- [Announcer] This program was made possible by a grant from the Central Educational Network and was produced in Athens at the Ohio University Telecommunications Center.

(lively bluegrass music) From Athens, Ohio, Hocking Valley Bluegrass presents the Hutchison Brothers.

(lively bluegrass music continues) (audience applauding) - Aw heck, aw heck you guys.

Hey, now you guys is really nice to do that and clap and be synergetic and everything.

Even though you're getting paid $5 a piece to do that.

(audience laughing) No hey, we're really happy to be able to do that.

Hi Mom, hi Mom.

The main thing is, boy it makes you feel funny to be on this kind of thing, you know?

'Cause you know you're gonna be on TV.

I hope they didn't put us on when Walter Concrete and Roger, or Roger Concrete and Walter Mudd's on, you know, 'cause I like to watch the news, and mumble, mumble.

This is gonna be on a wee little bitty station, and you won't be able to see it.

Well the main thing is that was a song there called "The Big Scioty" and we are the Dirty Neck Boys.

We're here tonight substituting for the Hutchison Brothers, they couldn't make it.

Yeah, they're up in Cleveland tonight making a lot of money and being famous 'cause people really like 'em up there.

They do, you know.

(audience applauding) But they sent us down here, we're actually holograms and we look exactly like them, they say.

The main thing is I'd like to introduce the Dirty Neck Boys to you here, and if you, you know you can write in and you people out there and TV land, you know, you can write in and gripe and moan and mumble and groan all you want to about the way we done this, you know?

But this is off the top of our head, you know?

We couldn't possibly have rehearsed it, that's for sure.

But anyway, I'll introduce you to these birds here.

You know, this boy over here playing the five-string bang-o is Melvin Mastertune over here.

(audience laughing) We have over here on the fiddle, we have Stu Stradcopy on the fiddle, Stu Stradivarius there.

We have E from F Five on the mandolin.

We have Calvin K on the bass there.

My name is Donald Dreadnought and we're gonna play.

(audience laughing) (audience clapping) We're gonna play a few songs here.

- [Stu] We're gonna effort.

That don't sound really very serious, but this, this is a serious song.

This is a song written by Mr. Bill Monroe.

It's called "You'll Find Her Name Written there".

If I can get my vocal chords to function properly.

♪ No more no more she will walk this Earth ♪ ♪ Her voice like some beautiful prayer ♪ ♪ But all alone is a marble stone ♪ ♪ You will find her name written there ♪ ♪ Been all alone since the call of fate ♪ ♪ Left me in my deepest despair ♪ ♪ But if you will wait at the pearly gate ♪ ♪ You will find her name written there ♪ ♪ Her new voice rings where the angels sing ♪ ♪ Her voice that's so sweet and so rare ♪ ♪ But if you will look into the heavenly book ♪ ♪ You will find her name written there ♪ ♪ I breathe her name into the air ♪ ♪ It falls to Earth I know not where ♪ ♪ But if you will look into the heart of a friend ♪ ♪ You will find her name written there ♪ ♪ You will find her name written there ♪ (audience applauding) - Aw heck.

Now the main thing is, you know I was on one of these things one time.

I mean, it was a little bitty one, it wasn't as big as this one, which is still I think a little bitty one.

I mean, it isn't a great big monster thing, you know a great, I mean this isn't color is it?

See that it's blue, it ain't colored.

But the main thing is, I was on one of these things one time and I came in, you know, the studio and they kept running it and everybody had, there was little things all over the place like barrels, cracker barrels, and what have you.

And this guy kept saying, "Now you go run in and start talking."

You know, I'd go in and start talking, I thought everything was going fine.

They'd stop it, you know, and their little, a woman come running out of the little door, you know, and said, "Hey, let's do that again," you know?

And nobody said nothing was really wrong or anything.

I thought, "Well, what do they want here," you know?

And then he'd say, "Run in there and start talking," and I did that again.

I did it two or three times, you know?

And the little woman kept running out and saying, "Let's do it again," you know?

And finally, finally they said, "Well, maybe we oughta try something else," you know?

And then I was watching television, 'cause I thought, "Well, I'm gonna be on television," you know?

I was watching television, and when it come time for me to be on they had some woman on a stove, showing people how to cook carrots, you know?

And I found out later that what they couldn't take, they couldn't take my vocabulary, that's what it was.

But I understand this here PBS is just all right, and they like a little randy nature.

We're gonna do a little instrumental song here called, this is an old fiddle song here, and banjo song, mandolin song, guitar song and bass fiddle song called "Billy and Lou Graham".

(lively upbeat bluegrass music) (audience applauding) Now we thank you guys immeasurably for your tolerance there.

Now you notice that the instruments is all out of tune during that, and I know there's a lot of people wouldn't want to mention that.

They'd try to slough that off, you know?

Hope that everybody's head had enough tin in it that they wouldn't mind, you know?

But the fact is, you know, them instruments is all out of tune there.

And I trust mumble mumble.

We all have to put our Arthur Godfrey chord changers on here.

And that's what this is, you know?

this is a typical bluegrass device known as the Arthur Godfrey chord changer.

And this caused us to have to go into a little bit of a number that we learned off of TV, incidentally, you know, off the David Carradine show.

It's called "Tu Ning".

(instruments tuning) Just like Leonard, what's that guy's name?

Leonard Einstein?

- Bernstein.

- Bernstein.

(instruments tuning) See, isn't this interesting, huh, yeah?

I'm gonna get my big greasy brother to step over here and help sing a song.

We're gonna sing you a little old song.

It's about death, sorrow, heartbreak, et cetera, et cetera.

Typical a song from the hills here, about things they like to do, like whomp each other down across the head with greasy ball-peen hammers, et cetera, et cetera.

And then dispose of the carcass in the nearest handiest river, you know?

The truth is, it's a very serious song, make you cry, buddy.

♪ Down in the willow garden ♪ ♪ That me and my true love did meet ♪ ♪ It was there we sat a-courting ♪ ♪ My love fell off to sleep ♪ ♪ I had a bottle of burgundy wine ♪ ♪ My true love she did not know ♪ ♪ It was there that I murdered that dear little girl ♪ ♪ Down on the banks below ♪ ♪ I drawed my saber through her ♪ ♪ And it was a bloody knife ♪ ♪ I throwed her into the river ♪ ♪ And it was a dreadful sight ♪ ♪ My father often told me ♪ ♪ That money would set me free ♪ ♪ If I would but murder that dear little girl ♪ ♪ Whose name was Rose Connelly ♪ ♪ And now he stands at his cabin door ♪ ♪ And a-wiping his tear-dimmed eyes ♪ ♪ And a-gazing on his own dear son ♪ ♪ Upon the scaffold high ♪ ♪ My race is run beneath the sun ♪ ♪ And the devil is waiting for me ♪ ♪ For I did murder that dear little girl ♪ ♪ Whose name was Rose Connelly ♪ (audience applauding) - Okay, well I thank you so much for your enthusiasm there.

We'll have to boost you up to $10 a head here tonight.

You guys, we're gonna do a song here that Zeke hassled out of a couple old fiddle songs, and turned them around and kind of Bob Dylan-ed them a little bit there or something and called them by name, which mumble mumble, called "The Applesauce Rag".

Buddy, here it goes like this.

(lively upbeat bluegrass music) (audience applauding) (lively upbeat bluegrass music) ♪ If you're ever in Oklahoma ♪ ♪ You'd better move around at night ♪ ♪ They don't allow no transportation ♪ ♪ Moving on clean out of sight ♪ ♪ They don't care about Dallas Texas ♪ ♪ They don't care about Wichita ♪ ♪ If you're ever in Oklahoma ♪ ♪ You'd better move around the law ♪ ♪ Get you fined in California ♪ ♪ Get you fined in New York town ♪ ♪ Get you fined they'll take your money ♪ ♪ They got a line to bring you down ♪ ♪ They don't care about Dallas Texas ♪ ♪ They don't care about Wichita ♪ ♪ If you're ever in Oklahoma ♪ ♪ You gotta move around the law ♪ ♪ They don't care about Dallas Texas ♪ ♪ They don't care about Wichita ♪ ♪ If you're ever in Oklahoma ♪ ♪ You gotta move around the law ♪ (audience applauding) Oh, you guys are really generous and nice.

I see by the old clock, or the old cue card in that fellow's hand over there holding it.

I see by the old cue card in his hand that it's just about time for our boot heels to be rambling, so.

(instruments tuning) I like that Chinese music, is there any?

"The Cuckoo's Nest".

- Two three four.

(lively upbeat bluegrass music) (audience applauding) (lively upbeat bluegrass music) - [Announcer] This program was made possible by a grant from the Central Educational Network.

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