
The Mountain Dew Boys
12/6/2021 | 22m 16sVideo has Closed Captions
The Mountain Dew Boys, a 5-piece energetic bluegrass band from Spokane area.
The Mountain Dew Boys, a 5-piece energetic bluegrass band who effortlessly play with a lifetime of experience celebrating American roots music.
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The Mountain Dew Boys
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The Mountain Dew Boys, a 5-piece energetic bluegrass band who effortlessly play with a lifetime of experience celebrating American roots music.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ Tonight on Inland Sessions ♪ Well he used to drive a big Cadillac ♪ It's a foot stomping celebration of American roots.
With the sound of Bluegrass with Spokane's own, the Mountain Dew Boys, Coming up next ♪ and I ain't gonna let these blues get me down ♪ ♪ We are the Mountain Dew Boys, this first song we're going to do is an old Darlins' tune is, The Old Home Place.
♪ ♪ It's been 10 long years since I left my home.
In the Holler ♪ ♪ where I was born.
Where the cool full nights make the wood ♪ ♪ smoke rise, and the fox hunter blows his horn.
♪ ♪ Well, I fell in love With a girl from the town.
I thought ♪ ♪ that she would be true.
Then I ran away to Charlottesville ♪ ♪ and I worked in a sawmill too.
♪ ♪ Oh, what have you done to the old home place?
♪ ♪ Why did they tear it down?
♪ ♪ And why did I leave the plow in the field?
and look for a job ♪ ♪ in the town?
♪ ♪ ♪ Well, that girl, she ran off with somebody else.
♪ ♪ The taverns took all my pay.
and here I stand where the old ♪ ♪ home stood.
Before they took it all away.
♪ ♪ You know, those geese, they fly south and that cold wind blows.
♪ ♪ and I stand here and hang my head.
I've lost my home and I ♪ ♪ lost my gal.
And now I wish that I was dead.
Oh, what have ♪ ♪ they done to the old home place?
♪ ♪ Why did they tear it down?
and why did I leave the plow in the ♪ ♪ field.
and look for a job in the town ♪ ♪ ♪ Oh, what have they done to the old home place?
♪ Why did they tear it down?
♪And why did I leave♪ ♪the plow in the field?
♪and look for a job in♪ ♪ this town.
♪ ♪ Yes, Why did I leave the plow in the field and look for a job ♪ ♪ in the town ♪ We are brothers.
I'm the taller, better looking one.
He is the shorter, smarter one.
We really don't know the date we got started.
It was the early seventies.
We formed the band to play for square dancers because all square dances were canned music and we wanted to live music, square dance.
And we played together for 25 years.
That was our dad or uncle and myself.
And then eventually Doug and a couple of other people that got it going.
All right, we're going to do a song by the Seldom Scene right now.
This is, Grandpa Gets Your Guitar.
♪ ♪ In Cabin on a hill northeast of Ashvile.
♪ ♪ My love for words and melodies was born.
♪ ♪ My father's father played for me from a martin box ♪ ♪ across his knee.
and Mixed the songs, with ♪ ♪ hot licks and sips of Barley Corn.
♪ ♪ And I'd say, Grandpa gets your guitar.
Let's set out in the ♪ ♪ backyard.
You can sing along about going home to that ♪ ♪ mansion in the sky and way down after sunset.
You can take me ♪ ♪ up in my bed.
Laugh and call me sleepyhead.
♪ ♪ and sing me a lullaby.
♪ ♪ ♪ Oh I worshiped every foot of ground ♪ ♪ he walked on.
I spent seven boyhood summers by his side.
It ♪ ♪ was up and down tabacco rows.
While the evening sun was ♪ ♪ sinking low.
we'd gather round the table in the glow of supper ♪ ♪ time.
♪ ♪ And I'd say, Grandpa, get your guitar.
Let's sit out in the back ♪ ♪ yard.
You can sing the one about goin' home to that ♪ ♪ mansion in the sky.
And way down after sunset, you can take ♪ ♪ me up to my bed, laugh and call me ♪ ♪ sleepyhead and sing me a lullaby.
♪ ♪ ♪ There's a weather beatin' rocker on the ♪ ♪ front porch.
There's a spider web now hanging across the door ♪ ♪ and a million dusty memories now pull me back across the ♪ ♪ years.
I swear I can hear his broken's as he walks across the ♪ ♪ floor.
♪ ♪ And I'd say, Grandpa, get your guitar.
Let's sit out in the ♪ ♪ back yard.
You can sing the one about goin' home to that ♪ ♪ mansion in the sky.
And way down after sunset, you can take ♪ ♪ me up to my bed, laugh and call me sleepyhead Sing me ♪ ♪ a lullaby.
When we meet again up yonder, on that ♪ ♪ shinning blissful day.
I'm going to wrap my arms around ♪ ♪ him and then I'm gonna say grandpa, get your guitar.
Let's ♪ ♪ sit out in the back yard.
You can sing the one about goin' ♪ ♪ home to that mansion in the sky.
And way down after sunset ♪ ♪ You could take me up to my bed, laugh and call me ♪ ♪ sleepy head and sing me a lullaby.
♪ ♪ Grandpa, get your guitar and sing me a lullaby.
♪ ♪ Grandpa, get your guitar and sing me a lullaby.
♪ All right, hey, our next song is a song that came out of the 60s, out of a movie called Bonnie and Clyde, and it was also featured on The Beverly Hillbillies.
Earl Scruggs played it and our banjo picker is going to kick it off for us.
This is the Foggy Mountain Breakdown.
♪ ♪ Bluegrass music is about life, it's about love and hurt and and happiness and, you know, travel on the road.
Is this just about life.
And it's like you got something to add to that?
Well, it's just a good happy.
I mean, even if you're stuck doing a song, that's a sad song or a song about somebody getting killed or whatever, it still makes you feel good.
Yeah.
Well, it still makes you feel good because of the way it's played.
All right, this next song that we're going to do is a song made famous on The Andy Griffith Show It was sung by the Dillard's playing The Darlins, and the name of the song is Dooley.
♪ ♪ Now, Dooley was a good old man ♪ ♪ living below the mill, and Dooley had two daughters, and a ♪ ♪ forty-gallon still.
one gal watched the boiler, the other ♪ ♪ watched the spout and mama corked the bottles, when old ♪ ♪ Dooley fetched 'em out.
♪ ♪ Dooley Slippin' up the holler, Dooley tryin' to make a dollar, ♪ ♪ Dooley give me a swaller, and I'll pay you back someday ♪ ♪ ♪ Now, Dooley was a trader, ♪ ♪ when into town he'd come, sugar by the ♪ ♪ bushel, and molasses by the Drum.
Revenuers try to catch ♪ ♪ him slipping through the woods.
♪ ♪ But Dooley kept behind them all, and he never lost his ♪ ♪ goods.
Dooley Slippin' up the holler, Dooley tryin' to make a ♪ ♪ dollar, Dooley give me a swaller, and I'll pay you back ♪ ♪ someday.
♪ ♪ ♪ Now, I remember very well the day old Dooley died, ♪ ♪ the women folk weren't sorry.
and the men sat around and ♪ ♪ cried.
bury him on ♪ ♪ the moutain, now he lies there all alone, they put a jug ♪ ♪ beside him, and a barrel for his stone.
Dooley Slippin' up ♪ ♪ the holler, Dooley tryin' to make a dollar, Dooley give me a ♪ ♪ swaller, and I'll pay you back someday.
Dooley Slippin' up the ♪ ♪ holler, Dooley tryin' to make a dollar, Dooley give me a ♪ ♪ swaller, and I'll pay you back someday.
♪ All right, all right.
All right, this next song we're going to do is a little thing called Lonesome Hearted Blues.
♪ Blues, Lonesome hearted blues.
♪ ♪ I'm fixin' to leave this ole town.
Blues.
Lonesome hearted ♪ ♪ blues, and I ain't gonna let em' get me down.
♪ ♪ Well, I used to drive a big black Cadillac.
Yes, I used to ♪ ♪ drive a big, long Cadillac.
This walking now has nearly ♪ ♪ about broke my back and I ain't gonna let these worries ♪ ♪ get me down.
Blues, Lonesome hearted blues.
♪ ♪ I'm Fixin' to leave this old town, Blues.
Lonesome Hearted ♪ ♪ Blues, and I ain't gonna let em' get me down.
♪ ♪ ♪ Well, your 5-string soundin' good to me.
♪ ♪ Yes, your Flipper dipper soundin' good to me.
♪ ♪ I think I'll have myself a good old fashioned jamboree ♪ ♪ and never let these blues get me down.
♪ ♪ Blues, Lonesome hearted blues.
I'm fixin' to leave this ole ♪ ♪ town.
Blues.
Lonesome hearted blues, and I ain't gonna let ♪ ♪ em' get me down.
♪ ♪ ♪ Well, I'm goin' where the sun always shines.
♪ ♪ You know, I'm going where that sun always shines.
♪ ♪ Might buy myself a drink to clear my lonesome mind, and ♪ ♪ never let these blues get me down, blues.
♪ ♪ Lonesome hearted blues.
I'm fixin' to leave this ole town.
♪ ♪ Blues.
Lonesome hearted blues, and I ain't gonna let em' get ♪ ♪ me down.
♪ ♪ ♪ Blues, Lonesome hearted blues.
I'm fixin' to ♪ ♪ leave this ole town.
Blues.
Lonesome hearted blues, and I ♪ ♪ ain't gonna let em' get me down.
♪ ♪ Oh, no, I ain't going to let em' get me down.
♪ We were were raised basically up on Green Bluff.
Our great great great grandparents homesteaded on Green Bluff in 1864.
So the family's been there a long time.
I have the last 40 acres of the family farm.
I found out how to make $1,000,000 as a farmer.
You start out with 2 million.
All right, folks, we're going to do a song that was made popular during the Civil War and it's called Red Wing.
♪ All right, this next song that we're going to do, one of the band members wrote and I was sitting around one evening thinking about love and lost love and winning a girl and losing the girl and sat down and wrote this song.
♪ When you talk about real love, when you talk about your ♪ ♪ feelings, when you talk about the one you left behind, when ♪ ♪ you talk about romance in the middle of a slow dance, well, ♪ ♪ you might as well be talking to my heart, right from the start.
♪ ♪ You might be talking to my heart the love that you feel, ♪ ♪ Is it really real.
when you talk about loving and a little ♪ ♪ bit of turtle dovin' Well, you might as well be talking to my ♪ ♪ heart.♪ ♪When you talk about lost love, when you talk about your ♪ ♪ feelings, when you talk about the one who really cares, when ♪ ♪ you talk about crying and you really feel like dying.
♪ ♪ Well, you might as well be talking to my heart.
Right ♪ ♪ from the start, you might be talkin' to my ♪ ♪ heart, the love that you feel, Is it really real, when you ♪ ♪ talk about loving and a little bit of turtle dovin' ♪ ♪ Well, you might as well be talking to my heart.♪ ♪ When you talk about your one love, ♪ ♪ when you talk about feelings, when you ♪ ♪talk about the one you left behind, when you talk about ♪ ♪ crying and you really feel like dying, well, you might ♪ ♪ as well be talking to my heart.
♪ ♪ Right from the start, you might be talking to my heart, the ♪ ♪ love that you feel.
Is it really real, when you talk ♪ ♪ about lovin' and a little bit of turtle dovin', Well you ♪ ♪ might as well be talking to my heart.
♪ ♪ Right from the start, you might be talking to my heart, the ♪ ♪ love that you feel.
Is it really real, when you talk ♪ ♪ about lovin' and a little bit of turtle dovin', Well you ♪ ♪ might as well be talking to my heart.
When you talk about ♪ ♪ lovin' and a little bit of turtle dovin' ♪ ♪ Well, you might as well be talking to my heart.
♪ ♪
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