Bluegrass Ramble; 303- 304; Diamondback Rattlers, Smokey Greene, Salmon River Boys; Enchanted Mountain Green, Granny Groove, Henrie Brothers

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The this program is made possible by the Eastern Educational Television Network. All that music around a little bit mandolin ain't gonna let it ride real brass around you are hills and valleys of upstate New York city of Syracuse to be specific where every week with the very finest and blue grass and old time country and our brands of musicians come from knowing that New York State and Canada. That's when you know we've got a super lineup like today's brass ramble. The last guy New York of the north country the old time south of the Salmon River boys between coming over
rebuild New York and all around the state. The 17 year old New York State hoarseness to be exact. Thank you very much appreciate that. One will write a long
one called That's What I mean. You should sing it. That's right. OK. Again she would
sing again. What thing what do you think. Began the
scene. Thank you very much we appreciate dad. Real quick here all of my far left playing the fiddle young lady does a real fine job in my car right after I get to the top and don't work down a background where you are. Oh yeah.
It would mean playing. Yes that
thing will go forth as New York and a city that's the Diamondback rattlers we are very pleased with the bluegrass old time country music that we have here in central New York and if anybody can be called the king of country music for New York State it's the next fellow that I'm going to introduce with his entourage. They come over from Glens Falls New York specifically Washington County where Smoky Green has a great seven day bluegrass and old time country music festival at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Always the second week of August. It's a super festival a lot of these bands you're seeing here on the Bluegrass ramble out there every year. So let's go over to Bill right now and visit with Smokey grain and company. You're very close. It's not the song to love song.
There must be a reason why lives last season just means just the bass. Wrong plain MEAN MEAN ways it's not all songs are free will. My mind was that I met you and homeboy was wrong calling grandstand LOL Wrong by big town won't you. Every song you listen to verify that massive data from heart and brain will wane before it is a two way brain by the doorway scene.
Big Surf Life used a bridge for us. There's all this mess that you are in. Bring
your being bring the strength that I feel about the country music I like all kinds of country especially the bluegrass music and the old time music. As I grew up listening to people like Brad Pitt when we was on the ramble here a while back we done a song and I got more response from him from all over the country because it asked him Where did you hear the song. Or New Hampshire home. And I said if I ever get on the ramble again I'll do it again for you. In my new was a whole new
Many years ago. Hard truth then where we wonder and the bone that it was there I kissed my really good side. Good luck on Rambo last night. All week we were staying. Now I'm not about her breath hard. I'll hold on hold while now the sun shines. Here's where the roses bloom are buried in the wild. Where'd you gather we were wrong all the way. Jarred near me. So why not
salty here. Milo knew that. Sure han the be the best in what three moves by that stream last night. Longer on my blog. The room was by my son once again with their I told her that I no longer want to sing dance song Beat my long run as ice. Yes or away
what I call which never plays very winter. Oh well in the fall my soul you know all the sun shines good is that the roses bloom. Along the way we would run home and oh John Kerry needs a line a mile. Oh sure hon. And then we got on the one changing picking up as my string banjo let me tell you this is my song playing the bass
and you heard him playing the guitar and string banjo That's Gary blah blah me. It's all wrong. Let me
know. It's really having Country Music in New York State. Absolutely. Talking is very popular in and around eastern New York state and throughout the bluegrass ramble many times. And we get more mail particularly from folks that live in the rural areas of Wisconsin. They love them all over the place and that's why we have them all the time from the north. Thank you. I want to.
That's wonderful. We're going to start out here sing a song called old rattler. Let her go. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we're
all here at all. Yeah yeah yeah. Thank you thank you very much for a wonderful
play for you to work on the song here in this one Paul war. When they say they were OK with that he said
yeah yeah. Look at it that way for you to share. Anyway now we got that Senate failed than we had. Now you're going to know or are you reading with me. Oh yes. We got to go. That's the thing when you say OK I will mention we are all family I want to go introduce ourselves here individual we're all
family members from up in the salmon capital area of New York state northern part of us are counting the area of the Salmon River and collectively we call ourselves the world famous salmon are warriors. Yeah we'll do it. Now this is one called somebodies waiting for me to land the sack. Yeah yeah. YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH
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I am. Yeah. Next week.
This program was made possible in part by a grant from the eastern Educational Television Network.
This program is made possible by the Eastern Educational Television Network.
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my uncle Ellen I enjoy the NIST and the al. Thank you thank
you thank you Chad I'm hungry I'm going to get rid of this thing you know here. When are you ready to call the ashes along. I ask. You say you
say you are you. You met his
end. Thank you. As the name implies we are from the Internet in China not just New York and North Western Pennsylvania Scotty's or County Pennsylvania. Waited
till the next morning. It would mean
to the judge explaining it. It's
time for one more to the folk song it was written in 1939 but I'm sure you'll probably recognize it. I
eat a in a in a wonderful wonderful family your Saturday morning here. This will let me take you there with you having a real good time tonight. We would like the band to do a suitable fanfare right now because we have a visit from a very important New York lady New York right now either. Well actually Hi there fo ya it's good to be back with the
bluegrass bunch you know I used to sing with Howard Freeman's rainbow Ramblers out when they cut down the pine tree. I could and I think your voice could cut down the old my entry. Well you know I'm from the sharing out while I mean you know up in the Adirondacks. Yes remember every county where the bears rails where the Barrow Yes they get more mayors in Herkimer County some of the people that look a lot like Bairstow Claxton way ignore our constable there. And I my family has a dairy farm up there in Poland outside of Poland New York and our neighbor Norrish he's got a chicken already and you know yes he's got five. Doesn't check and noisiest place a landing time you've ever heard. But Norris used years ago we have a newbie in go. That's how I develop my figure. You know what I know this is true with you if you want to drink go smell girls that's what
I usually help. He had a hundred go you know newbie and sub and black ones along floppy. Oh man is you know Billy smelled terrible hard to mail to that much of what I used to do I'd help him every night not drink a pint of milk with the time I was 12 years old. I couldn't play the accordion and hurt so much. Then my brother was on his mind. Yash you know one of these kind of weird. Nobody I'm supposed to ask you about your brother well yeah yeah sure well I'm glad you did I am too. Oh well one of the rights of my psychology and one good one annoys me. Nothing there that keep it from getting on the chain. But he ducks around with him. Yes and we have a picture of that what do you know what they're going to show the picture my mother. That's my brother Wally that's his duck Kirby there. Yeah it was she yelled at her. He whenever he gets nervous. Not the duck. My brother Wally as he strokes the duck. You know when you get some nerve. Well he didn't talk till he was 12 years old.
The doctor was no warning. What you never said a word one morning at breakfast you know he piped up and he says Mom these eggs just cold. We all jumped up and my mother says why why me you couldn't talk. How come you never said nothing. Wally said up until now everything was OK. You have something that you want to share with us about your intimate past your husband's I think granny. Well yes I have had a number of husbands 17. Only forum was mine. But anyway my golly we know that we have always had good times I've been widowed now for 13 years Hoover girl was my last one her groom you know she was a sulky driver rode in the racetrack you know and on his day off we was visiting the New York State Fair and he was run over by a team a runaway honk and squished Oh yes well that's always easy come easy go. Why don't you know there's she's not not so easy go really well we
have a woman with a woman up in Poland. Mrs. Grey south or whatever she was ignorant one I'm sorry to say that she didn't know if she'd never been nowhere didn't know nothin. And one time an elephant escape was coming through town in the circus and the elephant got. And she looked out of her kitchen window and there's a huge gray beast. And so she called the sheriff. My room climber. I reply my climber Yeah climber. Yes hi hi. She said I've got a strange grey beast out my garden and I have no idea what it is but it is using its tail to pull up my cabbage patch and the sheriff said what's he doing with the cabbage and she said you wouldn't believe. Oh dear. Yeah well you know my brother Wally. Yeah Wally always was in arrested and different things. He come into the house one time in the kitchen I was working busy and he said I am me and oh that's my maiden name. And he says and he says I can fly. And I said oh sure Wally I know you know your
humor oh my god they have one of the two days later a neighbor girl coming she says and your brother Wally is up on a place that was a cliff behind either one of you has a hundred and twenty feet out there I looked up my lord there was my brother Wally. He had scotch tape. Seventy three pigeons to his body. Yes and he jumped off and he was flying real God and then some of them went to Albany and the others went to Yoda got right down to the rocks below. Thank the Lord it didn't hurt him a fell on his head. Oh ok that's enough right a good cry. And they say things are quiet around here. I don't believe that best friend is a fellow who is a very fine country in western New York and I think he deserves a round of applause.
For something over there in the corner. I don't know what to do. With your hands around bluegrass. If you don't. Like. It. 0. 0. 0.
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It's one of those two. That's one of the melody is kind of inscribed
on the very fabric of the cosmos itself. It's so beautiful. This is a time for a lot of nervous. I just want to take advantage of this. You don't know who they are talking about. So. You can pick me up and you know Saddam was a good guy you know. All right we're going to try something. In a bluegrass. You know what's it called. When. John.
Said. Goodbye. To Clay. True.
Look at the people. In. China. Thank you.
The same thing being with us in New York. Time sounds. Nice to meet you.
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- Series
- Bluegrass Ramble
- Episode Number
- 303- 304
- Producing Organization
- WCNY
- Contributing Organization
- WCNY (Liverpool, New York)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/35-881jx2nz
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- Description
- Episode Description
- The first episode of this asset includes performances by the Diamondback Rattlers, Smokey Greene and company, and the Salmon River Boys. The second episode of this asset includes performances by Enchanted Mountain Green, the Henrie Brothers, and Bill Merchant as Granny Groove.
- Series Description
- Bluegrass Ramble is a performance show featuring bluegrass and old time country music and dancing from performers from the Northeastern United States and Canada.
- Created Date
- 1983-10-23
- Created Date
- 1983-10-22
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Performance
- Rights
- Copyright 1984 Public Broadcasting Council of Central New York, Inc.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 01:00:32
- Credits
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Director: Robinson, Andy
Executive Producer: Roberts, Nancy
Host: Knowlton, Bill
Performer: Greene, Smokey
Performer: Merchant, Bill (William J.), 1930-1992
Performing Group: Diamondback Rattlers (Musical group)
Performing Group: Salmon River Boys (Musical group)
Performing Group: Enchanted Mountain Green (Musical group)
Performing Group: Henrie Brothers (Musical group)
Producing Organization: WCNY
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WCNY
Identifier: K1926 (WCNY)
Format: U-matic
Generation: Master
Duration: 00:59:50
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Bluegrass Ramble; 303- 304; Diamondback Rattlers, Smokey Greene, Salmon River Boys; Enchanted Mountain Green, Granny Groove, Henrie Brothers,” 1983-10-23, WCNY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 18, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-35-881jx2nz.
- MLA: “Bluegrass Ramble; 303- 304; Diamondback Rattlers, Smokey Greene, Salmon River Boys; Enchanted Mountain Green, Granny Groove, Henrie Brothers.” 1983-10-23. WCNY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 18, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-35-881jx2nz>.
- APA: Bluegrass Ramble; 303- 304; Diamondback Rattlers, Smokey Greene, Salmon River Boys; Enchanted Mountain Green, Granny Groove, Henrie Brothers. Boston, MA: WCNY, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-35-881jx2nz