Humpback Mule - Grace Forrest, Steve Arkin - Clifftop 2013

Miss Moonshine Buckdancer joins in on 12"x12" dance board (too small for a fast tune!)
Erica Weiss guitar. Humpback Mule is a Midwestern fiddle tune. Grace is from California

[ManWithAName]

RIP Steve- I always noted the moments in this jam when you look up and exhibit an expression of pride and joy in playing with Grace. One of the few banjoists who were equally adept at both bluegrass and Old-Time. You were a bright light for me as a developing banjo player. You will be sorely missed. God bless your family and legacy

[ronalds.]

This is great music. An additional pleasure was Miss Moonshine buck dancing.

[jiminman]

You people make it sing, wood and gut and metal. I envy what you do and and wish I was one of your inspiring clan.
I'm lucky when I can tap my toe in time with the beat. Please. Keep on Playing and dancing, he rest of us are dying for

[blancolirio]

Brilliant! Grace, you have a way of slurring the just right notes in a perfectly smooth fashion. Good stuff!

[leemysliwiec]

Gosh, wish that she would play a tune she knows!!!😃but seriously.. She is my hero.. I work hard at playing like and keeping up with her.. SHe is my inspiration..and I'm 77.. Soze I'm an old man following in the footsteps of a child!! love it.

[scienceservant]

Amazing! Their music sure takes us to some happy and placid place in Foreverland! Awe-some!!! Greetings from Brazil. PS we love your music!

[jimmywalker]

Really enjoyed this in Scotland thumbs up

[stephenhenion]

The Magic happens when you get into a song circle and get the music going.... everyone gets locked into the groove... its like flying!! I got down to Clifftop in 2008 and 2009.... miss my friends....

[commontater]

From time to time I come upon Grace Forrest on YouTube, and I'm always
glad when I do. Bluegrass is fine in its way, but if you don't get a
lift from hearing Grace play, it's time you got some dancing in your soul.

[sheilabarron]

Love Love Love the Awesome Hill Music Sounds So Good ✌️♥️

[petercofrancesco]

The More The Merrier ! Warms The Heart ❤ , Sooths The Soul ! 🙂

[grizzlycomrie]

Unrefined, off the cuff and absolutely fantastic. proper jam session music. Love it.

[elenavanbc]

this is healing music for me. Thank you for being such awesome musicians, you're angels!

[joynjrny]

I, for one, have become to love this "monotonous old-time stuff." It's appreciated by participating: friends, family, musicians, dancers, in barns, on front porches, or under a canopy in the woods bare foot with nothing but dirt and grass under your feet, such as with Grace here. What other venue creates such a family-like gathering?

[jacobaragon]

This is so good!! And, as someone already pointed out, a very addicting tune.

[zymelin]

to grace. the judds one said it. "if it ain' t broke don' t fix it" your music don' t need fixin. you do what you are good at and you lov it. it don' t get any better. thanks

[ijohnny.]

The best of the rustic pentatonic sound.

[brentdean]

Awesome music and talent you all...great picken..keep pickn

[geralddale]

I so agree American Honey. I wish this monotonous noise making would have continued for another 10 minutes uninterrupted. Just love it. If you watch Grace and the others they just get lost in the music. I just gotta get me a fiddle.

[kylep]

If it sounds monotonous, you aren't really listening. If you concentrate, you should hear subtle differences in the melodic lines and phrasing of the tune, which are a central part of it's "danceability." It's possible that only the musicians can hear it, from having to work out the tunes note-by-note, but listen, and see if you hear the differences.