandolins tiny moore jethro burns and johnny gimble [Music] so [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do thank you very much i haven't heard applause like that since i told my wife i was going to be gone all week but uh it's nice to be in austin this is a return engagement i was here in 1928 and at this time we'd like to introduce a song that was written by one of the elderly gentlemen in this organization and he's one of the few guys i know that used to watch television by candlelight and you got it figured out buddy they told me about you before i came here but you came anyway anyway this is a song written by my good friend tiny moore and oddly enough it's called tiny's rag we're going to get some help on this from a gentleman thank you david david is going to give us your help one two one two two [Music] do [Music] do do [Music] do [Music] yes [Music] so [Music] do all right thank you thank you very much as a matter of fact there are many great great composers tonight lots of great composers here tonight another one is jethro byrne he doesn't call his tune tiny's rag he calls it jethro's tune oddly enough jethro let him [Music] [Music] so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] oh all righty johnny gimble and his mandolin now playing some uh blues we're gonna do two or three different kinds of blues here i think everybody likes to listen and play the blues johnny does this one a little bit different he uses all uh harmonics on the first of it i don't know how he does it how you do that harmonicas harmonicas okay harmonica with no no blowing on it here's a blues and g [Music] so [Music] [Music] sometimes [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Applause] [Music] do [Music] do [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] right [Music] thank you very much i think all mandolin players all jazz players of all kinds of whatever instrument have been greatly influenced by stephen grappelli and django reinhardt many many years ago and one another one of the tunes from the back to back album we did on acoustic mandolins entirely and it's called swing 39 and it's a nice nice tune [Music] do [Music] all right [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do do [Music] do [Music] [Applause] we kid eldon chamblin back on the guitar a lot but he not only loves manliness but he loves fiddles so this next tune we're doing just crazy about fiddling so we're doing this next little medley especially for ellen you ready john [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] all right county roar and johnny gimble all right all right really this is the last one one two one [Music] do [Music] do do [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] money [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Applause] major funding for austin city limits was provided by this station and other public television stations you

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Length: 58min 55sec (3535 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 19 2020