Buzz Busby and the Bayou Boys - Get Up John (live) - 1957

Recorded by Bill Offenbacher at WARL in Arlington, VA in 1957. Features Buzz Busby (mandolin), Tom Morgan (guitar), Bill Blackburn (banjo), Pete Roberts (Kuykendall) (fiddle) and Bill Offenbacher (bass). Tune composed by Bill Monroe (based on the Kentucky fiddle tune “Sleepy John,” which Western Swing fiddler Tex Atchison used for his song “Sleepy Eyed John”). Tune first issued by Bill Monroe And His Blue Grass Boys (Decca 29141, 1954). Photo taken at unknown location ca. 1954 by unknown photographer (L-R: John Hall, Buzz Busby and Don Stover).